India, July 23 -- For years, being close to tech parks was seen as a golden rule in Bengaluru's real estate market. But that notion is now being questioned by many IT professionals frustrated with the city's crumbling infrastructure, especially flooding during rains, traffic snarls and water crisis in summers. Amid these challenges, a growing number of savvy homebuyers are shifting focus to older, pre-1991 neighbourhoods that were planned before the IT boom and offer better infrastructure and civic amenities.

"Those areas won't improve even in 100 years," one user wrote on the social media platform Reddit. The concern stems from what many see as the city's failure to build lasting civic infrastructure around its booming IT corridors.

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