Comments on: India vs America – How Indian cities are better

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:54:21 +0000

I mean Spiritual Growth in India. Not USA.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:50:17 +0000

What we are comparing is all material things. At one hand USA is too materialistic and anti-social behaviours and depression and mental problems… obesity. Artificial food. They feed meat to vegetarian holy cows. While India has Spirituality and traditions. There is tremendous Spiritual Growth you can attend in USA. There is always connection to God and Saints. It has a 5000 years of Hinduism history. We should consider lucky we are born as Indians. Land of gods and rushi munis. My kids born here are so anti social and don’t believe in gods also. How much money you need to live a decent life? Ok you may want to come USA explore few years. Earn some money. But then you go in that mayajal and get stuck in their material world. Never come out and one day you will die running behind these dollars. India you have family, big khandan. Festivals, neighbours who are like family. Last 15 years I am in USA never had a chance to visit any major function or mourn death of any loved ones in India. Living in USA is like “Jungle me nacha mor kisane dekha”. Nuclear family. Hum do hamare do. Kids don’t have any attachments to gradparents or so many thousands of relavives in India or chacha mama.
Kids will eventually get disconnected from your Khandan. And you will die here in nursing home. Or you will go to India when you will in no condition to enjoy with your beloved kids far apart in USA who will eventually forget you when they get their girlfriend. May be call you for money all you saved for them. In everything you do in india in day to day life there is spirituality. God. Prayers. Probably once dollar goes in the drain and becomes equal to rupee 1 we will go back. Or we will die keep looking at it’s conversion rate. And weather here in most parts sucks for 6 months in cold. Unless you are in CA or FL. Just imagine how romantic rain is in India. Enough man. Earn sizable chunk and before kids start to be teens return to India. They will get accustomed to India. And believe me in India they will stay with you even afetr thei marriage and even after you have grand kids.

By: aryan vaid

aryan vaid — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:19:21 +0000

what kind of nonsense was this about.i mean,the guy is complaining about kirana stores.yes the only reason we have them here in india,is coz there is no zoning authority.you can also go to any station road,or for that road,any major road,and find thousands of hawkers in india.with no place to drive or walk on those roads.is that a plus for the city or the country.that such illegality exists.my advice to him is make some friends,and embrace america.there are a million plus people all over the world ready to move to america every year.or else move to jackson heights and you will understand clearly why you left india..

By: sasik

sasik — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:13:22 +0000

Dear Abhijit.. I think.. u don’t deserve any manners.. be cool.. be professional please.

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:45:59 +0000

This post is nothing beyond crap.
Are you generalizing the final outcome as to what is better USA or INDIA based on your personal experience with zoning & lack of driving skills…what crap…

just because you can’t drive or you went to some place which is actually located somewhere so remote…you cannot generalize the entire USA….and what basis are you saying INDIA is better based on cities like Delhi, Mumbai.
What if you were living in Pune 10 years ago or somewhere in cities and you needed toothpaste..where the f**** will you a kirana wala…? you surely need a vehicle there too..

what are you planning to do there…get ur toothpaste or not drive due to environmental issues…..if u want to get to do a comparison it should not be personal on what “you” feel…it should be based on facts…

i have lived in INDIA for 24 yrs before I moved to California for my studies and work…both I still love both countries…
Every country/city has its flaws and will always do….
Mumbai is now so expensive to find housing…pollution…its hard to get a rickshaw and people wait fir 30-40 mins before getting one….plus in a country of more than 1.2 B people so many people, move in and out….
there is more people than space..and because india is still developing….and match to USA, India needs to grow in multiple facets….
infrastructure, process, discipline, anti-corruption and most importantly as a country strict rules….
but USA has its own flaws…education levels, student drop rates, value of education, obesity etc…etc…

so please do not stereotype…its because of fuckers like you that most Americans have a false image about India and vice versa…

By: Varun

Varun — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:55:44 +0000

@Andrea, why u always talk about big cities, you don’t know that here in India, every city has every facility like ur ny and dc ! Ok

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:07:36 +0000

I don’t agree with this article, if you go to big cities like NY, Chicago, Miami etc.. you are going to find people bumping into you all the time, cabs everywhere and convenience stores everywhere.. I don’t know where you live or why do you say that is too cold.. to even drive a car.. I live in Jacksonville, Fl and even when it gets cold.. I can still drive my car without any problems.. and I know there is no snow here.. but still snow is not a huge problem anymore for big cities either.. they know how to manage that situation. So overall, I don’t think that you have the right to say “Don’t come here” that is a personal choice and you are just trying to influence people based on you personal experience which is not true for everybody.. it just depends on you location.. and for all the bad things you said it seems like you need to go back to India or move to a better city!!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:57:33 +0000

Lived in that part of the world for some time, always missed home, so -Returned, Happy and content now, That is all that matters. Of course Grass is manicured , there is a sense of order and live by rules, Big cars even bigger homes,but mates Have you seen the interiors of Detroit,Seattle or Carolina , Life is an expensive affair in the USA, what ever even if you are a US passport holder you still are not White to be included in the society. Major part of that part of world is not inclusive and drenched in hippocrisy.

We travel all the way to the west to create our own cocoons of saravana bhavan and Indian food and more how many time does everybody yearn to come back. Wish all the best for those woh have arrived to the best of life standards in USA, to all who yearn to go there, the author is bang on.

Life is chaotic in India, Work hard and you will have the same life standards or better here in India.

Grass is greener on the other side :)

By: Unit

Unit — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:40:05 +0000

America is a great place. India is stupid. India is dirty, crowded and smelly. America is green. The suburbs are great. FUCK you.

By: bhagwad

bhagwad — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:53:29 +0000

It really sounds idyllic! I think it'll be a while though before we're able to appreciate such a model. We first need to pass through the phase of big cities and big cars.