‘I’m a Kannadiga but…’: Bengaluru man shares how cultural shift makes him ‘stranger’ in his own city

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A Kannadiga, who was born and brought up in Bengaluru, has said they feels like a stranger in their own city, owing to the increased influx of people from other cities.

In a post on Reddit titled “I'm a Bangalorean, but I feel like a stranger in my own city...especially at work”, the user said despite being born in Bengaluru, the culture and people they grew up with were starting to fade away, NDTV reported.

"I'm a Bangalorean, a Kannadiga, born and raised here, working in Bangalore, yet I feel like an outsider in my own city," the user wrote in the r/bangalore subreddit.

I’m a Bangalorean, but I feel like a stranger in my own city.. especially at Work.
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Sharing their thoughts, the user said the city had stopped feeling like home, whilst others came to Bengaluru and created their own communities.

"No offence to people from other states. it's nice that you've made Bangalore your home too. But somewhere along the way, Bangalore stopped feeling like home for me," the OP said in the post.

Citing the example of their office, the OP shared,"I'm the only South Indian in my team, and out of the 400 people on my floor, I can barely find another Bangalorean. Conversations around me are only in Hindi.. The culture I grew up with feels like it's fading away and that leaves me with a strange emptiness."

As the post went viral, the majority of users on Reddit agreed with the assessment, stating they had been feeling the same way.