Where do you live and what good and bad about it?

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Serpukhov, RZ

Good
Quite place, people are sound, food is great
The cottage house in the summer makes you feel like you can just get away from everything
Lots of nice little towns within 30-40 minutes drive
The wife and imminent arrival of the baby makes it feel like home, in laws are sound too
The weather, summers are brilliant and warm, winters are cold with proper snow, both make you feel more alive
Hardly anyone speaks English
Cost of Bills is a fraction of over here
Am perfectly placed to go any away European games we get in Russia
Russian culture and history of the place


Bad
Everything major happens in Moscow, sports, concerts, theatre etc which is 2 hours away
It's not closer to St Petersberg instead of Moscow
Hardly anyone speaks English
Drug addicts and alcoholism is a growing problem
Immigrants from the Caucasus causing issue lately
Friends and Family and Goodison is miles away
Russian bureaucracy for Visa's and residency means i have to constantly go back the UK and back again till sorted
If world war 3 starts I'll probably end up conscripted into the Russian army
 

bluestevon said:
Serpukhov, RZ

Good
Quite place, people are sound, food is great
The cottage house in the summer makes you feel like you can just get away from everything
Lots of nice little towns within 30-40 minutes drive
The wife and imminent arrival of the baby makes it feel like home, in laws are sound too
The weather, summers are brilliant and warm, winters are cold with proper snow, both make you feel more alive
Hardly anyone speaks English
Cost of Bills is a fraction of over here
Am perfectly placed to go any away European games we ge
Russian culture and history of the place


Bad
Everything major happens in Moscow, sports, concerts, theatre etc which is 2 hours away
It's not closer to St Petersberg instead of Moscow
Hardly anyone speaks English
Drug addicts and alcoholism is a growing problem
Immigrants from the Caucasus causing issue lately
Friends and Family and Goodison is miles away
Russian bureaucracy for Visa's and residency means i have to constantly go back the UK and back again till sorted
If world war 3 starts I'll probably end up conscripted into the Russian army[/QUOTE
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Anfield me have worked in all these little towns like Manchester Leeds Blackburn and Wigan with there flat cap and whippets attitude. They know what they r and I know what I am I'm not a scouser they do my head in. I'm from liverpool and take anyone as they are I've worked all over this country and always try and spread the word of born not manufactured always a red in any pub u r no matter where.but blues live or have lived in liverpool or immediate fambo come from the city
 
Calgary Canada

Good....... very clean, mountains on the doorstep, Chinooks, happy hour,steaks

Bad


Bacon is crap, 8hr flight to watch the BLUEs,too many RS fans here, no racing on the telly
 
ilikecheese said:
Oakland, CA

Pros:
Weather. Rarely too hot, rarely too cold. According to Wiki: "Based on data gathered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oakland is ranked No. 1 in climate among U.S. cities." I've lived all over the country, and I would agree.

Location. 12 miles from San Francisco, 10 minutes to Berkeley, 35 Miles to Sillicon Valley, 1 hour to Napa/Sonoma Wine Country or Yosemite National Park, 3 hours to Lake Tahoe. I could list so many places.

Natural Beauty. The Bay Area is beautiful FACT.

Cons:

Expensive. Not as expensive as San Francisco, but still very expensive. I pay $1500/month for a 1 bedroom. I live in a rent controlled building, so I'm lucky I'm not trying to rent it today...the same unit one floor below me just rented for nearly $1900/month. Don't get me into buying...simply unrealistic.

Crime. Oakland is notorious for being a rough city. The perception is far from reality. Oakland in fact has some great areas, and plenty of them. However, there are parts of the city that are quite bad. It's not Detroit or Baltimore bad...but still not good.

Traffic. As I mentioned earlier, I live 12 miles from downtown San Francisco. In the morning/evening, it can take and hour and 30 minutes to get into the Ctiy. UGH.
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Bay Area in general seems great on paper, but in reality I feel like it'd either bankrupt me or drive me insane.
 

Berlin good: space, mutual respect the people have, decent culture, not bad cost-of-living (just about, perhaps not for much longer), good for cycling.

Berlin bad: far too self-aware, lacking genuine wild spontaneous energy. Suffers from typical German bureaucracy (tho' at a slower pace than other cities). Worrying trend of rents increasing while wages suffer.
 
ilikecheese said:
Oakland, CA

Cons:

Expensive. Not as expensive as San Francisco, but still very expensive. I pay $1500/month for a 1 bedroom. I live in a rent controlled building, so I'm lucky I'm not trying to rent it today...the same unit one floor below me just rented for nearly $1900/month. Don't get me into buying...simply unrealistic.

Traffic. As I mentioned earlier, I live 12 miles from downtown San Francisco. In the morning/evening, it can take and hour and 30 minutes to get into the Ctiy. UGH.
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Don't ever move to a city in the UK mate. Your dollar rent equates to £905, which is slightly below average for a one-bedroom flat in Brighton, and slightly above average for Bristol!
 
ijjysmith said:
I bloody love Brighton!!
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Do you live there mate? I do, and I would say it's a textbook example of "nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there". Filthy, dirty city, by which I mean there is uncollected rubbish all over the place; Horrendously overpriced, massively inadequate public transport; roads and parking infrastructure decimated by a looney-left wing Green council, making car ownership/use impossible; huge drugs problem; lack of any decent state schools; massive over-demand for housing driving up purchase prices and, in turn, rental prices; local hospitals, GPs and dentists completely overwhelmed.

I could go on, but there is an element of "horses for courses" involved.

I imagine people younger than me, not considering raising children, would love the place.... but for what I want, Brighton is simply not fit for purpose.
 

I live in Southampton, the good things I have yet to find out as I am relatively new, the bad things are having to spend well over 1k a month to live in a decent pad
 
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