It so happened that the Russian capital and the provinces live according to different laws. It may seem that these are two completely different worlds. Thousands of provincials flock to Moscow every year. Someone goes for new opportunities and prospects, someone - in search of adventure, and someone - with unclear goals for themselves.
Moving to Moscow as a career opportunity
Most of the provincials who decide to move to Moscow go there, counting on fast career growth and high earnings. In the regions, it is not always easy to find a decent job in your specialty, and often you only have to dream of a decent salary.
I must say that in Moscow, visitors from the regions often achieve success. Its reasons are that provincials are much less spoiled than native Muscovites, they strive to prove themselves and are ready to work hard to achieve their goals. However, do not forget that there are sometimes failures and disappointments along the way.
Waiting for a miracle
Come across among visitors from the provinces and adventurers. Instead of getting down to a specific business, they indulge in dreams of how to make their own film, organize a rock band, etc., and while they work as watchmen, janitors, continuing to wait for a miracle that should happen regardless of their efforts.
But for whatever the provincials went to the capital, most of them still have a common goal. They all hope to get rich quickly and easily. Many provincials naively believe that all Muscovites, by definition, receive incredibly high incomes. It does not even occur to them that in Moscow there are salaries of 20 thousand rubles that are quite real by regional standards, and living on them in the capital, and even without having their own housing, is much more difficult.
There are also the same prosaic realities in Moscow that are well known to provincials from life in their home cities: street dirt and dust, hot water shutdowns, traffic jams (by the way, they are more typical for Moscow, although recently they are often found even in small towns).
And one more thing: it is better to do what you love and be a respected and sought-after specialist in your small homeland than to get an unloved and uninteresting job just to stay in the capital.
That is why Moscow is really extraordinarily attractive, because it is a large number of theaters and museums. Only often those who permanently live in the capital make very little use of the opportunities for cultural growth it offers.
However, Moscow really does give everyone their own chance, and it will be just wonderful if the purposeful provincial manages to take advantage of it.
