A Chennai -based realtor who moved back to the city after spending nearly three years in Bengaluru has caught the internet’s attention after sharing how living in India’s tech capital changed the way he views Chennai’s growth story.
He pointed to apartments coming up alongside farmland and industrial corridors developing alongside residential communities.
The entrepreneur said that he is now living on the outskirts of Chennai, working out of a mango farmland, building his real estate practice across developing corridors and hosting international guests through his Airbnb properties. “Every day, I see something I probably wouldn’t have noticed earlier: Chennai’s outskirts don’t feel like outskirts anymore,” he wrote. “Highways, logistics, manufacturing, ports, IT, healthcare, education and housing are gradually connecting into one larger economic ecosystem,” Ganesh wrote. (Also Read: Chennai man shares ‘small things’ he loves about Bengaluru after 1.5 years in city: ‘People often ignore them’ )
Rather than focusing on Chennai’s current status, Ganesh said that he has become increasingly interested in imagining how the wider region could look like over the next 15 to 20 years. And more interested in asking: ‘What will this entire region look like 15–20 years from now?’” he wrote. He listed manufacturing, logistics, ports, automobiles, EVs, electronics, aerospace, IT, residential development and agriculture as sectors contributing to the region’s growth. “That’s the perspective Bangalore gave me. And that’s what coming back to Chennai has made me realise,” he wrote. “Bangalore gave me the lens. Chennai is giving me the canvas,” he added.
Reflecting on his time in Bengaluru, Ganesh said that the city helped him understand the impact a technology-led economy can have on an urban region. “Bangalore showed me the incredible power of a technology-led economy — the talent, startups, migration, offices and housing demand that can transform an entire city,” he wrote. However, he said Chennai has a different strength that particularly interests him: diversification. He further said that returning to Chennai has given him a new perspective on the city and its surrounding areas. He concluded by saying that he was looking forward to building, learning and observing the transformation of Chennai and its surrounding region “from the ground.”
“I’m increasingly less interested in asking: ‘Where is Chennai today?
