Home Sweet Russian Home

My luxury apartment in Yaroslavl! Highlights/lowlights include the romantic toilet by candlelight (the light in the bathroom is one of the many things that doesn't work in the apartment), the Soviet era elevator, the entrance to the building with a strong smell of urine and the woman who is always sitting in the stairwell between the 8th and 9th floor (possibly she lives there).

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[whooperpooper86]

what did u say to the women that lives in the stairwell?

[GrizzlyUM02]

@whooperpooper86

I said, "strasvitye" which is hello in Russian.

[whooperpooper86]

@GrizzlyUM02 i thought it was privet. but your the russian. anyways, is she like a drug addict living there?

[GrizzlyUM02]

@whooperpooper86 I am not Russian. Privet and strasvitye both mean hello but privet is informal and used with friends while strasvitye is more formal and polite. An older woman who is homeless in Russia is not usually a drug addict but being alcoholic would not be uncommon. She also could have been mentally ill or simply just poor. She never caused any problems though when I was there.

[sartyhotone]

I lived in Yaroslavl for some time. Nice city and great apartments. But the buildings in this district are awful your right, many drug users live there.

The building is dirty, but again, it depends on the apartment's owner to keep it clean and sweet. Your toilet does not work, there is no light in the bathroom. You could fix it , could not you? It looks like you don't care. You don't have to have a lot of money to keep it clean

[GrizzlyUM02]

@sartyhotone Yaroslavl is a nice city but it is not a city of great apartments by any standard. I have lived in better apartments than this there but apartments are mostly small, poorly built and run down. I didn't fix it because I was only there for about 3 weeks. The main problem is not the apartment but the common areas like the entrance and stairs which don't belong to anyone so noone does anything to maintain or clean them.

[mattnik]

Doesn't seem like too bad of a place, once you get inside the door :-) But there's no way in hell you'd get me on that elevator. No siree.... That thing would get stuck between floors, and they'd find me in 2042.

[TheDudeYouHateToMeet]

what a fuckin disgusting hellhole!

[AnimusPipboy]

@mattnik I heard you could catch some tasty rats there.And the cocroaches are also nice.

[ndm250]

pretty rad, bro

[TheRandomSweed]

Well thats typical russian mentallity. Dont care about fixing and taking care of anything. Ive seen it in so many places since my wife is russian.

[nohdata]

and do you have internet? :/

[fightinside1]

looks like the stone age until you get to the apartment

[LexieDeaves]

@arik794 whats ok? what r u talking about? I was born in Belarus, don't you think I would know what was part of USSR ...and again what does it have to do with my question?

[arik794]

@LexieDeaves its okay . in ussr ukraine was part of soviet russia

[LexieDeaves]

@arik794 so you and your family come from different countries? well thats odd but I am not sure what it has to do with my question!