@psyix @m0xee yeah.... I grew up in Poland, I've been to Russia a number of times and I still have friends over there, so living in Italy and hearing what your average Italian has to say about it I'm just like wow.
And it's not even the Russia they see in media, you know. It's more about the super rich Russians the Italians see here. I mean, they see a dude coming for a vacation in a yacht, he rents a whole village for two weeks, and the "simple folk" is like, holy shit Russians are so damn rich
@ThatCrazyDude
Oh, that too, when I see people complaining: "OMG, they are going to make me live in a pod",— I think: alrite, that "pod" is probably still going to be bigger than average Russian's place, even in Moscow 🤪
But the worst part is if they ask lower-middle class Russian about it, he'll come up with something like: "Well, yeah, it's nothing posh, but at least I own the place"
@psyix
@m0xee @psyix yeah, man. People in what we call "western world" just don't have the perspective. I mean, in Italy where I live, you're poor if you drive the same car for more than 6 years. In Russia you're "middle class" if you can go to a supermarket everyday and you don't need to worry that your paycheck will last till the end of the month. It's like comparing apples to oranges
@ThatCrazyDude
Own the place? Wow! It's hard for westerner to imagine how laughable are propery (or any) rights in Russia are! And that this "owning the place" still implies paying out mortgage with rates so high, that the only leisure you'd likely be able to afford is on the couch in front of the TV 😩
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