1) The streets and walkways are very dusty you should wear sunglasses when its windy, but there is almost no rubbish on the street.
2) Cap drivers drive like hell
3) You can drive by unofficial caps, just stop a car and give the guy some money (don’t do it without native speakers)
4) There are more German S-Classes than in Germany – there are in general more luxury and hot cars than in any other city that I have been.
5) The same is true for chicks - but not for guys (sorry girls)
6) Without the Cyrillic alphabet you can read almost nothing – almost nobody speaks English outside the agency.
7) Food especially cheese and meat is very expensive. Bread is very cheap. Mc Donald’s menus are cheaper and a bit bigger J
8) Mc Donald’s is as huge as the airport in Paderborn
9) Living in Moscow is expensive in general
10) Cars don’t break at crosswalks – you should do it like the green man on the traffic lights... run
11) Some streets have 5 lanes in one direction but the Russians use it like 8 lanes sometimes. When on the highway is traffic jam they drive next to the street.
12) Advertising and billboards are everywhere and sometimes really huge
13) Escalators are much faster than in Germany and better stand the hell right
14) Russian TV is kind of strange they play a lot of American movies often with just one speaker who synchronizes everything. You can still hear the American actors a bit but unfortunately not enough. Commercials are mainly “normal” and not that creative, and/or adopted European commercials. They do strip on MTV at night…
15) Vodka is cheap (except of imported vodka) - Bacardi 0,7l is about 33€
16) Your apartment got two doors and 5 locks
17) The heaters don’t have a thermostat so you can’t stop it and even worth you cant turn it on if it’s cold.
18) There is a kind of chute in the stairways – smells often great
19) Supermarkets are opened 24/7 – very nice
20) Cancer is cheap a pack cigarettes costs 50 Cent
21) Steps are half as high as in Germany – curbs double as high
22) Even the oldest Lada got a car alarm with shock sensors that’s why you hear car alarm systems 24/7
23) Almost every car got black windows
24) Sometimes you see horses on the walkway
25) Using an elevator is always an adventure
26) Problems with cops can be solved by a few rubels
to be continued...
