I may complain at times about life in Moscow, but I think Moscow is a better place to be than my former existence and daily drudgery of working life in London. I would not swap my old stationary existence for all the money in the world. I feel very sorry for people in the UK. I think its disgraceful that people have to suffer such undignified journeys every day, in old dirty packed trains to work each day in order to survive and to pay the mortgage to feed the kids. Not only do they have to suffer these daily journeys into work, they also have to suffer expensive tickets prices and endless cancellations. It snows in Britain and the whole country stops. Game over.
In Moscow, the metro is clean, on time and cheap. Sure rush hour is not fun and the roads are grid locked but I think its better than the UK. I am very happy I dont have to make such a journey in my current role here.
Where is the accountability? Where is the penalty for failure anymore? Gone is the answer. No one is accountable, no one is blamed. Criminals get out in a few years and can now vote, human rights acts give rights to the bad guys while the good guys suffer. What is going on? The vast majority of the British population have been let down and are being let down year on year by bad governments, bad laws and failed promises.
The vast majority of British people are not fools, why are they treated this way?
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You're right. It's disgraceful what's going on not only in Britain but in the whole western world. Maybe it's punishment for the colonialistic days. The colonies have transferred themselves in Britain, France, Holland, Portugal, etc. destroying the natural structure of the place.
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ReplyDeleteI think you mean immigration. Well whole foreign lands were raped of their natural resources to build the UK, France etc so its only natural that people now want to take something back. What goes around comes around as they say.They have an open door policy. You reap as you sow.
I think the UK and France etc are in big trouble now through continuous bad sets of governments, laws and controls. leaving everything to the free market and to social left wing policy has been a very big mistake.
Hey English man,
ReplyDeletelet me assure you, a couple of millions of Russians who commute to Moscow daily for work are in a much worse situation - I mean, have you seen _russian_ suburban trains and the rush hour crowds? :) Ppl who live outside of the MKAD have to get up at 5am to make it to work. It's nothing like you've experienced back home, esp in summer... don't even get me started on the recent collapse of all Msk airports, as if we needed any more proof we are regarded as cattle..
I love London, btw...
Ksyusha, No I have not seen Russian suburban trains but I think they are probably horrible. I believe what you say.
ReplyDeleteIts bad for commuters in the UK but a lot worse for Russians here.People should be provided with a clean and humane way of travel, its a basic human right.
I did used to stand cheek to cheek on a packed train to London everyday, you could hardly breath and I hated it. NEVER again!!! I would rather grow vegetables and sell them than have my old working life in the city.
I dont love London at all but I do like the English countryside and villages. London is packed, expensive and horrible. As for Moscow.... well I think you can guess my opinion! :-)
Sorry to any die hard nationalist Russians.BTW, I know Moscow is not Russia so don't be offended please. I like Russia.
Did you live in the UK for a long time?
I know what it's like to be packed on the tube - ick! 90 minutes to work, 90 minutes back. Coming back from work isn't so bad because I'm working (going into) the suburbs whereas most people usually go INTO the city. I will tell you though, they've been having escalator work at Bank near the DLR entrance and exits for about a year now. There is ONE escalator for three car loads of people coming from the Docklands into Bank station. I certainly feel like cattle when I'm waiting to get up the escalator.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger, I used to think of London as glamorous and fun - a place that I'd one day love to live in. Now that I'm actually here, I am failing (everyday) to see its appeal. The tubes do not run late enough at night, they're always down, the city is ridiculously expensive for everything, the politics in England is a joke, there are knife wielding kids running around so much so that I never truly feel safe here and I have yet to meet more than 10 English people!
I haven't been here too long (a total of almost 2 years, although not straight through), but I can see why people think this country is going into the toilet. I told my husband that when he's finished working here, we're out. I refuse to have children in this country.
I'm trying to make the most of it, but sometimes it's very difficult.
Brandy Its funny I am a Brit writing about the UK and London and you are a non Brit living in London. I know what you mean. I hate London its packed and not like it was when I was young.Its not safe.
ReplyDeleteI may complain about Moscow but Moscow is safe and I have not seen any hoodies and the Metro is cheap, clean and on time. I pity anyone who has to take the London underground, its a living hell.
Please be safe and be careful in London, be street wise and dont take risks. Get out and go home as soon as you financially can.
I agree with you about the UK. But as has been pointed out the regional rail commute in Moscow is notorious.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine. People have the right to clean, cheap dignified transport in any city.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, you say that Moscow is a safe place and London isn't. When I've been to a tourist trip to London I wasn't afraid to walk through the city at night, because I thought I was in civilized Europe, not in backward Russia. And here, in Moscow suburbia I'm trying to get home before 11 o'clock in the night. There is no lanterns on the street, no people. And if something happens - nobody will hear or see what has happened.
ReplyDeleteIt's curious, we have the same point of view but at the same time it's absolutely opposite)