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Same place where I am - Bangalore. Weather is the best - warm but not hot, cool but not cold. No extremes. People from every state of India. So great food. Cu

Same place where I am - Bangalore. Weather is the best - warm but not hot, cool but not cold. No extremes. People from every state of India. So great food. Culturally very diverse and really a melting pot. Good sports/fitness scene and culture. Safe. Locals are mostly fine with outsiders. In fact that’s the economy here other than IT. English (more) and Hindi (less) are the connecting tongues. Local language is not forced other than some isolated incidents. Decent amount of open space. Very easy and quick access to the hills. And in a way to the sea too, but drive is longer. Easy connectivity to everywhere by train, road, and air. Decently open and alive dating scene, though it gets way too hard in 30s. I had played with the idea of moving to a small town or a rural area or a quaint hill station but due to overall poor infrastructure in India those places easily get ruled out as candidates of a sustained working place. You don’t want to have total lack of social life, patchy Internet, and very absence of even half decent medical facilities where you live for long. So you got to stick to major cities in India. Other cities in India simply don’t have most of what Bangalore offers (except traffic is really bad here; and metro is designed to be useless; and political atmosphere is rapidly sliding to the extreme right but that’s the entire country). I tried living abroad, didn’t work for me. So Bangalore it is.

fhaldridge7 5y ago
What about the air quality? Also is the tap water drinkable?
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  > Also is the tap water drinkable? I said India, didn't I? :) Anyway, no. I don't think drinkable tap water is a developing or underdeveloped world phenomena. But I may be wrong. > What about the air quality? Again, it depends on which country you are comparing it with. Among Indian cities - pretty good. And I don't mean comparing with Delhi - that'd be an unfair comparison.
- vmurthy 5y ago
  Not OP , but born and raised in Bengaluru Air Quality - depends . Very bad while traveling. Residential areas much better. Tap water , not drinkable as is. Most houses I've seen have a water filter. We personally used to use one of these[0] [0] https://www.pureitwater.com/IN/ https://www.pureitwater.com/IN/
justfortruth 5y ago
I live in Bangalore but I disagree. Bangalore is not such a good place to live in. Reasons being: 1) Dirty. Yeah, Most places in Bengaluru are very dirty. No effective dirt management system. Also, people throw trash on roads, on empty sites, on footpaths, and everywhere making it very dirty. 2) Roads and Traffic. First of all, let me tell that Road Infrastructure is not at all good. Also, People don't seem to value life of others. People many times don't follow traffic rules. Thanks to Lack of infrastructure, Crossing the road is also so difficult here and there are chances People will run over you(people seem to be hurry). 3) Water Water Quality is Bad. It's also causing baldness in many people. 4) Corruption Many people with power seems to be corrupt. You get to deal with them if you live here. Contd...
- justfortruth 5y ago
  5) Dating Scene People are mostly conservative here. Although Dating Scene exists, it's very very less(nil to most people). You will be disappointed. 6) Commutation Huge amount of Vehicles, many not following rules, many hurrying to overtake, to get inserted into the road, lot of honking, and time-eating traffic congestion. It's not at all a good experience and will suck energy outta you. 7) Power cuts Power cut is very rare but it exists. 8) Food Food is good, you get variety of them. 9) Internet Cellular Data is very cheap but also relatively slow. Fiber network seems to be available. 10) Education Education Quality is not much good for price they ask. Feel free to ask anything about life in Bangalore.
  - nbhusal 5y ago
    Thanks! It'd be great if someone could go on about this for Mumbai as well.
  - crossroadsguy 5y ago
    I think it was about which city and country one would want to live in, given the opportunity of always remote. And for me that’s India and in India that’s Bangalore. All these points you’ve gone on about - compared to where? Dating scene worse than Chennai? Ahmedabad? AQI worse than Delhi? Water and sanitation worse than Kolkata? I mean I didn’t get your rebuttal like response :)
higerordermap 5y ago
Which areas in Bangalore are good from this perspective? (Cleanliness, environment, less populated, good infra)?
blocked_again 5y ago
You described a lot of "decent" things. Question is about your ideal city. Not a decent city to live in.
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  My ideal city would be where I’d want to live; unless question was also about fictional, made up places. For example I had job offers from Amsterdam and London and they have much better <a lot if things> but I didn’t want to live there. So they aren’t my ideal cities.
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fhaldridge7 5y ago

What about the air quality? Also is the tap water drinkable?

crossroadsguy 5y ago
> Also is the tap water drinkable? I said India, didn't I? :) Anyway, no. I don't think drinkable tap water is a developing or underdeveloped world phenomena. But I may be wrong. > What about the air quality? Again, it depends on which country you are comparing it with. Among Indian cities - pretty good. And I don't mean comparing with Delhi - that'd be an unfair comparison.
vmurthy 5y ago
Not OP , but born and raised in Bengaluru Air Quality - depends . Very bad while traveling. Residential areas much better. Tap water , not drinkable as is. Most houses I've seen have a water filter. We personally used to use one of these[0] [0] https://www.pureitwater.com/IN/ https://www.pureitwater.com/IN/

justfortruth 5y ago

I live in Bangalore but I disagree. Bangalore is not such a good place to live in. Reasons being: 1) Dirty. Yeah, Most places in Bengaluru are very dirty. No effective dirt management system. Also, people throw trash on roads, on empty sites, on footpaths, and everywhere making it very dirty. 2) Roads and Traffic. First of all, let me tell that Road Infrastructure is not at all good. Also, People don't seem to value life of others. People many times don't follow traffic rules. Thanks to Lack of infrastructure, Crossing the road is also so difficult here and there are chances People will run over you(people seem to be hurry). 3) Water Water Quality is Bad. It's also causing baldness in many people. 4) Corruption Many people with power seems to be corrupt. You get to deal with them if you live here. Contd...

justfortruth 5y ago
5) Dating Scene People are mostly conservative here. Although Dating Scene exists, it's very very less(nil to most people). You will be disappointed. 6) Commutation Huge amount of Vehicles, many not following rules, many hurrying to overtake, to get inserted into the road, lot of honking, and time-eating traffic congestion. It's not at all a good experience and will suck energy outta you. 7) Power cuts Power cut is very rare but it exists. 8) Food Food is good, you get variety of them. 9) Internet Cellular Data is very cheap but also relatively slow. Fiber network seems to be available. 10) Education Education Quality is not much good for price they ask. Feel free to ask anything about life in Bangalore.
- nbhusal 5y ago
  Thanks! It'd be great if someone could go on about this for Mumbai as well.
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  I think it was about which city and country one would want to live in, given the opportunity of always remote. And for me that’s India and in India that’s Bangalore. All these points you’ve gone on about - compared to where? Dating scene worse than Chennai? Ahmedabad? AQI worse than Delhi? Water and sanitation worse than Kolkata? I mean I didn’t get your rebuttal like response :)

higerordermap 5y ago

Which areas in Bangalore are good from this perspective? (Cleanliness, environment, less populated, good infra)?

blocked_again 5y ago

You described a lot of "decent" things. Question is about your ideal city. Not a decent city to live in.

crossroadsguy 5y ago
My ideal city would be where I’d want to live; unless question was also about fictional, made up places. For example I had job offers from Amsterdam and London and they have much better <a lot if things> but I didn’t want to live there. So they aren’t my ideal cities.
- deleted 5y ago
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