Come up: 26 stories about moving to Moscow

Beautiful girls, a long ruble and Japanese language - about the reasons that made them change their place of residence, The New Times talked with the subscribers of their groups in social networks, which moved to the capital from other cities

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Moscow: Work

“... I was 6 years old when my parents decided to move to a well -fed Moscow to earn money. Dad was dangled several times to equip, and when he was returning, they stuffed me to sleep at eight, and my parents whispered and sighed behind the carpet of our “odnushka”. By the time I move, I was in a panic. I was afraid of Moscow like fire, at night I dreamed of nightmares, I sobbed. Mom could not get from me what was the matter. Finally, I admitted that I was afraid of pike. It seemed to me that they walk in Moscow through the streets on the tails, huge and toothy. Because every evening the father after the partition sorrowfully repeated: “I don’t understand how we will live there. I hate these Moscow pikes. ” A.N.

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“... I always knew that I want to live in Moscow. The hometown was not small at all, but it so happened that in Moscow - friends, in Moscow - the Literary Institute, where I went. I remember, I always came here as home, not afraid to get lost. And once mine - now the former - the husband was left without work, and those very Moscow friends invited him to try his luck in the capital. I tried. Successfully. Then he moved here and the children. Later we parted with him, and the children have grown significantly - consider themselves Muscovites. And none of us will return back, that's for sure. ” Maria Kigel

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“... I entered the Institute at the faculty of oriental languages ​​in Moscow. Do not return to the native province with knowledge of Japanese. So I live here. ” Timur Devetyarov

“... At one time, my friends moved to Moscow for a long-prefabricated ruble, which they do not regret at all. They say that the difference in earnings is 10-15 times higher than in St. Petersburg. But this is a case, of course. For me, Moscow is some kind of cosmos: you get up to work at 12 days, then you sit on the phone until Saturday on Saturday, then you go on Sunday to 9al the devil where to the meeting. In general, a mysterious city. " Lena Pashtinava

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“... I moved to Moscow in search of work. Everything turned out very successfully: a week later I ran to the subway, and it seemed to me that everyone was some slow, and after two-passers-by asked me the way. True, as I wanted, it never became a millionaire. ” Anna sapogova

"... as a child, I really loved the song" I love you, the capital. " She screamed her so that the whole entrance he heard. Apparently, Moscow also heard. I did not move to the capital - I had to run away from an overly intrusive fan. I have been living here for 30 years! " Alena Danilova

“... Having moved to Moscow from Novosibirsk, I found that people here are not only more friendly, but also called Helpful. At any metro station, the doors are held here when you drag a large box, and in Novosibirsk I saw this only on Lenin Square. When I stumbled in Moscow and fell, people immediately began to offer help, give advice, and some guy held out the patch, deciding that I was very hurt. And these are the simplest examples of my observations. ” Anton Karpov

“... I ended up in Moscow because of work, lived there for five years. I remember how we went with my son in a car loaded with things, and stood in a traffic jam at Himki. I turned to him and say: "We will not live here." He claps his eyes and repeats: "We will not." And did not live. Rather, they stayed for five years: I bought an apartment, sold an apartment and left. If I want to have fun, I come to the capital, but you can’t work there. All the time some kind of party, drink, returning home at dawn. In my opinion, it is better to leave Moscow as entertainment. ” Nelly Schulman

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“... they called to Moscow for promotion. They called cunningly, before the annual prize. If I refused, you can’t see money. She told a friend - replied that “anymore with whom” would not go to Moscow. The status of a friend changed to the status of a wife. Moving, we dreamed of traveling, but went mainly to Samara and back. In the end, they returned from money to comfort and went to their hometown. ” Elena Popova

“... I earned money and decided to move from St. Petersburg to the capital. At first, my mother constantly asked: "When is it back?" Then for some time I went to St. Petersburg for the weekend, but soon I noticed that no one needed me there. He remained in Moscow, since there was no point in returning back. ” Evgeny Yakovlev

“... I returned to my hometown after a year of residence in Germany and realized that I had to run. At that time, my friend with her young man rented an apartment in Moscow and called me to rent a room from them. I agreed, but when the tickets were already bought, it turned out that she broke up with him and was returning to live in our city. “But you come anyway. He is not opposed to shoot with you, ”she said. I went. Six months later, I rented an apartment with other friends, after 15 years I live in my own apartment. She did not regret for a second about her decision. ” Lera Kotova

“... Since my grandmother of my great -grandmother came to Moscow in 1864 on foot from the village of Titovo, which was five miles from Moscow, so we live here. We are not going to move. ” Olesya Vlasova

“As a child, I loved the song“ I love you, the capital ”. She screamed her so that the whole entrance he heard. Apparently, Moscow also heard "

Moscow: Love

“... I moved because I forgot how the girls look. The grandmother raised me, and in the village where we lived, there were no young people at all. At school, I studied in a class, where there were only guys. Therefore, as soon as I received a certificate, I decided to move to Moscow to remember what beautiful girls look like. ” Sergey Poyarkov

“... I fell in love. We met in the online game, I have remote work-I don’t care where to live, and he worked firmly in Moscow. There was no choice - I had to move. ” Anna Lobacheva

“... a girl came to us in Vladivostok by distribution from Moscow. When it all ended and she returned home, I realized that I fell in love warmly. Besides the fact that she lives in Moscow, I did not know anything about her. Then I just collected my things and decided to move to the capital to look for it every day. But fate ordered so that as soon as I left the wagon at the station, I absolutely accidentally saw it at the newspaper kiosk. We did not part anymore. ” Matvey Larichev

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“... the husband was killed right on the bus. I remember how he lay next to the stop, where a crowd of people stood, but no one helped to call an ambulance. As soon as her husband buried, she decided to start all over again and moved to Moscow. The city is big here, there are a lot of people, there are a lot of people. And if I stayed there, I could not live: I would remember this human indifference. This will seem strange, but I have been living here for 5 years, and during this time I had only opened open, kind, human people. ” Svetlana Akhmedova

“... my move to Moscow was like an allergy attack. Then I have a novel for two cities. While we met in St. Petersburg, everything was fine. But I wanted to see what was like there in this Moscow. I took two thousand rubles from my mother, bought a train ticket with the mocking name “Youth” (sitting nine hours sitting, resting his knees into the next chair, listening to the music on the choice of the driver) and just left. ” Dmitry Makarov

“The husband was killed right on the bus. I remember how he lay next to the stop, where a crowd of people stood, but no one helped to call an ambulance. As soon as she buried her husband, she decided to start all over again and moved to Moscow ... I have been living here for 5 years, and during this time I had only opened open, kind, human people ”

“... everything is simple for me: I married a Muscovite, I had to move. I like that Moscow is different: here you can find everything you want. Such infrastructure is not in any city in Russia, unfortunately. By the way, for 7 years of life I have never been late here: at least by car, at least on foot. If we get together to move from here, then only to Europe. ” Igor Ilyin

“... I had an affair, as in the film“ Communication ”by Avdotya Smirnova. He lived in Moscow, and I in St. Petersburg. For a whole year he flew to me, promised to take it to the capital. And once during the flight he had an attack, he ended up in a hospital, where I met his wife. So I realized that it's over. Nevertheless, I moved to Moscow in the hope that everything will be as before. We met only once and never saw each other again. I have been living in Moscow for 12 years and I do not regret anything: I made a career, got married, gave birth to a child, found friends. True, after moving for 2 years I went to a psychotherapist - I was so yearning. ” Elena anointed

“... she always loved Moscow, but not so much to move. And then it turned out that in St. Petersburg I was left without work. Suddenly, a friend from Moscow called me and offered a position. In the end, it did not work out with that work, but I was enough for two weeks to feel “I live and work in Moscow, and this is cool”. To the complete amazement of my husband, I resolutely refused to return. After a while, he also moved to the capital. For myself, I explain the move like this: you can swim in the pool, or you can - in the Dead Sea. And the second is easier. There are so many things here: work, people, and most importantly - a lot of beauty. ” Asya Kazantseva

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Moscow: Perception

“... I moved to Moscow twice: on my first visit I got rich, I wanted to move to the United States, but by the will of fate I was stuck in Turkey. After a while, she returned to Moscow again, went bankrupt and left again. And again - to Turkey. " Aydan Pulatova

“... Arriving in Moscow, I spent every evening in the large hall of the conservatory. Meanwhile, I always thought about moving to the capital, but somehow sluggish. And once the pianists Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov and Alexander Gindin drove to our Krasnodar. After their performance, I realized that I no longer want to live in airless space: I need first -class concerts vital, and as often as possible. Having moved, I almost rushed to the BZK on the first evening, where Mgaso spoke. I listened and cried with happiness, because the dream came true! Moscow gave me everything: phenomenal people, the opportunity to live a few lives at the same time, a new profession, love and a lot of music. She opened for me new horizons, which I could not imagine. " Yana Tifbenkel

“... it turned out that I entered the Moscow Institute. In absentia. She herself worked on a core and flew to the capital for six years. When she graduated, she moved to Moscow to her younger sister: she wrote at night script at night, putting a laptop on the toilet cover. Later she entered the VGIK, worked in a television company. Moscow in my life is a city in which I lived longer than anywhere: almost 17 years. ”

“Moscow gave me everything: phenomenal people, the opportunity to live a few lives at the same time, a new profession, love and a lot of music”

“... I remember that my friends and acquaintances began to drive away even to perestroika. I reasoned that if I move to Moscow, we would meet more often: someone will stop here travel, someone would come on vacation, and someone to go to the capital to work in specialization. I came here in the last year, when the rubber Moscow was still allowed. A month later, restructuring broke out. ” Alexander Core

“... I was 11 years old when my parents loaded me on a night train, and in the morning my sister met me on the Moscow platform. In my city, they did not really believe in my sister from Moscow: there were no evidence in the form of fashionable outfits and soft toys. And here - she herself sits in a taxi, and we are going through the same Moscow. I remember sitting from behind and, in order not to burst out, recalled the words of her father: "An adult life begins with disappointments." Since then, one picture and one smell about the capital have been firmly strengthened in my head: the rainy rose that some boy handed me at VDNH and the smell of creosot. If you ask what Moscow is for me, I will answer - roses with creosote. ” Oksana Butorina

“... I have long dreamed of living in Moscow, to feel it from the inside, to plunge into the real atmosphere of Moscow life. She moved to the capital for love. The more I live here, the more I understand that I want to stay here forever. " Julia Mavrodi

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