Bangalore best Indian city to live in, says Mercer survey

According to Mercer survey, '2009 Quality of Living global city rankings' for 215 cities, Bangalore has topped the list among Indian cities, while the country's financial hub Mumbai has witnessed a drop in rankings this year mainly due to a decline in stability and security conditions.

[Gianakopolous]

I recently visited India and for me Bangalore is the best city for a foreigner to adjust in.Have been to all the major cities in India,Bangalore is the most cosmopolitan.
Next comes Mumbai,Hyderabad and then Delhi and Chennai.

[South Indian]

agree i live in bangalore :)

[churumuri]

bangalore also offers regionalism as in sons of the soil issue,karnataka rakshana vedike,hate for tamilians-their most closest neighbours.
northies are looked down in bangalore as they never learn kannada language as well as Will not adjust with others.

[shut up]

churumuri wrote:

bangalore also offers regionalism as in sons of the soil issue,karnataka rakshana vedike,hate for tamilians-their most closest neighbours.
northies are looked down in bangalore as they never learn kannada language as well as Will not adjust with others.

You should get ride of northies cause they don't bring you anything except taking your jobs. THey can't even learn to speak a foreign langage properly cause they are convinced that hindi is the national langage and they kept critisizing all the people who can't speak hindi. But the truth is that hindi is spoken even in dehli and in UP and in the rest of india, people speak in regional tongue and only educated people who went to school can speak decent hindi without mix it with regional tongue.

[Rahul]

Mumbai is the slum capital of the world. Our politicians have worked really hard for this achivement.

[KickPoliticians]

Until our politicians are not kicked and paraded naked, India will remain a slum capital of the world, these bastards are more interested in maintaining their bank balance than maintaining India, lol

[shut up]

KickPoliticians wrote:

Until our politicians are not kicked and paraded naked, India will remain a slum capital of the world, these bastards are more interested in maintaining their bank balance than maintaining India, lol

I went to dehli and i really felt ashame to see that this darty city is the rajdhani of india.
Please the government should do something for that cause it's very dirty and brings a bad name to india.

[paki in toronto]

stay in your shithole. india will be number one. by the way toronto sucks

[Dynamitx]

Haramzada Paki wrote:

Bangalore is a shithole and if thats the best city slumdog India can offer then it's best left to anyone's imagination what other Indian cities must be like

Why Microsoft,IBM,FOSS (Linux)...etc have invested in banglore,do they like shithole.

[Dynamitx]

Madarchod Indians N Pukis wrote:

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They like the dirt cheap wages of shithole countries like India.

If India is shithole ! Then why they have not invested in your country.

[Baros Hendricks]

You guys suck compared to any place Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai other than traffic issues Bangalore is the best. FTW its about the city not the shitheads like those haters in the comments. It has great weather and is absolutely made for socializing any time. Plus if it were about the people then i would rank some random village as better off since people in cities are 99% stuck up like u sad commenters up there.

[Exile _In_My_Own_Land]

Exile _In_My_Own_Land wrote:

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As for entertainment and amusement, I think it was better when they did not have the 11.30PM closing deadling for pubs and other places.

"11.30PM closing deadline..." (typo in last post).:-)

[Darkmaster]

Bangalore is full of Idiots hanging out in Coffee shops. Chennai is the best city, with the nicest people.

[levelheaded]

I do know that daily many rural people are moving to cities in India for a better life and better health services and education for their children. Just as USA, Europe, and Japan urbanized about 100 years ago, it is India's turn to urbanize now. India is not disintegrating, but integrating in cities.

There is a difference between rural India and urban India. There is also a difference between rural Hinduism and urban Hinduism. In rural India, everybody knows everybody's caste and try to lead caste conscious and segregated lives. In the village, castes are more segregated because sometimes different castes sometimes live in different parts of the same village. Urban India is different.

In urban India, the cities are crowded with people. It is hard for city dwellers to know the caste of everybody else in cities. In cities if you sell umbrellas, then you sell to anybody who buys, not just to people of your own caste. In cities if you buy tea, you buy from anybody who sells tea, not just from somebody of your own caste. If you board a bus, you just sit beside anybody, not just somebody of your own caste. In fact, the cities are so crowded that you are lucky if you can find a seat in the bus or train. The cities are so crowded that all castes are forced to interact with each other daily. Segregation along caste lines may be possible in villages, but impractical in cities. Caste segregation will break down in cities where the life is fast and crowded; but caste segregation can be preserved in slow moving villages.

Caste means community. Different castes means different communities. Hindu people prefer to marry someone of their own caste. It means that Hindu people prefer to marry someone of their own community. To marry someone of your own community is your human right, which should not be questioned. When someone engages in intra-caste marriage, you please keep your comments to your self and mind your own business.

Any way, it is very hard to maintain caste consciousness in cities as compared to villages. Cities are too fast and crowded to maintain caste consciousness. India is urbanizing rapidly.

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The caste system is well documented in Hindu scriptures, but the Hindu people almost never bothered to read the Hindu scriptures. With the changing times, Hinduism will not die. On the contrary, rural Hinduism will re-invent itself and emerge as urban Hinduism. Hinduism is morphing under urbanization. There is a difference between rural Hinduism and urban Hinduism. There are two India's in this country, rural and urban. While the world is not watching, people in India are moving from one side to the other side. While the world is not watching, people are moving from rural side to the urban side. Unknown to the world, urban India is becoming more dominant socially, politically, and economically. Unknown to the world, rural Hinduism is transforming into urban Hinduism. Amitabh Bachchan is right. It is a case of India vs. India. It is a case of urban vs. rural. See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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It does not matter how Hinduism was explained in the scriptures. We have to see the ground realities. But we have to change with the times. Evolution. There is good news. Urbanization will bring changes to Hinduism. Currently, almost 70% of Indians live in rural India, while 30% live in urban India. In developed nations like USA, Europe, and Japan, the majority live in cities. Currently, India and China are undergoing what USA went through about a 100 years ago: URBANIZATION.

[DAK]

Haramzada Paki wrote:

Bangalore is a shithole and if thats the best city slumdog India can offer then it's best left to anyone's imagination what other Indian cities must be like

Peshawer is better, then?

[EkDesiLadki]

Is Thana better ?

Rahul wrote:

Mumbai is the slum capital of the world. Our politicians have worked really hard for this achivement.

[God]

India Is Retarded wrote:

You people aren't even human beings, go eat some dung.

I dont think you came here just to write that underhanded comment.

[Explorer]

India Is Retarded wrote:

You people aren't even human beings, go eat some dung.

LOL. We know who you are!

[Arbaaz]

Rahul wrote:

Mumbai is the slum capital of the world. Our politicians have worked really hard for this achivement.

Thane is the next...

[levelheaded]

Rahul wrote:

Mumbai is the slum capital of the world. Our politicians have worked really hard for this achivement.

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Both my parents are Indian and Hindu; I'm an evolutionist.

DO NOT WAIT FOR POLITICIANS TO DO ANYTHING. You should move to where the growth and development is: the cities.

I have already explained in my previous posts that India is not disintegrating. The reverse is true. Indians are integrating in the cities. There is growth in the cities. The rural folks are slowly moving to the cities for a better life. The city population is increasing, while the rural population is decreasing. India is undergoing rapid urbanization.

Most of these Maoists, separatists, and terrorists are active in remote parts of India. They can engage in attacks through hit-and-run tactics. That's all. There is not much support for them. On the contrary, it is better for the poor to relocate to areas where there is growth and opportunities: the cities. This is what the rural folks are doing to better themselves. In short, you should not wait for the economic growth to come to your village; you should move to the cities where there may be more economic opportunities and better education for your children. They may end up in slums, but something is better than nothing. The next generation of slum dwellers will move out of the slums to, may be, low cost housing. Then the next generation of low cost housing dwellers will move from low cost housing to middle income group housing. Then the next generation of middle income group dwellers will move to suburbs and so on. It is a step by step process. It may take several generations and a 100 years before we can eradicate poverty in India.

To a rural person, living in a city is a education in itself.

The most important thing to remember is that, please do not wait for economic growth to reach your village. On the contrary, you should go where the economic growth is: the cities. Indians are beginning to realize this and so the city population is swelling with migrants from the rural areas. While the world is not watching, daily, the rural folks are moving to the cities. It's a quiet revolution. India is changing daily.

The following is a video footage produced by the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP), not me.



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