is it better? Where would you rather live? Even with the difficulty in living cost, would you still want to live in Russia? Please state if you are a russian who moved to america, or an american who moved to russia
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I watched Rocky and I would say it is a lot harder. Lots of pressure
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If it helps, I moved from Russia to Canada. I remember it was pretty darn ghetto, at least in the place where i lived at. I moved here in 2001, and ive been happy every since. Im 16 btw. Theres waay more thugs and hoodlums over there then @ Canada lol. But Moscow is the most expensive city to live in, so whatever floats ur boat. All countries have good and bad features. Moscow is the equivelant 2 New York in the US
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simply put-if you want LIFE live in russia. if you want MONEY live in usa. i am usa citizen that lives in russia 6 months out of the year. sep to march. by life, i mean that you are free to walk in nature, anywhere. no fences, no signs "keep out". well, there are oil fields you can't wander around (you may want to steal the oil or may be killed by being human-stupid- smoking on a gas pipeline! BOOM! and there are nature preserves even scientists must have special assignments to enter. but 99% (made up-don't call me on the carpet on this statistic!) of the largest country is public land. fish, walk, collect berries, mushrooms, swim all you want. people- friends and acquaintances treat you much warmer than americans do. any day you step foot into their home, you will be offered tea, cookies, cakes, bread and jam, if not a meal. and if you don't want tea, don't drink it quickly to get rid of it. you will be poured another cup! integrity- would you believe much a sixth-grader in usa told you? i said to one student as we met on the street- "i like that log house being built" (most new houses are brick, and log houses are 75 years or older) he said "it is mine". minutes after we parted, i realised if a child in usa said that, i would really doubt it. with nikita, i never had a shadow of doubt. people matter to each other so much, if a world "crisis" REALLY happened, russia would say "so?" and life would go on. usa would get out their guns and steal food and shoot whoever stole it, or whoever they could steal it from! well, that is an analogy- not meaning to hurt feelings. just i'd rather be in a crisis in russia than usa. people are not so materialistic. to make money- i mean an engineer in usa may make $100,000 and have money to invest, buy luxuries (ski boat, second house, timeshare in cancun, etc) an engineer in russia may be able to own a single family house. usual housing is in a 5, 9 or more storyed house. 400-600 sq ft is normal. a teacher earning 10000 rubles a month ($300) can save enough to go once a year to europe on a tour. not all teachers can, but some do. an american earning $10-12 would in turn spend everything on housing, food, cable tv, cel-phone, credit cards, utilities, CAR, and so on. nothing left to invesat and little to entertain, maybe go out to a movie or to eat. entertainment to eat??!? oh, the car! i really love russia because (though i have a niva) i do not have to depend on a car to get around! i can walk, take a bus, a taxi ($3 in our city) and if i added all the fuel, insurance, repairs, traffic fines, and other costs of a car i could go by taxi for 15 years, two trips a day. and for transportaton, children walk to school, to friends' houses, to dance classes, clubs, art school, sports clubs, etc, all on their own! 7,8 9 and older walk every hour of the day! americans ask us "don't you have maniacs that prey upon children?" thank the good lord, NO! you can still walk the streets in peace. but capitalism has given us commercials on tv (with all their false claims and promises), graffiti, drugs, etc etc. so my answer is mixed. i live to live [sic] (i meant to say "LOVE to live") in russia for all the good, but i must work in usa to support the habit.
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I lived in Russia for 1yr, in a city called Vladivostok. I was there working as a government contractor and I loved it, I didn't want to leave. The U.S. dollar goes a long way in Russia, for example, when I first arrived, I change 900 American dollars and received 28,587.00 Roubles. At that time the average salary in Russia equal about 300 American dollars a month, I was making that in 1 day, so I lived very well in Russia. Russian women are great, more then I could write here, I even married one. If I could live in Russia and make there what I make here in the states, I would never leave Russia.
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If you are a western government official or like easily available women and gangster type adventures you would probably like living in Russia. I guess it is comparable to Nigeria or Colombia. But it certainly fails comparison to the US. Hundreds of thousands of Russians flee to the USA every year and millions are desperate to get a US visa.
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Sweden is best!
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there is just NO comparison between those two!! lots of americans come but i don't think would stand living there for good!!
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Hmmmmm....interesting question with even more interesting answers. Some from native Russians, some from non-Russians who live in Russia. Personally I'd say that the guy who lives there 6 months each year is the closest to being accurate, but the problem with his recommendation is that there is an implied assumption of having a US-type salary while living in Russia. Without that, ooohhh boy, would you EVER have a rough go of it in that country. And I seriously doubt the accuracy of the information contained in the post that stated that 100s of 1000s of Russians leave Russia each year to go to the USA. Uhhhh, no. While there are some who do, the numbers don't even approach that amount. Such a comment smacks of emotion more than reality, but whichever....most of the Russians I've met/known don't want to leave their own country. Many don't like America. Ultimately it's a question that each person has to answer for themselves. So I'm not certain as to the origin of your question; why you are asking or what you're hoping that people will tell you. In the end, you must decide for yourself and that decision can only be made through personal experience. For me, Russia/Ukraine/Belarus/etc. are GREAT places to visit but I would never live there. Part of the reason is that I am a native TEXAN and wouldn't ever wanna live anywhere else but in the greatest country in the USA. ;-) Seriously though the lack of the modern infrastructure that we have come to expect in the USA - and that is lacking in Russia - would be the greatest turnoff for me. Couple that with a cramped living style, widespread corruption, no sense of "waiting your turn in line" and the everyone-freely-smokes-everywhere type of lifestyle and it's simply a country in which I couldn't ever live. That having been said, it's an incredible country to vacation in! Full of rich history, generally kind people and an old-school cultural mentality amongst some folk make it a fantastic option. I was last in Russia in December and would like to go again soon. But I'm staying put in TEXAS, thank you. Hope this helps.
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