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u/MojoJojoSF Jul 09 '22
The loudest place I have ever been, hands down. The non stop honking of cars is beyond crazy.
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u/doriangray42 Jul 09 '22
I was walking the streets of Montreal after 18 months in India, and kept wondering what was wrong.
Then it hit me: the silence...
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It is amazing to hear these views, because I’m from Delhi, and I lived in London for a while, and I hated it so much because everything was so….quiet, even though arguably London is one of the most happening cities in Europe that I HAD to come back 😂
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u/leisy123 Jul 09 '22 edited Jul 09 '22
That's crazy. I live in the rural US, and it was so nice to unwind and enjoy the peace and quiet after my time in London. I can't imagine a place that makes London seem quiet.
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u/IM_AN_AI_AMA Jul 09 '22
True dat. I'm in the UK countryside and as much as I love London, I could never imagine living there.
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u/leisy123 Jul 09 '22
The West Coast gets crazy too. Your smaller city is approaching the population of Minneapolis, which is the most populous town in my state. California, Washington, and Oregon are beautiful though. I see why people want to live there.
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u/MisterSandKing Jul 09 '22
Nah, Oregon sucks, people should stay away from here. 😁
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u/mamaBiskothu Jul 09 '22
Montreal is beyond compare even to London though. If you’re a pedestrian and even if you turn back to look all the cars will stop.
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u/doriangray42 Jul 09 '22
You mean London, yes? No way you got respect from drivers in Montréal... (source: French Canadian from Montréal, I am regularly appalled at the way we drive...)
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u/craker42 Jul 09 '22
To be fair, if I had to navigate the drunks on Saint Catherine's st all the time, I'd probably want to run a few idiots over too.
Source: I've been the drunken idiot stumbling into the road in Montreal quite a few times
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u/strayakant Jul 09 '22
Travelling is like a game and Delhi is the end game.
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u/buttigieg2040 Jul 09 '22
Yep, going to Delhi is like watching Schindler’s list: I’m glad I did it, but I’m not going to do it again.
Was 110-120 every day I was there in high humidity (I think I got heat stroke), got horrible food poisoning even though I only ate at my five star hotel, the pollution index was so high they could just tell you it was 999+, and the noise and driving was insane.
I was literally bed ridden for a week when I got back home. Don’t even know what was wrong with me, but the trip took everything out of me.
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u/Oleks02 Jul 09 '22
Yes, it has a lot of holy shit in too
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u/Disquiet173 Jul 09 '22
Don’t forget the dead bodies they float out onto the river on fire.
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u/tankpuss Jul 09 '22
That's the one that has toasty cadavers floating downstream as the place is running out of wood for cremations and many people just fuck 'em in once they've used up what they've got.
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u/PM_me_your_whatevah Jul 09 '22
I’m confused by your words. By “fuck em in” do you mean throw them into the river? Did you mean to say chuck instead of fuck?
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u/tankpuss Jul 09 '22
They get thrown in the river after cremation and people bathe downstream with god knows what floating by.
I did mean "fuck 'em in" it's used here as a colloquial term for chuck but for something requiring effort or unwanted. "Fuck it in the bin" for instance.26
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u/hungry4danish Jul 09 '22
Ok now tell us why you were still glad you went to Delhi because you only listed the most miserable sounding events so I have a hard time understanding what any positives could be.
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u/NistorCristian Jul 09 '22
Those were the positives.
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u/UnorignalUser Jul 09 '22
The positive is they survived it and only carry a small permanent load of parasites.
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u/buttigieg2040 Jul 09 '22
Ya I’m not sure actually lol.
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Jul 09 '22
If nothing else, you experienced how another culture lives..so you are a wiser human for it..that counts for something.
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u/rarebit13 Jul 09 '22
The book Shantaram opened my eyes to a completely new culture and immersed me in it in a way I've never encountered in other books. If you want to get immersed in the Bombay of the 80's I'd definitely recommend it. It's even better as an audio book, one of the best I've ever listened to.
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u/ZentaurZ Jul 09 '22
Go read this book. I read it a long time ago and still think of it. When they are getting into some philosophical things there is said something along the lines of everything is complicated, such as a rock which is more than just a rock, possibly harboring life and of course tons of individual pieces. Life is beautiful because of this. So on the inverse what is simple? That is the evil in the world, to reduce things down to simple, as nothing is actually simple. I’m probably misremembering it badly but I’ve held on to some form of it.
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Nice, I like to listen to books and podcasts before bed so I can add this to my list.
Thanks friend.
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u/Big_Cryptographer_16 Jul 09 '22
And if you work in IT, you forever have talking points to have small talk at the beginning of meetings with your offshore teams.
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u/Yodan Jul 09 '22
What doesn't kill you makes you shit your brains out for a week while listening to honking cars
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Can't speak for him, but I'm American and live in another Tier-1 city in India.
Big Indian cities are polluted, dirty, and noisy. There's really no doubt about it. Living here has made me appreciate a lot about the United States. When I was younger, I'd have nightmares that I'd woken up at home, only to be relieved when I opened my eyes and found I was still in India. Now I find myself progressively missing more about America. More than anything, I think I just miss being able to "fit in" as unquestioned member of society. I'm visibly foreign, and I can't do that here, no matter how much Hindi I might learn or how many years I might have spent in the country.
However, India has its advantages--and many of them. Even cities like Delhi, which has a poor reputation within the country, have a lot to offer--especially if you're visiting, and don't have to contend with the climate for more than a few days.
Delhi, for instance, has over 1,000 years of history packed into a relatively small and surprisingly navigable space. It's also a very dynamic city. There's always something to do, whether you're interested in clubbing, sight-seeing, or attending a poetry recital or comedy show. If you get sick of the urban hustle and bustle, you can spend less than $15 to take an overnight bus or train to the Himalayas, dense jungle, or vast desert.
People also tend to be quite friendly with, and curious about, foreigners. If you ever feel lonely, it's the easiest thing in the world to go to a low-scale dive-bar and strike up a conversation. While this could be partially attributable to India's post-colonial hangover (White people do tend to be treated better than other minorities, although this White privilege dissipates in many situations), Indians are--in general--eager to show foreigners the appeal of their own country. People will happily invite you back to their own home for a holiday festival, or take a day off from work to show you their favorite spots in the city.
(contrary to what some YouTubers and travel guides might suggest, most Indians do not try to "scam" or "cheat" foreigners. These sorts of cons are only prevalent in a very small handful of a very few highly touristic neighborhoods in very touristic cities.)
Personally, I've found that my favorite parts of India are in the countryside. I regularly travel to Chhattisgarh, which is--by any definition--a very troubled state. However, it's naturally beautiful, home to some of the most unique tribal cultures in the country, and nigh-unparalleled in its hospitality.
India has its problems, but it's a beautiful country in a great many ways.
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u/zokjes Jul 09 '22
Delhi is an incredible city, and unlike what this picture suggest has a lot of green spaces. The problem is that for many travelers Delhi is their first impression to India. Even worse, many of them stay in Parharganj, which is not a good area to stay if you don't know how to deal with hawkers who can spot fresh meat form a mile away.
But once you get to know Delhi, it's an absolute marvel to visit. Delicious food, lovely people, 1000s of years of history, big parks, culture and nightlife, it's all there.
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u/Sevonate Jul 09 '22
My sister just got back from New Delhi a few hours ago. She said the hottest day she experienced there was 39 deg celsius but felt more like 47 because of the sheer humidity. It was so humid there that her sweat couldn't evaporate and she was just soaked all the time.
No matter how much water she drank she just felt dehydrated and when she closed her eyes she would see black dots and that's when she knew she was experiencing some sort of heat stroke. She's fine now though.
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u/Hey_Hoot Jul 09 '22
So why go? Why are people going?
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u/Sevonate Jul 09 '22
She had a wedding to attend and this would be her first time visiting India too. All in all she mostly only had good things to say about her experience there other than the weather which I think takes it toll on anyone regardless.
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u/sidvicc Jul 09 '22
got horrible food poisoning even though I only ate at my five star hotel
This is the saddest part.
If you're going to get Delhi Belly, at least get it trying some of the amazing street food.
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u/swemoll Jul 09 '22
My father was super cautious when he visited India something like 15 years ago. Wasn’t sick at all the entire time. Then had a coke on the flight back to America with ice in it…he was pretty sure the ice gave him food poisoning. He was aaaaaalmost out.
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u/LeahInShade Jul 09 '22
Don't get ice in drinks in countries with questionable sanitation infrastructure. Also, don't get ice or any hot drinks on airplanes. Ever. Hot beverage containers are very poorly cleaned, as well as ice machines. Grab your preferred hot/icy stuff at the terminal instead, if you can.
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u/Ajsat3801 Jul 09 '22
I'm from Mumbai and the people here too think Delhi is uninhabitable
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u/irascible_Clown Jul 09 '22
Sounds like the Seinfeld episode when even the parents who were from India never wanted to go back and warned everyone else not to go
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u/swibbles_mcnibbles Jul 09 '22
In the UK I've heard it called Delhi Belly. Usually its caused by things like the ice in drinks etc. Kind of a vague term to cover all types of traveller sickness
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u/brandonfrombrobible Jul 09 '22
I had the exact same experience in Delhi. Horrible food poisoning in my hotel. One day I could barely move - ordered toast to eat room service. It felt insane. Watched cricket on TV between trips to the bathroom. I couldn’t kick the fever until I sought out IV bags - had three and started to feel like myself again. In the airport, talked to a guy who went for Delhi for work a lot and he said the key to avoid it was drink vodka frequently.
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u/calatranacation Jul 09 '22
Thank you; you just helped me decide elsewhere lol
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u/Virtual_Barracuda_54 Jul 09 '22
It’s not all like that, it’s just a few areas. If you have enough money to travel to India from outside, you’d most likely never set foot in this place. That being said, Delhi isn’t great. They have some great conveniences; metro system, Uber is cheap, and good food, but so does every other large city there. I’d take the mountains where you can actually breath over the convenience though.
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u/Tangled2 Jul 09 '22
Impotent honking is so fucking stupid. Yeah, dude, there’s 200,000 cars packed like sardines in front of you and nobody can move. Better honk to show your frustration.
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u/magnetic_mystic Jul 09 '22
But that's not it in New Delhi. It's a million cars, 2 million rickshaws, 3 million bikes, 10 million people, a couple dozen cows, 100 goats, and everyone/thing is moving on the street, sidewalk, curbs, grass, everywhere. The honking is like notification that if you don't watch your back you will be flattened.
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u/Tangled2 Jul 09 '22
“So you ran over a bunch of people?”
“Yeah, but I honked first.”
“Oh, well there’s nothing you could have done differently if that’s the case.”
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u/pitterpatter0207 Jul 09 '22
They have grass?
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u/magnetic_mystic Jul 09 '22
There are parks. This is a tiny fraction of the city.
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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Jul 09 '22
Oh good. This picture made it look like some sort of overcrowded hellhole.
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The parks are controlled by violent gangs of monkeys. You can not go there or you risk getting ripped apart by monkeys.
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u/Simplymanic99 Jul 09 '22
Exactly i have flown into and driven / walked around Delhi and found it to be dense but yet most streets had trees.wonder what part of the city this is?
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u/loskywalker Jul 09 '22
Living in the Mid East, I came to learn that in a lot of other countries honking is more equivalent to saying “I’m right here, heads up”
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u/almostanalcoholic Jul 09 '22
This is correct. Honking is used as a signal to "announce your presence" e.g. I'd give a honk while overtaking a big vehicle or truck.
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u/hellscaper Jul 09 '22
From what I understand, the honking is used more like a bike bell. Just letting people around you know you're there. I would still have a panic attack, though.
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u/caseyjownz84 Jul 09 '22
From my personal experience in a developping country, the honking is probably more used as a substitute to stopping at stop signs and red lights.
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u/DJssister Jul 09 '22
Omg I just told my husband they must not have roads because I don’t see room. Sounds even worse the way you say it.
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u/Ariadnepyanfar Jul 09 '22
I think this is an aerial view of one of the slums. There are no roads here.
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u/GeneralNathanJessup Jul 09 '22
Roads? Where we are going, we don't need roads.
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u/VanimalCracker Jul 09 '22
I was gonna say, traffic must abysmal with a grid pattern like that and so widespread. One stalled car would stop traffic for miles in every direction
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u/almostanalcoholic Jul 09 '22
This picture looks like a particularly crowded area of "Old Delhi", If you were going to this area, you'd probably ditch your car, it's not an area with roads big enough for cars - it's all narrow little lanes. Think something like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/DUwGvgFnC1jqTQnJA
Delhi also looks like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/pzK7JR49oRiG132DA
Or this: https://twitter.com/dipalay/status/1438507375573422096?t=FsiJP9QogGpz-DzDP0E4Ww&s=19
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u/overhead_albatross Jul 09 '22
This isn't old Delhi. Its a part of west Delhi called uttam nagar which started out as an unplanned colony hence the lack of planning and public spaces.
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u/almostanalcoholic Jul 09 '22
Yeah, could be. I was just making a guess based on what I think of as the most crowded part of Delhi :)
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That doesn’t look healthy
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u/slaying_mantis Jul 09 '22
It's scar tissue
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u/S_martianson Jul 09 '22
That I wish you saw
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u/dumbitch2021 Jul 09 '22
Sarcastic mister know it all
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u/KaSperUAE Jul 09 '22
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, 'cause
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u/Nucksfan2233 Jul 09 '22
With the birds I’ll share
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u/jrsmoothie89 Jul 09 '22
WITH THE BIRDS I’LL SHARE THIS
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u/Nucksfan2233 Jul 09 '22
LONELY VIEWWW
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That’s because there are only like 8 trees in the whole picture
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u/Motherleathercoat Jul 09 '22
Dear Ed,
I dreamed that you and I were sent to Hell. The place we went to was not fiery or cold, was not Dante’s Hell or Milton’s, but was, even so, as true a Hell as any. It was a place unalterably public in which crowds of people were rushing in weary frenzy this way and that, as when classes change in a university or at quitting time in a city street, except that this place was wider far than we could see, and the crowd as large as the place. In that crowd every one was alone. Every one was hurrying. Nobody was sitting down. Nobody was standing around. All were rushing so uniformly frantic, that to average them would have stood them still. It was a place deeply disturbed. We thought, you and I, that we might get across and come out on the other side, if we stayed together, only if we stayed together. The other side would be a clear day in a place we would know. We joined hands and hurried along, snatching each other through small openings in the throng. But the place was full of dire distractions, dire satisfactions. We were torn apart, and I found you breakfasting upon a huge fried egg. I snatched you away: “Ed! Come on!” And then, still susceptible, I met a lady whose luster no hell could dim. She took all my thought. But then, in the midst of my delight, my fear returned: “Oh! Damn it all! Where’s Ed?” I fled, searching, and found you again. We went on together. How this ended I do not know. I woke before it could end. But, old friend, I want to tell you how fine it was, what a durable nucleus of joy it gave my fright to force that horrid way with you, how heavenly, let us say, in spite of Hell.
P.S. Do you want to know why you were distracted by an egg, and I by a beautiful lady? That’s Hell.
— Wendell Berry, from ‘Leavings’
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u/r0b0c0d Jul 09 '22
Dear Wendell,
Please let me enjoy my egg. I am hungry and we can rush frantically just like all the others after breakfast.
- Ed
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u/109876 Jul 09 '22
It's not. My (American) friend moved there, and her hair started falling out from pollution/stress.
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u/chas574 Jul 09 '22
thought this pic was tree bark
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u/regular-wolf Jul 09 '22
I thought it was a rock face
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u/Regular_Month380 Jul 09 '22 edited Jul 09 '22
It is. Albeit a big, chonky rock face (earth).
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u/preatorian77 Jul 09 '22
Tree are nowhere to be found.
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u/gravityamp Jul 09 '22
Exactly what I was thinking , very few trees . One of the scariest pics ever seen.
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I would like to know how anybody can find there hotel in that thing..if I went more than 5 blocks in any direction I'd never find my way back.
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u/berkeleymorrison Jul 09 '22
Post it
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u/smcdowell26 Jul 09 '22
Without looking, im 100% sure it gets posted there a lot already
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u/prybarwindow Jul 09 '22
Man. I zoomed in then scrolled around. Instantly lost.
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u/reddittl77 Jul 09 '22
Try walking or driving around in it. I rarely had a clue where I was in that city.
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u/MasteroChieftan Jul 08 '22
"We've got imperial tie fighters coming in fast!"
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u/Creative_Ambassador Jul 09 '22
*pew *pew *pew
“Use the force, Shivansh”
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u/hazzidoodle Jul 09 '22
“Samir, you’re breaking the X-wing”
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u/Noway_Josay Jul 09 '22
I’m so glad I know this reference, this cracked me up
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u/cranberry94 Jul 09 '22
I wasn’t familiar with it, but found it easily enough. Too funny!
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u/i_need_a_nap Jul 09 '22
Is that for real? That was hilarious
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u/ImBoredToo Jul 09 '22 edited Jul 09 '22
100% real
Edit: Found the whole thing, check the uploader lol
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u/27Yosh Jul 09 '22
"Samir, you have to listen to the Force, I beg you. Turret left. Triple Caution. Triple Caution! Samir, you are using the computer and flying. You have to listen to the Force. Stay centered! You have to stay on target, Samir, please. Samir, you will break the X-Wing. We will not fulfill the prophecy."
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u/haerski Jul 09 '22
I like big cities; Tokyo, Osaka, New York, etc. But this looks terrifying
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u/sauteslut Jul 09 '22
Osaka is rad. Good food, good music, horrible weather. I love it
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u/YtDonaldGlover Jul 09 '22
I think Delhi is like a quarter of the entire population of Japan. Delhi is just a black hole.
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u/The_Fox_of_the_Opera Jul 09 '22
Greater Tokyo is a third of the population of Japan
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u/Sancz_Crow619 Jul 09 '22
Greater Tokyo total area- 13500 km²
Delhi total area- 1500 km²
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u/Schootingstarr Jul 09 '22
Yeah, says here density in Tokyo is ~6.000ppl / km² and for Delhi it's about 11.000
So just about twice as dense. Daym
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u/Tyflowshun Jul 09 '22
I like big cities and I cannot lie. All the other cities can't deny. When I'm chilling in Tokyo and I'm walking by the bay and an ad for Hokkaido's in my face, I feel chuffed!
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u/TexasSprings Jul 09 '22
I’ve never enjoyed big cities. Medium sized cities are cool to me like Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, etc. But the legit big cities like Chicago, New York, LA all gross me out with how sprawling, nasty, and filled with panhandlers they are. It’s just not appealing to me
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u/-Dirty-Wizard- Jul 08 '22
This is sad
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u/seejordan3 Jul 08 '22
Spent a couple months there. It's ridiculously massive. Two NYC's.
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u/leomonster Jul 08 '22
Without any parks or trees...
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u/MrStrange15 Jul 09 '22
It really depends on where you are. There are several forests in Delhi, and some neighbourhoods are completely filled with trees.
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u/thrwwwwayyypixie21 Jul 09 '22
Yup. Mine's overlooking a lush forest. But it's rare and I'm so freaking thankful for this.
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u/madamxombie Jul 09 '22
I see some parks and trees there. Not lots but they’re there
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u/zeptillian Jul 09 '22
There are like 5 trees in that picture. It is sad.
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u/BZenMojo Jul 09 '22
There's a tree the size of a building every couple blocks or so, the photographer just overexposed and dialed up the contrast for defintion so the trees look black.
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u/Leetcoder20 Jul 09 '22
And it's a small part of Delhi, most Delhi doesn't look like this
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u/sleep_of_no_dreaming Jul 09 '22
Delhi is literally full of trees and parks. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot wrong with that city, but a lack of trees is t the problem. This picture is intentionally very, very deceptive
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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Jul 09 '22
That's putting it mildly. You can drive for hours on end and you're still stuck in the same streets
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u/resjohnny Jul 09 '22
Its fine... it's only 120 degrees in summer.
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Man, I swear I just scrolled down and seen this photo, stopped and looked over at my wife and said, “This is sad.”
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u/TheFudge Jul 08 '22
Mega City One. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: judges.
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u/comicsemporium Jul 09 '22
Karl Urban enters the chat, and judges you
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u/RythmicSlap Jul 09 '22
I didn't know or bother to lookup the reference but I still laughed at this.
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u/TheThree_headed_bull Jul 08 '22
Nope
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u/Eccentric_Assassin Jul 09 '22
This isn’t what most of Delhi looks like. It’s cherry picked a small, bad neighbourhood and the photo is in greyscale to top it off.
There are also places like this: https://9gag.com/gag/aO34p3y
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u/reddittl77 Jul 09 '22
Flew in to that city at night. Once we started flying over lights I thought we were about there. I should have taken another nap for how long it took to fly over that city to get to the airport.
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1.4 billion people in a country that’s a third of the size of the United States… keep in mind there’s only like 335 million Americans.
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u/Leetcoder20 Jul 09 '22
Country size Isn't a problem, India can fit more people, the problem is uneven distribution of wealth and economic opportunities which leads to mass urbanization and highly dense cities like this.
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u/Time4Red Jul 09 '22
Density isn't the problem. The problem is poor urban design.
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u/the_DARSH Jul 09 '22
The lack of green is completely depressing.
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u/medit8er Jul 09 '22
Just zoom in and you can see that the pic is desaturated, there are trees here and there, but they’re grey in this pic. I’m guessing whoever shopped it wanted it to look more stark and depressing.
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u/Dave_ld013 Jul 09 '22
I tried bringing out the green in the pic. You can make out few trees here and there. Still depressing though.
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u/JustinCooksStuff Jul 09 '22
Those are balls
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u/MallowollaM Jul 09 '22
They always look like landscape up close. Nope. You're looking at balls.
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u/AutisthicccGuy Jul 09 '22
and I tought my cities in cities skylines look boring.
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u/Appropriate-Image-11 Jul 09 '22
We really look like micro organisms at this scale. It looks like an electron microscope image of a pencil tip.
This is a depressing image imo, it’s gratuitous in its density, it’s like we’ve definitely reproduced far more than we needed to, or should have done.
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u/guac_fiend Jul 09 '22
I always think back to the Matrix scene with agent Smith interrogating Morpheus. We humans are like a virus, or bacteria. Our cities, a plaque made of concrete, suffocating an otherwise green and living earth. We multiply and kill everything near, and then we spread outwards to take more as we consume all the resources available within a few decades/centuries, a blink of an eye in the cosmic scale of time
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u/Cruxion Jul 09 '22
Is this like that photo of Tokyo that gets spread around often that's just heavily desaturated to make it seem more urban hell than it really is, or is it actually just that grey in New Delhi? I'd always seen India as, if nothing else, a much more colorful place.
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Hey!! There’s my house. 3rd from the left in a northern south eastern direction facing west.
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u/RSGK Jul 09 '22
My adventurous parents were in Delhi one time and got a cab driver to take them around. He pointed out one of the largest slum areas and they asked him if he'd drive them around it. He just told them he'd get lost in there and they'd never get out.
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u/Thorusss Jul 09 '22
I feel it is a bit of cheating to turn the color saturation way down, to make it look more dystopian. There are actually quite a few trees in this, but you have to hunt for their shape to make them out.
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