Delhi is the best city to live in India

[hellfire]

I've started to hate cities. I just wanna live atop some mountain in some corner of the map! Some sleepy quite town somewhere where there are no traffic woes.

Don't we all :|...especially us Delhiites :bleh:

Btw, this thread has started to smell of something like North-South thingie and how Delhi behaves bad to South Indians. Well, believe me, she behaves bad to everybody irrespective of caste, creed or color!

And btw, my brother and a close friend have moved to Bangalore, from Delhi ... I'd rather not post their woes and incite riots here :bleh:

 

[delguy19]

Don't we all :|...especially us Delhiites :bleh:

Btw, this thread has started to smell of something like North-South thingie and how Delhi behaves bad to South Indians. Well, believe me, she behaves bad to everybody irrespective of caste, creed or color!

And btw, my brother and a close friend have moved to Bangalore, from Delhi ... I'd rather not post their woes and incite riots here :bleh:

Well have you ever been to south mainly real south and do you know how people behave there. they know the place and language but still they says no english. hows that ?

 

[kunaldua]

Chandigarh isn't a city, it's a very large food court cum furniture shop.
Ohh they love their furniture shops...

ROTFL :clap:

 

[Mephistopheles]

Jamshedpur is last!!! OMG, I found that city to be really neat, with no problem of electricity/water (due to TATA governing 90% of the city) and is quite a peaceful place. (Jamshedpur has a literacy rate of 82%)

Mumbai, Delhi the most livable cities? What BS. Chandigarh surely deserved a better position. Jamshedpur is even behind Ludhiana!

Kolkatta is 6th! The worst city I have been to.

 

[blr_p]

Take a look at the report and then see whether the methodology used for this whole exercise is acceptable or not.

I'd like to see more debate over the content in the report actually.

 

[var89]

I think the ranking system used is not upto the mark.

How come Delhi which has got pathetic transport infrastructure be given as a city has good transport facilities.

 

[hellfire]

Well have you ever been to south mainly real south and do you know how people behave there. they know the place and language but still they says no english. hows that ?

Huh :huh: What was that supposed to mean? That left me clueless.

But, I've been told by three different people from Bangalore about shopkeepers who understand English perfectly but would pretend not to, when spoken to by a North Indian...about how the auto-rickshaw union chaps ganged up and virtually forced my brother to make a written compromise, inside a police station, when his Scorpio ran into an auto which was driving from the wrong side. Imagine that happening in Delhi?

 

[kunaldua]

I think the ranking system used is not upto the mark.
How come Delhi which has got pathetic transport infrastructure be given as a city has good transport facilities.

It's a relative ranking. If you think Delhi has "pathetic transport infrastructure", you should see the other cities.

 

[asingh]

All cities have their share of grime and slime. This strata of society leeches from the general public -- be it native or foreign (country/state). If people from North India face issues in southern state cities, it is the same up here. I my self have seen people from other states being harassed here in New Delhi. I have been in New Delhi 10 years. Had a small stint in Mumbai, and a couple of weeks in some south Indian cities. What strikes out about Delhi is -- people are really dishonest. It is shocking. Lying is rampant, and commitments are never kept. Also generally people are rude and crude. Auto/cab drivers are extremely lobbyist in nature. They gang-up on the potential customer. Initially when I went to Mumbai, I found it really rude, but realized that it is the way hindi is spoken there. Relatively people are more friendly in Mumbai and more honest for sure. Also Delhi (and most of North India), is demeaning towards girls/women. It is shocking. My stake: Delhi is not the #1 city for sure, even if it gives me my bread and butter.

Of the note, many people mentioned Chandigarh. I was there for 4-5 days last year. Really liked it. So many booze shops, and the 'people' are so good looking.

 

[Spectre]

Chennai is the best city to live for me, for various reasons (foremost hometown)

Very good infrastructure

Great job opportunities

Less cost of living

Rent rates are still decent and not robbery like other cities

No water problem now ( i mean it) Chennai now gets water from various sources

No Electricity issues / load shedding, 30min-1hr max during peak summers

City is much more cleaner now

Wide and well connected roads, flyovers everywhere, well managed traffic

Good and cheaper transportation system

Less mall nonsense

and many more

For some, weather would be an issue, but for most who lived in coastal regions, one gets used to it

Worst Autowallas in the whole world

And folks, who say no one speaks hindi in chennai, what do you expect. Hindi is not a primary language here and people arent expected to know it. I stayed at Mumbai and Pune for some weeks, and trust me none of the local shop/auto/hotel guys spoke in english. Well that's understandable, since they are not expected to know. I managed well with the little hindi i knew. One has to manage/learn with the local language there to interact with the localities.

Except 2 cities (Bangalore-due to large influx of North due to IT, and Hyd- due to a large muslim population-urdu ) there is no hindi spoken areas in South

So, if one wants to settle down in south, get to learn their regional language, instead of cribbing

 

[var89]

All cities have their share of grime and slime. This strata of society leeches from the general public -- be it native or foreign (country/state). If people from North India face issues in southern state cities, it is the same up here. I my self have seen people from other states being harassed here in New Delhi. I have been in New Delhi 10 years. Had a small stint in Mumbai, and a couple of weeks in some south Indian cities. What strikes out about Delhi is -- people are really dishonest. It is shocking. Lying is rampant, and commitments are never kept. Also generally people are rude and crude.

I think you are spot on. People are really rude and dishonest.
They are always trying to get something to start a fight.
Just see the number of road rage cases. People come out of their cars and start abusing the other guy. There are absolutely no politeness.
I have been to south though they are somewhat careful of north Indians but mind you they are never rude. Try walking in Delhi after 10pm, and same in south, then you will feel the difference.

 

[Gannu]

Love Coimbatore esp. the outskirts. Given a chance I'd love to setup a home there.

 

[blr_p]

Ppl's personal experiences with cities are just that, personal ie subjective, just because it worked out for you in this way does not necessarily mean it will for someone else as well. So these experiences cannot form the basis of any ranking system that is objective iow personal experiences are useless.

This report makes the following claims...

The Liveability Index 2010 is a methodical comment on quality of living conditions our cities offer.

Rather than approach the issue monolithically, the report undertakes a statistically robust splintering of the liveability into multiple dimensions. It relies on entirely objective analysis, employing more than 300 indicators on a 10 year time line series. It has no prejudice color up the findings as usually happens in survey-based analysis; no subjectivity touches the inputs and processing, even the weights have been computed by application of Principal Component Analysis, eliminating multi-collinearity.

I think the ranking system used is not upto the mark.

This is what the report states in its defense...

It is important to note the difference between indexing and ranking. Both indexing and ranking involve the tracking of consistently measured data. Ranking, however, compares unique data sets to each other periodically, whereas indexing measures the change of comparable data sets to each other over time. It is the change factor of indexing that gives us an accurate view of our position relative to other comparable cities. Indexing is an excellent tool to monitor change and the purpose of the index is to create a set of annual studies.

Two of the features of the Index are that it calculates the absolute change as well as the relative rate of change. This relative rate of change is designed not only to show whether a measurement increased or decreased, but more importantly, how fast it changed in comparison to the rate of change in the other cities.

The goal of using this format is to make the Index simple and understandable. The Index strives to maintain the highest level of data integrity.

So they dont just do ranking, but ranking based off indexing. They are not using absolute values as they stand today which is what you were prolly expecting to see as in Delhi is where it is now because it has accomplished so much but rather how much things change wrt to the baseline and where things will stand tomorrow.

Here's why you need to give a damn..

The purpose of the study is to provide the residents and the industry with a comprehensive measure to gauge a region on its quality of life to make a more informed decision when choosing their destinations for housing or operations.

Facing a transfer soon ?, then better pick the least worst place to go