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> I do have relatives who live in far villages and have not travelled and seen the world(In fact not travelled more than 100 km radius from place of birth) Thi
by _yy01 11mo ago
> I do have relatives who live in far villages and have not travelled and seen the world(In fact not travelled more than 100 km radius from place of birth)
This was literally where I grew up before I got education and become software engineer.
Its not a good thing and we should not glorify it.
Villagers in India are malnourished, the education is not upto par with cities, and the life is stagnant there. There's no opportunity to carve out your own niche or achieve glory in life.
oTOH, The metropolitons like Bengaluru or Delhi are highly populated and make life difficult unless you live inside a posh gated society. The competition there to get highest TC job and grind till you break down just to own a house is also not healthy. Not to even mention pollution and health hazards.
We should focus on developing tier-2 and tier-3 cities. They can be developed on par with western cities in cleanliness and infrastructure as long as we can keep the population density low.
- kamaal 11mo agoLarge metropolitan cities in India are purely for job reasons. I do believe buying expensive real estate in a city like Bangalore is pointless. You can put the same money in a good mutual fund, and buy a home in a Tier 2 city around Bangalore. You can reach Bangalore in an hour for most of things. The pollution, population density and pace are all a lot lower. Plus if the idea is to retire early, this is like the best plan you can come up with.
- _yy01 11mo ago> You can reach Bangalore in an hour for most of things. * Then it takes 2 hours to reach your office in Bangalore. * It just postpones the actual problem. Gradually the tier-2 towns will get crowded too. * It means your local tier-2 town won't develop, and economy will be centred at these metropolitons.