Cost of Living in Mangalore

Mangalore is a very awesome city. Lot of options interms of living standards and foods

This is the site for giving honest and frank opinions. You will find lots of boasting at both Mangalore and Kerala. Mangalore, Udupi and Kerala are referred as "Land of educated people", "Land of school and PU toppers", "Highest Literacy and HDI places".
But plenty of so called "literate" people from Mangalore, Kerala work as drivers, floor cleaners, babysitters and waiters for the wealthy Sheikhs in Dubai, UAE, Qatar and the rest of GCC countries. There is one famous billionaire from this "Indian west coast" region who came up in life by being a drug peddler for the Sheikhs in Dubai. And not to mention that both Kerala and Mangalore are notorious for unemployment. People have to slog and struggle a lot in office, colleges even for a Rs. 16000 paying job, and still taxes will be deducted from their salary to be paid to that useless Indian Government. The employees get nothing in return from the Indian government.
All your so called "purchasing power" in Mangalore, Kerala is because of the expatriates and diaspora that work in the Gulf countries and also in the Indian megacities. Your economy is nonsense.

Mangalore has worst infrastructure. The purchasing power is very low, while the property prices are very high. Mangalore is completely neglected and ignored by the Government. Most people after education are happy to go out of this place and work in some other place. The economy in Mangaluru is worst and most white-collared jobs are non-existent.

Coming to infrastructure,
1. There is no provision to pay the utilities water bill online. Cities of Karnataka such as Mysuru, Hubli, Shivamogga, Vijayapura have their city corporations as default entries in many major banking sites to pay online bills. Mangaluru is not even there.
2. The city bus facilities of Mangalore are by far the worst in India. The private bus operator here does not even have a website, no helpline number, absolutely horrible bus operators. No tracking of buses via mobile app, no GPS stop announcements, no doors in buses. Most city buses dissipate plenty of black smoke and the private bus drivers are renowned for rash driving and overspeeding. The vast majority of private busses are dented. The private bus lobby ensures that any new bus services from the government will never get implemented in Mangalore.
3. The profitable banks of the Mangalore-Udupi belt first had their headquarters moved without consensus to some other place. Now these profitable banks have been dissolved without people's consensus with the banks that were facing loss and the local banks are now non-existent. The Government has backstabbed the people and have sunk the paltry meagre existing local economy. Karnataka deliberately doesn't develop Mangalore because it is a Tulu speaking area. This despite the fact that Mangalore is the only place in Karnataka to have both International Airport and a Major Seaport.
4. Any connectivity to the hinterlands of Karnataka is always met with objections by fake people disguised as environmentalists. These environmentalists never clean up any polluted place in the country and they themselves are a waste. These so called 'environmentalists' only task is to oppose infrastructure and connectivity.
5. The airport is still a dangerous tabletop airport and the government is apathetic to the concerns and not bothered about the safety of passengers. This airport is extremely dangerous and life-threatening for passengers especially during the monsoon.
Most people in Mangalore are delighted to move out of this place and settle elsewhere for jobs. People in Mangalore are not assertive and don't wish for any multinational companies or good infrastructure in their city.
Cost of living is very high but economy and purchasing power are miserable at Mangalore.

Mangalore is a costly place if you consider it from a Tier 2 or Tier 3 standards perspective. Eating out has expensive. Rents have shot through the roof although there is no value driving it yet mostly real estate agents are the ones behind it. Groceries have always been expensive. Milk, fruits and vegetables are expensive since most of it is imported here. No a investment proposition if you think in terms of nightlife or liberal culture.

I too would like to mention that these values are outdated. The values need a full update.Even the salaries offered for white-collar jobs are less.
But Mr. Anonymous (2017 commenter), let me tell you one thing. If you cannot survive in Mangalore, you cannot survive anywhere else in India.