The Garden City

For a person who believes that Bangalore was, is and will be the best city ever to live, a visit to a city in the neighboring state came as a pleasant surprise. The wide roads, the various restaurants, the hang out joints, the bindaas guys and babes of the city were actually an eye opener.

After Bangalore if I had to actually rate my choice of preference for a place to stay it would probably be this city. But if I had to actually think back on the statement just made by me then I would in fact see a vast difference and yet vast similarities between the two cities.

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No doubt that one is “The” IT capital of the country and the other is just emerging to be one, people in both the cities are equally busy.

People in both the cities actually turn into maniacs when they start driving and I guess the same follows through out the country.

People in both the cities equally enjoying eating out (we Indians are known for our vast appetite for good food!)

No doubt the meters of the auto rickshaws in this city read kilometers or distance traveled very much unlike to the auto rickshaws in Bangalore which shows the amount, but in both places the drivers’ mentality is the same – to loot people.

But still there’s something that actually makes me feel that Bangalore is the best place to stay coz no matter how busy people are with their own lives, we still manage to strike a conversation with the person sitting opposite to us in the public transport system, and sometimes these meetings of minutes turn into relationships for a life time

We do turn into maniacs as we drive on the road, but would there be an accident there would be a mob of people willing to help the victim and help out his near and dear ones.

We do enjoy eating out, but we still value the small meals that we have with our family members discussing the events of the day.

No doubt the auto rickshaws drivers’ want to loot us, but we still do nurture some good samaritans who get our big load of groceries till our doorstep after they drop us home without charging any extra for it.

All this actually makes me feel that there nothing like home! Bangalore was, is and will be the best city to live. You can take me out of Bangalore, but you can’t take Bangalore out of me!!!