Living in a city is a challenge. It demands enormous grit and perseverance. A city-dweller has to lead life amidst pressures and tension. Cutthroat competition remains the hallmark of urban life.
Loss of peace, marital discord, professional rivalry and misunderstanding, leads to host of psychological problems. Some, who fail to cope with, even take the path of self-destruction.
Challenges of urban life are-housing, food, education, health, living standards, jobs and commuting between the work place and home daily over long distances. A new migrant finds place to live with great difficulty.
Many middle and lower middle class families find crammed into pigeon box like rooms in slums, countryside. The underprivileged people make pavement as their dwelling. For, they couldn’t afford rented accommodation even in slums. The government contributes very little by neglecting the essential cleanness drive with sanitation.
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Life in a big city is fast. You do not have leisure under any means. There are no open spaces where one could go for fresh air. People are involved in the fret and fever of living from dawn to dusk. The home is a mere resting place. They leave before the daybreak, reach work places over long distances and return late by the evening, on being tired and exhausted.
There is high level of individuality. People lead their own lives. Cohesion as found in villages is totally lacking. There is no community life as in the village. People meet and come together for selfish motives.
There is lack of fellow feeling and compassion, because life in a big city has hardened people’s attitudes. It is, indeed, a challenge to adjust to the fast-moving city life. Someone has rightly said, ‘God made the country and man made the town.”