New Delhi, March 23 -- A LinkedIn user claimed his friend regrated leaving a job in Pune that offered him Rs.18 lakh per year for a Bengaluru firm that offered him a 40 percent hike. He said his friend complained of "exorbitantly high" rents, "terrible" traffic and high commuting costs.

In a LinkedIn post, Ishan Arora wrote, "A friend left his 18 LPA job in Pune. And joined a firm offering him 25 LPA in Bangalore. After spending a year in the city, he called me yesterday to express his disappointment."

Arora said his friend told him that he " shouldn't have switched cities."

"Pune was way better, 25 LPA feels like nothing in Bangalore," Ishan's friend said.

As Ishan Arora expressed astonishment over his friends remarks, the latter ela...