Advantages of being a Marathi person in Karnataka

This is purely from personal experience.

1. I know 1 language more than other marathi or kannadiga.
2. I have twice the number of friends.
3. I am comfortable to roam around in double the area.. i. e. Karnataka and Maharashtra.
4. I can take up job and still feel at home at Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur etc
5. Since I know one dravidian language, learning other dravidian languages is easy. I learnt Telugu in 6 months to quite a good extent.
6. I can comfortably watch twice the number of Good Movies, read twice the number of Good Books.
7. Enjoy good food.. from Ukadiche Modak to Obbattu, from Bajrichi Bhakri to Ragi Mudde.

And all this without any extra trouble. I dont even remember how I learnt to speak, read and write kannada. And I never felt being out of place either in Karnataka Or Maharashtra.

And I notice most of the people making noise are those who are Maharashtrians in Maharashtra or Kannadigas in Karnataka.

And what about so many non-localites getting settled in all parts of the country from Mumbai to Bangalore, Chennai to Mangalore, Pune to Kokatta. So is solution is to make all cities as "Union Teritories" ? This is the age of globalization and universal language (English) is used in all these
cities.

While people are free to use their mother tongue at home, studying one more extra language will not cause any harm.

Linguistic divide of the state was a mistake.. and politicians want to take even more advantage of this. I apeal to all Maharashtrians staying out of Maharashtra and Kannadigas staying out of karnataka to speak out against this politization of the issue and spoiling peace and prosperity in
both of these 2 states.