certainly they are rediculous i dunno people must be just as silly to pay the prices ( why do they do it? ) ah Moscow pretend land ! you can rent an old dump in the small cities for 1/3rd what you people get skun for in Moscow ( why do people want to live in Moscow ?? )
Nothing special just overpriced to hell like living in Sydney or New York etc etc -- i lived 13 weeks Moscow in 2004 --- i hated every day of it, but i had to stay in the dump for contract work .
you had your hand out passing money 24 /7 they all on the ''bite ''/ scam / everythings got $$ attached to it ! amazes me!!! ok iam semi retired very well off man - i could easy buy very nice apartment in moscow cash - but id never do it ! because then your one of them ''predator '' you know !
Big cities = crap live in amongst the sirens the cops the crime the tarts -- everything wrapped in scam !that don't spell honesty = no thanks - what? people want to pay for deceit ? how really dead strange !
big cities are for slaves ( human zoo )
Russias a great place to live but in my book the smaller the city the quieter / the better--- live a lot damn safer too ! glitzy city - its crap false - smoke and mirrors - at the end of the day its all crap cost you $$ for what purpose?
To swim with the slime? Moscow if it was gone the smart ones living in bush cities would never miss it ! I met plenty of reality russians in small cities that told me they'd not give me 3 kopeks to live in Moscow - its not the real Russia they said ! its pre - fab 1/2 westernised - if you took all that out of it she'd be back to wooden wheeled cabbage carts within a week!
Take out all the jap and korean cars--- have a look what you are left with ? not much huh -- a parade of lada's not more ! but the lada's belong, the rest are intruders !
The western ways of EXCESS its killing Russia, thats a fact !! Russias adopting a demon that nobody there can afford ! - not for the long term eh!
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you know where the westerners are that arrived to live in Russia 5 years back and they were Rich ----they are in the small cities! and they still have the $$ !! they arrived with -you know why!! because big city didnt suck em in - they live in small cities - they got more money that the local mayor with 5k in pocket - rich man / small town - rich man he's got the power.
maybe i got it wrong, maybe the people on here go to Russia to work ?? whom would trade in AUD/ USD FOR RUB ( 30% OF OUR DOLLAR SO YOU BUST YOUR GUTS FOR 70% LESS A WAGE THAN YOU WOULD IN WESTERN COUNTRY YOU'D HAVE TO BE MAD ))) ahh i dont need to work? i got enough $$ last me till iam 95 !so i go to live -- just sit back relax with a lovely, and do absolutely nothing ! thats the life !