r/bangalore

I loveeee steak. When im having a bad day or on my period i love me a juicy medium rare steak. I genuinely think it’s my favourite food. But i find the steak in Bangalore to be very underwhelming for such a big city. Also i notice that a lot of people have a problem with me eating steak. Would love recs and yalls experiences.

- Still FTE, can’t do full time college.
- can self learn & complete the requirements to earn the degree.
- open to KSOU, IGNOU and similar legitimate services providers.
- Interests in arts, psychology and languages, but heard that psychology degree can longer be pursued via distance or online
- not keen on loans, not keen on high fees.
- please may I get some of your suggestions, opinions, recommendations, brainstorm your thoughts on this.

Thank you folks :)

I'm an IT professional with over 6-7 yrs of experience. I earn 1L post-tax and I'm unable to sustain myself. (Solo earner in the family).

My expenses:

• 30K 2bhk room (with my mother)
• 10K petrol (includes all parking, toll and other charges)
• 40K groceries + food (from milk to pooja items and more)
• 10K as investments
• Rest 10K goes into entertainment + upskilling

The 40K groceries includes maid salary, internet bill, electricity bill, insurance and random essential expenses that come up.

Eg: Last month a major expense is my old car servicing (15K), before that month it was insurance (15K), before that month it was insurance for mom (44K) - so don't worry it's not all for groceries.

I can't afford to take an EMI on anything. Can't buy a new car or a bike or buying a real estate like a flat is extremely far fetched.

and Marriage? oh my god, it's scary thinking of the costs + school fees of upcoming kids.

This is my reality, and I know people are somehow surviving with 20-50K inr as monthly income.

But 1L for me is not sufficient. I wish it was.

That's why I'm planning to move out to a cheaper city.

I hope it all works out.

Hi all moving to Bangalore for work next month.

TBH very scared and nervous. This will be my first time moving to a new city.

What to expect, what mistakes to avoid?

I have heard a lot of stories but don’t know what to believe or what to consider. Neither do I have any friends here that can validate or give me first hand information.

Any help will be appreciated :)

There is an extreme water crisis headed for Bangalore and the authorities are literally pushing us further towards this impending doom.

Bangalore is situated at a height of 920m above mean sea level, with no perennial rivers flowing through the city and hundreds of miles away from either easy coast or west coast.

In order to get ground water here, you have to dig borewells 1-1.5kms depth. Bangalore used to be dependent on cauvery water supply for all its needs. Now with extreme level of urbanisation in this part, the water crisis is worsening. What is more alarming is the fact that...even after knowing about such an impending crisis, the authorities here are leasing more and more land to companies. Just recently 140acres of land was given to Applied Materials company. One company implies 20-30 new pgs coming in. On top of that new flats and housing complexes to house the senior level management. Why are the authorities allowing this?

One more big company in Bangalore implies huge water shortage in the next few summers. The government should stop allowing companies to come here anymore. If this continues then in addition to the traffic we will have an unprecedented water crisis in the city.

Can we do something about this?

i feel like this happens to me every third or fourth ride where the driver stops by the petrol pump. it’s honestly pretty uncomfortable for me because i gotta step out when they refill the gas and the petrol pump is usually filled with auto and cab drivers.

is this a common occurrence?

I live in a standalone building with no generator and every single time it rains the power goes out. It doesn't even have to be a storm, just regular rain is enough. This problem has started recently and was not a problem before. I doubt the landlord will help by getting a generator, is there any authorities I can contact to get this issue sorted?

The power goes out for like 4+ hours always. I can't do anything at all, can't even work because even the cell towers go off when it rains so hotspot doesn't work. What can I do? 😭

There's a new outlet of KPN Fresh (opened a week back) near Hosa Road Metro station towards Basapura.

They are running an offer of 0.5 litre milk free for 100 rs purchase; one has to enrol for this offer by purchasing 300 worth of items in initial bill.

As I am already enrolled for this offer, today I bought items worth 500 (requirement is only 100) and demanded my free milk, cashier took the codes (which are pre-generated and shared with you after your 1st purchase of 300).

When she took the code, I demanded to see the final bill for validation of free milk to which she didn't answered, I again demanded the bill to which she said it will come on WhatsApp.

So I got suspicious and waited at the store itself, after a minute when I got the bill - I saw one extra milk packet of 0.5 litre was added and one milk of 0.5 litre was shown as free (i.e. i purchased 3, but in bill 4 were added and 3 are purchased, that means no discount).

I again went to the counter to say why this cheating, And I was given extra milk of 0.5 litre.

Please be aware and check your bills before leaving KPN Fresh.