da svidaniya Moskva
07/25/08 03:21 PM
Tomorrow we leave Moscow, and as fun as the place has been, and as nice as the weather has been, I am glad to be moving on.
Moskva is a wonderful huge city, and in the summer it is a great place to be (I can’t imagine it’s that great in the winter). The people are generally nice, the streets are reasonably safe, and the women wear less than American women do, which is a bonus. The old women begging on street corners because they lost their pensions and apartments when the old regime fell are a stark contrast to the rich and hip kids driving around in their Mercedes’ and BMWs. The average apartment here costs 5 - 8 thousand dollars a month, so most people live in undersized apartments with other families to make ends meet. Shopping malls are filled with overpriced clothes and jewelry that most people can’t afford, but they scrape and buy it anyway because they need to fit in. There is no middle class here. You are either very rich or very poor (kind of the way things are headed back in the states, thanks to the dullards in our government). There are 100 women to every 74 men here, so the women are desperate, and the men seem disinterested. Although there are large corporations with legitimate jobs here, most of the successful businesses are on the seedier side of society - “Gentlemen’s” Clubs, “escort services”, casinos... Kind of sad.
Anyway,
I’m not much into tourist attractions, but I did get out to see some stuff that interests me. The other day, I went to Dynamo Stadium to go see a Dynamo football match, but it was sold out. I did get into the team store though, and bought some nice loot.
The next evening, we went for a cruise along the Moskva River:
Looking forward to a change of pace in Vladivostok.
Moskva is a wonderful huge city, and in the summer it is a great place to be (I can’t imagine it’s that great in the winter). The people are generally nice, the streets are reasonably safe, and the women wear less than American women do, which is a bonus. The old women begging on street corners because they lost their pensions and apartments when the old regime fell are a stark contrast to the rich and hip kids driving around in their Mercedes’ and BMWs. The average apartment here costs 5 - 8 thousand dollars a month, so most people live in undersized apartments with other families to make ends meet. Shopping malls are filled with overpriced clothes and jewelry that most people can’t afford, but they scrape and buy it anyway because they need to fit in. There is no middle class here. You are either very rich or very poor (kind of the way things are headed back in the states, thanks to the dullards in our government). There are 100 women to every 74 men here, so the women are desperate, and the men seem disinterested. Although there are large corporations with legitimate jobs here, most of the successful businesses are on the seedier side of society - “Gentlemen’s” Clubs, “escort services”, casinos... Kind of sad.
Anyway,
I’m not much into tourist attractions, but I did get out to see some stuff that interests me. The other day, I went to Dynamo Stadium to go see a Dynamo football match, but it was sold out. I did get into the team store though, and bought some nice loot.
The next evening, we went for a cruise along the Moskva River:
Looking forward to a change of pace in Vladivostok.
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