Quality of Life in Mumbai, India

Public Transportation: It's a nightmare—crowded, stinky, and dangerous. People cling to local trains for their lives, toiling away at minimum wage jobs. Even if you manage to earn a decent amount, finding affordable accommodation is a struggle, with rent prices skyrocketing in comparison to per capita income.

Poverty: The rich keep getting richer while the poor sink deeper into despair. This crowd lives in a fantasy of the American dream, frivolously spending on branded clothes and premium gadgets with their measly salaries, all the while comparing themselves to the opulence of the Western world. They never miss an opportunity to flaunt their mediocre lifestyles, constantly measuring themselves against other developed nations.

Mindset: Basic manners are a foreign concept to many here; they're essentially rural folk who've migrated to the city but retained their uncouth personalities. Their racism is blatant, directed at anyone of a different race, ethnicity, or language. Quick to anger and unable to take a joke, these individuals are filled with rage and ego, making them a powder keg ready to explode at any moment.

Almost all the pubs in Mumbai pay a hefty bribe to the Mumbai underworld criminals else the pub owners will be shot dead. These crimes never get reported in Mumbai. The local Mumbaikars are scared of the underworld criminals. The Mumbai police support the underworld. The Mumbai police support all the criminals, underworld and Chor Bazaar.

Mumbai more like Mum can I have some milk! Poor city

Mumbai is worst place in terms of crime, pollution, sanitation, cost of living and greenery. The items stolen from the local people will be sold at Mumbai's Chor Bazaar (thieves market). These thieves are supported by the Mumbaikars, Mumbai police, judges and the Maharashtra politicians. Mumbai stinks and is dangerously polluted. Mumbai is filled with slums. During the monsoon deluge and flooding, people have to crawl through this drainage slum waters. The cost of living and accommodation expenses are extremely high in Mumbai. Mumbai is a dystopia and an urban disaster.

Not sure how could the United Kingdom reject their own vaccine that was used in India. Vaccine racism at it best by the UK. Indian students, NRIs and OCIs will still continue to lick the feet of the World Looters (United Kingdom).

All of you Indian NRIs are crap. You people are international beggars bootlicking your white supremacist masters from Western countries. You people take vaccine of your white masters even when thousands of people have died globally taking your white masters' vaccines.
All of you NRIs and OCIs are abhoring and terrible. When the head of state of India takes the so called 'non-recognized' vaccine and is allowed into the USA, no one even raises an eyebrow. Why are different rules applied to different people? You Indians are spineless cowards against those white supremacists and their leaders. Don't bow down to this vicious racism meted out by them.
Coward Indians will spend millions of cash just to quarantine themselves in foreign countries and have their funeral ceremony abroad.

Mumbai, like any large metro is crowded, has sky high real estate prices, etc etc, but it also offers salaries unlike any other city in India. Most of the complaints listed here are true for all large metropolitan cities, including the so called best cities like New York. If you're qualified and/or hardworking, you can earn well and live a very good life. Yes, poverty exists, and will continue to exist because lakhs of migrant workers come to Mumbai seeking employment which they can not get back home, such a huge influx of migrant workers (ranging from grey, black, blue, pink, and white collar) will cause over population in any city and bring the associated "problems" of over population along with it. You can rent a shanty for as little as a couple of hundred rupees per month, to a 8 bedroom house in a sky rise for millions, the city accommodates everyone. Coming to quality of life, in any metro, you can have a decent life if you have the money. It sounds shallow, I know, but it's true for any large metropolitan city.

Sports in India is a big joke for the world. India's track record in sports is pathetic. A country of 1.4 billion people struggles to produce medals in Olympics. Tiny islands across the world produce much more medals, gold medals than India. There's the Indian media that blows the trumpet even before any achievement is done in Sports. These journalists enter into the homes of the athletes' parents, relatives and showcase and make them as well as the participating athletes very nervous. The tears of the athletes are breaking news/public news in India. For the awful performances in Olympics, Cricket is mentioned as overhyped by Indians. India ranks the highest by a long way for Ego Per Achievement in the world.
Well, Cricket indeed is overhyped way way too much. Indian cricketers are called Gods by their fellow countrymen. You have slogans such as "Cricketing Gods", "World's greatest batsman ever" to name some of the insane taglines for Indian cricketers. Cricket gets extremely high attention in India compared to any other sport. It's more like an elephant and mice comparison in India when it comes to "Cricket" and "other sports".
Inspite of all these, India with 1.4 billion population still loses in cricket many times to tiny islands like New Zealand. New Zealand has a population of just 5 million, that's almost the population of just 25% of Mumbai! For your information, cricket is not a major sport in New Zealand, and most cricketers in their country are unknown to their citizens. Rugby, football and AFL much higher popularity in New Zealand than this cricket. Even in England, sports such as Football, Rugby and several other sports enjoy more popularity and following than cricket. And still, India gets defeated by England too in cricket. New Zealand gets more medals than India in the Olympics too.
Another excuse given in India is that academics is more important than sports. If academics were that important in this country, then why is India's IQ just 81?
FYI, 81 is a below normal IQ and India's academic achievements are pathetic too. None of the universities are even mentioned in the world's top 200. Most Research and Development happens in Western countries, Japan, China, Singapore, etc. Along with brawn, India lacks brains too.
And speaking of Indian food, it is loaded with carbs, oil and gets overcooked. Deep fried with overloaded spices with all the nutrients removed does not improve beauty, brains and brawn at all. The average height of a man in India is 5.5 feet while that of a woman is just 5 feet. The men and women in Western countries, Arab world, Japan, Singapore and China are taller, stronger, broad-shouldered, faster and have a much higher IQ than Indians.
As long as Indians are delusional, ignorant and keep on marketing, overhyping and sensationalizing mediocre achievements, nothing will ever change in this country.

I am a devout Hindu and RSS supporter. First of all, in India all the citizens have full rights and liberties irrespective of their religion. Hindus have given shelter to all faiths, including the persecuted and treated them with respect throughout the ages for millennia. Hinduism is the oldest and the most benign religion in the world. We Hindus never convert people and have never caused any problem to any country or any culture. We Hindubelieve that all

Coming to Christianity, we RSS folks have nothing against this religion nor its followers. Our only concern is about a few people, i.e. missionaries that convert people for money.
We are very grateful for Christians setting up convents and we like studying there. The contribution of Indian Christians to our society is commendable. We don't have any issue against non-European origin Christians too. We RSS folks consider our Indian Christians as our Hindu brothers and sisters that are converted by foreign missionaries.
Our main issue is about the Europeans and white supremacists that have looted several countries and destroyed the indigenous culture. In countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, Argentina, Chile, etc., the native people have lost control of the their native land to the European colonist invaders. This continues even today. These European invaders especially the British have created border disputes in India, Israel, China, Hong Kong, etc.

Coming to Islam, lesser said about this religion the better. We still consider the Indian Muslims as Hindus that were forcefully converted by the Mughals and ancient Arab invaders. Many Muslims still carry on with 7th century practices. Apostasy and opposition is treated with capital punishment in Islam. Islamic countries severely persecute their minorities with blasphemy laws and treat them as 2nd class citizens. This includes our neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Maldives.

Regarding Judaism, well that's a different chapter. Their scriptures are utterly absurd. But we are grateful for the Jews for never converting people and not harming the Indian culture.

So you see, India is a democracy and the Hindus are very liberal, benevolent and benign.

Both Mumbai and Delhi are nauseating shitholes for sure. These 2 places have the worst quality of life in the world.

As someone who earns equivalent to someone in the silicon valley, I wouldn’t prefer to live anywhere else except for Mumbai.
With high earning, I am able to accommodate myself and the family in the plushest parts of the city in the south Bombay area.
While maintaining the lifestyle akin to what I have at the states, but only for a fraction of the price.
My net worth after returning to India is rising sharply.
As I want to build my wealth & head for F.I.R.E, this is the perfect place to be in, at least for now until maybe I decide to change citizenship to another country to be come a capitalist nomad purely to save taxes,

Traffic? Don’t care, as I lounge in backseat of my Merc.
Pollution? Sea facing apartment in South Bombay, rather fresh air but still have purifiers at home.
Too many people? Go for vacations, in and around the country with the excess you save either way.

Can’t really think of any other thing.
The ones who love Mumbai, will always miss it when they move abroad.
I was born and brought up here, and it holds a special place in my heart.

Mumbai for city life, and Goa for weekend beach and tropical gateway is a perfect combo.