I've been offered a job in Vladivostok, for a year. Should I take it?? I don't speak any Russian but I've been living in the ex-Eastern bloc for 4 years (Poland). People say Vladivostok is like an Asian Paris (true?), and the fact that it was closed for so long appeals: untouched by tourism???
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Also I'd like to do some travelling in Kamchatka when I finish and I think this is the closest I'll get a job (and learn some Russian before I have to get by in a Russian -speaking wilderness). But what is the city like, how hot/cold is the winter and would you do it?
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Vladivostok is more like the Shanghai of the early 1900's.
There is a foreign community there, mainly Japanese and
Korean business people, but there is also plenty of crime
and sleaze. "Seedy" is the word that comes to mind.