Which place is more lonely?

iTEDx wrote:I feel Europe number 1 Specially Nordic countries. Then other non-English speaking countries such as Germany, France etc. Between India and US, there is a big tie.

iTEDx wrote:What I am discovering is that life in a big Indian metro in today's time, for example take Bombay, is no different than living in a big city in the US. There are so many similarities, you don't socialize on weekdays as you end up coming home by 8-9pm. You live in a building and hence most probably don't know most of your neighbors. People never drop n to their friends place without calling, no surprises like in the olden days, everything is all formal. Most of the gathering ("dinner parties") people bring order food from outside, and there too most often people go dutch and share the price of the food, just like they do in the US. Gone are the days when the hostess cooked home cooked food or people paid for their guests. Weekends, Saturdays are done doing chores. Sunday resting and may be socializing a bit.Life is so mechanical here. People have changed and spend time only with themselves (as a couple or as a family). For a working person, making friends is again just as difficult as it is in the US. Since most if your school n college friends have moved out to various parts of the world, you are a stranger in your own hometown. In that sense, I meant India is not much different than the US these days.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

iTEDx wrote:What I am discovering is that life in a big Indian metro in today's time, for example take Bombay, is no different than living in a big city in the US. There are so many similarities, you don't socialize on weekdays as you end up coming home by 8-9pm. You live in a building and hence most probably don't know most of your neighbors. People never drop n to their friends place without calling, no surprises like in the olden days, everything is all formal. Most of the gathering ("dinner parties") people bring order food from outside, and there too most often people go dutch and share the price of the food, just like they do in the US. Gone are the days when the hostess cooked home cooked food or people paid for their guests. Weekends, Saturdays are done doing chores. Sunday resting and may be socializing a bit.Life is so mechanical here. People have changed and spend time only with themselves (as a couple or as a family). For a working person, making friends is again just as difficult as it is in the US. Since most if your school n college friends have moved out to various parts of the world, you are a stranger in your own hometown. In that sense, I meant India is not much different than the US these days.

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confuzzled dude wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

iTEDx wrote:What I am discovering is that life in a big Indian metro in today's time, for example take Bombay, is no different than living in a big city in the US. There are so many similarities, you don't socialize on weekdays as you end up coming home by 8-9pm. You live in a building and hence most probably don't know most of your neighbors. People never drop n to their friends place without calling, no surprises like in the olden days, everything is all formal. Most of the gathering ("dinner parties") people bring order food from outside, and there too most often people go dutch and share the price of the food, just like they do in the US. Gone are the days when the hostess cooked home cooked food or people paid for their guests. Weekends, Saturdays are done doing chores. Sunday resting and may be socializing a bit.Life is so mechanical here. People have changed and spend time only with themselves (as a couple or as a family). For a working person, making friends is again just as difficult as it is in the US. Since most if your school n college friends have moved out to various parts of the world, you are a stranger in your own hometown. In that sense, I meant India is not much different than the US these days.

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many of classmates from undergrad days still live in the same city but they hardly ever meet. They only appear to get together when I'm visiting. Still.. this doesn't make India loneliest place.

--So then which is according to you?

iTEDx wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

iTEDx wrote:What I am discovering is that life in a big Indian metro in today's time, for example take Bombay, is no different than living in a big city in the US. There are so many similarities, you don't socialize on weekdays as you end up coming home by 8-9pm. You live in a building and hence most probably don't know most of your neighbors. People never drop n to their friends place without calling, no surprises like in the olden days, everything is all formal. Most of the gathering ("dinner parties") people bring order food from outside, and there too most often people go dutch and share the price of the food, just like they do in the US. Gone are the days when the hostess cooked home cooked food or people paid for their guests. Weekends, Saturdays are done doing chores. Sunday resting and may be socializing a bit.Life is so mechanical here. People have changed and spend time only with themselves (as a couple or as a family). For a working person, making friends is again just as difficult as it is in the US. Since most if your school n college friends have moved out to various parts of the world, you are a stranger in your own hometown. In that sense, I meant India is not much different than the US these days.

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many of classmates from undergrad days still live in the same city but they hardly ever meet. They only appear to get together when I'm visiting. Still.. this doesn't make India loneliest place.

--So then which is according to you?

Sandee2020 wrote:Any place away from home is lonely. Places where people are very private and reserved like New England is lonely.