New Delhi: A woman marketing manager based in London shared on social media about her correct decision to leave Delhi and settle abroad. The post sparked an interesting discussion on the internet about her decision as Delhi experiences very high AQI.
Janhavi Jain, who runs a marketing community in London, UK, shared on social media platform X, that her best friend is living in Melbourne with zero AQI and she is living in London with 2 AQI. Both are talking about how they have come out from Delhi where the AQI is 309 and how good it she feels to breath in clean air. Janhavi writes, “My best friend sitting in Melbourne with 0 AQI and me sitting in London with 2 AQI are talking about how we’ve come from Delhi with 309 AQI and how nice it is to breathe easily.”
My bestfriend sitting in Melbourne with 0 AQI and me sitting in London with 2 AQI are talking about how we’ve come from Delhi with 309 AQI and how nice it is to breathe easily
— Janhavi Jain (@janwhyy) October 18, 2024
Post sparks interesting discussion
The post which was shared on October 18, received half a million views. The post started an interesting discussion regarding the liveability in Delhi due to pollution and immigration.
One user wrote, “I left Delhi today, back to home town for a month. This time of a year, Delhi is literally a gas chamber.”
Other user wrote, “It would have been nice if you had used the correct AQI for Melbourne and London. There is no such thing as 0 AQI. btw, current Melbourne is 25 and that of London is 49.”
A user tagged a post which said that the index used in UK which is Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI) is different from Air Quality Index (AQI) used in India. DAQI measures the air quality on a scale of 0-10 and has four categories for air quality which are low, moderate, high and very high. While AQI uses a scale of 0-500 which has six categories for air quality.
Another user wrote, “That’s incredibly lucky you guys are, but not other billions who still have to breath the bad air. All the best for your future.”
One wrote, “It’s not just Delhi but 99% of India.I just came back to India from the US after 3 months. In those 3 months of time, we never got a chance to open the medicine bag but had to open the bag 10 times in the first week after coming back to India. No kidding.”
