I don't understand how this relates to the comment you are replying to, and can't make sense of it from the rest of your comment either. What did you mean?
> Plus west right now has anti Russian bon*r... never know if they may confiscate something
Who are "they"? Confiscate what?
Canada and other govs are looking into confiscating assets of Russians who live in west. Bringing ~ $1M of assets (pension) from Russia to US might be very risky move.
Let's look at the numbers. I'll chose the capital of a country, out of many, that russia has harassed, stolen territory from, and is actively threatening at the moment, to make it a fair comparison.
Moscow GDP per capita: 22,060 USD 2018 Bucharest GDP per capita: 26,660 EUR 2018
Moscow average salary: 1100 USD 2021 Bucharest average salary: 1,614.91 USD 2021
If you factor in the massive gap between regular folks and oligarchs, and their employees, then the average worker in moscow is probably earning far less than that.
So, at least based on numbers, your statement of "better living standard in Moscow" is a propagandist lie you fall for. Even if Moscow is a Potemkin village, with big fancy buildings, the standard of living appears to be comparable to Bucharest, Romania, if not lower.
And Bucharest, thanks to russian dominance, is considered a poor city in a poor country in a poor EU country (Romania's per capita GDP and avg salaries are also higher than russia's).
His uncle should move to the US at least based on these facts. And if I may recommend, please, leave your country every now and then, so you escape putin's propaganda.
> Moscow average salary: 1100 USD 2021 Bucharest average salary: 1,614.91 USD 2021
It makes precisely zero sense comparing absolute numbers without factoring in cost of living. And we are talking about experienced software professionals. OP's uncle is probably making at least 4x more than that. Imagine making 4x average salary in your region.
A hyper violent fascist dictatorship (going on two decades now), with no human rights, where just proclaiming the war in Ukraine to be a war can get you 15 years in prison - yeah, there are a lot of very good reasons why Russia can't be painted in a positive light at present.
This is the same fascist dictatorship that just instructed its soldiers to intentionally genocide, rape and torture civilians by the tens of thousands in neighboring Ukraine.
We're talking about one of the most evil regimes of the last several hundred years. And it all derives directly from the culture of the country, just as the Soviet era did before it.
What positive light?
Well, to be fair, there are lots of indications that's about to change.
On that time scale Russia is no special at all. Atrocities committed by the West will make normal human want to loose sanity. For your own education and as a little sample just check what Belgium did in Congo. England had raped half of the world. The rest of the world was just as bad. Just less powerful. So please cut the bullshit.
Current Russian regime and their leaders deserve to be dealt with for sure. Personally I would dump Putin into meat grinder (not really because I am not a rabid dog he is but these are my feelings).
But to claim that Russia did this because of the rotten nature of Russian people in general - this is not true and is pure racism.
It makes precisely zero sense factoring in a lower cost of living, as likely Bucharest also has a low cost of living. Actually, the numbers I found factoring the cost of living Moscow v Bucharest were much much higher for Bucharest, to the point where I thought they were ridiculous, and wasn't sure about their accuracy, hence I chose those which put Moscow in a more favorable light.
> Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast.
Yeah well, the statement paints a fake positive light about russia. I am sure even that country has many positives but I focused on specifically OP's statement, because it was simply a lie.
You know what else becomes really tiring? What russia did and does to its neighbours since its inception. Focus on solving that, as people are more than eager to move on past territorial expansion wars and live in the current century.
It will also force Americans who are doing those jobs right now to live on welfare, effectively bankrupt welfare system. They are voters, so due to democratic processes this will never happen, but this is not the case in Russia.
Yes, Moscow have good living standard for some definitions of living, but usually it will still mean living in a relatively small apartment of high-rise residential building. Singapore-style (only that it gets very cold).
Or maybe wooden shack with 2 hour commute for $1M :)
Buing summer house on turkish riviera seems like better option.
I think they are talking about oligarchs whose assets were acquired as a results of a deal with the government. If they confiscate assets of your regular working immigrant because of nationality that would be outright theft and shame.
It depends on what you value, but living in Russia if you aren't swigging the government kool-aid is a lot like living in the heart of Trumpland as a liberal. Everything around you looks broken, everyone[1] believes in literally insane things, corruption endemic to single-party rule is everywhere, but you have to shut up and put up with it, because being an unpatriot will be hazardous to your economic and physical health.
If you shut up and keep your head down, the actual measured-by-economists standard of life is okay[2], it's all the other crap that you have to swallow to put up with it that really, really sucks.
[1] In reality, it's not everyone, but people who don't believe that keep their mouth shut, because they know what's good for them.
[2] Well, it was okay before sanctions, it's unclear what it's going to look like next year.