I got my 3 year tourist visa for Russia and I'll be moving to Russia soon (for an undetermined amount of time). The 3 year visa for Americans lets them stay 6 months consecutively, with no yearly limit (effectively all year if they want). Don't know how long I'll visit for, but it could be a while.
I'm a white male in my early 20s and speak some Russian. I have an online income ("digital nomad").
I'm looking for advice and for people's reactions. Am I crazy? Very few Americans do this. IRL reactions have been positive. I am also happy to discuss Russia in general and why I'm moving there.
I'll stay in Moscow, but also travel to some cities to meet people (right now the list is St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, etc.).
Oliver Howard
I've long hair below my shoulders and even marginals ignore my. Just don't do your haircut looks like you're a fag, that's more inportant than length of hairs.
Jordan Davis
Are you very poor? What's the purpose to move to this frozen dictatorhole?
Noah Martinez
He has outdated ideas about Russia, now in large cities, no one cares how you look. You're likely to be killed, robbed and fucked in the ass, and then killed again and of course fucked again by your twice-dead corpse in the ass.
I loved Moscow when I visited, and I have really good social connections there. There are a few big reasons: different culture from the west (and that I like), cheap, expat social freedom, expat increased social status, girls (inb4 Russian girls are trash, yeah ok)
to be honest russia was pretty much paradise for me :P
Carter Baker
>Proudly obtain a visa of a hellhole on decline.
Lincoln Morris
Look at the guys on the right. Will they ingage in fight? Hell no, they're tired after gym and risking to ruin their manicure. They have a whole beautiful life to lose.
Now look on the left. Have they had something to lose?
Jason Bennett
Move to Florida then, for a better life. Except for a stroming seasons.
Adrian Adams
You guys have some really smart and pleasant people. It's not all bad.
I also have to say, all the bad things about Russia keep western expats and tourists out, which increases my own quality of life as an expat. Every single bad thing about Russia is balanced by a good thing. I'm not moving to wealthy Europe, you know? There's a reason I'm moving to Russia over any other country in the world.
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If you have any property, you'd better give it to your relatives
Looks safe enough for me guess i'm moving to russia too
Zachary King
you are in hell already lol rio's murder rate is 12 times higher than moscow's. russia is a PARADISE, i am TELLING YOU. just learn some russian
Henry Williams
Russian dogs don't eat people at least
Luis Foster
all dogs eat people
Nolan Morgan
user, do you understand that russia is a one way ticket? You will not be able to move back after a while.
Jonathan Long
>liberoids trying THIS hard convince MUH UMERIKKKAN that Russia is a shithole We unironically just passed them on the crime rate stat. We are now safer than America, not that it’s hard to achieve.
Joshua Martinez
Subasian, crime rate by mass shootings?
Andrew Jackson
Literally just average crime rate. You also have to take into account that our crimes are usually fraud, thievery or some shit like that, while they usually have gun robberies, shootouts etc
Robert Thomas
Who the fuck would want Americans in their country anyway?
Aaron Gonzalez
Russia is pretty based.
Ryan Rivera
Visit Kazan:)
Juan Reyes
How many russians moved to the US and how many americans moved to russia? That's something like 99.9 against 0.01?
Charles Moore
Your point? America is a third world shithole, just like Russia, only delusional retards move there over Europe in 2019.
Cooper Carter
Russians are like cockroaches, everywhere you look there is one.
Jackson Howard
No problem moldavaher, shouldn’t you be out there creating blacked threads or something?
Joshua Davis
Albino Indian.
Christopher Clark
>America is a third world shithole With better climate and travel system and passport, and without big fucked up shit in history.
>better climate That’s true >travel system Ah yes, I would love not being able to walk to my job, not being able to walk to grocery store, and forced to drive EVERYWHERE, such a paradise. >passport True, I guess. It’s still a shithole with $10k ambulance rides, horrendous food quality and in danger of being shot both by normal citizens and cops. Yes, of course this Brazilian gentleman is not that one Brazilian poster who used to spam this board with “Brazilian superiority over Russia” lmao, I just got something in my eye.
Grayson Anderson
I wish. I can count on one hand how many I have seen here.
I spent 3 months in Syktyvkar and visited Moscow. All this advice is nothing but a scare tactic. Russia is not bad at all. The only complaint I have is the shitty roads!! FFS it's like driving on the Moon.
Ryder Ross
I loved being able to walk to the grocery store, and work. Here forget about it. It would take me >30 minutes to walk to the grocery store where I live.
Juan Harris
Here in Brazil many Russian prostitutes, hence the cockroach joke.
Jayden Reed
Yep, this is the one chimpzilean. Of course every “eastern european” prostitute is Russian.
Caleb Turner
Soon you will have Venezuelan prostitutes down there.
Jackson Gonzalez
>many Fucking where, nigger? We USED to have a lot o jewish/polish whores, but russians?
I'm baiting you doofus. 2.5 million of those "Russians" are just MUH HERITAGE AMERICANS and the other 400,000 are jews from the Soviet Union. Actual Russians in USA is like 10-30 thousands only.
