I am living in Chennai for about
six months now and I was thinking what are the good thing I like about Chennai.
Few things quickly popped in my mind. I am mentioning them here.
I. People are sincere about their
work
I will call Chennaikars to people
of Chennai, who are living in Chennai irrespective of their age, gender, native
place, language etc. I feel Chennaikars are much sincere about their work. It
doesn’t matter what work they do. May it be engineers, doctors, any other workers.
It can be observed easily when we go to any shop, tea stall, hotel etc. Just to
give example, I happened to go to two different doctors few months back. At the first doctor's place we paid consultation
fees, after consultation doctor found that there is nothing wrong. So he asked reception to return money. This was new experience to me. At other time,
at other doctor’s place, when doctor found patient is not cured by his
medicine, he gave free consultation and medicines next time. I see same kind of
sincerity in my son’s teachers and everywhere else.
II. Transport facilities
Transport facilities in Chennai
are better than other metros. Local train network is very good, frequency is
sufficient. At peak hours trains are crowded but do not feel over crowded. In
Chennai I like the flyover network. Fly over bridges are constructed so that
there will be minimum signals. I am adding the picture below just to explain the network of bridges here. But sometimes I feel roads should be wider. Chennai
metro construction work is under construction and first phase is about to start
this year end. When it will be started, it will be great addition to various
commutation means. Overall public transport in Chennai is cheaper and better.
Source:nh4forum.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/modes-of-transport-in-chennai/
III. Green Chennai
Chennai is green city. Go
anywhere in the city and you can find trees all around. In general I found
Chennaikar care about nature. Trees are maintained at all places in the city.
In many cities hills are made flat to ground for construction work by calling it
development. But here, many hills are present in the heart of city. And
there is no (so called) development work happening on the hills. All these hills
are green and look great.
Chennai has very good coast line. Many beaches are clean and well
kept. Marina beach is famous beach here. It is the longest beach of Asia.
Unfortunately I found it little bit dirty. But I think it is because of
huge number of people visiting it. But all other beach are clean. I like East
Coast Road a lot because of its cleanliness. They are not crowded. You can
go there and sit calmly without disturbance. You can give
some time to yourself there.
In recent Ganesh festival I
observed that Chennaikar uses sand Ganesh idols instead of PoP. They are not
painted too. But even then they look great. Chennaikar have maintained these
trees, hills and beaches because of their nature friendliness. This a very good
thing that I like about Chennai.
Apart from above things there are
some more small things I like. But so far I feel I have not explored City
enough. I hope as I will move on my life here I will experience more things,
more goodness of this city.
Wow! I have been looking around the internet to read about chennai and yours is one of the best ones I have read till now. And as it comes through your personal experience, I believe it and it feels good for I have been looking forward to move to chennai in next year or so.
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Thanks a lot Manpreet. I hope it is useful. Chennai is still developing..and remember its hot & humid. If it is accepted it can be enjoyed. Thanks again and keep reading.
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