How is Russia like actually? Mostly for tourism but I guess living too
Moscow and Saint Petersburg are the only two places visiting for a foreigner. Everywhere else has equivalents in other countries that won't get you locked up in some Russian jail/prison for simply visiting. Russia has never been a good place to explore truth be told, even before the current debacle.
Moscow is the only large European city that's filled with white people.
>>2839766You have never been to Moscow
>>2839766>here are those white people I was telling you about, bro
>>2839804I wonder when Russian and Asian DNA split off from one another. Also, those Russian River cruises look COMFY and I wish I could take one. But, I can't read cyrillic and I bet nothing is in English and it would just be a nightmare unless I was on a fully guided tour.
>>2839766Russia is Eurasian, not European. >>2839762This is absolutely untrue, and you know it. Lake Baikal (the world's deepest lake) has no equivalents. There is no Siberian Railway anywhere else on Earth. In the 1990s there were direct flights from Seattle to Vladivostok for a short time, then some spat erupted and they were terminated - never to return.Just look at this coastal terrain map. Look at the route of that highway, from the river to the sound (which leads south into the Sea of Japan).
450 km north of Sapporo, JapanImagine if you could continue on north to Sakhalin Island and then flight-up out to Kamchatskiy (another 2200 km) for some exploring in the warm summer drizzle. Everything a third the price of Canada or Alaska.
As an American I think Russia would be the #1 country on my travel list were it not for the political difficulties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOATELR2wk
>>2839806>whenAleady happening. Demographics are destiny, and the Russian government is fully aware of this.
>>2839858>Lake Baikal (the world's deepest lake) has no equivalents.There absolutely are. It's just a big ass lake in a moderately scenic setting. Any major lake in Switzerland blows it ouf of the (heh) water. If it's about the size, there's plenty of large lakes in North America with similar scenery.>There is no Siberian Railway anywhere else on Earth.Boring slog through monotonous environments that is fetishized as some kind of huge fucking adventure by a few Western aspies. No Russian would ever consider riding that entire thing from start to finish, for good reason.If those two examples are the best you can come up with, it's looking REALLY grim for Russia.
>>2839762>Everywhere else has equivalents in other countries What a stupid thing to say. Might as well just stay in NYC, Paris, and Tokyo only, since every other city in the world is just a variation of those.
>>2839886By all means, wander into some small town and start speaking some half broken Russian. I'm sure they'll love you while being interrogated in some shitty police station only to sign a piece of paper being told it's your release, when it's actually an admission of guilt. And don't get me wrong, it has beautiful parts but is it worth dealing with their own flair of police state? Russia has changed for foreigners.
>>2839806Stfu idiot
>>2839858Russia is European.
>>2839766https://youtu.be/1e6mh9aHQSg?si=P-QGM4Bv67-bqCPsRussian Chinese border
Russia is fucked even for tourism since cards don’t work, very few speak english and if they do it’s broken as hell and the police if they hear you speaking english will question you and possibly detain you. That’s if they don’t detain you at the airport to begin with. It’s a fucking dump
>>2839804They're largely single men doing borderline slave labor and locked up in cuck cages outside the MKAD when their work is done. It's more similar situation to Dubai than London/Paris/Berlin in that respect.
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>>2840100No, unlike Dubai they do get the citizenship, and pretty quick. Moscow already has some neighborhoods where most people are Muslim (most famous is Kotelniki), especially young people and kids, some classes have like 90% migrant schoolchildren.
>>2840134Not once did I mention anything to do with Ukraine. Go live in Russia if it's such a paradise.Eastern Europe is a total shithole all around. No idea why people defend it so bad.
>>2840146you keep routinely derailing every single Russia thread (if you are not making these threads yourself) with your 60 IQ bullshit like "you can be arrested for speaking english" "you can be drafted as a tourist" "there's nothing outside moscow and saint petersburg" "lake Baikal is the same as lake Geneva" (lmao even) "muh putin"do you seriously think that anyone with two brain cells falls for that shit?tldr: shoot your fucking brains out
>>2839883Damn, some of you losers really hate the idea of traveling and exploring places. Makes me wonder why you're even on a travel board. $22/night for a room in a beautiful guesthouse near a village on the shore of Lake Baikal. You're not finding anything close to that anywhere in Switzerland. Russia's summer weather is amazingly comfortable, although the boggy regions do have a lot of pest insects.
I just don’t see the appeal of russia outside of a visit to moscow or st petersburg. And even then it’s tough to get around since english is rare and you can’t use cards
Lived there in early 2010s and it was fucking kino. Everybody was curious about having foreigners rocking around in their provincial city. It was probably the funnest year ever. The old 'English Teacher X' blog (need to search for it via archive) gives the low down.I heard from people still out there, though, that around 2017 or so, shit changed, and it developed an undercurrent of hostility, suspicion and ultranationalism. I remember walking home from a night out, seeing people drinking, and just going up to them and saying "hey can i have a beer". I'd often get invited to house parties. Shit like this probably would be unthinkable nowadays.
>>2840256I’ve heard russians are much much colder towards any foreigners now
>>2839761Why would you go now? The economy is already overheating from the war. Give it a couple years when the real meltdown hits. Coomers will be eating good.
