Three things I Like About Chennai

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.