http://qi-tronic.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] qi-tronic.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] peacetraveler22 2013-08-07 04:02 pm (UTC)

It slowly changes as more people move to suburbs.

But still there are a lot of problems: slow roads, traffic, quality of services outside Moscow.
There is still a gap between expensive gated communities which have their own *everything* including water supply, medical services and schools, and the common level.

For example, my dacha is not far from an ancient town of Mozhaisk.
Mozhaisk is exactly 2 hours by train from Moscow.
It's very cheap currently to live there but I cannot imagine my son, who will go to school next year going to a local shool with local rednecks.
Maybe it's prejudice but...

Also, in Moscow (or other town with highrise buildings) we have a luxury of hot water without limits and centralized heating.
In the US or England it was a problem for me not having that.

And of course it's hard to drive so many hours a day or sit in a crowded train.

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