Looks like you have been shat by the gods themselves full of unique qualities and hobbies. What are they?

Senior Software Engineer

Pretty rich coming from someone called sentientmachine

Product Manager

😂😂 the stereotypes in any industry are too. Like attracts like

Product Marketing Manager

Software Engineer

It's disgusting that you look down on people. I'd suggest cultivating some humility and active interests before you start shitting on others.  
  
 Books, video games, movies and sports are literally the biggest media for consumption. What do you do that's so different?

What's your point ? 😅 
 No offence but it felt more like some rant than a logical post. 
 The People I know are interested in TT, swimming, cards, outings, watching content, going for stand-ups or concerts, joining random workshops to explore their artistic side, clubbing, books and board games (Oops, you were correct at SOMETHING 👏)

Backend Engineer

Lots of people on this thread seem to be very hurt 😢

If you're gonna follow the sport, at least don't call it soccer ffs!

Data Analyst

Project Manager

You know what, chances are people are likely to meet people that do what they themselves are interested in.  
  
 If you had genuinely explored your "Better" interests you would have found plenty of people here in BLR, interested in same.

Also want to add the point that BLR is probably best for these kinds of hobbies. They are fun hobbies and ppl might not get opportunities in other cities

Senior Product Manager

Generalizing and mainstream interests go hand in hand. Don't know what your point is.

The entire point of niche hobbies is that they are niche. Go find those people, or better yet, rather than spending time making this post, you should have spoken about your niche hobby. Maybe you'd find someone who has the same.

Also, the set of interests you've mentioned sound awesome.

Investor

Hahha .. i mean.. you’re not wrong  
 We are all awesome

I dont have interest in any of the things you mentioned I made decent friends without the need of showing my self as cool  
 There are more people who lead normal life and not at all pretentious 
 People are so in need of validation there are faking their own personality 
 I guess that's the reason most of the folks are becoming depressed these days  
 Take a chill pill and enjoy ur life in ur own way people

I'm new to BLR. 4 months.  I feel most IT folks here share the same set of personalities.  Almost every person I see is interested in Books, Video games, Board games, Football and F1. Or many other...

I'm new to BLR. 4 months.

I feel most IT folks here share the same set of personalities.

Almost every person I see is interested in Books, Video games, Board games, Football and F1. Or many other nerdy/geeky hobbies. Sometimes add UFC to the list as well.

It's like you all are the same person in different bodies.

When I go in depth with conversation, I can honestly see only few know their stuff and most of them are just pretentious nerds for the sake of their jobs or the westernised culture (or any other reason). But most of you just fake it. 

You guys suck. 

Why so many things are mainstream here?

IT folks in Bangalore are the same person in different bodies.

IT folks in Bangalore are the same person in different bodies.- Grapevine

In my org people have been creating that vibe where they are very sophisticated about their actions, the way they speak etc, they behave like we are working in a US based startup where they are using western lingo and all together a different way to communicate. I have worked in other startups in other cities but didn’t find this type of culture. Is this common or am I missing something?

What are your thoughts?

Are bangalore people actually very sophisticated or they are just faking it?

A simple explanation is that people live in their little bubble. 
 That bubble explodes when the auto/cab driver tells them to go f themselves

Founder

Growth Manager

What do you dislike about Bangalore?

Sooo I feel like Bangalore is a city that lives on Hype, everyone is just trying to be cool and are too afraid of actually call out stuff for what they are. 

Few examples (my personal opinion) 

Eat Naru - it’s good ramen, but you can definitely find better or as good (bookings are sold out in minutes) 
Pizza 4Ps - Average pizza, great hospitality but not worth waiting for a booking a month in advance 
Ultrahuman ring - It’s not even that accurate for that price 
March Tee - good T-shirt, but you can find so much better at that price point 


I like to call this the Bangalore Hype Train xP

#BangaloreHypeTrain

Totally Agree with this, everyone wants to get validation or some kind of approval from ultra rich or dumb influencers, I think it's totally influenced by Tech Cuties mostly from North India working in Startups (HSR, Koramangala). These dumbfucks who never stepped out of their world get excited for silly things, imagine people standing outside a biryani shop at 4am, people standing in a queue sandwich..uff this all insta validation stories matters for them, they seek happiness by impressing or making someone jealous of.

Category Manager

Founder’s Office

On a recent episode of Nikhil Kamath, he says “Bangalore is famous for nice and welcoming people”. This is so very true to a large extent. Every city however has some outliers who tarnish the image by going extreme. 

I have seen a lot of posts on GrapeVine complaining about Bangalore and their people. People should understand that every native resident of a city carries a profound sense of connection and endeavours to uphold the cultural heritage of their hometown. And what better way to preserve heritage than to safeguard language ?  This is the reason I believe most non Hindi speaking cities try to impose their language on outsiders. 

All said and done, I feel language should never be imposed but at the same time it shouldn’t be ridiculed either. I’ve seen a lot of “Kannada” hate post and is disheartening to see it.

And lastly I appologize to all those who have had negative experiences due to a few troublemakers. 

TL;DR : Bangalore is a lovely city with warm and welcoming people.

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.

It's crazy how this native-non native issue persists immensely in Bangalore. No other developed city like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune has this. 

Bangalore is going down big time with so much rising hate in the city.

Is this end near for BLR?

Then why were these Kannada people crying during COVID and begging the government to make outsiders come to Bangalore so they could afford food to eat?

Security Engineer

Program Manager

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Looking to understand the new to credit market better to ideate a solution for them. Any research that can help? Also very keen to chat if anyone is thinking about solving for this market too!

New to credit janta

not only I have experienced this personally,but i have heard these from a few other people as well 

Mallus tend to do groupism. No matter what function it is they take control in that group, hence they become difficult to work with. They are hesitant to change, you won't feel like you are part of decision making. 

So avoid it if you can. 


PS: Offence Intended

Avoid Bangalorean startups with Mallu dominance

I've been living in BLR all my life and been living in Gurgaon for about 4 months now because of company transfer. I thought BLR was bad until I came to Gurgaon.

1) The complete lack of apathy and compassion is off the charts here. People are so individualistic and small issues turn into huge fights. One example being a guy in a Fortuner hit my Hyundai hatchback from behind and screamed and made a scene when it was his fault and the guys all around supported him, I knew limited Hindi and I had to pay money to get the hell out of the place.

2) Climate and pollution: No words here. Extremely hot and polluted.

3) Rents have almost reached BLR levels or more 

4) infrastructure: I thought BLR infra was shit but roads are non existent here and streets get water logged and stays waterlogged for 10 hours even after rains stopped lol.

It feels like a dead City with no life, depressing and a concrete jungle.

Living in Gurgaon makes living in BLR seem like heaven

Gurgaon folks: don't move to Bengaluru  
 Bengaluru folks: don't move to Gurgaon

Consultant

I am a fresher 2023 graduate and have been doing this (applying for jobs) for almost a year, everyone said you have to do internships as it is necessary so did 2 internships one for a year and another for 6 months but apparently no one counts internships as experience even jobs that had 1-3 yoe as requirement and now everyone's hiring 2024 grads as freshers (I tried to look for another internship but there were none during the time of placements).

I am now tired of this field, many full stack devs don't know shit outside Javascript world and many of them can't even use tools like git properly and are so cocky of themselves. 

Saw an SDE on twitter who apparently has 6 years of experience, doesn't even know how to configure multiple SSH and says managing multiple ssh is a downside. A women dev (cause in India you have engineers and female engineers apparently) doesn't know about sidebar cache and calls it a bug and she's in google. and If I try to roast these people with my real name there's a whole cabal of Banglorians who will grab their macbooks inside third wave coffee and start tweeting against me after aggressively drinking their Chocolate mocha frappe.

Just go into any random tech twitter space no one seems to be talking about tech it's always about DSA, interviews, LIFE IN BANGLORE, which cafe they visited.

I let myself believe tech was my passion and worked hard  for but Indian techies and companies are worst, this generation thinks they are better than their predecessor but follow the same politics everywhere even when it comes to Tech communities (who tf does politics in a community that produces open source code wtf).

They talk about networking and creating a community all the time but can't even respond to linkedin cold dm and blame the sender by nitpicking about the format 👏👏 and then they'll go on post the screenshot and rant how it's the sender fault to even try to network with them with a message that isn't written from their own blood.

Tech rant

Bangalore tech scene is weird man. I feel even the auto driver knows how to code and the third wave barista is definitely doing leetcode because that coffee & sandwich clearly don't take 15 minutes to make

Living in Bangalore is like participating in a daily obstacle course of stupidity these days. It's like the city is hosting the World Championships of Not Using Common Sense. Day by day, it’s getting crazy in here. People are literally just straight-away stupid.

Picture this: I'm in the metro, following the line like some good boii. But no, here come the backline breakers, sprinting ahead like they just got the memo that the free WiFi is about to expire. They won’t even have the patience to let others deboard from the station (bs ghusna hai sbko).

On the road: Small Aile is there, and these morons either walk in the middle of the road or walk slowly like they are going to maaiyat. There is no way to even overtake them.

One day a couple was literally just standing in the middle of the fucking metro entry gate, and all other people were going from sides. I was literally at my fucking limits; I controlled the urge to ask them that whatever shit they're discussing, if that is a national concern, then it’s okay; otherwise, please fuck around on the side.

And what’s up with this throwing garbage on the road thing, literally every morning on the road, tons of food, spillage, and disposals of whatnot can be seen. God, please throw it in the trash.

Rant! (Bangalore)

Lawyer

Security Analyst

The gov, the discrimination and increasing crime rates….
I’ve been observing this for a while now…

What’s the experience of people actually living there?

Is it really as bad as news outlets are presenting it? Or it’s just an exaggeration?

I’ve been wanting to find a job in blr and move there since a while now but news like these concern me.

I’ve recently seen a lot of negative news about Bangalore

Expert

There’s either water logging or no water at all
There’s either stand still traffic or spend 3 days in the car traffic
Bangalore airport is in Hyderabad

But the weather is good and there’s cherry blossoms macha!

Bangalore Rant

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

Woke up, saw this post and just dropped a comment on what I truly felt - phone has been buzzing since every minute with notifs with so many likes and comments in threads

Let me make one thing clear, I actually identify myself more with Bengaluru than my hometown Chennai - this city is what has given me and my family everything we have.

Me, my wife and kids everyone is fluent in Kannada, that being said I am 100% against imposition of a language on anyone - be in Hindi on Kannadigas or Kannada on ‘immigrants’.

All of us know and agree that this law won’t see the light of the day but what people fail to see is how such an idea makes the ease of living more difficult and just deepens the divide in this gem of a city.

Saw a lot of hateful DMs as well asking me to leave, I actually also might but that will only be limited to moving my business.

Bengaluru was home, will always stay as my home :)

Ok, didn’t expect my comment to blow up this way

Bangalore survived  before IT, will survive even if all Non natives leave. 

All non natives who think they made BLR what it is today, why  didnt you  create it in your home towns?

Am not a native BLR, but people who think BLR is today what it is, is because of immigrant population is living in fools paradise. We made it big because of BLR not the other way around.

There is a reason why u r asked to get out of city. And locals don't usually say that to Telugus or Tamils or Marathis. It's predominantly aimed at a section from somewhere and a major reason is people from that somewhere are generally crap(sorry for stereotyping).

1. Be grateful for the local land, culture and set up. 
Problems exist everywhere, solve it if you can, remember that you were not born in a palace.

2. Learn the local culture, actualize it, propagate it. Massive influx of immigrants wipes out the existing culture. Onus is on you to not only protect it but spread it as well. If you don't then yes, u should get the fck out.

3. India is a mix of cultures. Just how Hindi is important a language so is kannada. Telugu or Tamil or everyone. Did you even know Kannada has won 8 Jnanapith awards(highest literary honour) vs Hindi's 11 despite the miniscule population of kannada infront of Hindi?
Do you even know how rich kannada literature is? Do you really believe it deserves death in its own crown jewel(Bangalore?). Who do you think you are if you think this city should speak the language of people u come from but don't put an effort to speak the city's language.

Live and let live. Yes that's a 2 way street. Onus has always been on you. After more thab decade of handing you guys an olive branch, now the city has realised our open gesture is taken for granted. Well, make no mistake we will teach you the right way. Onus is still on you!

Don't bring this shyt to Bangalore or south cities and ruin it

Data engineer

I recently moved to Bangalore and almost immediately went into a zone of persistently feeling sad and hopeless. I refused to take antidepressants. I am doing slightly better after few sessions of therapy, but I want to know some other alternatives? Anybody experienced the same thing? What makes it better? Bangalore feels like a culture-less city tbh.

Depression is common in Bangalore?

It's same for all metro. But I will tell what helped me. 
  
 Don't just work and eat sleep. 
  
 Pursue few hobbies...like i picked swimming, running and gym on weekends. 
  
 Read books... 
  
 Travel to South Indian places and beaches hill stations. 
  
 Read spiritual books or listen to them. 
  
 Eat healthy, watch healthy, think healthy. 
  
 Always take care of parents n siblings health especially.

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