- A good and efficient mode of public transportation.Would the Metro end this woe of mine ? Only time can tell.
- Metered autos.Atleast,Bangalore is better than Chennai in this one aspect.The auto fellows in this city are ,IMO,out of this world.So are their demands.For the money I pay them to commute to and from work,I can probably just hand over my paycheque to them directly at the beginning of every month.
- Patient commuters.Everyone is in a hurry,only to wait at the next traffic signal
- Reasonable real estate prices in reasonable livable areas.The rate at which real estate is expanding,the prices vertically and the areas horizontally,it looks like we would’ve to be soon commuting all the way from either Kancheepuram or Tirupathi,and yet be paying EMI for the rest of our lives.
Chennai is catching up with the rest of the metros,for all the wrong reasons 
.I thought most of my problems would be solved after moving back to Chennai.Looks like they’ve just started.
Umm. . Chennai has one of the best transport systems in India. The much maligned MTC buses are brilliant for getting anywhere in and around the city. You should try em some time.
Also, patient commuters? Seriously? Find me one city in the world with patient people during rush hour and I’ll eat my hat.
I agree on the MTC thing – you ll not find any place connected so well as it is in Chennai – but only if the experience was made better by analyzing the crowd hours and efficient deployment of buses in the routes, well maintained and efficient buses.
btw: Chennai Bus travel is the cheapest ever, i guess.
Autos: Forget it !
patient commuters: civil revolution?
Real Estate: I had this discussion with one of my frnds who was trying to buy a house. Every are should be given a rating of sorts and prices be a direct factor of those ratings. Roads, Electricity availability, Water table level and situation, Security, Connectivity, resource availability etc … and factor them into a value that corresponds the Max limit [something like MRP]. Probably the government should fix that.
I find bangalore a lot cleaner than chennai but still in future i may move to chennai
Real estate – tamilnadu is sekka worst. Bangalore prices have dropped but not yet TN. Believe me, this is not only the case in madras but in trichy too.
BMTC is certainly better than chennai MTC in cleanliness but i agree with all of u in connectivity part. BMTC needs to improve. Also BMTC is costlier. Kerala autos and Bangalore autos are best autos. But go to madurai, though the meters are not there, what they ask is slightly higher than what they meter in bangalore. considering the usage of autos is not that high in madurai, what they ask is reasonable. Easily madurai autos can be metered. I guess kovai also the similar case.
But my beloved city Trichy and next favourite chennai !!! kollakkara pasanga are running autos there.
One reason, I think Chennai won’t loose its identity ever (good thing) – It’s strong cultural roots. People over the time settled in Chennai. But those who settled, embraced the local culture and did not alienated it, very unlike in Bangalore’s case.