We moved to live from Moscow to Batumi

When we moved to live in Batumi, meeting and communicating with local residents, it was interesting to observe their reaction to the phrase: “We moved to live from Moscow to Batumi.”

It was usually followed by a series of questions.

In order not to repeat myself in the future, I decided to write the TOP 5 questions and immediately answer them.

1) Aren’t you bored in a provincial town after such a huge city like Moscow?

It's not boring at all, and I'll explain why.

Many people think that if they find themselves in Moscow, their life will be wonderful and amazing.

The movement is in full swing, the crazy rhythm of life, around there are a sea of ​​shopping centers, cinemas, theaters, clubs and other entertainment.

Yes, it would be stupid to say otherwise, but let’s imagine an average weekday:

Morning (7:30), coffee with a cigarette, traffic jam to work (an hour and a half), work until 19:20, traffic jam home (1-2 hours), stop at the store, dinner at home (or pick up family and dinner out ), at 22-23 house, rest - sleep.

And now the average day off:

Morning, coffee, breakfast, getting ready for the whole family, traffic jam to some shopping complex, lunch, cinema in this complex, grocery shopping and more, traffic jam home, sleep.

And so on day after day. Sometimes it’s a vacation, sometimes it’s a vacation abroad, sometimes it’s a trip to visit friends and parents. And all this through traffic jams, traffic jams, traffic jams.

They take away 4-8 hours of your life every day. There are days when Moscow is empty... about 10 out of 365.

Now imagine the same thing, but with a minimum of financial resources.

Metro (crush) - metro (crush), you arrive home like a squeezed lemon, you hate the whole wide world, all people without exception, your nerves are on edge, you lash out at your family. You feel like a loser, looking from the window of a five-story building in Butovo at expensive foreign cars parked around and the girls in them, dressed for the amount of your annual income (this is not exactly my story, but everywhere).

DO I MISS THE TRAFFIC, THE NERVES, AND THE 15 MILLION POPULATION? NO!

And everything else is either replaceable or not critical. The main thing is that the family is nearby, the daughter can safely walk the streets without fear of being raped at the entrance or robbed by visiting Tajiks.

2) What do you miss in Batumi from those household amenities that you had in Moscow?

Due to the fact that our whole family is essentially night owls, I miss a number of nightlife establishments.

A variety of 24-hour restaurants, large shopping malls open until 24:00, an abundance of 24-hour stores within walking distance, a large selection of clothing brands, home delivery of food, and, excuse me, an abundance of beautifully dressed people on the streets.

But what many people dream about is absolutely not critical and is easily replaceable.

If you want to spend a day shopping, 2 hours and you’re in Trabzon. By the way, it takes about the same amount on average to get to a shopping mall in Moscow.

Food delivery is appearing, and you can always place a take away order.

And everything else wears off over time, and men in tracksuits no longer hurt the look. In addition, enough tourists come during the season, enjoy it for your health. So there is nothing that is not replaceable or critical. There are more advantages.

3) It can be nasty and rainy in Batumi, doesn’t it bother you?

Are you laughing? Who are you scaring with bad weather and abomination? 33 years in Moscow prepared me for anything.

There has been mud and slush in Moscow for 9 months.

Temperature changes from +8 to -18 in one day. Such changes always cause headaches, pensioners die from blood pressure, there is either slush or ice, which makes traffic jams 4 times greater.

And when it snows, they pour some kind of reagent on the roads and sidewalks, which turns any shoe into a trash heap in a maximum of 1 month, and what matters is good boots from FABI or something for 600 rubles from the Soviet Scout company. My dogs began to limp within 10 minutes of walking, as the reagent corroded their paw pads.

And when all this melts, you jump like a mountain goat through puddles of mud, since all the drains are clogged and utility services are cutting the budget instead of cleaning. So I’ll somehow survive a month or two of rain.

4) What do you live on?

Although the question is a little unethical, I will answer.

Naturally, living in Moscow, I worked to provide for my family. I've been trying to support myself since I was 16 years old.

Somehow I hated sitting on my parents’ necks; after all, I’m a man, and I started a family quite early. I started working for someone, then I didn’t like one industry, another, and in a third I worked for 10 years, making a good career. By “not bad” I mean not bad compared to others in this field, but far from the opportunity to, say, earn money for an apartment. So, for some accommodation in an expensive city with a billion temptations.

As a result, I am a partner in a certain small business, this gives me some income that allows me to live in this wonderful city of Batumi.

5) What do you plan to do next, develop some kind of business in Batumi?

Well, I won’t tell you all the plans, but believe me, there are a lot of free niches in Batumi that you can easily fit into without jostling with elbows and with very little investment. And doing business in Georgia itself is much simpler and clearer than in Moscow, not to mention the bureaucracy and corruption, which does not allow you to take a single step without unnecessary and considerable expenses. So, while I’m looking closely, feeling out the nuances, I plan to finish my business in Moscow and develop here.