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Anonymous
Dear /trv/:

I'm an American citizen, and am deeply dissatisfied with how that country is working and how it has been working for the past 60 years. I want to emigrate as soon as I finish my degree.

After a lot of thought, the Russian Federation has come up as among the countries I'm most interested in at least going to graduate school or something in. The reasons are because it is where my family is based, because of the language, and because of how the Russians I know behave, not because of any "ZOMG COMMUNISM" feeling.

Anyway, I'm curious to know about what the country is actually like to get into and live in, if any of you have experience. Is crime really as pervasive as the media likes to say, or is that just another lie?
>> Anonymous
Britfag here

i have a few russian friends (or had. travel buddies). and they told me that all the scary stories about evil KGB/government prominent in our media are very skewed. They said they live their lives largely peacefully and freely. One of them is a typical rich boy. spoiled son of well off parents, from moscow. Another was a happy go lucky teenager (though maybe from a poorer background) from sochi. he's a Putin fan.

The guy from moscow's girlfriend however, is bitterly anti-russian. says her family moved to ukraine after being hounded. i forgot to ask why. i cant remember. i had consumed rather a large amount of alcohol that evenning.


Oh soemthing else i found funny: despite how rich the guy from moscow was, all of them were still wow'd by the video games we were playing. they were like "omg, this is amazing technology". on GAMECUBE GAMES. then we brought out the wii. needless to say, it blew their minds. So if youre a videogamer, you might want to think twice
>> Anonymous
Fuhgeddaboudit.

It's a crappy place, full of poverty, crime, and other affects of Communist dictatorships.
>> Anonymous
Don't be retarded, my friend. My roommate is studying Russian and is there on exchange this year; by her own experience, everyone she's talked to, all her professors, and all the Russians she's met, trading America for Russia is going to be the worst decision you ever make.

Not to be all "___ country is better than ___" trollan or anything (I acknowledge that Russia is an interesting country from many points of view, and has a rich history and culture), but if you don't like how America is working, you're going to HATE Russia. Your quality of life is going to drop like a stone.
>> Anonymous
Having lived in Russia, in both a tiny coastal town down south as well as having stayed for a while in Moscow and St. Petersburg, I can safely tell you that it REALLY depends on where in Russia you're going, and how you want to live.

Southern areas near Ukraine are more rural, and the town I'm from is a small, laid back area. People there are generally poor money-wise, but very healthy (no one down there ever fucking dies. My grandpa's going on 90 and shit) and peaceful.

Moscow and St. Petersburg on the other hand are fucking warzones. You'll probably get the same lifestyle as in the US with self-indulgence and carelessness and whatnot, but add to that a much more rough culture with a fuckload of alcoholics, neo-nazi skinheads and drivers that are even crazier than Arabs.