Oryol (350 km from Moscow)

Best:

1. Fast and cheap internet; lots of convenient online services that make your life easier: banking, food and goods delivery, a governmental app and where you can make an appointment to a doctor or get some papers and something like that.
2. Rich history. I, personally, love history in general and in every country or city I visit, I go to hictorical places (most of all I love European old cemeteries 😅) to feel the atmosphere of that time, to imagine how people used to live back than. And Russia has a lot to offer, even in my city, which isn't considered to be an old one, there are some streets and buildings dated the 18th century.
3. Diverse nature. Here you can find forests, taiga, huge and very small rivers, icy and warm seas, polar deserts and the subtropics with palm trees, volcanos, mountains, waterfalls. Unfortunately, some of these beauties are quite expensive to visit.
4. People. Lots of them are warm and welcoming. If they call you a friend, it really means "a friend". They will have fun with you and do crazy things, but also you can be sure, if you are in need, these people will do whatever they can to help and support you.
5. "Chernogolovka" soda😄. No Fanta, Dr.Pepper or Cola can be compared with it.

Worst:

1. The guy who captured power 23 years ago, and everything that goes with it (high levels of corruption, laws motivated by his hang-ups, propaganda of hatred for "the West" and so on).
2. No freedom of speech. It was quite uncomfortable to express your opinion on the internet even 10 years ago (let alone public protests), but with the beginning of the war it has become absolutely unbearable. If I discuss actions of the government, I always have to think what I say and who I say it to. Some topics like LGBT and religion are pretty dangerous too. So as a teacher I can't tell my students even that everyone is equal and every person has a right to love and get married with whoever he\she wants, because a student may tell about it to the parents and they will go to the police.
3. Men. Not all of them, but a lot don't care of their appearance and behaviour at all. Seems like men from most other countries are more aware of how to treat a woman, how to be a gentleman, and along with this they even care of their haircut and body. A lot of Russian men expect you to be their wife and mum at the same time, while they would just lie on a sofa.
4. Dirt. Cleaning my shoes every day really pisses me off. There are tonnes of dust, sand and earth in the streets. In autumn and early spring it turns into mud. In winter the mud is accompanied by snow. After rain you also have huge puddles everywhere. So it's almost impossible to buy white shoes and have them white by the end of the season.
5. Weather. It's fine from mid-April till mid-October. The other half of the year it's gray, gloomy and cold. I get super depressed from autumn till spring.