[junior44660]

Do you want your children to grow up amidst traffic, potholes, pollution and stray dogs?

Maybe the well-earning FAANG SDEs on here might pretend to escape the reality of Indian metropolis by renting or buying an apartment in a "gated society".

Yet you have to go outside the "gated community" and routinely exposed to the realities of metropolitan India, which exacerbates everything wrong with the country by packing a million of them in one PIN code. This is only going to get worse in the coming years.

There's no solution apart from developing the "tier-2" cities and villages.

Every mediocre "SDE" leetcodemaxxing to work for the same 15-20 top paying companies HQ'd in Eastern Bangalore is not going to end well.

[srean]

> and stray dogs

Absolutely yes.

Properly vaccinated and properly treated they can be part of the fauna of the city.

Man and dogs have befriended and helped each other for tens of thousands of years. Turning our backs when we don't need them anymore is positively shitty behavior that humans are capable of.

[junior44660]

A. You may always travel in an car and stay in a gated apartment. But for people who want to walk in the night or use a motorcycle, they are an absolute menace.

B. Vaccination is impossible in a corrupt and low trust society. If government sponsors vaccinations, there will be a significant portion of dogs which will be marked vaccinated without even vaccinating them. Nevermind counterfeit vaccines: https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/news/867/falsified-rabies-vac... . By what measure can I trust that vaccination is actually successful?

C. They make it very hard to jog or bicycle in residential areas. These would otherwise be good options for fitness.

D. Barking

E. Even vaccinated, they gang up and maul children and elderly.

No civilized society has this sort of "fauna".

Instead, people in civilized societies can jog and walk.

"Fauna" it seems.

[srean]

Lol hyperbole much.

It is usually (i) anxiety triggered over reactions on the part of humans or worse, plain abusive behavior (ii) such as kicking, beating the dogs or driving/riding dangerously.

People familiar with dogs have no problems with them.

Stray dogs are warmly welcomed at the Taj hotel of Mumbai. No patron minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_Palace_Hotel

Street dogs are allowed to roam the premises of the hotel and sleep in the shade.

That hotel surely has more credit than your account does :) The dogs are not the problem.

Fake vaccines are an issue though, only heard of such cases in North India, but then one should be going after those who are behind that.

[leosanchez]

> It is usually (i) anxiety triggered over reactions on the part of humans or worse, plain abusive behavior (ii) such as kicking, beating the dogs or driving/riding dangerously.

Citation required

[srean]

[1] Srean, Personal communication based on tens of years of direct observations. Hacker News. 2026.

[leosanchez]

Well I and my friend were attacked by bunch of street dogs at night after coming from watching a movie.

Thankfully we were on a moped (scooty) we got out without any harm .

Maybe each individual has their own experience and your experience alone doesn't count as absolute truth ?