Comments by "Julia P." (@juliap.5375) on "Moscow Cost Of Living 2025 - Could You Live Here?" video.

Something like in China or Japan — safe places. Criminal level below of EU/US. Especially in Moscow. Women can walk during night alone, there are no "no go zones" in cities. In some regions criminal level is so law, that people even not close doors on own cars. Visas — for some countries no needs of it, for some you can get one just online, for some — you need to go to local embassy. It is based on level of friendship between countries.
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So, what do you forgot there? You are already pensioner, you are free. Move to warm cheap country, the easiest way to increase own level of life and prolong own life. There are a lot places which are more developed and with better medicine.
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Work in former McDonald — 65 000 rubles. Pointless to convert money to dollars and try to estimate is it a lot or not. Prices is different, spendings also very different. Also being local (in 95% cases means already with apartments in own property) and foreign (who have nothing) — also is very different situation. Local from this salary will spend just 1/2 or 2/3 and rest will accumulate for future, while foreigner will be forced to spend everything for apartments and need more. Btw, Russia for foreign workers is second by popularity after US. There are near 27 millions of foreign workers.
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I have accounts in different banks, interest rate is bit different, in general now around 20% Mortgages — it is long story, in Russia ppl rarely take loans/mortgages just so directly. Exist a lot of state subsidy programs, so real percent which people pay far away from official which propose bank. Example: in Russian city Vladivostok (near Japan) now is building one of the largest shipyard in world, Russia already building there largest in world nuclear icebreaker and have plans to build a lot of more hugest ships in next decades. So, city need a lot of workers. That’s why state declare that mortgage there is just 2%. Another example — country need more kids, so for young family (below 35yo) there are program of 6%, plus payments for born of kids which possibly to spend on mortgage. Another example — country need more IT specialists (like everywhere in world they often went to California), so for them — 5%. And so on, dozens of more examples and very different programs (e.g. for 5 years of work of teacher/doctor in rural area mortgage will be fully paid there by state).
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Islam is traditional religion in Russia, with history of 1100 years (Christianity in Russia have history of just 1000 years, for one century less). A lot of Russian nations are muslims. On Far East — Buddhists. In future, very likely, Russia will rejoin with own former republics, a lot of which represent Islamic cultures. There are no any problems, this territories and all people lived together for centuries. And together lived better than nowadays.
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@69spook So, what do you forgot there? You are already pensioner, you are free (again: free). Move to warm cheap country, the easiest way to increase own level of life and prolong own life. There are a lot places which are more developed and with better medicine. Did you saw statistic, how many ppl UK lost each winter because of cold and high prices? From 20 to 40 thousands!
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@ВладимирЧишкун Так то оно сложнее. Покупают в точке равновесия между спросом и предложением, там плавающая кривая. Ну и второе — вполне возможно, что покупают в силу привычки (допустим после завышения цен). Но это исключительно инерционный эффект, на следующем этапе у вас продажи падают в ноль, потому что покупатели отказываются от товара. И даже снизив цену становится невозможно набрать прежний спрос, потому что покупатели отказываются не просто товара, а от привычки. Допустим ел человек шоколад, он стал слишком дорог, человек себе обьясняет, что он якобы отказывается от сладкого (первичная причина конечно же цена), поэтому даже после падения цены человек к шоколаду не возвращается, для продавца клиент утерян. На этом немало бизнесов прогорело, они пытаются нащупать новый потолок цен, задирают цену, спрос сохраняется, продавец радуется, а потом обвал, снижение цен ниже себестоимости и все равно банкротство.
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Поставь себе нулевые тарифы и вообще не плати. У меня есть симка со старым тарифом по минутам, на случай если вдруг потребуется куда-то зачем-то позвонить (за лет 5 и 500 рублей не потратила). Ну и на куче остальных симок просто нулевые тарифы, использую для авторизации в банках и на разных сервисах. Там главное раз в 90 дней не забыть 1 смс послать, чтобы их не заблокировал оператор и всё. Итого достаточно закинуть 10 рублей и хватает на годы.
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@Compunctus It is because you are lazy to file a tax form :) But you could include in this form your payments for visits of fitness center and get refund part of this money from taxes on you bank account ) Because state in such way stimulate people to have sport and be healthy. Same with spendings on medical drugs, you can return part of money from own taxes. Or for touristic trips inside of Russia. There are hundreds of such things about which you just never cared.
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@loufranklin5956 What changed for last 4 years? I really have no idea.
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