For a city that is young and affluent, leisure comprises an interesting mix of activities ranging from as simple as grocery shopping to watching a play.
Gurgaon residents -- 76% of them, however, love to hand out in shopping malls and multiplexes the most, a joint survey by Hindustan Times and C fore conducted earlier this month has suggested.
The Millennium City has 21 operational malls besides over 40 big shopping marts or markets to cater to life-after-work needs of its citizens.
A good 45% of the Gurgaon's white collar executives - two lakh of them work in the city's IT-BPO firms - and other residents prefer to go drinking at a pub or nightclub. Gurgaon has 212 of them, according to excise department data.
Gurgaon has a clear edge over Delhi as far as the fun element is concerned. At least this what the survey revealed: 75% people preferred Gurgaon over the capital when it came to chilling out after work.
Work hard and party harder is a major leisure trend of people in the city of aspirations. The eight golf courses and 10 five-star hotels that offer global leisure experiences here rev up the city's life-after-work spirits.
Gurgaon has these unique hobby groups for walking, playing music, off-riding, night walking, all of which cater to the city's mostly migrant residents who live far from family and friends and seek affinity among fellow residents.
{{/usCountry}}Gurgaon has these unique hobby groups for walking, playing music, off-riding, night walking, all of which cater to the city's mostly migrant residents who live far from family and friends and seek affinity among fellow residents.
{{/usCountry}}One aspect which the Millennium City is still to discover is art and theatre.
Unlike neighbouring Delhi which has several such avenues, Gurgaon has a few name to count on -- Epicentre and Kingdom of Dreams.
Despite being a hub of high-end leisure activities, Gurgaon's civic issues such as bad roads, lack of public transport and insufficient street lighting, besides scant presence of police on roads and uncouth gentry, sometimes play a dampener to the city's life-after-work scene.
"When not accompanied by male companions, we prefer going to a Delhi pub instead where you have lesser chances of bumping into hooligans," said Ananya (30), a BPO manager and a resident of sector 56.
The figures corroborate the residents' fears. When asked how many times in a week do they hang out or go to restaurants after 9pm, 26% said never and 44% said one or two times.