Thinking of Relocating across National Boundaries

Russia is a big country, the internet and electricity are different across locations. For example, in a big cities you likely would have a choice from dozen of ISP, and at least 3 electricity tariffs.

There is one interesting thing - Moscow is a capital of Russia, however, it mostly like a different country: you can have a higher income and higher costs but sometimes even lower than in any other city. The rest of the Russia is differentiate from the Moscow in many cases, the only common is a Russian language (almost).

I’m living in the St.Petersburg, so prices a little bit higher than in other cities (except Moscow of course).
I do not have a gas plate, so my prices for electricity a little bit lower:
Day tariff $0.06/kWh, Night tariff $0.03/kWh
I’m paying for public IP (it’s dynamic, but never changed for the last 4 years) and 100Mbit full duplex around $7.90/month.
You can take up to 200Mbit from the same ISP for $9.34/month
You can easy find offering of 1Gbit for $14.22/month
Food and things, especially electronic are usually more expensive than in US, but costs of services and cost of houses/apartments are lower (except Moscow).

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