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by Throw84949 881 days ago
Magnitogorsk has nice weather in summer. Some green parks, decent public transport. But not that much fun, westerners usually prefer university cities. It has very nice surrounding nature.

Polution is ok I guess (India and China were far worse from my experience). It is not industrial shithole as OP suggests. Factories were cleaned up over 30 years. And smoke stack are quite high and leave smoke in high atmosphere. And most of them use natural gas anyway...

There is 2.5 hours walk through on youtube: "Magnitogorsk, Russia. Metallurgic Capital and Steel Heart of Russia. Ural Trip 1".
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BizarreByte 881 days ago
> Magnitogorsk has nice weather in summer. Some green parks, decent public transport. But not that much fun, westerners usually prefer university cities. It has very nice surrounding nature.

Sounds like a lot of western cities honestly. Most are okay places to live, but not exactly happening, overly fun places.

I'll be honest I expected a lot worse when looking on street view, but I looked around a bunch of places and was like "I could live here".

> There is 2.5 hours walk through on youtube: "Magnitogorsk, Russia. Metallurgic Capital and Steel Heart of Russia. Ural Trip 1".

I'll take a look.

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Throw84949 881 days ago
> "I could live here".

Winters are brutal and quite depressing. All sorts of blood leaching insects in summer. Some people have alergies to clouds of pollen... And Russian administration was challenging even before the war.

I am nomad, it is part of my rotation. Very nice place for couple of weeks at right time of year. (not Magnitogorsk specifically)

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BizarreByte 881 days ago
> Winters are brutal and quite depressing. All sorts of blood leaching insects in summer. Some people have alergies to clouds of pollen..

Honestly sounds like most Canadian cities I'm familiar with, particularly Winnipeg.

> And Russian administration was challenging even before the war.

Yah that I don't know if I could put up with that.

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Throw84949 881 days ago
If you are tired of Canada, try Wroclav in April for a month, slavic mentality may not be for everyone. There is yt channel "offshore citizen", international tax accountant from Canada, pretty good info.
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