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Not sure if you lived in India briefly or where you lived to have bad experience with the power companies. But I can attest that service in one of the most remo

Not sure if you lived in India briefly or where you lived to have bad experience with the power companies. But I can attest that service in one of the most remote regions of India is very good. There are no power cuts and if there are because of some storm or other natural disaster they are resolved within 2-3 days.

NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
I lived in Bengaluru for several years. In the U.S. we expect to be able to drink the water that comes from the tap, cutting off entire parts of a city for a day or more from the water supply is largely unheard of; same for electricity. We expect actual storm drains and sewage works as opposed to streets just flooding every time there's rain. etc. I'm not trying to be "down" on India but - having lived with both systems - the U.S. experience is objectively better from every point of view other than price.
- anthropodie 4y ago
  When was this? I never lived in Bengaluru but I have lived all over Maharashtra and power cuts use to be norm almost over a decade ago but it has changed over last decade.
  - NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
    Within the past decade.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  > In the U.S. we expect to be able to drink the water that comes from the tap, cutting off entire parts of a city for a day or more from the water supply is largely unheard of The population of Flint might disagree, although technically that water kept running while poisoning its population.
  - NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
    No; the people in Flint would entirely agree that they expected to be able to drink their water - that's why it was such an outrage that they couldn't. On the other hand, the fact Puri, in Odisha, got safe drinking water from the tap was a major news story last year - since it was the first city in India to have that, and even just general availability of piped water at all is uncertain for many in India - many, many people get water delivered by road on tankers.
bluGill 4y ago
Service to the remote regions of the US is very good, even in places with far less population density than India. There are sometimes power outages, but not very often, and they are resolved fast. It has been this way since the 1950s for most people. (the exceptions are rare enough that you cannot compare the rate of them between countries) Now the US has some very remote regions that don't have good power. When it is miles between humans there isn't enough demand to put up wires, but the only people living in those areas like being self sufficient and wouldn't want utility power if they could get it.

NovemberWhiskey 4y ago

I lived in Bengaluru for several years. In the U.S. we expect to be able to drink the water that comes from the tap, cutting off entire parts of a city for a day or more from the water supply is largely unheard of; same for electricity. We expect actual storm drains and sewage works as opposed to streets just flooding every time there's rain. etc. I'm not trying to be "down" on India but - having lived with both systems - the U.S. experience is objectively better from every point of view other than price.

anthropodie 4y ago
When was this? I never lived in Bengaluru but I have lived all over Maharashtra and power cuts use to be norm almost over a decade ago but it has changed over last decade.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
  Within the past decade.
lostlogin 4y ago
> In the U.S. we expect to be able to drink the water that comes from the tap, cutting off entire parts of a city for a day or more from the water supply is largely unheard of The population of Flint might disagree, although technically that water kept running while poisoning its population.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
  No; the people in Flint would entirely agree that they expected to be able to drink their water - that's why it was such an outrage that they couldn't. On the other hand, the fact Puri, in Odisha, got safe drinking water from the tap was a major news story last year - since it was the first city in India to have that, and even just general availability of piped water at all is uncertain for many in India - many, many people get water delivered by road on tankers.

bluGill 4y ago

Service to the remote regions of the US is very good, even in places with far less population density than India. There are sometimes power outages, but not very often, and they are resolved fast. It has been this way since the 1950s for most people. (the exceptions are rare enough that you cannot compare the rate of them between countries) Now the US has some very remote regions that don't have good power. When it is miles between humans there isn't enough demand to put up wires, but the only people living in those areas like being self sufficient and wouldn't want utility power if they could get it.