Hi there! I'm from Russia. I'm just an ordinary guy who grew up in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border...

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Fucking based.

Thank you for the reply. So basically if I want to move there I should stick to Moscow or maybe St. Petersburg?

Moscow is way better than St Petersburg. There's less corruption, it looks better, they follow the design codes and there's no advertising trash. You could call it polished and sterile.
St Petersburg is more free, it's like Berlin, but dirtier and more free. In Moscow you'll never find the smell of weed or a lot of trash in the center. In St Pete it's the opposite. Also, Moscow has the best budget for infrastructure.
So, I'd say Moscow is the way to go.

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CRIMEA IS UKRAINE

Oh okay, thank you that is great information. I would stick with Moscow then. I wouldnt enjoy St. Petersburg. We have cities like that in the West and they suck. What would it be like if I wanted to get a place in the city outskirts to have more of a nature feel. Do places like exist near Moscow?

If you think your question is valid, can you please tell me:
How has Ukraine been taking care of its retired citizens since 2014? Do they get pensions from the government? Were they paid until 2022, and now?
Also, does Ukraine consider the people of Crimea as its own citizens?

Historically it is not
Geographically it is not
Ethnicity of the population is also not ukrainian
so why the autism?

You need to understand what you consider "nearby" and "nature." To get to the real nature, you will need 2-4 hours by car without traffic jams - and you can find yourself in real nature in any direction. I'll attach my photo - it was made in the Ryazan region - it's about 2-3 hours from Moscow.

But if you want to live 1-2 hours away, in a beautiful place and travel to Moscow or just be nearby - look at the panoramas of Yandex or Google city of Dubna. It is a scientific city located on the Volga River coast and belongs to the Moscow region. It's very beautiful and peaceful there, but there's a lot less work there than in Moscow. If you work remotely, then this shouldn't be a problem for you.

That is wonderful. My plan would be to live off of investments, so no worries about work. I can live in the country peacefully and then commute to Moscow for certain needs. Im going to consider this greatly, I think it would be the perfect life for me

I wonder where you're from, what your background is, and why you decided to move to Russia? What do you dislike about America?

Do you read dovtoyesky? I remember in Ana karenina what you are saying here, st petersburg being the boemiam and liberal city

myscovites should stop bombing women & children

I only read "Crime and Punishment", I tried to read "Idiot". I don't really like Dostoevsky.

Maybe it was another city in Dostoevsky's time, I do not know. I am only reflecting my point of view on St. Petersburg. Many people consider it better than Moscow.

Well, as soon as NATO stops supporting this conflict, the myscovites will stop doing it.

NATO boogeyman

you cry out in pain as you support your country's murder of innocent people. this is why the collective world is against your sphere of society

Where are you from?

somewhere where my freedom of access to information; freedom of expression & ideological alignment isn't forced onto my an authoritarian regime such as your neo-soviet rubbish. perhaps muscovy are inherently corrupted through the land and culture in which they reside, which would explain why the Rurikid dynasty withered & died off after relocating from Kyiv to moscow

Hahahahahahahaha fucking idiot it's neither

the cause of the shaking? Are you a Ukrainian?

Really?

Really you dumb faggot

do you like the soy candy?

I’ve heard from propaganda that Russia takes men from rural areas and forces them into the war, while city people don’t really get forced to fight.

Is there any basis to this? Or is the conscription thing not as big of a thing we’re told here

How are the work/live oportunities in Rusia? Would you like to move elsewere?

Crimea is whatever Crimeans want it to be. They seem content to be with Russia, maybe not in a "we want to be Russians!!1!" context but more "stop trading us around like we're a 100 rouble bill, let us fucking settle already and stop bothering us".
Also, if they go back to Ukraine, they lose out on a major income stream from Russian tourists starved for the sea (especially now that Anapa got OIL'd), and Crimeans will just start to leave- some to Russia, some will pass through the husk of Ukraine to go to Europe, few of those who want to leave Crimea will want to remain in Ukraine.

Are you ashamed to name your country?

I love talking to them on Anon Babble

This is partly true. When there was partial mobilization, most of the men were taken from rural areas. But not because they were specifically looking for men there, but because they were simple and executive: they just got a call from the military enlistment office and told them to come - they came. People living in the city are less executive and might not open the door or show up at the military enlistment office.

Currently, there has been no mobilization in Russia for several years. A lot of volunteers go to the service themselves. Plus, for some criminal offenses, they offer to sign a contract with the army in order to avoid punishment.

Very interesting regarding conscription, thank you.

What’s the general effect the war is having on life in general in terms of your lifestyle? Has there been big changes or is it something you only notice here and there, living in the city as you are?

It depends very much on what kind of education you have, the direction and in which region you are looking for a job. A universal option is to be an IT specialist. It is almost always possible to find remote work or work for companies in Europe and the USA (yes, many of my friends work for Western companies and receive salaries in dollars).

I moved to Moscow and I don't want to leave here.

I would add that with the advent of Russia, the level of crime and corruption in government agencies has become noticeably lower. The infrastructure has improved.

Yes, it's not perfect there, you could see the bad news about Crimea. But before that, it was even worse. This is recognized even by those who are not happy that Crimea has become Russia.

In cities that are far from the border with Ukraine, the war is only on TV. Of the changes that are noticeable outside the border areas, foreign products have become more expensive, cars have become more expensive, and overall the standard of living has dropped than it was before 2022. But not as critical as they show on TV. It's just that life has changed.

For the money that could have been used to buy a Toyota, you can now buy a new Chinese car like Geely. The products of companies that have officially left Russia are present, they are imported from other countries, they are available, and some have not changed in value. Some Western companies have officially announced that they are leaving, but in fact they have renamed their product and are also selling it (Hyundai=Solaris, Kitkat=Goodmix, CocaCola-Dobryi). The same factories, people, and quality control. But officially, you can write beautifully "we have left the Russian market."

There is no shortage of equipment. My brother recently bought a Playstation 5 PRO for $1,000, I don't know if it's a lot or a little for your country. But earlier, I probably could have bought cheaper dollars.

Probably the biggest problem and the only inconvenience from sanctions are expensive flights (you need to fly through third countries) and problems with transferring money abroad. The latter is closed by intermediaries, of which there are a lot.

But the Russian state receives and sends money for the sale of resources to Western countries, as it has received. All the sanctions have affected ordinary people, not the state or politicians.

my uncle works at Nintendo

Understood, also very interesting. Thank you Russian Man, hope the war ends soon and nothing worse happens

This is local meme? Transtate please

The working man has country, retard. Lenin would be rolling in his grave watching hundreds of thousands of Russians die for natural gas

Probably the titanium but idk. Natural gas seems more abundant

We can add titanium to that list, but really it's ultimately for the capitalist class

Is your education in your country, which you hesitate to name, so poor that you can't express your thoughts correctly?

It seems to me that you are just an evil hohol who preferred not to defend his country, but to fight on Anon Babble.

Nord-ost gas buses
Ryzan sugar
Crocus-city governments agents terrorist attack
Suvorov military school chid raping
Mulsim governor and his son beating russian boy

Russians have to be the stupidest assholes on earth. Like how the fuck do you have the tradition of Bolshevism but still end up dying in the thousands in imperial wars? Hahahahahaha

Get well

Get well too, redneck