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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Chennai - Scene 2, Act 1 - Apartment hunting and exaggerated aspiration

Period- Feb 06 to Mar 06. Event - Settling in Chennai. Reason - Job Switch.

Apartment hunting contd -

A so-called "cosmo" property dealer in Adyar, when I had asked for a decent accomodation, had taken me to a chawl-like area to show me a dingy little two-room apartment with a corner that had been marked off as a kitchen area - i hadnt dared to inspect the loo.
When I made a hasty retreat and coveyed my displeasure at the house he had shown, he had summed up my requirements - " Oh! So, you want a super-deluxe apartment. The budgets for those kinds are upwards of 15,000INR" !!!
Another property dealer had asked me to come down from my "film-star like" aspirations for a house because I insisted on a neat loo and a workable, easy-maintainance kitchen!!!

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