According to VTsIOM, 52% of Russians do not want to live in Moscow, even if there is housing and work
Most Russians are currently living where they were born, and would not want to change their place of residence even to Moscow, tests of the sociologists of the Public Opinion fund. According to the October survey, Muscovites are distinguished by the greatest rootedness, 68% of which claim that they live in the capital from birth. In megacities, small cities and villages, indigenous people make up 52%, 48% and 47% of the population, respectively.