Lowest Cost City in the World - #1 Karachi

Anwer_Pasha · June 25, 2011, 10:03am

Re: Lowest Cost City in the World - #1 Karachi

Basically, anyone whose had any luck grabbing sarkar’s wealth and became filthy rich moved to Islamabad, not withstanding the few genuine guys. Apart from that, I have been observing lots of people from pinds around the country who moved to islamabad and worked in the govt offices. Today, they are owners of 4-5 plots in expensive sectors thanks to the immense opportunities of corruption in govt departments like CDA. I mean, basically they do the allottment of plots to each other year after year.

It is hard to find any skilled labour in islamabad, be it tailors, electricians etc and the few amateur ones you do find have become so rich doing almost nothing that they think of themselves as kings. These guys won’t survive lahore where you can get cheap and efficient services. Take the example of taxis… they overcharge you like hell… the other day, the taxi man wanted 80 rupees for a ride of 1 km. I think the basic problem is that these people have full stomachs and filled pockets and hence the arrogance. The real estate agents and property owners are the worst.

My take is that Islamabad is not a good place to live unless you are filthy rich and or have a hand in sarkar’s pocket.

Very true.