In other places I've been dormitories have been 100% tourist places. Here its more like tourists are the rarity, its mostly regular office workers who can't afford an apartment in the city so they live like this permanently. Not even a room of their own, just a bunk bed. Mostly people in their 20s but also some in 30s and one who looked 40+. I don't know how they get together motivation to get up every morning. No family, they spend the 3 or 4 hours after work consooming media then fall asleep for another day of wagecucking. After using the trains at office time twice I can't say taking an apartment an hour away and commuting would be superior QoL wise either. I'd probably prefer it just cause of the family and privacy thing but otherwise... At the Ghatkopar metro(interchange between local train lines and metro line 1) they literally have those guards like you see in images of Japan to direct crowd flow cause platform literally can't handle it if people move normally. Metro every 2 min, each one packed to brim at the very starting station. Was surreal, Delhi, Kolkata metro gets crowded too but not like this. Too many fricking people and the geography of the city means you can only have suburbs to north and east, south and west is ocea. We should never have built up Mumbai like this. The skyline looks amazing but it should have been somewhere else.