It's pretty evident from my blog that Pune is very dear to me. It's my city and I louuv it! It's often misinterpreted that as a corollary, I hate other cities. Not quite. I actually love experiencing new cities, cultures, traditions etc. Ok, I mean almost every city. For basic existential reasons, I cannot imagine living in those overly humid cities cause frankly my body cannot deal with it. I might not necessarily look back at my NC State days too fondly because of the geeky nature of its memories. But having said that, I made some brilliant (mast, non-geeky, jhakaas) friends that I still treasure till today. Portland, I think I have enough documented on how much I love that city too. Denver and Boulder have grown on me. I quite like it (but you can see there is no instant louuv factor here). God blesses me with awesome people wherever I go which makes things easier.

Having said that, my idea of an ideal city would be the closeness (read apnapan) of Pune, the sheer beauty of Portland, the openness of Boulder and the coolness (read happening) of Mumbai.

Point being every city (well almost) has its goodness and your life is only enriched by these experiences. I can argue all day long on how Pune is way way way (raised to infinity) better than Bangalore (it's a fact) but I know if I were to spend some years in Bangalore (for some absurd, unknown reason), I'd grow to like (maybe love) some of its intricacies too (Blasphemy!).

Like we say in our close circles, "Sab kuch Aachaey be!"
Tomorrow should be my first full game post my ankle injury. Really excited :)