I like to swim! You were right. I checked out 2 very similar 4 bedroom houses with pools here and near Moscow. The house here (2,495,000 USD) is an older house but the one near Moscow (only 456,309 USD) is modern. That's a huge difference in house prices. I found the Moscow house at a Russian real estate site and I converted rubles to dollars. And yeah, the last time I compared house prices I was checking out houses near Moscow at english sites and the prices were a lot higher.
Btw, it's always better to just pay cash for a house and not have a mortgage. The lawyers can settle the "lost interest" issues and dad said it's always a lot less than the interest they charge with a payment plan.
Not good, the Ukrainian poverty issue. Nobody should have to be poor.
I'm still thinking that prices in Russia must be lower because I don't understand how anybody could live with only $200 or $270 each month. But the only prices I've seen are for houses. I still need to learn more about prices for other stuff.