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lusenish

Why do people always see everything in black and white? It's known the thuth is usually grey. Wink

Last weekend I had an interesting chat with one of my acquaintances. She expressed a popular point of view of many Russians.

After the collapse of the USSR (and maybe before it as well) Russians started to think West was a much better place to live than our country, there are less problems, the salaries are higher, so are the living standards. Our country is corrupted, no money, no quality goods, in short - there is positive perception of the West and negative of Russia. Many people emigrated from Russia to live in the States, Germany and so on.

My mother moved to Germany about 12 years ago and she's not always satisfied with her life there, and sometimes she considers returning back to her nativeland. Now she has a son, 11 years old, and he seems to be quite interested in Russia and our culture, he studies the language and I think it is quite possible that one day they will move to Russia.

But my acquaintance insisted that no Europaer would immigrate on his own will to Russia, because it's better to live in the West.

It would be interesting to learn if you know anyone who moved to Russia (except for Asian and Caucasian people) and what were the reasons for that.

Paul Holmes · VIP Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 815

There is an interesting documentary on a Canadian who lived in Moscow for ten years. After 10 years, he gave up, because he found that the Russians never truly accepted him as an equal or even close to being such. He was considered to an outsider, because he was never Russian.

trevish · Just Starting Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

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Interesting thread! And this is my first post here, too! Razz

While it may be true for the moment that not many Western Europeans would be interested in moving to Russia, but that might change in the future, especially as Russia grows stronger economically and depending on how the situation in Europe develops. I have thought about once moving to Russia some time in the future, but it depends on how things are over here in Europe.

By the way, Paul Holmes, what documentary was that? Is it available online? I'd love to see it.

Absurd · Frequent Guest Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 17

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