Bangalore is ❤️

I think these welcoming people are outsiders themselves. Actual natives hates outsiders and as per recent events they are trying to send back people, specially north Indians.

Let me be as blunt as possible. I have went to 2-3 IT cities be it Delhi, Bangalore, Pune or Hyderabad. Every place has their own language and culture and there is no denying that each of these places have huge numbers of non-native people but all of them live in harmony. Not a single time I have seen the locals abusing and using violence on these outsiders but why is only Bangalor famous for it? Haven't been to Chennai but still never seen one complaint of locals abusing and beating outsiders on petty issues. And mind you, I am a native from one of these mentioned cities and I have literally never ever discriminated anyone because they are an outsider. And please don't involve whole Karnataka in this...only the natives of Bangalore have this some sense of superiority and fail to unserstand living in harmony.

" billionaire says people in the city are nice and welcoming". Obviously His personal experience would be very different from the normal person. Before the French revolution, the rich nobles had more than enough to eat but normal people were starving.

I agree. Been here for more than 5yr and through entire Covid 3 waves, I would have been dead in if not for Bangalore. As an immigrant, I accept that I have come to this city for livelihood, not because I was invited. I am not entitled to guest privileges from the locals.

If locals feel touchy about Kannada, I understand. I do not think it's much effort, but I have started learning Kannada and I can learn enough in a month to get through my day entirely in the language.

This city is enterprising, citizens here solve issues on their own. The townhall meetings held were such an example. Then there was another where residents came forward and cleaned a lake.

I don't think anyone was ever physically assaulted in Bangalore for not speaking Kannada. Heckled yes, but bashed/thrashed/assaulted hell no.

I am an outsider too and my kannada is one of the worst. My local friends acknowledge that- it's just that I am not even good with my own mother tongue. But that aside every time I interact with a local - cops, babus, drivers, villagers in my halting kannada, trust me I sense a genuine acknowledgement from them at my attempt and I get my work done without any hassle. Thats all they look for - an acknowledgement that their culture and language also exists for people beyond their boundaries of ethnic construct. While yes there are outliers like anywhere, but people don't bash the other person for speaking Hindi. As already pointed by other people in audience here, not unlike in Pune. And definitely not unlike in Chennai, people bashing Bangalore have clearly not experienced how much worse hindi speakers would be treated there even 10 years ago.

And that actually applies to any society in the world where ethnic languages are spoken - be it French, Mandarin or Swahili.

I say this to my kannadiga friends as an outsider that what's happening now is that for most outsiders Bangalore is a gateway to South India. Had they been to Chennai and then come here, then things would have been viewed differently