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The Safest, Cleanest Most Affordable Capital City I Have Been in is Moscow

Started by Herman, June 16, 2024, 08:38:26 PM

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Quote from: Herman on June 16, 2024, 08:38:26 PMIt is really modern, low crime rate, and affordable compared to most world capitals.

We would transit through Moscow when we lived in Kazakhstan for one year..

It is a spectacular city that functions very efficiently.
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formosan

Quote from: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on June 17, 2024, 10:01:35 AMI'm not sure its a good idea to move to a city that might become a glass-surface parking lot sometime in the near future.

Just sayin....
I hope the USA doesn't do something foolish.
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caskur

Quote from: Herman on June 16, 2024, 08:38:26 PMIt is really modern, low crime rate, and affordable compared to most world capitals.


When my husband went there, there was armed soldiers on every corner.

Of course it was safe.
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Brent

Quote from: caskur on June 17, 2024, 10:59:12 AMWhen my husband went there, there was armed soldiers on every corner.

Of course it was safe.
Maybe that is what Chicago, LA, and San Francisco need. They all look like war zones anyway, so bring on the soldiers.
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Thiel

Quote from: Herman on June 16, 2024, 08:38:26 PMIt is really modern, low crime rate, and affordable compared to most world capitals.

It is a showcase city. It is uber modern.
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Quote from: formosan on June 17, 2024, 10:37:00 AMI hope the USA doesn't do something foolish.

Not reelecting Biden would be great start on the right path.  After that, things should be easy.
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Herman

Quote from: caskur on June 17, 2024, 10:59:12 AMWhen my husband went there, there was armed soldiers on every corner.

Of course it was safe.
I worked and lived in Russia. I have been to Moscow more times than I can renmember. I know the city and speak the language.

The only time I ever saw soldiers was young recruits coming out of a Metro station. They would have been on their way home. They were not armed.

Herman

Quote from: formosan on June 17, 2024, 10:35:06 AMWe would transit through Moscow when we lived in Kazakhstan for one year..

It is a spectacular city that functions very efficiently.
It is a model city.

caskur

Quote from: Herman on June 17, 2024, 09:38:06 PMI worked and lived in Russia. I have been to Moscow more times than I can renmember. I know the city and speak the language.

The only time I ever saw soldiers was young recruits coming out of a Metro station. They would have been on their way home. They were not armed.

My husband, his mother, his brother were the first tourists allowed into Russia 1975. There were armed guards on every corner.
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- Andy Warhol

Herman

Quote from: caskur on June 17, 2024, 10:55:15 PMMy husband, his mother, his brother were the first tourists allowed into Russia 1975. There were armed guards on every corner.
The Soviet era. Ya, probably.

I never made my first trip there until the fall of communism. And the soldiers were gone.
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I could not get a visa for the USSR anyway. My parents defected and I would have been blacklisted.

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