I joined expat.com on 15 July 2010.
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kind and wonderful people i have met here completely by chance
the chaotic, insane bureaucracy i encounter every 5 minutes in Russia. the cruelty and dishonesty that runs wild here. the brutality of your typical Russian. the lack of a middle class. The russian's fear of foreigners.
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the people, the food, the high quality of cultural events. honesty.
i loved it. ok, sometimes expensive for no reason. ok, too much traffic but hard to say much bad about NYC except that a lot of my old favorite places are gone now.