Recent Reddit post He lit a hard debate on challenges facing single people looking for suitable accommodation in Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
The anonymous user expressed deep frustration and shared his personal experience and claimed that despite maintaining a quiet and respectful lifestyle, the user and their friends who lived together, unfairly target and marked as “not well” with their housing society.
The dilemma of the bachelor’s bachelor
The user sincerely questioned the common perception of gujaratis as “welcome”, “respecting” and “uninhabited” community.
The user claimed that this picture often crumbles in terms of outsiders who do not have a family in the city. “You don’t even want outsiders if there are no families with 2 children and a prayer bell that rings every day at 6 am,” he said.
They also asked why it was so difficult for Gujarati to accept that these young people just live alone to build a future.
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First -hand user experience
The Reddit user said they lived with several friends in the company in Ahmedabad and have always taken extreme measures that expressed themselves as any disturbances. They described the maintenance of low voices in the corridors, avoided eye contact with other inhabitants, and strictly followed “no loud parties, no garbage that was not around, no fighting, no parking drama”.
The original poster compared this situation with “walking on a shell every day” because they fought it
“Some righteous uncle or aunt will wake up one day and decide to be a bad influence.”
The turning point occurred when some people in society joined and described users and their friends as “not good” without a specific incident or problem.
The user expressed his anger on this arbitrary judgment and asked, “Doesn’t these people live in other cities? Do we not understand that we are also someone’s son/daughter trying to do something here?”
Social stigma around the bachelor
Anonymous redditor stressed that their experience is not isolated, because many other bachelors face similar discrimination over their family status in Ahmedabad, Surrat and Vadodar. “When you mention that you are a bachelor, brokers will stop responding, Gatekeepers will silence and landlords will start scary. As if we were some disease.”
The post ended by expressing their love for the city firmly, although its inhabitants had to be more progressive in their approach. “I love the city, I love food, I love people who are individually – but as a company, damn, this place must pull the head from the 70s.”
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Netizens React
Most comments supported the original poster, while some also shared their personal experience in life in Ahmedabad.
One user spoke of his time in Gujarat and said, “When I was in PG, located in a reputable society … They weren’t happy about it just because we were some students trying to figure out what to do with our lives.
Another user who owns a house in Gujarat said, “You are right, the bachelor is treated as shit, I am a flat owner and my chairman forced me to give me my apartment only to families for some absurd reasons and I can nothing (sic).”
Such incidents published on social media have forced some individuals to reject job offers in the city. The user shared a similar incident and said, “I’m a bachelor according to my thirties, I got a good offer in Ahmedabad, but I skipped it after reading the reddit thread.”
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