I sort of know the feeling. I came to Mumbai in 2000 in a long distance train and deboarded it at Mumbai CST. As I was figuring out if this is the Mumbai they t

I sort of know the feeling. I came to Mumbai in 2000 in a long distance train and deboarded it at Mumbai CST. As I was figuring out if this is the Mumbai they talk about, we quickly boarded a suburban train to a suburb where I was gonna stay. It didn't help that adults around me were constantly saying, "we have reached Mumbai", while our train was passing through stations like Wadala and Kurla. This was the first time I was experiencing a suburban train system and previously I had only lived in tier-2 cities. My small mind thought that cities and railway stations are supposed to have a one-to-one mapping. Upon reaching the destination I was surprised to see our flat in a small building and that further confused me. The 5 year old me thought that Mumbai only had tall buildings. It took me a while to understand how the city is organized and where I was actually living w.r.t. proper Mumbai.