Things I Like:
1) Short distances - point A to point B is usually no more than 30 mins. Office to home is 10 mins!
2) The beaches - although most of the city beaches are not really bathe-able, you get pretty seascapes about 45-60 mins out of town
3) Traffic policemen (and women) - ubiquitous, industrious and not too greedy
4) Nilgiri's department store - where we get our weekly fix of groceries. Beats Big Bazaar by many notches
5) Filter coffee - not the one found at Cafe Coffee Day
Things that I think could improve:
1) Eating out - the popular eating places seem to serve the same kind of non-tasty food. No Haldiram's!! No good Chole Bhature!! Thai, Mediterranean, Italian, North Indian, Greek - all uniformly expensive and uniformly mediocre
2) Buying good alcohol - cannot do!
3) Chilled out-ness - generally a good thing, but not if it means long queues at check out counters, lazy household help, shops closed on Sundays
4) Malls / cinemas - the one large mall is super crowded and teeming with humanity. Getting tickets for movies in a cinema hall is very difficult
5) Road tax on cars - cars are more expensive than Delhi by 30%+!!
6) The airport - honestly, think they can do much better than the current atrocity
7) Low on priority list for franchises - No TGIF! Starbucks not queueing up to open a store anytime soon
Have I been spoilt by Delhi's infrastructure and spending capacity??
1) Short distances - point A to point B is usually no more than 30 mins. Office to home is 10 mins!
2) The beaches - although most of the city beaches are not really bathe-able, you get pretty seascapes about 45-60 mins out of town
3) Traffic policemen (and women) - ubiquitous, industrious and not too greedy
4) Nilgiri's department store - where we get our weekly fix of groceries. Beats Big Bazaar by many notches
5) Filter coffee - not the one found at Cafe Coffee Day
Things that I think could improve:
1) Eating out - the popular eating places seem to serve the same kind of non-tasty food. No Haldiram's!! No good Chole Bhature!! Thai, Mediterranean, Italian, North Indian, Greek - all uniformly expensive and uniformly mediocre
2) Buying good alcohol - cannot do!
3) Chilled out-ness - generally a good thing, but not if it means long queues at check out counters, lazy household help, shops closed on Sundays
4) Malls / cinemas - the one large mall is super crowded and teeming with humanity. Getting tickets for movies in a cinema hall is very difficult
5) Road tax on cars - cars are more expensive than Delhi by 30%+!!
6) The airport - honestly, think they can do much better than the current atrocity
7) Low on priority list for franchises - No TGIF! Starbucks not queueing up to open a store anytime soon
Have I been spoilt by Delhi's infrastructure and spending capacity??
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