It will clear my head some, and explain to you in the process, to explain in the form os a list what I like and dislike about Moscow.
WHAT I LIKE:
-My friends: Tamara, Alexei the Second, Ivan, Roman, A. Samsonov, a few expats
-Vulgar conversations with attractive females
-Vulgar conversations period
-Learning disgusting words
-Binge loathing
-Watching TWO METERS of vomit hang from a guy's mouth leaning over the balcony at the train station
The satisfaction of having an imperfect, but real, conversation in a very difficult language
-Learning something new every day
-Learning as much from my students as they learn from me, which means I get paid for learning
-Beautiful women (this plus however, is so ridden with caveats that I am almost not sure if it belongs on the "plus" part of the list)
-The fact that if someone asks me what kind of movies I like, and I mention Total Recall or Terminator, I am not exposed to a rant about low-brow American movies (I am comparing Russia here to France)
-Good stories (which come from bad times, as a rule, which means this item will reappear in another form in the list of negatives)
-Vokrug Sveta magazine, and Russkaia Jizn' magazine
-Listening to people affecting West European political views, their noses in the air and telling me how much better things are here, then me telling them that we both know that this a nation comprised largely of whores, liars, cheats, murderers, thieves, and alcoholics, and that we both know it (the downside is that people who have done nothing to me get hurt)
WHAT I DON'T LIKE
-Mistrust of women
1 Whores trying to drug you and leave you knocked out on the floor of your own now empty apartment
2 The high incidence of sexually transmitted diseases
3 Women hoping to get pregnant wihtout telling me of their plan
4 Women who think me of me as a cash machine
5 Women who think I should take them out of the country
6 Women who will give you great sex, then start demanding cash, revealing themselves to be whores
7 All of that mistrust culminating in bouts of impotence which leave you wondering if you are physically ill
-Mistrust of landlords
1 Stolen deposit
2 Summary expulsion from the premises
3 Casuistry: Discussions with the landlord about how you destroyed the flat, while sitting with him in person in the very flat you supposedly destroyed and which is in precisely the same condition as it was when you arrived
-Mistrust of cops
-Substance-less food
-The smell of alcoholics in the morning
-Gopniki/ Bydlo (There is no real translation for those words, riffraff doesn't quite catch it, I always find myself saying "living shit" or "people deserving a post-birth abortion")
-Doctors who've been paid badly for so long they don't care about your health or anyone else's
-Living the lie that there is much good about this place apart from its books, which I can in any case read at home
-(I can't believe this has occurred to me so late!) Sleazebucket expats: drunks, runaway debtors, possible bail jumpers, whoremongers some of whom are married with kids
-People who laugh when you tell them about how you saw the prelude to a rape
-Wondering if you are aging faster
-The enslavement of the handicapped in the subway
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