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However with growing demand for accommodations, as the number of these enterprises are increasing, an outsider has a lot to choose from.
Metrolife spoke to a few PG inmates to discuss the ‘good, bad and the ugly’ in the market and what is it that they look for in an accommodation which makes a place ‘close to home’.
Moushumi Nag, an IT recruiter from Siliguri, says, “As far as accommodation is concerned, there is no significant pattern. All the rooms in a house are used for accommodation. If a hall is considerably big, it is segregated into bunkers. Based on your budget, you can opt for bunkers or beds. The place I stay in does not believe in overcrowding and for the Rs 3,500 I pay for a month, I find value for money.”
Sarayu Prasad, a project engineer from Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, says that she has seen paying guest accommodations that are nightmarish.
“I saw a place near BTM Layout where a hall that could accommodate three people had six people cramped in. The bathrooms were so tiny, that it was hard to use even a bucket inside!” she added.
Debasish Math has a similar horror story to narrate, he says, “I stay with five other people in the same room. There is a room here that has 10 people living together and the worst part is that they just have one bathroom to share!”
He adds, “They have a person who is supposed to clean the bathrooms but he does a shoddy job of the whole thing. I purposely wake up late as even if I do wake up early, I need to stand in a queue for the loo; a prospect I would like to avoid. I pay Rs 3,500 to endure all this! I have tried looking for other places but four in a room is the minimum everywhere.”
Allan Prashanth Fernandez, on the other hand, lives in one of those executive paying guest accommodations in an up-market area in the City.
“I stay alone in a room and have a bathroom all to myself. I pay a fortune for it, but it is still cheaper then maintaining a flat,” he added.
The City seems to cater to all needs based on budget constraints, and an outsider has a lot of choice when it comes to finding that one place, where one comes back and finds solace at the end of a long day.