5 things you experience while looking for home in Bangalore

The ever famous Brigade road of Bangalore (Photo credit: Wikimedia.org)

Moving to a new city is tough! The learning stage begins with new roads, new places and new neighbors. Before it reaches the neighbor stage, one usually experiences a few things that are unique to that city! Bangalore, the IT capital of India, has its own unique identity. Understand it, and things may not seem too confusing or Kannada to you!

Here are 5 things you will experience while looking for a home in Bangalore:

1. Language complexity

 You may want to have a language converter app on your phone, ’coz Bangaloreans love their Kannada language! (Illustration: Ravinder Koli)

2. Never ending journeys!

Looking for a flat in Bangalore gives you the chance to enjoy Bangalore’s wide roads, scenery and traffic. (Illustration: Ravinder Koli)

3. Security Deposit!

Cheap monthly rents make you rejoice like it’s your birthday! But unlike cities like Delhi, where normally the security deposit is 2 month’s rent, Bangalore landlords demand a full year’s rent as deposit. Not so much like a happy birthday now. (Illustration:  Akivito Chishi)

4. Your Guest List

Your caring landlord will always be concerned about who your guests are, and whether they pose a security threat to you. PS: It’s not “interfering”! (Photo credit: staticflickr.com)

5. Wide and Tiring Roads

Bangalore’s notoriously bad traffic makes you realize how quickly you reach the nearest junction when you walk instead of driving. A good time to fulfill your long-awaited promise of working out. (Photo credit: buzypi.in)

These are experiences that Bangalore will give you. Once you’ve found your home, you’ll soon realize the comfort of living in Bangalore. And by the time you learn a little bit of Kannada, things will seem much better. Even if you don’t, you will surely pick up “Kannada Gotilla”(I don’t understand Kannada) !