Kathmandu is defintely over-crowded. I like that word: toilet-bowl. The only thing to do in Kathmandu is to over-flow out of it. But over-flow where? Now, ring-road is the main vein in Kathmandu that an adequate amount of traffic can flow through. The rest of Kathmandu has clogged up arteries like a person about to suffer from a heart-attack. In the future a bunch of 'one-ways' is the only way that things will get from A to B. The intelligent are trying to get as far away from the center of Kathmandu as possible without losing access to jobs, roads, telephone, etc. Resources have been decentralized and can be gotten from almost anywhere. One does not have to rush to Assan and New Road to get that one product. One thing is for sure, Kathmanduites are thinking differently about themselves and where they live and how to make a living.

Infact, last year, in Assan, when all the water was running out during March-April, no matter how much boring they were doing to get water out, the place actually ran out of water. So this is the problem. The charm of living in inner-city Kathmandu is becoming less and less and the headache is more and more.

People have been following the general trend of the land mafia and see that they have been targetting Dhulikhel instead of other areas around Kathmandu. But I'm not sure I agree that Dhulikhel is necessarily the next best investment option beyond Kathmandu.