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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
Sorry that it happened. I can give some useful tips on handling such a situation.
From what I have seen, such incidents cluster into two types
i) the dogs have been habitually harassed by bikers, who hit and kick. You might have no intention of doing that but the dogs don't know that. It's bad human behavior that has trained the dogs to react like that. Unfortunately very common.
ii) these are play chases / mock chases. Their fun goes away when there is no prey that's running away. This is exacerbated by the "prey" speeding up or acting scared.
In both cases, stopping and holding your ground dissuades them if a chase is already on. Note you are considerably bigger and can inflict substantial damage to them. They are respectful when your behavior projects that belief.
If the chase is not already on, slowing down prevents the chase in the first place. They may growl and bark though.
It's only trained attack dogs, guard dogs that will commit to attacking a human holding ground.
If strays posed genuine danger the Taj Mahal hotel would have been out of business several decades ago. Instead of being a failed business it's one of the most esteemed hotels of India.
I know. That's human fear kicking in and it makes it worse. Try it once, success brings confidence. Your own anxiety around dogs might be making things worse for you.
If you search you will find that holding ground is the way to deal with any territorial dog pack, stray or not. It helps to have grown up with dogs around, then it becomes second nature.
Works with pack of hissing, charging monkeys too. Been there done that, well I charged back, rather than just holding ground. Walked away with my food in my possession.
No biker in Bangalore has time to play kicks and hits with street dogesh. Dogs may chase you at slightest disturbance even if you don't even look at them. You sound like one those "bhadralok" upper class pacifists.
I know the article is AI slop just by the structure, my last job at MSFT had me producing artefacts like this, which is why I quit ;)
The issue with buying land outside major metro areas like BLR are the following,
1. Irregular power supply. I lived 2 hours outside of BLR in a village and the power would regularly go off for minimum of 3 hours, sometimes more. The current KA government made a promise to voters to supply subsidised power and the downstream effect of this is that they must mandatorily supply power to BLR which is the only economic engine of KA. Consequently they end up shafting everyone else.
2. Poor education quality. The best teachers and smartest students are concentrated in BLR, unless you are willing to homeschool or are fine with your child not getting the best, this is a difficult tradeoff to live with.
3. Narrow minded people in villages. Unless you live in touristy areas like Coorg, CKM etc you will not find the diversity that you find in a big city like BLR.
4. Less than ideal medical care. Most villages don’t have the sort of hospitals and doctors you would find in BLR. The best doctors who would be the best paid won’t come to villages. Although I did live near a teaching hospital and the medical care there was average. If you’re a healthy individual, you might ignore this.
Surprisingly the roads were decent, a result of being near a highway and having very low population density.
Apart from these, I was living a “slow life”, had great AQI (most days), wide open spaces, great and cheap food. If you’re fine with the shortcomings, buying land in and around major cities is affordable but the shortcomings I mentioned are real and I don’t see them going away anytime soon.
As to the efforts to decongest BLR, there are quite a few like Bidadi township but they are are more like bringing BLR style haphazard development to the outskirts, but these things are still very much in the nascent stage now.
> The current KA government made a promise to voters to supply subsidised power and the downstream effect of this is that they must mandatorily supply power to BLR which is the only economic engine of KA. Consequently they end up shafting everyone else.
Just Congress things.
Brings back memories of Congress rule in our state with 9 hours power cut every day in summer.
Conversations on this topic could be interesting, but this "article" is literally just a word-to-word copy-pasted default-styled AI response to a single prompt.
The biggest problem with this and I say this being someone who is adamant about renting and not paying 3C for a house in Bangalore is that people around you will constantly be emotional. No one will be convinced by numbers if they've made up their mind to buy a house. People still think buying a house is an investment or they think it's security. They don't realize it'sore anxiety inducing to pay a loan. I gave up trying to convince anyone else and just keep my suggestion to myself now. I'm only going to buy a house in a tier 2 city one day. Or a village. I don't want to live in Bangalore if I can get the privilege to move out.
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
> 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
[1] Srean, Personal communication based on tens of years of direct observations. Hacker News. 2026.
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 ?
Sorry that it happened. I can give some useful tips on handling such a situation.
From what I have seen, such incidents cluster into two types
i) the dogs have been habitually harassed by bikers, who hit and kick. You might have no intention of doing that but the dogs don't know that. It's bad human behavior that has trained the dogs to react like that. Unfortunately very common.
ii) these are play chases / mock chases. Their fun goes away when there is no prey that's running away. This is exacerbated by the "prey" speeding up or acting scared.
In both cases, stopping and holding your ground dissuades them if a chase is already on. Note you are considerably bigger and can inflict substantial damage to them. They are respectful when your behavior projects that belief.
If the chase is not already on, slowing down prevents the chase in the first place. They may growl and bark though.
It's only trained attack dogs, guard dogs that will commit to attacking a human holding ground.
If strays posed genuine danger the Taj Mahal hotel would have been out of business several decades ago. Instead of being a failed business it's one of the most esteemed hotels of India.
> stopping and holding your ground dissuades them if a chase is already on.
Maybe what you are suggesting IS true and might actually work out.
But there is no way in hell I can stop and hold my ground when half a dozen street dogs are chasing me at midnight.
I know. That's human fear kicking in and it makes it worse. Try it once, success brings confidence. Your own anxiety around dogs might be making things worse for you.
If you search you will find that holding ground is the way to deal with any territorial dog pack, stray or not. It helps to have grown up with dogs around, then it becomes second nature.
Works with pack of hissing, charging monkeys too. Been there done that, well I charged back, rather than just holding ground. Walked away with my food in my possession.
No biker in Bangalore has time to play kicks and hits with street dogesh. Dogs may chase you at slightest disturbance even if you don't even look at them. You sound like one those "bhadralok" upper class pacifists.
Lol as if on cue to prove you wrong, three teenagers pelting stones at a stray kept inside neighbour's gate, not even an hour ago.
Just saw it on security cam footage my neighborhood posted on Facebook.
If there was a way to share the Facebook post without compromising anonymity, I would.
> No biker in Bangalore has time to play kicks and hits with street dogesh
Contradicts my observations daily.
> You sound like one those "bhadralok" upper class pacifists.
No idea what that means, or why that is relevant. Seems to have triggered some insecurity of yours. Shrug.
BTW no need to guess you can try https://hn-panopticon.online/ on me.
To be taken seriously learn to comment without ad hominem.
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Considering an LLM wrote this, I wonder when will LLMs go from writing insightful (sounding) investment advice to basically agentic landlording?
I know the article is AI slop just by the structure, my last job at MSFT had me producing artefacts like this, which is why I quit ;)
The issue with buying land outside major metro areas like BLR are the following,
1. Irregular power supply. I lived 2 hours outside of BLR in a village and the power would regularly go off for minimum of 3 hours, sometimes more. The current KA government made a promise to voters to supply subsidised power and the downstream effect of this is that they must mandatorily supply power to BLR which is the only economic engine of KA. Consequently they end up shafting everyone else.
2. Poor education quality. The best teachers and smartest students are concentrated in BLR, unless you are willing to homeschool or are fine with your child not getting the best, this is a difficult tradeoff to live with.
3. Narrow minded people in villages. Unless you live in touristy areas like Coorg, CKM etc you will not find the diversity that you find in a big city like BLR.
4. Less than ideal medical care. Most villages don’t have the sort of hospitals and doctors you would find in BLR. The best doctors who would be the best paid won’t come to villages. Although I did live near a teaching hospital and the medical care there was average. If you’re a healthy individual, you might ignore this.
Surprisingly the roads were decent, a result of being near a highway and having very low population density.
Apart from these, I was living a “slow life”, had great AQI (most days), wide open spaces, great and cheap food. If you’re fine with the shortcomings, buying land in and around major cities is affordable but the shortcomings I mentioned are real and I don’t see them going away anytime soon.
As to the efforts to decongest BLR, there are quite a few like Bidadi township but they are are more like bringing BLR style haphazard development to the outskirts, but these things are still very much in the nascent stage now.
> The current KA government made a promise to voters to supply subsidised power and the downstream effect of this is that they must mandatorily supply power to BLR which is the only economic engine of KA. Consequently they end up shafting everyone else.
Just Congress things.
Brings back memories of Congress rule in our state with 9 hours power cut every day in summer.
Thankfully that was more than a decade ago.
Conversations on this topic could be interesting, but this "article" is literally just a word-to-word copy-pasted default-styled AI response to a single prompt.
> This is not a cyclical recession — it's a structural shift.
AI slop
> Rising hyper-nationalism eroding liberal democracy and economic openness
Same BS for the last 10 or so years?
The biggest problem with this and I say this being someone who is adamant about renting and not paying 3C for a house in Bangalore is that people around you will constantly be emotional. No one will be convinced by numbers if they've made up their mind to buy a house. People still think buying a house is an investment or they think it's security. They don't realize it'sore anxiety inducing to pay a loan. I gave up trying to convince anyone else and just keep my suggestion to myself now. I'm only going to buy a house in a tier 2 city one day. Or a village. I don't want to live in Bangalore if I can get the privilege to move out.