How far east? Just in case Biden/Warren wins in November.
I wish we till had homesteading.
Two and half acres? Uhmmm...that’s not going to grow much more than a potato patch.
Oh well, at least they’ll have vodka...
It’s funny. I’ve thought for years that the Russians should do this. It’s amazing how much severely under-populated land they have (most of their country really).
They need a version of the Homestead Act.
This is actually a feint against the growing Chinese influence in Eastern Russia. Most of the Siberian economy is 100% dependent upon China; most of the infrastructure and jobs comes directly from China. China wants Siberia for the natural resources, and with tens of millions of Chinese now living in Siberia and Beijing effectively controlling the economy of Siberia - Russia needs to do something or in a generation China will “embrace” Siberia and that is that.
They’re moving East because Asia is the future. Europe is dying
Out there in the taiga where the mosquitoes are as big as pterodactyls
and as thick as stars in the Milky Way? What a deal!
Specifically, bears and big cats?
I'll guess they have wolf packs, but maybe not, since it seems to be mostly forest, with only limited grazing areas for herd animals.
And zillions of mosquitoes.
And three months of darkness and sub-zero temperatures.
I'd like to visit for a few weeks in late August to early September.
The leaves would be just starting to change and the first frost would kill all the skeeters.
And in Alaska 90% of the land is federal parks
2.5 acres? C’mon Vlad, you can do better than that. (Just in case Hillary wins)
Sorry Vlad. Make it a thousand hectares, and I get to pick, and you got a deal.
I have heard the in Russia most females have had at least one and sometimes many abortions.
As they use abortion as a form of birth conttrol.?
Great.
Inhospitable.
Nothing grows in arctic tundra snow. Bring back the wooly mammoth and Russian land is valuable again.
They must have changed their land laws. In the early 1990s you could get long term leases but not own the land.
When we lived in Ussurriysk, north of Vladivostok in 1996, 1997, very little of Primorskiy Territory (Vladivostok, Ussurriysk, that region) was cultivated. Vast untouched grasslands could be viewed by train all the way to the Chinese border at Gredekiva/SuiFenHe). Cross into China and you could see nothing BUT cultivated land, green houses, grain elevators, processing plants, etc.
The Russians had been accustomed for generations with working in military armament factories, which could be seen abandoned along the major roads. The people there had not been farmers; didn't know how to farm. They bought their food from China and South Korea. The Koreans were cultivating a hearty winter rice in Primorskiy. We shopped for our food mainly in Chinese/Korean open markets. The exchange rate in 1997 was 6,000 Rubles to one U.S. Dollar.
I’ve seen those Siberian documentaries
Freeze yourself for 9 months and then covered in skeeters and black flies and horseflies and gnats the other 3
Siberians are hardy off the charts