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by hammock 444 days ago
I had no idea and thank you for sharing. Why did it fall apart?
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If you want an alternative view, the state government has to largely spend money on infrastructure and welfare for non-Bengaluru voters who comprise the majority of the population and the vast majority of the land area, so often all the money that flows into Bengaluru doesn't get spent in Bengaluru itself but instead the wider state.

I also think that there's a strong overcurrent of people wanting to emulate US living standards in a city that's simply designed for a different way of living, more similar to other dense cities in East Asia or maybe even Europe. You need to have skyscrapers and not large low rise estates for example.

Source: Grad student from Bengalaru I got lunch with.

It became India's Silicon Valley. Acecnture. Infosys. Western IT money came pouring in and never stopped.

https://www.businessinsider.com/india-silicon-valley-bengalu...

Fittingly, I’ve heard [0] a similar transformation happened to Silicon Valley itself. Apparently it used to be a bunch of orchards.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/10672gn/til_before...