Quality of Life in Mangalore, India

Kudremukha mountaintop has temperature less than 15 °C even during the peak summer nights of April and May. While Mangaluru at the same time will have night time temperature feel of 35°C due to humidity.
At the Kudremukha mountaintop the temperature in peak winter in January touches or comes very close to 0°C.
Kudremukha mountaintop is the coldest place in Karnataka. The aerial distance between Mangaluru city and Kudremukha mountain is only 50 km.
When Bengaluru is well connected to the top of Nandi hills with a direct road, and same for Mysuru and Chamundi peak, then why not Mangaluru and Kudremukha peak?
I feel the direct road from Mangaluru to Kudremukha must pass from Aladangady-Guruvayankere. This is where the ascent of Kudremukha via road should begin.
I feel both Mangaluru and Kudremukha mountain are completely ignored by the Central government, State government and tourism officials.

The temperature on March 1st today at the top of Kudremukha mountain was 9°C in the early morning at 4 AM. I am staying at Guruvayanakere, it is at the base of Kudremukha mountain. I believe that Kudremukha and Mullayanagiri are the coldest places in Southern India. They remain chilly even during peak summer nights.
I firmly believe that the temperature on top of the Kudremukha mountain is cooler than Ooty, Kodaikanal and Munnar.
The aerial distance between Kudremukha mountain and Mangaluru city is only 50 km. I don't get it as to why Karnataka or NHAI highways authority are not constructing a straight line highway from Mangaluru city to ascend the top of Kudremukha mountain.
All the existing roads are taking U-turns either from Bajagoli or from Kottigehara.
Historically in the past, the temperature at the top of Kudremukha mountain has touched 0°C. But back then, there were no weather stations up there to record or monitor it.
Development of Kudremukha mountain and Mangaluru city will boost the tourism sector in the Mangaluru zone by a long way.

Seeing some of the comments below on the Kudremukha peak direct road, I feel the forests at Kudremukha and Mangaluru-Chikkamagaluru stretch should be preserved.

Kudremukha peak is a 2.5 hour journey from Mangaluru. I am constantly checking the temperature of Kudremukha peak during this winter month. The temperature at Kudremukha peak in January is more colder than Ooty.

The temperature on Jan 18th 2024 in Kudremukha mountain is 22°C max / 9°C min

The temperature on Jan 18th 2024 in Ooty is 23°C max / 14°C min

Clearly the Kudremukha peak is among the coldest places in southern India. I hope the Kudremukha forests will be preserved.

Deforestation has made Coorg and its headquarters Madikeri very hot in winter. Plenty of homestays, resorts and felling of trees have spoiled the climate of Coorg. Deforestation is also extremely bad in Mangaluru, and has had a major impact on the climate in Mangaluru.

I had come to Mangalore for work purpose three years back. I was so amazed with the kindness of the people. I loved the food it was so tasty and unique. I felt it was the safest place I have ever been. The culture and tradition made fall in love with the city. The water quality and air quality were very good. People there are very trustworthy. There was very less traffic, and I could reach even the most distant place very quickly. Mangalore is ranked among the top educated cities in India. Many bank headquarters are located in Mangalore (Karnataka Bank, Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank etc.)

Mangalore is called the capital city for Ice creams. In Karnataka, Mangalore is the only city which has all modes of major transportation. It has sea ways, railways, roadways and airways.

Mangalore needs a Vande Bharat express train to connect to Karnataka cities such as Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli and Davangere. I understand that this rail connectivity will be very hard as the tracks will pass through the eco-sensitive Western Ghats and the elevation is uneven.
But Mangalore-Karwar Vande Bharat express train is definitely possible and easy to implement as it is on the coastal plain.
Similarly Vande Bharat express trains from Mangalore can connect Mumbai, Goa, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram on the west coast. There won't be any problem as this entire stretch is the coastal plain.

Plenty of fatal road accidents are happening in Mangaluru nowadays. The junctions at Nanthoor, Hampankatta, Falnir, Kankanady, Jyothi-Balmatta, State Bank, Kulur are highly dangerous places to ride and dangerous accidents happen. We get to see fatal accidents every week happening at these places.
Majority of the people in Mangaluru showoff their vehicles and they feel proud and boast when they ride their own vehicles. People that do not ride vehicles are viewed condescendingly they are viewed as inferior status by the people that ride their own private vehicles. Majority of the people in Mangaluru and Udupi showoff their vehicles and build tall houses and apartments on Loan and money from Gulf mostly by working as blue-collared unskilled labourers for Arab Sheikhs. This same trend is observed in Kerala. The private buses in Mangaluru are worst and they are known for rude, abusive and rash driving. The trucks also cause many road accidents and they emit plenty of toxic smoke. The private bus facilities in Mangaluru are arguably the worst in the world.
For a town receiving the highest amount of annual rainfall in the country, surrounded by sea and 2 rivers, Mangaluru still faces water scarcity. The water management in Mangaluru is also among the worst in the world. The highways here are still in miserable condition since years and eventually toll-gates will be placed and taxes will be squeezed by the government. The taxpayers are not given any benefits in return by the government. The tabletop airport runway in Mangaluru is very dangerous and fatal during monsoon and nothing is done.

The reason for purchasing power being mentioned low in this survey for Mangalore is that most of its economy and people's salary are from Gulf countries or Mangalore people employed in high paying cities such as Bangalore.
The salary paid in Mangalore is very low and the white-collar software, research and tech jobs in Mangalore are very less.
Pollution is on the rise and sanitation needs improvement.
Safety aspect is very good in Mangalore and media is known for its propaganda especially in this region.
Connectivity to the hinterlands of Karnataka from Mangalore needs improvement. Railway lines need upgradation.
The tunnel expressway can be made on Sampaje Ghat on NH 275 (Bangalore-Mysore-Mangalore highway). The reason is Sampaje Ghat section does not have reserve forests and jungles like the other nearby Ghat sections. Sample Ghat also does not have rugged, deep and very steep terrain like Charmadi, Shiradi and Agumbe Ghat sections, and also Sampaje Ghat isn't narrow.
The Healthcare sector at Mangalore is average, and the airport runway length and infrastructure need a lot of improvement for safety.
Job opportunities in research, software and technology in Mangalore needs plenty of improvement. Infrastructure needs to be boosted a lot.

The economy and job opportunities at Mangaluru will automatically improve if the connectivity to the hinterlands of Karnataka is made successful. I definitely believe that a straight highway from Mangaluru to ascend the Kudremukha mountain is an excellent idea. Afforestation in the Western Ghats is indeed necessary.
The Tunnel road Expressway planned through the Shiradi Ghat isn't a good idea because Shiradi, Charmadi and Agumbe Ghats are terrains and they are steep. Charmaine and Agumbe terrains are very deep and narrow too.
Instead the Tunnel road Expressway could have been planned by NHAI on the Sampaje-Madikeri Ghat. The reason is the Sampaje-Madikeri Ghat section is not a terrain like the other Ghat roads, and Sampaje is a smooth slope of a barely 20 min drive. It is a safe Ghat to drive. Sampaje-Madikeri Ghat lies on NH 275, and the Bengaluru-Mysuru stretch of NH 275 is already an Expressway. The same Expressway can easily be extended to Mangalore through the smooth and safe Sampaje Ghat. This will connect the port city of Mangaluru with the capital city Bengaluru via Mysuru. An excellent and safe idea of a Tunnel Expressway project at Sampaje is unfortunately overlooked by NHAI and the Highways department. This would also help the tourism sector at Coorg. The NH 275 complete 380 km Expressway would have increased the development of Karnataka.

The average temperature at Kudremukh peak during winter early mornings range from 0°C to 6°C. This is in stark contrast to Mangaluru where the lowest average winter temperature is around 20°C to 23°C during early morning. I completely agree with others that a straight line highway with plenty of roadside trees are needed from Mangalore to ascend the Kudremukh peak. The aerial distance between Kudremukh peak and the city of Mangaluru is only 45 km. The 1900 m tall Kudremukh mountain can boost the tourism sector if there is a straight highway to connect this 45 km distance to Mangaluru. Cable cars and paragliding activities can be possible from Kudremukh peak to its base at Baramelu and Kapinadka. The local administration has not yet realized the potential benefits of these plans.

Mangalore is a awesome indian city...Nice and helping people in general..After smart city, MAngalore infrstructure has seen immense neatness..IF you cant live in MAngalore you just cant live in any part of india...My next big investment is in Mangalore city...

I too agree that the Mangalore-Kudremukh hills connectivity is neglected. FYI, Kudremukh peak's elevation is nearly 1900 meters above Mean Sea Level.

Mangalore is indeed a worst place to live mainly because of NRIs. All the NRIs, OCIs, People of Indian Origin (PIO) from Mangalore and Kerala are uncultured, highly corrupt and the worst people. All these NRI people work as cheap coolie laborers, house maids, car drivers, nurses and janitors in Dubai, Gulf countries and in Canada, Australia. These low-IQ NRIs boast of their income and status to the innocent local people back home. The funding and monetary support for corruption, communal disturbances, worst Media, pollution, rowdism and ragging in colleges are all done by the NRIs. The work culture in Mangalore is also worst. People are forced to work for Rupees 15K in institutions in the worst possible work environment.

Mangaluru is worst place with regard to planning, infrastructure, customer service, job opportunities and sustainability.
The hyped 3D planetarium at Pilikula is now permanently closed for months.
The bus service of Mangaluru is the worst I could find. There is no proper bus stand inside this town. Buses and trucks are deplorable and release enormous volumes of toxic smoke.
The quality of buses in Mangaluru are decades behind other Indian cities.
Roads, highways and railways of Mangaluru are worst. Only cement is dumped on some roads. The roads and intersections here are not grid patterned. There are no road markers. There are no footpaths, no treelined roads, no boulevards, no public gardens or gardens on road medians. The highways are worst in Mangaluru. Most of them are single lane roads. Even the one connecting with Udupi has buildings scattered next to the highway. No scope for widening, and toll fares are looted from the people by the useless government. There are no waterfront roads, no riverside ring roads or corniche roads in Mangaluru. There are no Metro Rails, no BRTS and no suburban rail within Mangaluru. The private bus mafia makes sure that the transport services at Mangaluru will remain in pre-historic worst quality. Electric bases will also never get implemented at Mangaluru courtesy of the private bus mafia.
The railway services are worst. There are no Shatabdi or superfast trains to any place in Karnataka.
The net banking facilities are still not available to pay water bill by default to the corporation. Worst corporation and municipality at Mangaluru.
The tabletop airport is worst and has a highly dangerous runway. During monsoon or heavy rains, people are at risk of losing their lives due to the dangerous runway and worst infrastructure at Mangaluru Airport.
Water management and water scarcity is pathetic in Mangaluru. For a town receiving around 4000 mm annual rainfall each year, a having seas and 2 rivers next to it, still this town runs out of water each year ! The worst award for water management should be given to Mangaluru town officials.
Job opportunities for educated people are extremely few and scarce in Mangaluru. The officials are a failure in inviting MNC companies, software companies, research & development industries, PSUs to invest at Mangaluru.
There are no IITs, IITs, BITS, IIMs, IISc, Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, or any top caliber education institutes in Mangaluru.
Many customer service staff, shopkeepers and front-desk staff, cashiers at Mangaluru are rude and arrogant. The riversides at Mangaluru are filthy and polluted. Waste materials are dumped by industries and by many people directly into the rivers. Waste materials are burned openly, firecrackers are bursted by people without any civic sense. Mangaluru also has worst Media and pathetic newspapers. Hence, Mangaluru is truly a worst place.

I am from Seattle,WA,USA and stayed in Bangalore for nearly 5 years. I have visited other places in Southern India including Mangalore.
I was surprised to find that in Mangalore the administration and most people do not care for trees, greenery and nature.
In Bangalore I found tree-lined roads, with plenty of gardens on the sidewalks,
the road medians and even beside the tiny lanes. The roadside trees across Bangalore are plenty and wide. Very good to see trees and gardens being preserved in Bangalore throughout, and also at IIsc, IIM, Electronic City campuses too. And also massive parks of Cubbon Park and Lalbagh in the center of the city. Kudos to the administrative officials of Bangalore. The city of Bangalore is somewhat planned with layouts, colonies, blocks, sectors, phases, and parallel roads with cross-roads linking each other. The Bannerghatta park at the southern part of the city is filled with forests and a treat for nature-lovers. Bangalore is a beautiful green planned garden city that has plenty of population with lots of job opportunities and companies for people, thereby the increase in traffic. The infrastructure of Bangalore is also very good with Metro trains, splendid Airport, ring roads, Nice road, overpasses, underpasses, road markers, well maintained spacious bus stations at crucial places inside the city. What mesmerized me the most was the amount of greenery and gardens and the mindset of the people to preserve nature, despite the fact that Bangalore is a mega-city with 12 million population.
I had visited Mangalore and found that the administrators and bureaucrats here have absolutely NO sense of planning. Within this city/town, trees are cut down like crazy and the administrators never care for planting trees across the sidewalks. Gardens are almost non-existent beside the roadsides. The administrators and most people only care about building tiny apartments and putting cement on some roads. Complete apathy in Mangalore towards greenery and its preservation. The city/town planning in Mangalore is horrible. At crucial places, overpasses, underpass are not constructed. There are no corniche/waterfront ring roads either. No Metro rail stations, BRTS and a tiny airport that is in the same condition for decades without any infrastructure improvement. The local buses in Mangalore are the worst I've ever seen. National Highways/Interstate motorways are pathetic in Mangalore. The road traffic in Mangalore is ridiculously high for such a tiny city. The water management here is extremely awful. Mangalore is a "concrete jungle". The people here have told me that companies are very few, and the folks are happy to move out of this place for jobs. Top education institutions considered in India such as IIT, IIM, IIIT, AIIMS are non-existent in Mangalore.
I definitely feel that overall, Bangalore is the best place to live in Karnataka. The only benefit that Mangalore has is that, it has access to the sea. Oh, and by the way, I am an American citizen and presently living as an expat in India.

The basic survival need anywhere on the planet is water and Mangalore has been facing water crunch in summer even when there where no buildings forget high rises in Mangalore. Even the ones who have wells in bungalows face this water crunch even on the outskirts of the city where there has been no constructions. Mangalore becomes Chennai in summer but people who don't know about the city think it is a high rainfall region so water is available in plenty. We don't want water tankers or worse trains being sent with water.
Few years ago pilgrims were sent back from Dharmasthala because there was no water because the river had dried up. Imagine how far is Dharmasthala from Mangalore. It is just a temple town and not even developed compared to temple town Udupi. Forget Dharmasthala even places like Mulki where the Mangalore corporation want to extend the city limits faces the same issue even when there were no housing societies and now idiots are building new gated community housing society there. With this predicament the State government colluding with local politicians fooled the Kolar people that we will draw out water from the river near Mangalore through Yettinahole project.

You need a high paying job or business to afford the costly high rise apartments in Mangalore. Local economy can support native businessmen but salaried individuals look out for jobs in Gulf or Bangalore to sustain a newly acquired lifestyle.

Some of the points mentioned by previous users are totally incorrect. Moral policing is a concept invented by the TRASH Indian Media and this moral policing concept happens throughout India, including all its metropolitan/cosmopolitan cities. It is not something unique to Mangalore.
Indian Media is the most disgusting entity on this planet.
I have some questions though,
1. Why doesn't the Media hype about the 'gun culture' in USA?
Apart from the scores of school shootings in USA, why doesn't the millions of threat incidents by the usage of personal guns ever get reported in America?
2. Why don't the massive amounts of physical attacks by Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists on Non-White people ever get reported in Europe or highlighted by
the media?
The reason is Indians, especially the NRIs are shameless hypocrites. They are ready to beg abroad, toil in extreme weather conditions in foreign countries, get subjugated abroad just for some extra money.
The Indian Media and all the news channels are complete nauseating garbage.

Quality of life in Mangalore for urban millennial youth or even for someone from tier 2 or tier 3 cities is very depressing.
Everything closes early in Mangalore. There is absolutely no nightlife. The metro youth or the IT crowd likes to party and hang around in social places like pubs and discos after work hours. So no chance for them to meet and cohabit with opposite gender.
The locals are extremely conservative.
The whole region is the conservative lot in this regard at least in South India.
Most petrochemical companies also have a high male workforce. Even the tier 2 or tier 3 city people shall experience high rate of moral policing.
IT folks who have varied shift timings cannot cope in a slow paced city like Mangalore with shops closing early and high rate of moral policing given the diverse setup in IT office.
The locals are not spared by Hindutva groups so forget about the situation for non locals.
Most young crowd is students here and they leave once they are done with education.
The public infrastructure is quite poor.
Narrow roads are very difficult for motorists and without taking this into consideration skyscrapers are being built. Water is a major problem in summer inspite of being highest rainfall region because groundwater is depleted in urban areas thanks to concetization.
Karnataka govt is to be blamed for poor public infrastructure, zero layout planning and water woes. No development can take place without active support from government. Since it is a Tulu speaking area Kannada govt ignores it at will but loots every possible natural resource available here. The situation is no different in Kasaragod as meted out to it by Kerala.
A lot of units in newly built apartments and skyscraper remain unsold.
Even if every new house owner in apartment in Mangalore were to be equipped with a car then the city is doomed before it becomes another Bangalore because already traffic is a problem due to narrow roads and all of these aprtments are inside the city not on the periphery. So naturally even if new construction happens on outside the city there is no use because the demand is for city centre. The roads cannot be widened now.

There is massive jacking up of prices in Mangaluru property rates. A city that doesn't have access to water in summer to wash butt is building skyscrapers. There is underworld money in jacking up property prices. The city has hardly any industry or services sector to boast. Only the natives of this region are interested in living here after retirement as they are accustomed to the harsh summer here.

Majority of the commentators are highly disheartened by the stepmother attitude towards mangalore. Mainly people from mangalore are well educated and peace loving. After giving all the revenue to Bengaluru no money is left for the development for mangalore only private properties have developed. People from mangalore never protest that’s why it has been neglected. Even once the chief minister of the state was from D.K even he didn’t not give importance for the development of mangalore. Very sad.

Infrastructure in and around Mangalore is pathetic. All the National Highways are in worst condition except for nh-66. All are single road highways leading eastwards. Grass is grown on the roads of nh-75. Highway widening work is completely stopped. Most infrastructure projects are horrible, dust fills the air and surroundings, tiny infra projects take several years to get completed.
Railways are pathetic. There is very poor rail connectivity to most Karnataka cities. There are no Shatabdi trains, no high speed trains from Mangalore. Very few rail platforms in Mangalore. Level-crossings are a pain on the roads.
Airport runway is highly dangerous and can lead to a disaster during rainy season.
Mangalore does not even have a proper bus stand. Buses are worst, there are no ring roads, no international-level stadiums, hardly any multi-national companies. Cleanliness drives are never carried out by city corporation. People use their personal vehicles unnecesssarily. Officials are only bothered about putting concrete on a few roads and giving land to builders. Roads don't have any lane markers. In short, Mangalore has worst infrastructure.

Mangalore is one of best city in india. City is clean without much slums like other indian cities. People are good. Developing well interms of private sector. Some people with jealous are commenting some bad here. However Mangalore urgently needs metro/monorail.

Quality of life in Mangalore is best . You cannot expect that quality of life even in metros . IT is also one of the cleanest cities of Asia .. Regarding cost of living now it is very expensive .. almost same as Bangalore . Mangalore city area is now very expensive . 2 BHK apartment rent is 15k and plus . Real estate prices also very high within city ..Bangalore west is cheaper than Mangalore city . Even restaurants are expensive . Tansportation facilities are superb . The only issue is cost of living . Rest everything very good in Mangalore