India Bashing

[Razz R]

Pollution in Gurgaon is really bad right now. You can smell it as soon as you step outside. Have ordered few air purifiers for home. Not sure what to do about my walking routine. I usually 10kms in the morning and it keeps me going throughout the day. Don't want to step outside now. Desperately need air to take the pollution to some other place now. I have headaches but cannot tell if that is from jetlag or pollution. If I go for my walk I think I will be able to taste the pollution. They say it's like smoking cigarettes. It wasnt this bad prior to wuhan virus pandemic. There would be few days of bad air but this is now different extreme and I am not sure if this will subside or stay like this in entire winter season. Real winter has not even started yet. Whatever happened to those giant air mopping machines that China was using some years back? I guess Kejriwal didn't place order for them yet. Have no faith in govt of Haryana. It's practically useless.

at AQI of 500+ you are at severe risk of getting lung disease - if you step out of the home without masks/ filtration systems etc.. this is crazy.. please do not go out for walks when things are this bad outside.

[SAPPORO]

Pollution in Gurgaon is really bad right now. You can smell it as soon as you step outside. Have ordered few air purifiers for home. Not sure what to do about my walking routine. I usually 10kms in the morning and it keeps me going throughout the day. Don't want to step outside now. Desperately need air to take the pollution to some other place now. I have headaches but cannot tell if that is from jetlag or pollution. If I go for my walk I think I will be able to taste the pollution. They say it's like smoking cigarettes. It wasnt this bad prior to wuhan virus pandemic. There would be few days of bad air but this is now different extreme and I am not sure if this will subside or stay like this in entire winter season. Real winter has not even started yet. Whatever happened to those giant air mopping machines that China was using some years back? I guess Kejriwal didn't place order for them yet. Have no faith in govt of Haryana. It's practically useless.

at AQI of 500+ you are at severe risk of getting lung disease - if you step out of the home without masks/ filtration systems etc.. this is crazy.. please do not go out for walks when things are this bad outside.

When I was in China in 2014, I could not see the sun at all during my stay due to thick smog and pollution but somehow, they were able to improve the air quality tremendously ever since- maybe "communist" regimes are better for people after all, rather than oligarchies!

[nodegree]

Pollution in Gurgaon is really bad right now. You can smell it as soon as you step outside. Have ordered few air purifiers for home. Not sure what to do about my walking routine. I usually 10kms in the morning and it keeps me going throughout the day. Don't want to step outside now. Desperately need air to take the pollution to some other place now. I have headaches but cannot tell if that is from jetlag or pollution. If I go for my walk I think I will be able to taste the pollution. They say it's like smoking cigarettes. It wasnt this bad prior to wuhan virus pandemic. There would be few days of bad air but this is now different extreme and I am not sure if this will subside or stay like this in entire winter season. Real winter has not even started yet. Whatever happened to those giant air mopping machines that China was using some years back? I guess Kejriwal didn't place order for them yet. Have no faith in govt of Haryana. It's practically useless.

at AQI of 500+ you are at severe risk of getting lung disease - if you step out of the home without masks/ filtration systems etc.. this is crazy.. please do not go out for walks when things are this bad outside.

When I was in China in 2014, I could not see the sun at all during my stay due to thick smog and pollution but somehow, they were able to improve the air quality tremendously ever since- maybe "communist" regimes are better for people after all, rather than oligarchies!

Is the modern day China even considered "Communist" anymore..I remember the politburo saying that they'll do whatever that works and call it communism.

Back to improving air quality - It can be done. Best example is the 1970s Los Angeles to where it is now.

[SAPPORO]

at AQI of 500+ you are at severe risk of getting lung disease - if you step out of the home without masks/ filtration systems etc.. this is crazy.. please do not go out for walks when things are this bad outside.

When I was in China in 2014, I could not see the sun at all during my stay due to thick smog and pollution but somehow, they were able to improve the air quality tremendously ever since- maybe "communist" regimes are better for people after all, rather than oligarchies!

Is the modern day China even considered "Communist" anymore..I remember the politburo saying that they'll do whatever that works and call it communism.

Back to improving air quality - It can be done. Best example is the 1970s Los Angeles to where it is now.

I understand China is not communist anymore and that's why I specified communism within quotes in my earlier post. "They're communist" is the usual retort to any accomplishment by China by the holier-than-thou democracies like India and the US in spite of no respect for rule of law in their own countries.

[r2somewhere]

We get your latest-love for India - but don't let your DD pet stray dogs in India or anywhere else
Moving out of one's comfort zone is hard and needs to be ripped out as a band-aid or in morbid terms, is akin to committing a suicide - More thoughts about it, less likely it's going to happen! This is exactly what I tell my friends that bought houses in my neighborhood based on my advice but dithering about the actual move.
I am sure the entire R2I club community can't wait for May 2025!

It is not at all hard for me. In fact it is hard for me to continue living in Singapore. Living in Singapore feels like you are in a matrix, not in a real world. Everything is perfect, but everything is also very predictable and boring, every day is the same. I could live here another 50 years and it wont even feel like I have lived that long. I spent the last 15 years in Singapore. The 1st 5 years were exciting. The last 10 years have been a repeat of the same. So basically I have exchanged my time for money.

This just comes across as a lack of imagination. Or low T.

[nodegree]

Phone number please aka How MBAs ruin everything.

Every shop I visit, no matter what I buy - they always want my phone number. I politely decline and it usually works but sometimes the clerk refuses to checkout unless I share my number. The worst offenders are big chain retailers like Decathlon where it is impossible to pay unless you give em your number/email and giving a fake phone number doesn't always work because they usually send an OTP (while I'm waiting at the checkout counter).

I was at a mall recently to buy some knickknacks and decided to watch a movie because I had a few hours to kill. I was at the PVR ticket counter and wanted to buy a ticket but the clerk insisted that I cannot buy a ticket without giving a phone number. The person also told me that tickets would only be texted to that number and they cannot print out - so no fake numbers. I politely told them to pound sand and walked out.

[Returning_Indian]

Phone number please aka How MBAs ruin everything.

Every shop I visit, no matter what I buy - they always want my phone number. I politely decline and it usually works but sometimes the clerk refuses to checkout unless I share my number. The worst offenders are big chain retailers like Decathlon where it is impossible to pay unless you give em your number/email and giving a fake phone number doesn't always work because they usually send an OTP (while I'm waiting at the checkout counter).

I was at a mall recently to buy some knickknacks and decided to watch a movie because I had a few hours to kill. I was at the PVR ticket counter and wanted to buy a ticket but the clerk insisted that I cannot buy a ticket without giving a phone number. The person also told me that tickets would only be texted to that number and they cannot print out - so no fake numbers. I politely told them to pound sand and walked out.

What's the problem is giving phone numbers? It's not going to reduce/increase telemarketers. Your whole profile is available for sale via your banks. You are making it complicated unnecessarily. Concept of privacy does not exist in India, it's a useless concept anyways. I am not even sure if whole gdpr thing holds any value anyways when entire portfolios are available for sale/theft.

[nodegree]

Asking for phone numbers is silly and a pointless exercise wasting time. If anything malicious customers like me give out fake data..just do it like how retailers do in America. I pay by card anyways, just use that as an identifier to deep fry your big job MBA spreadsheets.

[Returning_Indian]

One apartment in Gurgaon is sold for 190cr. It's the same complex where flats were sold for 100cr. But 190cr is probably just another obscenity. It does make me wonder if this is just a PR excercise by dlf or some form of money laundering or something else sinister. But 190cr for an apartment is just mind blowing or mind numbing I should say. What it does is raise pricing of all apartments around the city and make living unaffordable even for upper middle class. I wish housing was cheaper and I could buy a plot to build a house. But that will remain a pipe dream unless I move out to loonies. And then my son's school will be too far away. 190cr, this is just plain weird.

[mcr]

One apartment in Gurgaon is sold for 190cr. It's the same complex where flats were sold for 100cr. But 190cr is probably just another obscenity. It does make me wonder if this is just a PR excercise by dlf or some form of money laundering or something else sinister. But 190cr for an apartment is just mind blowing or mind numbing I should say. What it does is raise pricing of all apartments around the city and make living unaffordable even for upper middle class. I wish housing was cheaper and I could buy a plot to build a house. But that will remain a pipe dream unless I move out to loonies. And then my son's school will be too far away. 190cr, this is just plain weird.

For a dollar billionaire this 25M apartment must not be big deal. I think it is the demand and supply factor. There may be so few of these ultra luxury trophy homes available in the market and hence they command premium. There is a block in Koramangala, Bangalore called 'Billionaire lane' where plots of 10,000 SFT costs upwards of 80 crores which works out to 80K per SFT. Where as in the same neighborhood in a different block, smaller plots of 2400 and 4000 SFTs sells for 30-40K per SFT. These bigger plots costs so much because there are so few of them and there is no shortage of startup billionaires in Bangalore who wants to live on that block and they are willing to pay insane prices.