To start with, I’m not a hater and Pune city has given me some of the best moments of my life.
This city is alive and filled with opportunities in every way possible.
It is one of the fastest-growing economies of India. It has a good climate that feels pleasant most of the time. Yet this is not a place you would want to live.
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Pune City
It has been 8 months when I first moved to this city.
Like most people, I was pretty excited too.
I was excited to explore this new place and meet new people and do new things.
I even wrote a blog on that same month titled The New boy in Town. But this excitement didn’t last too long.
From the very first month, I started realising that Pune is not a city, it’s more like a prison where trained professionals live and untrained professionals are trained. Everywhere I looked I found people running for no cause. If you say that they are running for money then that would still be wrong. They think they are earning but this earning is just an illusion.
They are merely surviving.
They are in a rat race.
The surprising thing is that they know it and still choose to run the meaningless race.
The Big Picture
Let me explain to you in detail, the majority of people living in Pune comes in the age cap of 20-40.
This is called the city of youth if I’m not wrong. They are here for a job. They are away from their families to earn money.
In ancient times, leaving family was a painful thing. But today people take it as an opportunity to work away from their families. Just give it a moment and think, how much have you left behind?
Pune is very well designed by the big players to limit you. They are using your time and ability to accomplish their dreams.
Just look at your life from an observer’s point of view. Have you ever felt that you do not have time for yourself or your work is taking your life away from you?
It’s like your life has become way too predictable for you. You are waking up every day to do the same thing. You wake up, get ready, go to work, come back home, eat food, sleep, repeat. On weekends, you find yourself tired, so you wake up late. Have a late breakfast, if you have some plan with your friends then you get ready for that if not then you just spend all day lying in your bed or sofa.
Sounds familiar?
Pune city is filled with MNC’s, ready to destroy talent out of an individual.
This city is built to stay not to live.
Big apartments with no parks. People live in close proximity yet are so isolated from each other.
They don’t socialize that much as they used to be. If you feel like getting close to nature, then you will have to get out of Pune.
Every good thing is at the outskirts of Pune… not in Pune.
Corporate Own Your Lives
This city is owned by corporates and with the emergence of more and more MNC’s everything is getting owned by the corporate world.
From the food that we eat to the water we drink.
People living in Pune are very well aware of the fact that Pune suffers from water scarcity in most places. Drinking water is not that easily available in most parts of Pune. Recently, the government has announced that every house and building must incorporate water harvesting. It is because there is an ever-growing need for water as more and more people are migrating to Pune every year.
They have owned every people life.
When was the last time when you ate fruit directly from the tree and not from some supermarket?
Okay, I agree that they provide you with the job. But, let’s widen our graze and look at the bigger picture. They provide you a job, they give you money for your services.
You earn and after 3-4 years of hard work, you finally become capable where you can own your house. So, you spend all your money to buy your dream house.
Congrats, you have bought your first house from those same people who gave you a job in the first place.
Their money comes back to them and you come back where you started in the first place.
The GAME…
They have owned you in every way possible. They own the supermarkets from where you purchase your food and goods. They own the water that you drink. You pay for water which was free of cost not long before. You pay for your food. You pay for your clothes. You pay for every single thing that you can see around you. Really, it’s time to ask yourself this question. Is it really worth it?
You see Pune is a very well designed prison to take the most out of you by giving the least. After all, it is a basic rule of earning profit.
Less investment more profits.
This is not that easy to understand for a person who is heavily occupied with a 9-7 job.
Now and then we hear stories of people like Sandeep Maheshwari and how he made it big. Don’t you think they are also like us?
I took the name of Sandeep Maheswari because he is someone whom most people know. Believe me, there are many who are doing it too. It’s just that they are not telling the secret rather they are busy applying it. They never followed the norms of this society which is nothing but fake walls to keep you isolated from the real world. Don’t believe me, here’s a video of him which will convince you for sure.
Conclusion
This city is getting bigger every day. It is on us to make a decision that is right for us. We are here to give something back to the world.
Every single individual who has ever been born or will ever bear comes with some unique talents or abilities. It’s this special thing about you that is your calling.
Although no human being is born without it, many will live with their lives without discovering or living their calling.
Your calling is something that fills your heart with fire and motivates you to do things.
Just don’t ignore your calling.
Living in Pune has made one thing very clear for me, MY CALLING.
Till Next Time 🙂
Have you even lived in Mumbai? You’re in the good place then. I completely disagree with this article. Life is much hectic in Mumbai unless your life is meant only earning a money.
I’ve not lived in Mumbai and maybe you’re right – life in Mumbai is difficult. But with all due respect, I didn’t mean to compare the living conditions between the cities. Everything that I said is my take during a 3-year stay in Pune.
Every city has its pros and cons but when you stand still and start observing the life around you, You realise that you are living in a cage and doing the same thing every single day. And before you realise it, it’s too late.
Hahahaa, I think you should write a similar article about Hyderabad now
haha… sure, but it won’t be similar. Hyderabad is a lot different from Pune 😊
I agreed. But this is the reality of current time. For this the city should not be blamed.
The reason I mentioned The Pune City specifically is because this is the only city which has grown because of IT industries. Let’s go 7 years back, Pune was a really nice place to live and habitat. The weather was excellent, the atmosphere was serene and there were much less people to destroy the nature.
Once IT industry emerged in Pune, they attracted huge number of people which resulted in cutting down of trees and mountains to create flat boxes of habitat. This was not enough, the rent people pay for these boxes is much higher. They basically has to lower their living standard in order to live in this city.
The people who provides them job sucks their money from other way round without them knowing about it. The average cost of living for an IT person in Pune is close to 10,000 INR. And the average salary is 20,000 INR. This happens only in Pune as compared to other cities. Other city may be so advance in technology as compared to Pune, but the living conditions are far-far better compared to Pune.
That is why I titled this post – Pune City is not a good place to live.
There are much better places to live in this country and definitely Pune is no where close when it comes to living.
Cutting Down of Trees… Pune is called the Green and Clean City of India.
Technology… Pune is the smartest city of India.
Pune is the first city to have most tree plantation campaigns in the last 2 years..
Don’t know where you get the fake information from.
https://citizenmatters.in/reasons-for-water-shortage-and-cuts-in-pune-despite-heavy-rainfall-13893