Bengaluru Man Viral Post: No downpour. No protest. No roadblock. Just another regular weekday in Bengaluru, and yet it took one man over three hours to reach home, covering a distance of only 12 kilometres. The incident came to light when a frustrated commuter shared his experience on Reddit. Posting under the username @AverageGamer411, he wrote, "Left office at 6 pm. Got home at 9:15. My house is 12 km away. There was no rain. No protest. No accident. Just Bengaluru being… Bengaluru." That one post was enough to spark an online storm. Within hours, it was flooded with upvotes and comments from others facing the same daily struggle.

The user's usual bus never arrived. "The bus that usually covers my route didn’t show up today. Nothing on Tummoc or Namma BMTC, just silence. Waited a while, then gave up and took a different bus, hoping to switch mid-way. That one dropped me somewhere in between, and then began the great auto hunt," he wrote in the post. Trying to book an auto online became a game of rejection. "Not a single driver accepted unless I tipped ₹50+. ‘Optional tip’ is the biggest joke in this city. Meter? LOL," he wrote. He finally got one, but at a fare higher than what he'd pay for an outstation ride.

"And the worst part? I wasn’t even surprised. Just… drained." That one line sums up what thousands in Bengaluru silently feel every day. In a city packed with startups solving problems across the world, the irony isn’t lost. "This is supposed to be the startup capital of the country... You'd think basic commuting would be one of the first things we'd figure out. Instead, we’ve normalised this chaos."

The post ends on a powerful note, not with anger, but exhaustion: "We expect it. We pad in delays, carry a backup charger, keep an extra water bottle, and mentally prep ourselves for war every time we leave work. It’s like the city slowly chips away at you, not with one big failure, but with a thousand little ones every day. Still, in some stubborn corner of my brain, I keep thinking maybe someday it’ll get better. Don’t know when. But I want to believe that it will."

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The city that breaks you one commute at a time
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One user wrote, "One of the greatest blunders in this city is that the most crowded places haven't been connected by metro and god knows when that'll even happen!" "Bro, we had Kempegowd, a who at that time was visionary enough to do such a brilliant job and now look at these jokers with all the tech, resources, etc, making the city a mess," a second user wrote.

"I once left Whitefield at 5:30 and reached home at 10. This was before the metro was a thing. It's insane how this problem has been ongoing for more than a decade now, but all our politicians want to do is dhudh thindu dhappa ago key," a third user wrote. "Also road condition is pathetic. Especially in junctions ( like Bellandur and service roads towards Marathalli), it's hell. It slows down the traffic even more," another user added.

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"I also waited decades for that betterment, but trust me, it’s not gonna happen ever. Just leave this s**t place before it’s too late! This is a failed city and the entire country is in fact a failed country, which is running on hope," added another user. "These are rookie numbers, brother. My commute is 8 km one-way. Takes me 1 hour and 15 minutes on average. Anything less than an hour and I feel like I have used up all of my luck for the day," added another.