Christine I was there for 5 months last year and my wife came over for a month in August. She walked everywhere, went on excursions - organised and on her own. She never felt threatened at all. Ok we did live on Tverskaya and didn't venture too far off the beaten track at night but weekends and during the day were fine. City of great culture and history and imagine being able to wander down to Red Square on a Sunday morning to have a coffee and watch the world go by.... Metro system is practical and efficient but traffic is horrendous... really. Very few people speak English however, and you would need to learn Russian if staying there for any length of time.
I've visited NY, LA, Paris, Rome, Budapest, Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, Jo'berg, Cape Town plus many others and it is probably the only city in the world that I have visited that I could live in. Can't put my finger on why and I live in UK, in the countryside, in the middle of nowhere. Many thanks George ------------------ George Pace Director Pace Training & Consulting Ltd Vale Cottage Knatts Valley Road Knatts Valley Sevenoaks Kent TN15 6XY Direct +44 1474 853397 Mobile +44 7753 817663 Website www.pacetc.com This e-mail (including attachments) is confidential and intended solely for the addressee. Unless it is addressed to you, you may not read, copy, use or store it in any way, or permit others to. If you received it in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the email (including attachments) and all copies or references to it from your computer. E-mails from individual personnel may not represent the views of the company or bind the company and should not be relied on as such. Any personal information contained in this e-mail or its attachments becomes the responsibility of the recipient to keep such information secure. > From: Christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Moscow Expat List <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:39:46 -0800 (PST) > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Expat List help??? > > Hi Expats- > > I have been offered 2 jobs and am currently trying to decide between them! > One is in Moscow and the other is elsewhere! They both pay about the same and > include the same types of benefits (free apartment, discount on language > lessons...etc) as they are actually with the same company! The only > difference is the location...Moscow or another city in Europe. > I don't know much about Moscow today...(I have a limited historical > perspective from history class a million years ago)! Can anyone provide me > any insights to help me decide? and possibly give me a comparison on safety > to some other major cities in the world? I have heard it is kind of like New > York or Chicago - there is crime, but if you use the normal precautions (ie > don't visit bad neighborhoods at night alone) you should be ok? > > Thanks! > > Christine > > "Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing > ever dies." > -The Shawshank Redemption > > "Dort, wo man Buecher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." > > -Heinrich Heine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/
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