Now I am in a new phase of life. Took decision to rent a house for myself. Moving away from bachelor life (though not getting married now). The main reasons for this decision is to bring in more privacy and so my parents and relaitives can visit me in my home; stay for couple of days and enjoy.Other reasons are 'to move away from highly polluted perungudi (rajiv nagar)'
Ok.. I started like this... Asked my friends in office about where to rent a descent house for 6000 to 8000 with car-parking. Everyone suggested areas like Velachery/ Madipakkam/ Pallikaranai/ Kovilambakkam /Pallavaram/ Chrompet/ Medavakkam/ Selayur/ Santhosapuram/ Rajakilpakkam/ Tambaram/.Then I took my bike and roamed in all of the above mentioned areas (i.e. into important streets and upto the last of the area atleast in one direction).I personally felt that all these areas are acually waterbodies (a big marshland) and 90% of the areas are subjected to water-logging issues.Other than waterlogging these areas are full of dust/garbage/crowded. So I decided these areas will not work-out for me.
I always know that Adyar/Besant Nagar/Thiruvanmiyur(except few areas) are really good residential places.These areas has lots of trees in their wide roads. Less pollution and importantly nearer to beach. But again the rent amount in these areas exceeded my expectations. The rent goes like 12000 (with car park) for very small apt (600 sqft) .. and the rent soars upto 60000 per month :(So I dropped these areas too.
Then I felt that Perungalathur/Vandalur/Guduvanchery are bit elevated areas than Tambaram. So there wont be water-logging issues.Also rent is very cheap 5000 - 9000 for good 2bhk flat. Accesibility is also good to GST-road (Grand Southern Trunk road). All these factors turned my eyes. I visited one house in Perungalathur in interior area. This area looks like very isolated. Also I felt that Perungalathursuffers from floating-population, which waits for Omni buses. The railway line crossing, which lead us from GST to Perungalthur residential area, is also a bottleneck. So Perungalthur is dropped.
Then Vandalur has no houses :(.. finally it boils down to Guduvanchery. I visited Guduvanchery and felt very much like my hometown (theni). There is a small hillock nearby and it is very less polluted. There are new descent flats coming up all over and seems to be having some life on streets.I infact visited two flats and was about to finalize one. By then one of my roommate said he knows of some horror-cold-blooded-murder that happened in Guduvanchery. That story shoooked me off.. and I dropped Guduvanchery also due to security/safety reasons..
Now, I really dont know what should I do. Anna Nagar/T Nagar/Nungambakkam/blah blah.. all are distant aswell as very very costly for my budget.Even if I stretch upto 12000 INR rent amount I could not get in these posh areas.
Now totally blacked-out. This really sucks !!!!
Many of my friends said you need to give high amt or compromise. My mom said that I should not have got my car (ford figo) now.Because carparking makes the flats costly for rent. Also my EMI (10000 bucks) drains my salary. So my mom felt so.Ok Correct.. I accept car makes some kind of issues here. But I really enjoyed the Chennai to Theni trips in my car. So I cannot blame my car here.
