Hi, I like to write something interesting and useful to the community on Mondays. Today I would like to tell a story about how an IT person lives in Penza after Peter, and why I don’t really want to return to the most beautiful city in Russia.
Background
From 2006 to 2018 I lived in St. Petersburg. First he studied, then he worked, then he traveled, then he worked again, and in the fall of 2018 he returned to his native small regional center and quietly Kaifuy for more than a year.
Penza - where is it at all?
Penza is not Perm, although it is also 5 letters, it is much warmer here, even grapes grow, we are located between Tambov, Saransk, Samara, Ulyanovsk and Saratov. Penza feels confident since 1663.
What moved?
Everything is very simple, divorced, worked remotely and in St. Petersburg absolutely nothing kept me. Therefore, I decided to return to my homeland, where there are a bunch of school friends, relatives and other goodies, about which below.
How are things with IT
Not bad! There are about 20 companies that are originally from here and there are federals. Salaries for Penza are decent, but much lower than in St. Petersburg or MSC, or even compared with neighboring Samara or Ulyanovsk.
Good specialists, whose families do not even consider linear work in Penza, since they need more than 150 sn and are sitting on a remote site.
No coworking yet, but for now ...
What do you like after Peter
Everything is very close
I can walk with my girlfriend on the edge of the city and return home (almost the center) in 13 minutes by car, slightly exceeding speed.
In September, he worked from a sanatorium on the shore of a local nedomory (Surskoe Reservoir), reaching the city in 20 minutes, the same amount to the center. Country life is becoming a reality, not a mortgage for 2000 years !!!
For 25 thousand rubles you can rent a penthouse
In general, the rental market here is much worse, but within 20-30 thousand you can afford very, very decent housing almost in the center, where there are no parking problems, many rooms and a house on 3 floors.
Relatives and school friends nearby
To come to dinner with your grandmother is priceless! You can not warn, but it's better to dial all in half an hour.
Phoned at 20:00 with a school friend and after an hour and a half walk his dog talking about life. In St. Petersburg this is impossible, only by prior reservation with confirmation of the meeting for 4 hours.
What do not like
Now there is such a mood that I do not want to write down structurally, although there are a lot of them.
Local mentality
In general, here it creates consumption ***. Everyone believes that they deserve a better life, but they do not want to do anything for this. Hence a bunch of credit cars and show-offs about this. Hence the delays at the old foundation, blocking "their parking space, which they got because they have been living here for 13 years." Hence the dissatisfied service in stores, government agencies, etc. For example, yesterday the receptionist in the laundress spoke yesterday as if she was paying me a lot of money, and not me. Until she yanked, she talked like a boss with me.
Was 10 days in St. Petersburg, was happy with the service as a child.
Lack of prospects
Local youth believes that there is nothing to catch in Penza, so I’ll finish the university and go straight to Moscow !!! Although I’m ready to play a game with you. Write what you think is in Moscow and not in Penza, and I'll try to find it here.
And there are prospects everywhere, just don’t have to try to quickly earn without doing anything.
Horrible public transport
A bunch of minibuses, falling apart trolleybuses and after 22:00 only by taxi. It's good that on my routes it is not more than 150 rubles :-)
Relatives near
Yes, this is in the cons too. Now they again want to exploit me for May on potatoes. Thank you, but no, but they are offended.
Traveling is much more expensive.
From the local airport, more or less adequately, you can fly only to Moscow time and for 5 thousand. This is terrible. It’s convenient to fly to St. Petersburg via Saransk, thanks to World Cup 2018.
This is the fattest minus, which is so easy not to affect.
Do I want to come back?
Not. Then there should have been a cool picture in correspondence with a friend from St. Petersburg, who complained that he had been ill for the first time in 4 years, because he was sick at work and in St. Petersburg it was hard for him, but he did not give his consent to drop the screen here.
So I don’t see the point, because you can earn not only in St. Petersburg / Moscow time, but the weather and social connections in St. Petersburg are much worse.