Chennai or Ahmedabad??

chennai all the way

Chennai sucks, man. People don't speak any other language except Tamil for the most time. They are gracious enough to talk to outsiders in their language.

Ahmedabad is one of the best cities in India, highly cosmpolitan, great infrastructure, multicultural populace open to foreigners and one of the best economies in India, the best in fact.

bgemmill wrote:

Have the option to move to either city in December or January.  Both look nice.  Which would you prefer??

bgemmill..great to here about your interests in India.

Well both Chennai & Ahmedabad are amazing places to live and work. But having lived in Chennai all my life, I'm certainly more biased towards it....I'll try to share a few pros & cons and you take a call.

Pros
- Its a metropolitan city
- Ample opportunity to socialize and meet a lot of expats
- Most of the foreign embassies are in the city
- You can find a vast array multi-cuisine dinning
- Relatively cheaper than other metro cities (Delhi & Mumbai)
- A lot of options for EASY travel around (pondicherry, Kodai, etc)
- Last but not the least you have a BEACH and nothing beats sitting near the shore during the weekends and watching the sun go down

Cons
- Predominately most of the natives speak Tamil, but if you speak english it should not be a problem
- Traffic is horrible during peak hours
- I don't want to generalize it but you need to be a bit careful when dealing with the locals
- Rentals can be expensive compare to Ahemdabad
- The weather is something that everyone complains about and its very humid to, so you must be prepared to shell out tons of sweat during summers


Well I hope this helps.

rgds.

both the cities are good, but would prefer bangalore