Mumbai meri jaan

Well its been a month!!! since I have written and I chose a topic which in some rights is mundane...according to my boss is irrelevant, but will make a huge difference to my life in the coming years.

Mumbai or Delhi...

Well...I still maintain that I do not belong to any one city, but have lived in Mumbai for 15 years and in Delhi for 3.5
Well the years is not as skewed as it appears as the first 10 years in Mumbai were school and just 5 were grown up working years.

Let me compare it as I see it.

1a) I love the sea, I love bhel puri and I absolutely love vada pav. I love bandra causeway and worli sea face.
1b) I have no love for GK or southex or chandani chowk. Chola batura is too fattening for my taste and parathas are approx 500 cals per paratha if you have them with butter, without which its not necessary to eat a paratha.

2a) I love driving to pune where close cousins reside..as well as there is thousand oaks and some great restaurants I visit.
2b) Rishikesh is too far to drive, Jaipur is a 6 hr drive...and doesnt make sense for shopping.

3a) I love walking on bandstand and the music played in Hawain shack and lately Hardrock which opened after i left. Numerous options in Mumbai
3b) If you walk, you might get molly coddled, so you got to stick to your sector's man made park. the only place I can bear is TC

4a) I hated driving 3.5 hrs a day and having no life other than work
4b) I love driving 10 minutes a day and reaching home at 7.00pm and waking up at 8.00am.

5a) In 5 yrs I made 6 very close friends based on a personality match
5b) In 3.5 yrs I made 2

6a) A ticket to Goa now costs Rs 4000
6b) A ticket to Goa costs Rs 8000 if lucky

7a) Will pay Rs 20000 and live in a 800 sqft 2BHK may be with the works mentioned below..maybe not
7b) Will pay Rs 20000 and live in a 1500 sq ft 3BHK in a super society which has pools, squash courts, a gym, tennis courts and a great running park. (my my - however money has never been a consideration in my life)

8a) Love the weather 4 months in a year only, but the rains beat down upon you while the roads and traffic is always a mess
8b) Love the weather for maybe 8 months leaving the 2 months when its too hot or too cold, awesome roads, traffic is horrible not because its as much as mumbai but because the people are just too indecent.

9a) Never feel insecure while driving alone in the night
9b) Never drive in the night..the few times I have...god had to work hard to save me, literally.

10a) The vibrancy and feel of independence is intoxicating
10b) Have to struggle to maintain the feeling totally

Well...for lack of time will end it here..I miss so many things about mumbai and will not miss anything about delhi except traveling 10 minutes a day to work.

Finally delhi's been good for me however its not me the way mumbai was.