{"id":222059,"date":"2010-01-24T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/shifting-gears\/74203-living-chennai.html"},"modified":"2010-01-24T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T15:27:50","slug":"living-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222059","title":{"rendered":"Living in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A friend of mine is considering a job offer in Chennai. He is currently<br \/>\nin Bombay, so has still not made up his mind &#8211; because of the change<br \/>\nin location.<\/p>\n<p>He had a few questions about Chennai &#8211; I hope tbhpians from Chennai<br \/>\ncan help.<\/p>\n<p>1) First Question is about water &#8211; are there major water shortages in<br \/>\nChennai. Is it still a big problem?<br \/>\n2) Is the water on tap hard water or soft water? <br \/>\n3) Electricity &#8211; are there power cuts &amp; Load sheddings in Chennai. If yes,<br \/>\nhow frequently &amp; how much?<br \/>\n4) Transportation &#8211; are autos\/taxis a convinient way to travel around Chennai? He himself will drive but if his wife wants to go around couple<br \/>\nof times a week are autos\/taxis good? Asking because in many cities in India, getting an auto guy to go where you want to go is a pain &#8211; for eg. in Hyderabad I faced major issues with autos. In Pune also, if you go outside the city to Aundh\/Baner, autos are pain. How is Chennai with respect to Autos &amp; Taxis?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine is considering a job offer in Chennai. He is currently in Bombay, so has still not made up his mind &#8211; because of the change in location. He had a few questions about Chennai &#8211; I hope tbhpians from Chennai can help. 1) First Question is about water &#8211; are there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}