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Seems it was never mentioned in the farms so I want to bring light to a wonderful city in India called Gurgaon.
Was once a humble village that spontaneously became an urban city where some of the largest global corporations in IT, finance and medicine built their offices, in-between these offices the streets are filled shops and restaurants many of them are international brands and surprisingly they even have luxury brands! If that is not enough they even have malls and stadiums for some of the largest events.
In a way it is like India's NYC, many people go there because it is the city of dreams and like NYC it's a shithole but a unique shithole where the rich live like their in the slums.
Because of the spontaneous development on a small village, there was basically little to no infrastructure planning, so any open land they just build a tower for offices which obviously results in road designs being a mess and top it off with potholes, every driver driving like its GTA, folks casually crossing the roads and herding farm animals so you can expect to be stuck in a chaotic traffic jam. There is a metro you can use but the stations are limited so despite your effort to avoid the traffic you will join them using a scamming rickshaw driver just to get to your office.
The basic infrastructure also means it cannot support a growing population, so basic necessities like water, electricity, housing and drainage are limited.
Remember just like NYC some of the richest people live there and they aren't using rich people solutions to these basic problems.
So imagine these people in mansion with large gardens having to start up generators for electricity and worsening their air quality.
In their super bougie kitchen its cluttered with plastic bottles filled with water and they have to use keep refilling these bottles using water pumps.
And imagine these mansions with large gardens being flooded with their own human waste because the sewage is overwhelmed.
Even if you don't live there as wagie part of your job is to deal with these in your office/mall.
Sources:
BBC article
S | A
Wiki
Book:
Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban, Chapter 3 A Slum for the Rich.
If you hate jeets the book is worth it imo, It's how I came to know about the city.
Was once a humble village that spontaneously became an urban city where some of the largest global corporations in IT, finance and medicine built their offices, in-between these offices the streets are filled shops and restaurants many of them are international brands and surprisingly they even have luxury brands! If that is not enough they even have malls and stadiums for some of the largest events.
In a way it is like India's NYC, many people go there because it is the city of dreams and like NYC it's a shithole but a unique shithole where the rich live like their in the slums.
Because of the spontaneous development on a small village, there was basically little to no infrastructure planning, so any open land they just build a tower for offices which obviously results in road designs being a mess and top it off with potholes, every driver driving like its GTA, folks casually crossing the roads and herding farm animals so you can expect to be stuck in a chaotic traffic jam. There is a metro you can use but the stations are limited so despite your effort to avoid the traffic you will join them using a scamming rickshaw driver just to get to your office.
The basic infrastructure also means it cannot support a growing population, so basic necessities like water, electricity, housing and drainage are limited.
Remember just like NYC some of the richest people live there and they aren't using rich people solutions to these basic problems.
So imagine these people in mansion with large gardens having to start up generators for electricity and worsening their air quality.
In their super bougie kitchen its cluttered with plastic bottles filled with water and they have to use keep refilling these bottles using water pumps.
And imagine these mansions with large gardens being flooded with their own human waste because the sewage is overwhelmed.
Even if you don't live there as wagie part of your job is to deal with these in your office/mall.
Sources:
BBC article
S | A
Wiki
Book:
Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban, Chapter 3 A Slum for the Rich.
If you hate jeets the book is worth it imo, It's how I came to know about the city.