VM, you are way random (and totally lame).
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VM, you are way random (and totally lame).
And you're jealous of my success.Quote:
Originally Posted by JB
What success? :roll:
Unattainable by you. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JB
I think the alcohol price you quoted is WAY too low. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
At a modest $25/week that calculates out to over $1200.
Well I guess it depends on currency rate, but yes you are right, it is kinda low. But when I was there, a bottle of champagne cost $2.. a couple of those and I was good to go for the evening!
I've asked some of my friends who aren't teatotal like muggins here and they said that a bottle of champagne for $2 wouldn't be champagne, it would be vinigar!Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Well, I could find bottle of sovetskaya for 65 roubles. And I have tasted vinegar, they don't taste alike! Maybe I am a sucker for cheap champagne...
Sovetskaya? To me Sovetskaya sounds like a type of vodka. Perhaps you mean Sovetskoye? Champagne is neuter in Russian while vodka is feminine.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
You are, of course, right. Sovetskoe Shampanskoe... my liver is already screaming!
It's easier to survive cheaply if you go far from Moscow. Try a city like Yoshkar-Ola. Here is one American student's travelogue
http://www.yoshkar.com/
Start with his Bio page and work your way back to People. Notice that some pages have multiple sections. If it has a Next: link on it, then check that out too.
I have to be honest guys, Russia sounds dirt cheap! Buy most calculations, you could live frugaly on $6-8k for a year. Thats only
[quote=Androvsky]I have to be honest guys, Russia sounds dirt cheap! Buy most calculations, you could live frugaly on $6-8k for a year. Thats only
Don't believe the VendingMachine! No good comes out of talking machines!
I lived non-frugally in Russia for a year on 10k, I don't see why anyone can't do the same, even if the prices are a little higher.
Obviously, your understanding of frugally is different from mine. 10K a year would be a disaster for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
:) I won't even ask on what you spend your money on :wink:
Charity, gambling and women.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
speaking of gambnling, what are the card rooms in moscow and petersburg like?
anyway, 10k sounds like plenty to go with for a few months :P
They are like card rooms, comrade Androvsky.
I meant, what do they play and what prices. (ie, $50 pot limit hold em, etc).
Though i htink you already knew what i meant....