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The Reader

My Cities

Maybe it sounds weird, but my family lives in two cities: Moscow and Saint Petersburg, because my dad, who is a doctor, has clinics in Saint Petersburg and also in Moscow. In Saint P. we live in an apartment. That’s very common to live there. In Moscow, we rent a house close to my dad’s workplace. That house is part of a small village in a suburb. I don’t really like it as much because it’s pretty boring. But there are not really houses for rent in central Moscow, so we live in this village. We mostly are in Saint Petersburg, but spend summer and other times in Moscow. It’s not very common to know your neighbors in Russia. When we see them we are just saying hello and that’s it. But usually I don’t know their names. In Saint Petersburg, where I live is urban but in Moscow it is rural because it’s not in the city center, as I said.

Saint Petersburg

Moscow

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