[plinkplonk]

India's cities are by and large safe (unless you are doing something really weird/ in the sleazy parts - every city has its dangerous parts just like every American city I know of). You do have the very occasional sensational attack on foreigners which grabs the headlins.

I have friends from the USA, Sweden etc who have been living here for years without getting into any trouble. The best way to decide such things is to talk to someone you know who has already lived here.

And we don't quite have our "Silicon Valley" yet, though Bangalore has many outsourcing companies and offshore development centres where large companies in the USA or Europe offload work no one there wants to do. But yes, (as rjurney points out) there are cities with very large populations of programmers, Bangalore being the prototypical example.

[rjurney]

I lived both places. The average block in Moscow is like some shady alley in Old Delhi at night ;)