‘Salary stuck in 2006, rent in 2046’: Bengaluru resident's housing cost rant goes viral
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- ✓A Bengaluru resident’s post about high housing costs went viral on social media.
- ✓The employee said, “Private-sector salaries appeared to be beautifully preserved from 20 years ago.” He noted that while salaries remain stagnant, landlords demand high rents.
- ✓Many users shared similar frustrations about the rising cost of living in Bengaluru.
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Bengaluru's skyrocketing housing rents have once again become a battle of opinions on social media, with a corporate employee venting frustration over low salaries while rents in the Silicon City continue to rise. The employee asserted that landlords demand exorbitant rents from tenants and are not realising that salaries in the private sector have remained stagnant for years.
"Private-sector salaries appeared to be “beautifully preserved from 20 years ago," he said.
The resident then underlined an “absolute mathematical comedy” between corporate salaries and rental prices in areas such as New Thippasandra and Indiranagar.
“We recently audited our monthly expenses and realised a hilarious structural glitch: The private sector pays us a salary that seems beautifully preserved from 20 years ago. It’s a wonderful, nostalgic throwback to the days of early IT hubs. Meanwhile, independent house owners are holding a calculator and demanding rents that are living 20 years straight into the future,” the OP wrote.
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