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(02-19-2024, 01:58 PM)stxbuck Wrote: (02-16-2024, 07:31 PM)TroyKidd Wrote: I was able to go into Hungary in 1989 just as the wall was falling and socialism was being pushed back. I had met a very nice Hungarian girl on the plane and took her up on her invitation to visit her in her home town.
The apartment she lived in with her parents was VERY tiny. Her bedroom was half the size of the first bedroom i rented if that. You could barley stand between the single bed and the wall. It was the size of a jail cell?
I got to go to East Berlin and the wall wasn’t even down. It felt like a ghost town. Clean, but sterile. I didn’t stay long. You couldn’t stay long. I vividly recall going through a hole in the wall to spray paint a message to the East Berliners on their side of the wall. Some were saying don’t do it. That I could be shot. My message was epic. A-Kidd strikes. I’m pretty sure I misspelled strikes. LOL
When my wife and I visited her relatives in Hungary 10+ years later, their apartment was likewise very small.
Much Smaller than my buddy’s trailer park home.
What are YOU willing to give up for nice?
Go out to the provinces and it is bad.” Same thing with Russia-Tucker Carlson isn’t going to Perm or Chelyabinsk anytime soon.
I wonder what is meant by "bad". There are plenty of "bad" places in the U.S., all run by the establishment figures that constantly attack Hungary and Poland.
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(02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals.
The same can be said about Washington D.C. The counties surrounding D.C. are the richest in the nation. The funny thing is that D.C. itself is a violent, crime-ridden, ****hole.
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(02-20-2024, 08:29 PM)K9Buck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals.
The same can be said about Washington D.C. The counties surrounding D.C. are the richest in the nation. The funny thing is that D.C. itself is a violent, crime-ridden, ****hole.
As bad as it is in Appalachia, the differences between it and DC pales in comparison to the differences in Russia.
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(02-20-2024, 08:37 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:29 PM)K9Buck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals.
The same can be said about Washington D.C. The counties surrounding D.C. are the richest in the nation. The funny thing is that D.C. itself is a violent, crime-ridden, ****hole.
As bad as it is in Appalachia, the differences between it and DC pales in comparison to the differences in Russia.
I guess I'll have to take your word for that but I doubt that Appalachian communities have the levels of extreme violence and crime that exists in our nation's capitol.
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(02-20-2024, 08:39 PM)K9Buck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:37 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:29 PM)K9Buck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals.
The same can be said about Washington D.C. The counties surrounding D.C. are the richest in the nation. The funny thing is that D.C. itself is a violent, crime-ridden, ****hole.
As bad as it is in Appalachia, the differences between it and DC pales in comparison to the differences in Russia.
I guess I'll have to take your word for that but I doubt that Appalachian communities have the levels of extreme violence and crime that exists in our nation's capitol.
Perhaps I misunderstood, I was speaking to the general living conditions and the services that the government provides to them. As a former inhabitant of DC, yes, the crime in certain areas is just out of control and way worse than in any part of Appalachia.
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(02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals.
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(02-29-2024, 01:51 PM)stxbuck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals. Looks like paradise compared to Cleveland.
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(02-29-2024, 03:26 PM)Dzone1 Wrote: (02-29-2024, 01:51 PM)stxbuck Wrote: (02-20-2024, 08:20 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: There is extraordinary disparity of living conditions between Moscow and especially the regions to the east of the Urals. Looks like paradise compared to Cleveland.
Cleveland can drive to Mayfield or Avon. Not so much in the Tuvan Republic.
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