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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by _zoltan_ on Thursday July 18, 2024 @10:21PM (#41001576)
St Petersburg is beautiful and quite lovely. Or well, I don't know now, but it was before the war.

To be honest I've watched a ton of Russian YouTube content and on these videos the Russian cities doesn't seem affected. Just forget your visa/mastercard

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Re:What it's like to be the only tourist in Moldova, Europe'... by sam_lowry_ on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:06AM (#41003892)
> St Petersburg is beautiful and quite lovely.

You've been to the city center. The outskirts are dull even by Russian standards. Because of the soil there, they tend to build high-rise residential buildings spaced by 500m to 1km. Streets run in-between, there are occasional malls and that's it.

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