I have been attached to this city over a long time. I in a way fell for it's open grounds, spaces and greenery which have always been a part of my living times all along.
So it was probably nature that makes me connect with this city.
But with the recent times, even that connection seems to be wearing off.
The city wears a deserted look, with all the big trees, 50-100 yr old trees being felled for want of space.

I have lately reached a conclusion that this city is on the verge of going into negative growth in real terms than really showing all round growth.

I will explain with simple instances of locations which anyone would assume would have changed positively over the last 10 yrs. But unfortunately, the situation is in the exact opposite.

before I write anything about the locations or the city in general, I must admit that the attitude of the citizens of this city has degraded to the worse that one can experience.
The reasons are many - the city has an influx of people from the nearby villages (which themselves are in the state of becoming small towns or extensions of towns).
The citizens have a VERY HIGH LEVEL of immaturity written all over their face and they inherit the aggressiveness that comes with this immaturity.

The citizens have very limited levels of patience and those who belong to the uncivilised gentry have no patience at all.
I have had instances when people would ram their bikes into mine though i am right at the edge of the traffic and then turn around showing aggression lest their show gets spoilt.

On the other hand, the apathy also has increased towards any incident. There have been incidents where people have been hit by vehicles or have been attacked at the slightest provocation and the rest have just watched the duel unfold.

People carry knives and sickles which they have no qualms about taking out at the time of any slight altercation to show their might, and they would not think twice using it either 'cos the law and order has taken a back seat and takes no action on erring citizens. money power has come to rule the roost as in most cities of the country.

coming to the degrading situation of public attitude, the locations which are these symbols of deteriration are
a. Jail road - the junction and the area around there has turned into a virtual mayhem. Especially the signal where there is no order in following the rules of traffic.
People do not care about pedestrians at any place in the city, esp. now with the city roads being dug up or being dug out since ages, where there seems no scope for any road to exist and unruly people driving bikes, scooters, autos and 4 wheelers consider the road their sole domain to drive.
Imagine a 100 thousand people thinking this way on narrow streets and you have the situation of the city roads and junctions.

On top of this, the parking of vehicles has assumed hugely mismanaged proportions.
The city has NO parking system. You would find streets where people have parked bikes, hapazardly, and next to the bikes, you would find 2 rows of cars parked. Effectively a 40 ft road is reduced to a 10 ft for both sides of traffic, with SUVs and cars and autos not only plying along those roads but also making random U-turns and reversing to get into bylanes where there is virtually no parking rule.

Another aspect of driving esp. at night is that everyone drives with their headlights on high-beam. On top of this, there are some folks who, in order to show off their new found immaturity put white neon headlamps and drive with full high beam, virtually blinding people driving on the opposite side. Esp. since there are no road dividers, the chances of one individual getting blinded and tailgating the one in front is very high.