GigglyPenguin

Student

Living in Gurgaon makes living in BLR seem like heaven

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.

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.
Climate and pollution: No words here. Extremely hot and polluted.
Rents have almost reached BLR levels or more
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.

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GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)15mo

Welcome to the wild west of India. Welcome to Gurugram 😎. Make sure to not step out after 11pm or you may get kidnapped in some parts of the city.

PrancingNugget

Stealth15mo

Also stay away from golf course road after working hours.

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)15mo

And don't wear any gold.

PrancingNugget

Stealth15mo

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

CosmicQuokka

Paralleldots15mo

Seriously the issue causes from person's pre-set mindset.

Someone on LinkedIn ranted about how Ahmedabad people are not nice to non veg eaters, non existent night life etc etc.(me being from Ahmedabad never really thought of this as problem)

But expections like these can't ever be fulfilled, if every place was to be same then we won't need to have different cities mulcipalties / state govts.

BouncyPancake

Stealth15mo

What's the night life like in Ahmedabad ?

WobblyPancake

Meta15mo

Its like comparing shit with well shit. Mumbai is the only livable tier 1 city in India, sure comes with its own issues but atleast u wont get raped and murdered if u go out at 9pm. Some good options in tier 2 though.

QuirkyJellybean

Stealth15mo

Agreed

FloatingJellybean

Couchbase15mo

U mean in blr rapes are common? Or want to live in spacious 250sqft matchboxes of Mumbai hell no.

DizzyMarshmallow

Stealth15mo

Absolutely. +1. I strongly regret moving to Delhi NCR and specifically Gurgaon, that too with family.

Additionally,

There are very few public spaces for the middle class folks. Everything is for either the uber rich or the poor. The class difference in Delhi NCR makes it very difficult.
Convenience is next to non-existent in most localities. If you want a clean and clutter free area, you would be staying atleast 2km away from convenience and grocery stores.
The judgement against two wheeler folks is so high that some malls don't have parking for scooters and bikes.
People at work bring in Hindi so much during conversations that the ones who don't know the language as well get left out. This would have been understandable in public spaces but not inside corporate offices.

GigglyPenguin

Student15mo

Yeah the class divide is very big here. If you're not Uber rich, you don't have many options and people look down on you if you don't flaunt your iPhone's or Fortuners.

JazzyBoba

Stealth15mo

Try working in chennai even in a board room meeting, people would be talking in tamil. Even though the company is a US-based one.

DancingRaccoon

InMobi15mo

Can anyone who is not a native of either gurgaon or Bangalore and has lived in both the cities give us some unbiased opinion here

GigglySushi

Stealth15mo

I worked in Gurgaon and Bangalore and am not from either of them. I don't think Gurgaon is as bad for a native Hindi speaker. OP said he knows limited Hindi so that could add to his troubles. Weather is shit everywhere these days. Gurgaon/Hyderabad/mumbai. But you will be inside an AC env most of the times so it does not matter as much. Bangalore has better weather but too much traffic , no metro and shitty landlords and locals and not as clean. I never faced an issue with locals in Gurgaon. Plus NCR has great metro and food options. Now everyone will say NCR has high crime and try to make other people believe that it is like some cartel run city in Colombia. But it is not so. Sure there are some pockets in Delhi which are unsafe but those areas are anyways shady and you won't go there unless looking for trouble. Gurgaon is relatively safer due to most people being from corporate and lot of life even late at night especially in cyber city and sector 29. Can't comment about inner parts of haryana though. Mumbai is a good place if you make a ton of money. Then u can get a decent 2000sq feet 3 bhk and not live in small rooms. Lot of people try to compare mumbai with New York which is a crazy comparison. Mumbai based companies don't pay more than delhi based ones for the same role but expenses are far higher.

PerkyMochi

Murugappa Group15mo

Having stayed in both and settling in Faridabad was the best decision I ever made. It takes me 40-70 mins to reach cyberhub which is 28kms from my place (depends on traffic), all necessities are within walking distance, haven’t seen any water logging since past 5 years, cost of living is lower than Gurgaon/Delhi, access to luxuries is a concern (no H&M, Zara within 20kms), low crime rate.

It’s a tier 1 city with tier 2 vibes.

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