Paul
Goble
Staunton, March 27 – Russians have
become accustomed to Muscovites moving abroad for education and training, but
according to the INKOM Property Agency, ever more of them are fleeting the
Russian capital because of rising prices, worsening traffic problems and a
deteriorating environment.
According to its figures, the share
of those who have left the capital and rent out their housing there has risen
from 28 percent of all owners in the first quarter of 2018 to 32 percent in the
first three months of this year (newizv.ru/news/city/26-03-2019/issledovanie-moskvichi-pokidayut-gorod-iz-za-materialnyh-problem and news.rambler.ru/sociology/41928755-moskvichi-nachali-pokidat-gorod).
Some
of those departures may be temporary, of course; but many may be permanent –
and those leaving are renting their housing because they are not able to sell
it. This is hardly a problem unique to the Russian capital, but it is clearly
becoming worse there because of the deteriorating economic situation in the
country as a whole.
At
least some of those leaving the city have taken up residence in their dachas
outside of town while retaining their jobs in the capital. That of course means that they have to
commute, something that only adds to the traffic nightmare which is Moscow at
the present time.
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