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« on: January 26, 2013, 11:20:13 am »
This is informative private life details thread, mostly I want you to share about your life expenses and other goodies in a differtent country than mine. I am deeply interested in how your daily life going and how good it is, on average basis. I am currently interested in my body relocation, mostly due to climate and inner hatred to concrete jungle called Moscow. Information with details is surprisingly scarce in internet, usually some obscure blogs.
So lets start
33, single, coder (web)
Location - Moscow/Russia
Climate - quite awful, think 3 months of summer, otherwise it's snow or rain. I get cold often and miss atleast 2-3 days a month atleast. My primary reason I want relocation. I lived for 8 months in Goa and never had a sniff. Thats rang a bell.
Residency - I renting a one bedroom flat in inner city for a 30k roubles/month (1k$/month, later all sums in US dollars for convinience). Thats an average price for one bedroom `not so bad` flat in city fairly close to metro. If you want to change place you have to pay forward triple monthly price - one to broker, one for first month, one for last month. All other stuff usually is not paid, but I do pay electricity bill, which is about 300$/year. Usualy landlords not paying taxes from their rent, but I don't care, ya know, Russia is shady country.
I do change flats most of the time when I change work - travel time is important to me, so if I need more than 30-45 minutes to get to a job I am starting to become unhappy.
Moving my body around - I dont have a car, I actually have no license and I have no idea how to drive. I use a buses and metro. Ticket price is about 1$ one way. My current route - bus/metro/work/metro/bus. So it's cheap and reliable. Traffic in Moscow is pretty sick and you can easily get into jam for 3 hours, any day. And as I said - travel time is very important to me.
Job - I am most senior of my other php flock in one of the biggest sports web sites in Russia. They pays me about 4k$ monthly, past taxes, so I pay for my rent 1/4 of paycheck, which is important for me. Well you know, we want to save some. It's not biggest salary I can get in Moscow, but relative to most other people it's quite high. Russians is not wealthiest folks, you know.
Usually I am in office from 3pm till 8pm. Most regulations force you to stay 8 hours at work but I try to avoid such places. I dont want to spend my time on facebook just to meet that expectation. Anyways, after 5 hours of coding your head is not working.
Expenses - daily lunch is about 10$ in cafeteria. Usually its a salad, soup and some macaroni/buckwheat/rice with meat/fish. My evening meals costs higher but I just hate cooking, thats why. Cigarettes - 2$ a pack, bottle of vodka 10$, hooker 150$, wait what? where am I?
Also there is alot of shops working 24/7, inclduing food delivery. I really value ability to buy food in the middle of night, I keep hearing horror stories that you can't shop around in europe after 6pm.
Entertainment - I dont do entertainment aside from movies/series/games and very rare club stints(night life in Moscow actually very good if not best in Europe). I don't care views, I was on red square first time after living in Moscow for like 5-6 years. And Kremlin is boring. Give me good climate, thats matters.
Okay, give me more details!
