Well this was the comment Arun made, he is my colleague at work and also my roommate at the PG, to describe Chennai , the city currently where we are living.
We both ( in fact three of us, Jay is the 3rd one ) have faced all kinds of difficulties one can imagine of , when someone relocates from one place to the another. Chennai offered us all kinds of difficulties Food , Accommodation, Language , Transport etc.
I was living in Bangalore ( another south Indian city ) for the last 2 years and I never faced these problems at such a level. Consider that both of these cities are only 350 kilometers apart , but the differences I have observed and felt are huge.
So why this difference , In Bangalore the influx of people from other state started 20 years back when the IT revolution began. During the span of 20 years people have learnt about the cultures of the other people coming to Bangalore from other states , they have learned the language the cuisines, the festivals etc and thus in Bangalore a group of entrepreneurs have come up who cater to these group of people. Also the people from other place found out a business opportunity and started out their business to cater to these people.
Whereas Chennai has started opening up very recently , so the common man on the street is apprehensive, he is uneasy to see so many people from other states, perhaps at this point of time he is not able to see the business potential that can be generated in the state by this influx. So he is reluctant to help he wants the other people to talk to him in his language and not in English or Hindi and perhaps that's why people from other states face all kinds of problems here. people from other states have just started coming in and Chennai perhaps is still not ready to take them up with open arms and that's why people find themselves in a different 'country' all together. It will take time to Chennai to come to the level of Bangalore or any other Metropolitan city until then "even weather here is unfriendly"
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