I can read how much you are in love
with your city Mangalore. I had never been to Mangalore but have been to bengalooru twice before. Knowing no Kannada indeed caused me a lot of troubles. But since I'm good at both Malayalam, Tamil and partially good at somewhat Telugu it's not going to be that tough to learn Kannada if I put some efforts. Afterall it is a Dravidian language!

You have mentioned western ghats several times in this post. I feel excited because I live on the top of the western ghats itself. The area we live in comes under the reserved forests so it is unlikely to expect any developments here. But we are permitted to do agricultural activities. If you see our region from bird's eye you cannot expect anything beyond green colour! Irony is that people from my region lament about being rural whereas urban people crave for greenary!