IIRC, Saint-Petersburg is one of the most expensive places to live, less than Moscow but about like Paris and London. OK my info is >5yrs old. But still. Hell yeah, that's a helluva good deal.
@@MyPartytime69 Before the pandemic this apartment cost would cost 190$ +50 dollars water gas electricity but prices got lower because everyone is leaving city to their hometowns or to parents. And also the Russian curency fell a bit.
$12.50 for rubber gloves, $8.00 for a nice bucket, $14.00 for scrub brushes, $7.50 for TSP (sugar soap), $60.00 for paint, $15.00 for new curtains. Yep, I'd live there.
I've lived in worse....in Canada. No plumbing. Drew water from a mountain spring. Had an outhouse. Small gas stove for heat. Minimal electricity, 2 bare bulbs and 2 outlets. Roof leaked, plastic covered broken windows. Your apt is a palace!
New Brunswick. NB is the poorest Canadian province. Lots of 'working poor' people. The northern portion of the Appalachian mountain range runs through NB. The poverty stricken live in the hills or the hood. Even though I'm not poor any longer, I prefer the hills.
@@electrogestapo only netflix? Our decadent homeland is a free country and so we have Netflix, Amazon, Hbo, and Hulu....subscription because we want to be able to choose. Yes, all at the same time.
short answer: yes. long answer: also yes. i live in a 24 m² aparment and i pay 300€/month (germany). this place just needs to be scrubbed and new wallpaper and you're golden.
Oh man, it reminded me when I was little, I left USSR in 1990 to Australia. Me and my parents lived in an exactly the same apartment. Great video!! Bring it on!!!!
to be honest it needs simple inside renovation like cleaning all walls and ceiling, paint it with nice color or use wallpapers on walls, so fix and cleaning in bathroom, maybe change to modern heating system, new radiators and its pretty good to live, for whole house they need to make few renovations too with roof and balcony, with walls from outside heating leakages
Exactly what I was looking for! I was born in 1982 so this is a trip to see post cards in the era of my first memories! But my family was in West Germany and dad was in US Army in those times, but I always wondered what life was like on the other side of the wall, I have a little idea now...but I imagine the building looked a little bit newer than it's now current state, thanks Sergey!
I had an office in the USA that had an echo and was definitely not soundproof, so we put a carpet on the wall and it really did soundproof the office 👍🏼❤️
Huh. We just moved in a soviet style apartment. A little bit of tlc and they are better than new ones. I can t punch through a wall and wave to my neighbour...
Croatian here, 7:36 I used to have that EXACT lamp in my house before renovating it. Funny thing is, it's not a flat, it's a one-family private house. I guess the communist style spread in rural areas aswell.
If the alternative is a blanket in the park in a Russian winter, this is just fine. Two blankets and outside looks better. Around here if I were that desperate around here I would get arrested to avoid sleeping outside in the winter or any other season.
This is better than the bedsits and flats that were in Earl’s Court in the 70s. Looks fine to me, you just have to clean, furnish and do a few repairs..like anybody else does.
I love it! Minimalist, simple, and modest! Definitely would live in one, preferably a Brezhnevka and not a Khrushchevka, but either one yes I would love it! Just for the nostalgia! And the price is the best part!
9:06 i love that phone socket, they are so easy to connect, it dosent give me so much problems, my home phone is a soviet made vef ta 68 with that plug, that is still working since 1976, voice is clear and it it's easy to fix
it needs an upgrade that is all, in spain at the same year or time in history i do think you will find very similar construction if you were poor or working class,
That carpet is way to much nice for that apartment😅 If I had to, I would live there, but I would clean it first and paint the walls. Maybe bought some cheap ikea furniture and its done😅
It may not look like much but it is better than alotta places honestly. Plus I love the aesthetic although it does need some new wallpaper lol. But grreat vid nice of you to post and share history.
As a professional painter - the thing that jumps out at me - is that all that peeling paint has lead in it, and can be extremely dangerous to live around when it is crumbling like that... Made me cringe to see it... Great video though... Like some comments say - both informative - and also parody... Soviet Union has always looked awful to me... Happy for the Russian people that things are now moving forward from that grim era... Thanks Sergey.
I would not live in this run down old fire trap of a building unless it was totally gutted and renovated. But anything is better then living under a bridge. I am glad I live in the west and own my own private home ( I own it free and clear) ) and not living in an apartment building. So the only thing I need to pay for is maintaining it and taxes and insurance. So that comes out to around 400 dollars a month. A decent one bedroom apartment now costs about 1200 dollars a month in a nice area of town. Apartment rent always rises and surpasses your initial house payments after about 10 years. But when I was younger I did live in an apartment but it was not a fire trap and all run down.
Nice apartment, I like it very much. It just need a good clean my friend. I really like your heating. My friend in Petrozavodsk has the same type of apartment. I like Russia, it is a very beautiful country. Thank you for your very good video, I wish you the best of health, Paul from Australia.
It could be a nice home after you spend some (large? how large?) amount of money and clean and update everything. I have no idea how much it would cost but man, strive to do it for yourself. You will feel much more comfortable. Have a good New Year 2021!
$150.00 a month? in the USA you would pay $150.00 a week for one room , community bathroom and maybe a kitchen, your lucky, you speak very good English
It's so sad that all apartments across the world are becoming generic white-painted boxes. That wallpaper is really nostalgic of simpler times, keep it that way!
It's cheap as far as Western punters are concerned. Some filler and a lick of paint would lighten the apartment. Cif in the bath and on the tiles. Prints on the walls. You could buy these things cheaply. Oh don't forget, minus 30°Celcius outside, T shirt and shorts inside. Not bad.
Who is going to maintain them? In the west, such a building would have strata management where each owner pays a certain amount a month and all the money of all the owners is pooled for maintenance. When the state released ownership of these flats to the tenants in the early 90s, I doubt any of them set up similar management systems. Probably nothing gets done unless someone volunteers and does it.
There are some companies which you pay in bills. They should maintain the building. It was a mess before so they weren't maintened properly. Now it got better. Also we pay to the government some small money for maintaine. Hope they will do something more. But now it's better. In Soviet times and in 90s 2000s people for example didn't like to buy or own apartments on the last floor because roofs were very old and bad and water could go in your apartment
Maybe it's because I'm a finn but I see nothing bad in these. I thinks these apartments are cute. We are not uset to the huge homes that people in other countries are so these are just nice standard little homes. You could keep it cleaner tho my friend!
Of all the foreign accents speaking English, the Russian one is the best for sure. Russia's story is a sad one. The most beautiful people in the world, such a big country, so much potential, such beautiful architecture, and so many bad moments in history that keeps the whole place decadent to this day.
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How about 2000 being year zero of the 21st century as with 12 am = midnight = 00:00 ( modulo arithmetic). Anyway, maybe that's what Putin was thinking.
Soviet Union, actually still Russia, dodged a bullet during World War II, because the rail system was “Russian” spacing. Hitler expected to be able to roll right over Russia, but was fatally mistaken. He couldn’t use the rail system inside Russia to move supplies, troops, equipment or anything else! Of course, he also underestimated the Russian will and ability to fight. I am very grateful for Soviet’s unique measurements. It might well have saved the world from having to learn German as a mother tongue! I believe Russia stood in the gap between earth and Hell during that time! Let me say a heartfelt Thank you, for all you did, gave, and lost to stop Nazi aggression!
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