Cost of Living in Mumbai

To all those mayonnaise people commenting bad things , only if your imperialist colonizing ancestors had the same thought as of you , it would be a better place to live.

Mumbai is the best city in India. Mumbai is the only safest city in India. I Love Mumbai

If you give me 1 milion USD to live there for a year i would refuse.

Mumbai is a very good place to live, eat and enjoy life.

Lot of intelligent people study and work in Mumbai.

But many leave for abroad due to corrupt system and reservation policies of this backward country.

Yes; India needs to do away with reservations - no reservations based on religion or on economic status.

Corruption needs to be removed.

Government cannot even take care of the city in rains - just make a good sewage control system.

People should keep their homes and neighbourhoods clean. Come on. Wake yourselves and your neighbours now. Its been more than 60 years.

The absolute shittiest city in the country (bar none).
And I say this after having been born, raised, and living here for 30 years. Been to many cities across India and the world, but I have to say that Mumbai is on it's way to becoming Kolkata pt. 2.
The delusions of grandeur that this city's people harbour of being the BEST CITY in the world is truly astounding.

Prices:
All the figures given are completely outdated and haven't been updated (or some over zealous right winger patriot types deliberately keeping it low to make it appear cheap). With the recent GST of 18%, all the prices shown have gone up. You'd be hard pressed to find a meal at 400 and 1500 lol. A pint of beer or a 30ml drink at one of the hipster places (Bombay Stock Exchange, Socials, etc) would set you back by nothing less than 500-700 (excluding tips/service charge and GST). About the same price as bars in NYC Meatpacking District of Lower East Side ($7-10)
Utilities are definitely between 5000-10000 per month

Salaries:
NO WAY IN HELL the average salary is 55,000. Who puts in all these figures? The bulk of the working class makes not more than 20,000 per month. An average starting salary for a college graduate in a small firm is just about 10,000. Same for janitors, peons, and bottom rung workforce.

Real Estate:
This is probably the biggest ponzi scheme. Now, Indians are crazy only about two things - real estate and gold. But it seems that in this city, people forsake their families, health, social connections, everything to own a matchbox size 500 sft apartment on a 30 year mortgage. The logic being they will find another sucker to offload their investment at a higher price. For a city that has the shittiest infrastructure, the rents and the purchase prices are most unequal in the world (by both average salaries and cost of living). An artificial shortage created by a sick and greedy trifecta of politicians, bureaucrats, and builders has led to the most expensive real estate market in South Asia. For commercial land / offices, the rents are even higher than Dubai / London. Every single ad on the newspaper, TV, or radio is about real estate. Can't wait for the bubble to burst and prices to fall back to the crap that this city really is. Landlords not only look upon tenants with derision, especially single women, but go so far as to put insane rules and at worst, badmouth and slander ones that do not agree with their view. House hunting is truly a nightmare and this city takes the cake.

Socialising:
The Thaneites look down upon ones further beyond, the Western Suburbanites on the Central ones, and the South Bombay ones on everyone else. The city is divided into mini ghettos of South Indians, Marathis, Gujaratis, and the Parsis. Everyone is judged by WHERE in the city you stay which accordingly puts you into a bucket / label that you'll never get out of. Entertainment taxes are the highest in the country. The live music / theater scene is nearly dead. People's lives seem to consist of going to the mall, shopping, stuffing their face, and getting shitfaced drunk. There are no weekend getaways or outdoor activities. Pune, Bangalore, and even Delhi score much higher. People walk around with just two expressions - smug or grumpy. Maybe it's the shitty weather, or being crowded like sardines in the smelly local trains.

SOLID advice to anyone looking to move here - DON'T! Your 100000 salary is the same here as a 30000 in the aforementioned cities. Leave office at 5, be home by 5.30, enjoy a good time at the park with your wife and kids. Go on a long drive on the weekend, invest in your own land / spacious home, in a clean green and friendlier city!