A Top 10

As my family will be leaving Russia as our full time home next week, a Top Ten List came to mind:

Top Ten Things I WILL Miss About Living In Russia:

10. As mentioned earlier, $1.20 speeding tickets (also as mentioned earlier, not that I speed).
9. Doctors that come to my house to see my sick kid, charge nothing and prescriptions that cost less than $5.
8. Usable and affordable public transportation.
7. My kids being able to, how to say, "relieve" themselves anywhere when we're outside and no one even blink an eye.
6. Ice cream. This country has world's best ice cream!
5. Hospitality. No one knows how to put on a hospitable spread like Russians.
4. Appreciating spring the way we do (when you survive a Siberian Winter, you really, REALLY appreciate spring).
3. Looking at people's faces in Europe and the U.S. when you tell them you live in Siberia and follow it up with, "it's not as bad as you think." Priceless.
2. Watching the development of a Western styled society (in as much as it is related to shopping, services and convenience and not as it is related to relativism, promiscuity and the development of a class system).
1. Gas that costs $.60, REPEAT $.60, a gallon!!

Coming Soon? You guessed it! The alter ego - The 10 Things I Will absolutely Not Miss About Living In Russia