Where to leave Moscow?

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Denis Danilov

He left Moscow in Yekaterinburg

In Moscow, I was engaged in marketing, and in 2006 I went to travel to Goa, where I met my future wife. Then for five years we traveled to India, Europe, Central America and sometimes returned to Moscow for a month or two. In 2012, we decided to move to Yekaterinburg because we found developers there for our Miorama project, and lived there for 2.5 years. We really liked Yekaterinburg with our calmness and openness of people. This is one of those cities of Russia in which you can live comfortably. Although Yekaterinburg is still a severe place; Not only by climate, but also in the internal state.

The sensations from Moscow are mixed: now we live in Edinburgh, in which we moved from Yekaterinburg for the further development of the project, and when we come, we feel like guests. Moscow remained the city of my childhood, but in the middle of the zero, something happened to her, maybe there were too many temptations. The pace of Moscow life, especially after Asia, seems unnatural for a happy life. Everyone says that in Moscow you can earn money, but this is not the main thing.

Polina Alekseeva

I left Moscow first in Tbilisi, and then to Yaroslavl

I left Moscow twice. For the first time in 2003: my first husband was a Georgian, and shortly before that they introduced visas, they stopped at every step in the city. It was almost impossible to get a visa, and we left for Tbilisi, where I lived for six years. Then she parted with her husband and returned, worked in Moscow - shot a movie, wrote the script of the series. After some time, I just realized that this was not my city. I love more calm, human cities: for example, I don't like Paris, but I like Berlin. In Moscow, on the one hand, there is a lot of things, and on the other, it is so blurred, stretched at a distance. Because of these gigantic distances, people simply do not see each other.

Life is not only work.

Of course, there were doubts because of the work, but I left for my native Yaroslavl. This is a compact, convenient city where there is a center, so you can use the bicycle as the main transport. We are now fighting to build bike paths, I am engaged in complex children-it seems to me that it is more correct to try to change something in my hometown. In order to live normally in Moscow, you need to work a lot, and life turns into a “work-house” scheme: you do not see any friends or your own children. And in Yaroslavl, everyone walks together, you can at any time sit on a bicycle and with the whole family to go to the picnic on the river. Outside of Moscow, you understand that life is not only work.

Alexandra Dyoshin

Left Moscow to Yakutsk

The reason for my departure is quite utilitarian: I decided to professionally engage in singing, and it was difficult to do it in Moscow - a huge competition, it is difficult to find a good teacher and is also very expensive.

The first sensation of arrival in Yakutsk is a huge sip of freedom. It was no longer necessary to spend a huge number of hours to get from the house to the place of study. The feeling of heavy space has disappeared, through which it is necessary to wipe off. In Moscow, I do not like first of all that you are constantly experiencing a sense of competition. Even if there is no professional, then you are always in the fight against yourself, there is absolutely no time to concentrate, and even to understand what you really need. It is constantly necessary to overcome something: yourself, space, circumstances. Before moving to Moscow, I lived in St. Petersburg - this is a completely different environment, very productive. I felt a move to Moscow with my husband as a new stage and was on an absolute rise, but I had to face reality. Life in Russia outside Moscow is possible when you set specific goals. The departure helped me focus on personal tasks, in Moscow it is difficult: there are a lot of opportunities, so many that it begins to lightly fever, it is not clear which of them is real. In Moscow, a constant feeling that you have a vision −3 on one eye and +5 on the other, everything was mixed and you can’t imagine a clear picture.

I cannot live in a city that I have to fight every day.

Anna Barinova

Left Moscow in Petersburg

Strictly speaking, I left the Moscow Region, not Moscow: I lived in Podolsk, but every day from morning to evening I still spent in the capital.

I always knew that Moscow is not my city, and the contrast after moving to St. Petersburg was huge: it turns out that it was an amazing feeling - to live in the city that you love. It’s funny that over the years in Moscow I haven’t figured it out: it’s not clear not only where Sviblovo, but where Mitino, but even how to go, for example, from pure ponds to the Kuznetsk bridge. And to understand how Petersburg works, a couple of weeks were enough for me. I know one thing about Moscow: it has a feudal structure and closes its inhabitants into many rings: boulevards, roads, highways. Maybe this city in this city is a sense of pressure. In Moscow, it is not clear where the time disappears, and every second passerby on the face wrote symptoms of asthenic syndrome. It can be assumed that this is a defeat, but I cannot live in a city that I have to fight every day.

Anna Shchekova

Left Moscow in Kemerovo

I left for Kemerovo for family reasons. A month has gone to find a job: I am engaged in management in the company that produces stretch ceilings. Finding a job in Siberia is difficult. I got to Siberia the second time: a year ago I went to Krasnoyarsk. I really like it here, I plan to travel to different cities. There is a completely different nature and completely different people. Here the city is not a pile of high -rise buildings, but wide roads, at the end of which a taiga is visible. There is something special, "Siberian." People do not fuss, there are no traffic jams, everyone is polite. Sometimes the locals tell me about Kemerovo: do not get lost, and indeed traffic jams - after Moscow it sounds funny. I was always very drawn to Siberia: I do not want to try everything in life, but I want to test myself for strength. How do they work here, how to endure cold, how do people survive? For me, Siberia is a challenge to itself.