You know you are in Jamnagar when..

• All the signs are in Gujarati and every second shop/office/factory/store is named “Patel”.
• Every third shop is a Paan and Soda shop. And all of them have dedicated customers.
• You see atleast one bungalow wherever you look
• Kachoris are found in EVERY house.
•  There is a Patel Nagar in any address given to you.
• There are more two wheelers than four wheelers.
• There is a mention of Reliance or Essar in almost every conversation.
• Narendra Modi is talked about as if he is a demi-god.
• Rickshaws have meters just for the heck of it.
• You hear that distinct Jamnagar accent which is hard to emulate.
• The favorite pass time of people is to hangout at a Paan and Soda shop eating paan, having a soda and talking about Business, Reliance and Essar or Politics.
• Patels are praised for their ambitious and hard working attitudes.
• Ranjit Sagar Dam is what they call “The Marine Drive of Jamnagar”.
• All the buildings, No matter how many floors they have, have a “Tower” in their name: K.D Tower, J.K Tower, etc.
• Mehul Cinemax (Now called Big Cinemas Mehul) is the one and only place with a Cafe Coffee Day.
• There is only one Domino’s Pizza in the entire city.
• Dabeli, Golas, Jhotto, Potato Chips are the staple junk food of choice. (Which are damn tasty by the way.)
• “Tadav Ni Paar” is the Chaat capital of the city. 
• Greenery all around.
• Everything is closed between 2 to 4pm so that everyone can go home, have a nap and come back.
• Heat and Cold are in extremes in their respective seasons.
• There is an airport but only for one daily Air India flight between Bombay and Jamnagar. Rest of the time its used by Anil and Mukesh Ambani for their personal aircraft.
• The airport is the busy only for 4 hours in the entire day between 10 and 2pm.
• The airport is so small that it ends just as you enter. 
• The airport has a sign “Maintained by Reliance Industries”.
• The Essar and Reliance factories have dedicated railway lines for ferrying raw materials. Their complex is so huge that even after half an hour by road travelling in a car, it does not end.
• There is only one mall (Reliance Mall) situated on the outskirts of the city.
• Ashirwad, the only open air restaurant has a huge Projection screen where they project TV shows like KBC, Taarak Mehta (Which is a pathetic if you ask me)
• There is an Indian Air Force base within the city.
• People from almost every country live there for months on end thanks to Reliance and Essar. The hotel business is flourishing thanks to them.

So thats probably Jamnagar from an outsider’s point of view. I love this place. Its my native and for the past 20 years i have been visiting every year. The Winter time is the best time to visit and the people are fun to be with. Connected by train and Air, I prefer the train journey as it is very picturesque and fun. This place is just awesome!