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They Bought Premium Housing Outside Moscow. They Still Can't Escape Russia's Decaying Infrastructure.
The Moscow Times ^ | 29 May 2024

Posted on 05/29/2024 9:12:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Residents posted videos showing the ground floor flooded with wastewater and reported a "persistent smell of feces" seeping into apartments on “every floor.”

Mayak’s developer touts the complex as a "symbol of luxurious living" in an ecologically pure area with panoramic water views.

(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: communism; plumber; russia
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Outside of Moscow/StPetersberg, most do NOT have indoor plumbing; now you know why. China has a higher percentage of toilets than Russia.

Where have all the plumbers gone? Long time passing Where have all the plumbers gone? Long time ago

Where have all the husbands gone? Long time passing Where have all the husbands gone? Long time ago Where have all the husbands gone? Gone for soldiers, every one Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, every one Oh, when will they ever learn?

1 posted on 05/29/2024 9:12:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Don’t know, not my problem.


2 posted on 05/29/2024 9:15:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The words “Premium Housing” and “Russia” really shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.


3 posted on 05/29/2024 9:17:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If that is the standard of living and they are happy with it, who are we to complain. We have more important things to worry about like student loan forgiveness, martial law because Zelinski is a virus who has infected Biden - If Trump wins the election, Biden may still try to pull off martial - that’s if he allow’s elections anyway.

Americans who product nothing but are takers deserve the same standard of living as Russians. The MT which is a western paper of sorts like the Sun or tabloids.


4 posted on 05/29/2024 9:19:25 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mwx0lwfm-M

For a look at the Moscow Subway


5 posted on 05/29/2024 9:22:52 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: V_TWIN

—”The words “Premium Housing” and “Russia” really shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.”

Just a marketing thing.
But once you reach the boyar level life is more comfortable; until you tragically fall from an upper-level window.

At the oligarch level, only the best!
Until the polonium-210 was accidentally spilled into your tea.

For some reason, most oligarchs have been on extended European vacations.


6 posted on 05/29/2024 9:26:38 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Get the democrats and RINO fixation off of Russia and fixate on our own crumbling country.

We have nothing to brag about. The pier in Gaza is proof.


7 posted on 05/29/2024 9:28:56 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Where have all the plumbers gone?”

They probably are less likely to be shot invading Ukraine than by coming back on site.


8 posted on 05/29/2024 9:28:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Jumper
It's not that Russia is better at building nice things.

It's that Russia is better at taking care of the nice things that it builds.

America also builds nice things. But then we must share it with the vibrancy.

9 posted on 05/29/2024 9:29:26 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The oligarchs are suing the builder for their defective multi-million dollar apartments in NY.

Incompetence is a threat at every level.

10 posted on 05/29/2024 9:29:59 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2022/06/23/florida-building-collapse-surfside-year-later-what-floridas-new-condo-inspection-law/7681446001/


11 posted on 05/29/2024 9:32:05 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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—”“Where have all the plumbers gone?”

They probably are less likely to be shot invading Ukraine than by coming back on site.”

Thanks!
I’m sharing that one with my son-in-law the plumber.


12 posted on 05/29/2024 9:32:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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One can believe this propaganda or one's lying eyes from Scottish expat living in Moscow:

Scottish guy in Moscow

Do you live in the West? Have you become tired of the rampant crime, lack of cleanliness, high tax without great public services and feeling unsafe walking the streets at night? Well, now is the time to think about a change in location. I am going to tell you my 5 reasons why you MUST leave the West now and move to Moscow.

Why You MUST Leave The West And Move to Moscow! ✈️

13 posted on 05/29/2024 9:37:02 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This has got to be CIA propaganda. Just ask the Putridnistas. They will tell you so.


14 posted on 05/29/2024 9:38:27 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I suspect a snake is needed.

https://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Plumbing_Drain_Cleanouts.php


15 posted on 05/29/2024 9:38:32 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: DUMBGRUNT; V_TWIN

The Chinese refer to such building standards as “Tofu Dregs”.

It means something that looks good but it’s actually very poor quality.

This seems to be a symptom or syndrome of societies that have suffered under communism. They make things look good with no care to whether or not the important underlying structure is sound. Because all that matters is that it looks good to please their political masters.


16 posted on 05/29/2024 9:43:01 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: Kazan

“Why You MUST Leave The West And Move to Moscow!”

When are you leaving and moving to Moscow?


17 posted on 05/29/2024 9:45:21 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: Angelino97

—”It’s that Russia is better at taking care of the nice things that it builds.”

Russian roads outside of Moscow/Petersburg show otherwise.

After the fall of the USSR, all public maintenance was deferred; they were broke.
But the energy and natural resources sectors advanced smartly.
And yet, Russia did not gain much if anything.

Over the past 30 years, China’s GDP has increased +600% and Russia’s GDP has remained mostly flat.

In the early 1990’s Russia was a world leader in many areas; schools, medicine, rocketry... those days are gone.
China now has a higher percentage of toilets than Russia.
There is a reason the Russian troops, given the chance are looting toilets and washing machines.


18 posted on 05/29/2024 9:50:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
--"The oligarchs "

Not oligarchs, not close.

Not even boyars!

"At the development stage, we bought [a three-room apartment] of 86 square meters (1000 sq ft) for 13 million rubles [$142,000]. And now it costs 26 million." In 2023, the average annual salary stood at 1.7 million rubles in Moscow and 1 million rubles in the Moscow region.

Today, one ruble equals one penny.

19 posted on 05/29/2024 9:58:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ll see your Mayak and raise you one Tampa Housing Authority.

https://www.tampaha.org/housing


20 posted on 05/29/2024 9:58:56 AM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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