[sauntheninja]

Mumbai

Pros: Its home , Safest city in India , A true metropolitan city in India with a very liberal crowd , Great and affordable public transport

Cons: Not a tech city. All the tech jobs have gone to other cities in India and I will need to move if I want a higher paying job.

Overcrowded - Whole of India feels overcrowded but Mumbai is on a whole other level you can never be truly alone in this city and the public transport while being one of the cheapest in the world means to go to your office you need to hang by the doors of trains just because there is no place else to stand.

Weather- Not much to say other than its crap its very hot most of the year. Rains bring floods every year and train closures which stop this city.

Mumbai currently is ongoing an astonishing amount of infrastructure upgrades from upgrading its public transport to building roads to solve traffic bottlenecks but the new age jobs are fast leaving the city and the city is no longer the city of dreams it once was

[codegeek]

You forgot the biggest cons. Cost of Real estate in Mumbai.

[jytechdevops]

interesting, as a non-Indian who asked a lot of Indians about various aspects of India, I've never heard this come up in conversation. Assuming you're implying that it's costly, would you say it's costly in comparison to standard cost of living in India? or are talking like foreigners buying up land/buildings to the point where prices are at HCOL NYC/SF levels?

[codegeek]

"would you say it's costly in comparison to standard cost of living in India"

Yes. Especially in Mumbai where population density is crazy and real estate is premium. Even a 1000 sqft apartment may cost a Million USD. Sort of like NY/HongKong real estate prices. Many Prime locations have properties priced at $1000/sq ft.

[jytechdevops]

holy crap...i have a home in one of the higher COL areas in the US and it's only $600/sq ft. I know there's probably a lot of politics and corruption involved but honestly, I'm more impressed and excited for the future of the country (India) if things are going that well over there.