You Know You Live in Mumbai When...

Peeves92, but you still make us feel like Mumbai insiders!–Sparkitors

I was scrolling down the list of “You know you live in….” Posts and realized there is no mention of the most jhakaas place on Earth–Mumbai!! Quirky, bustling and without a thanda moment, you will know that you live in this city of dreams when….

-"Gheun Tak" is your life ideology.

-Respectful Hindi doesn’t sound right, and you consider Bambaiyya to be a real language with grammar. Also, you will always know Hindi, Marathi, and Gujrathi (on top of English), and can slip from one to another without missing a beat.

-Seeing herds of people at four in the morning on a Tuesday walking to Siddhivinayak is normal to you.

-Vada pav is your staple food, and you always have an opinion on which hawker has the best bhelpuri, dabeli, and pav bhaji. Even at 3 a.m., from thousands of miles away, you have a desperate craving for a vada pav.

-You think everyone who lives to the south of you is a snob, and everyone to the north of you is downmarket.

-There's no space to breathe on the trains, but there's still space to play cards and sing bhajans! And you always have your fingers crossed that there will be a group with lots of free food on the train!

-Seeing Mein Kampf being sold openly on the streets in abundance seems like a perfectly normal thing to you.

-You express disagreement with one word: "Ghanta!"

-....even after you've been living in the US for a few years.

- After it rains for three days nonstop, you still consider it dry outside.

-Your idea of fun is walking on the Marine Drive wall and letting monsoon waves drench you.

- Whatever you need to buy can always be found at "the station."

-Your lunch is delivered hot in a tiffin at exactly 1 p.m. from home every working day. Gob Bless the Dabbawalahs! Prince Charles already has. :)

-You buy tickets for Falguni Pathak's dandiya raas programme every October.

-You've gone back to work the day after the city was bombed—truly the spirit of Bombay!

-You will forever insist on calling Mumbai "BOMBAY."

-"No matter what part of the world you go to, you can never call it home."

Does anyone living in Mumbai want to explain some of Peeves92's references? Does everyone not living in Mumbai want to fly out there for the food?

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