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Bombay vs. Chennai
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[info]premshree
April 6th, 2006
Current Location:
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In Bombay, the higher up your house the more you pay. For example, in one of the places we’ve looked at, there’s a floor rise cost of INR 20 per sq. ft. So, basically, a 1000 sq. ft. flat in the 17th floor would cost around INR 300,000 more than the flat in the lowest floor (2nd).

When I was in Chennai, my friend who was taking me around, pointed me to a bunch of buildings where, apparently, a lot of Tamil movie songs are shot (Chennai’s Hiranandani, I guess). Out of curiosity I asked him how much a flat there’d cost. He said something, and added that the higher up you go the cost decreases. If that’s true, well, Chennai is probably new to the living-in-a-flat thing.

That’ll change.

Oh yeah, in Bombay now.

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Till how long are in in 'the city' as [info]solzaire would put it? :)
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kab tak? I'll be there early next week.

[anyway, higher floors in chennai maybe facing more water problems or something]
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Darn. Not here next week.
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hi,
i have a question about your awesome perl script for security edit. i keep getting an error that says, "Can't locate HTTP/Lite.pm in @INC". Anything I can do differently or can check on my end? I have 1800 entries and would like to protect all of them, so I'm really hoping I can get it to work! Thanks for the help,
Anna
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Premshree wrote a perl script ? (oh, he'll never hear the end of this ...)

Btw, the HTTP::Lite is in CPAN.

The hard way to install stuff from CPAN is -

perl -MCPAN -e'install HTTP::Lite'

Or install it using yum or apt-get ot whatever your distro's using.
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And now you're back ?

I mean about pugs :)
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I know that the top floor in chennai is worth the least...coz its also the most exposed to the chennai heat.
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Yeah its the same concept in Bangalore too !!! The higher the floor the costlier it is.
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Same in Nagpur - the lower flats are more expensive.
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Is there a reason for that?
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Reason I am not sure - but I the following factors might be at play
#1 Nagpur has a large population of retired people
#2 Of late Power cuts are frequent in the city (elevators not working)
#3 Air and Noise Pollution are minimal (thus upper stories have no advantage)

Now I do not know if this differential pricing started after the power-cuts....
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Considering Bombay and Bangalore, the higher floors could be more expensive as there is lesser noise and air pollution. Another reason could be the cost of construction too. The higher floors are more expensive as labour costs increase. And Bombay especially does have buildings more than 10 floors, wherein there would be a drastic cost difference between a flat at the highest floor and one at ground level.
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If you think your 50 Lac thing on the outskirts with no proper road and water/sevage/security is going to become more expensive then a mediterranean villa in 5 years….
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Its just a case of convenience I think. Most appartment buildings in madras tend not to have elevators if they are less than four floors high. And besides that its not as if the lower levels are missing out on some kind of scenic view either.
-s-
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The floor rise thing doesn’t apply for small buildings.
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Its the same as Chennai in Ahmedabad. I don't know the reason though. Certainly its not the case of elevators as it is in Chennai. Interesting piece of information though.
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floor rise

(Anonymous)

2006-09-13 03:14 am (UTC)

Just bought a flat on the 13th floor of a 29-storey skyscraper along Palm Beach Road, Navi Mumbai - paid INR 630000 in floor rise (@ Rs. 50/sqft) on top of the base rate. Why? If the 2nd floor is hell (yes, even by the seashore), the 13th is heaven - it's that simple. Worth every paisa! Lower: dust, noise, blocked view, less appreciation, terrace too close to upper level windows of a bus on the street - virtually useless and the worst - mosquitos. Higher up: none of these; 90 seconds more to get there and then it's all heaven!!!
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