What Chennai lacks.

• 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.