Left Russia Again - From Russia to Kazakhstan (Crazy 2022)

Hello friends This is Max speaking and I am welcoming you from the beautiful warm sunny city of Almaty I want to talk a little in this video about my move from Russia to Kazakhstan And show you a part of this city Of course just a small part of the city a little about my move I hope to make a few videos from here It will be possible to talk about various things But let's switch now so you can see everything that is happening ahead and look at how the streets look This is the place where I live now not far away There is a small market here Here for example fish is sold smoked fish I love smoked fish There are different fruits a huge quantity of fruits We will go towards the sun Here by the way you can see mountains Unfortunately they are not visible right now but there they are if Look into the distance there are huge snow-capped mountain peaks It's very very beautiful but unfortunately it's probably morning some fog and they're almost not visible You can see the outlines of the mountains there Perhaps you can see the outlines of the mountains Let's take a walk down this street It might be a bit noisy here but nevertheless Look at how Almaty looks You already know that I talked about this in my podcasts about that Oh how noisy it is here I've already mentioned in my podcasts that I moved to Kazakhstan I told you about how the trip went The trip was very difficult very hard because There were huge traffic jams at the border We sat in the car for a whole day exactly a whole day waiting for our turn That is a huge number of cars were there But more details will be in this podcast which You are now seeing the information on the screen listen it's all there I decided to come here after the mobilization was announced in Russia Not because they would have called me No Well rather that's also why so to speak I don't meet the criteria That is according to official criteria I seem not to qualify But nevertheless no one knows what will happen next And in fact I lived in Serbia then I returned to Russia for a while Well I'll explain why I did it again in a separate podcast Subscribe to the podcast listen and get fresh and more detailed information there And I decided that enough of the uncertainty everything is constantly changing right now there's still mobilization and many people will go to fight In short I decided to go on a trip at this time Let 's call it that A trip to the steppes of Kazakhstan The thing is there were no plane tickets available the next day after the mobilization was announced You can't go anywhere not for any amount of money Well maybe for two or three hundred thousand you could fly somewhere But that's a lot of money You will see them here in dollars as well So I decided to take all the necessary things and pack them Get in the car and go to Kazakhstan Two of my friends joined me and went together Let's go here Here This is about four thousand kilometers from Moscow to Almaty And these four thousand kilometers we drove By car Look at these funny funny chairs tables open porches This is still a southern city so there are quite a few cafes with porches People sit here and eat This is funny When were driving through we are now in southern Kazakhstan near the mountains But almost the entire territory of Kazakhstan is steppes And when were driving through the steppes were certainly in shock Because it was very cold The temperature reached minus five degrees in September Carl in September Minus five And at the same time a wild wind A strong gusty wind It was simply unimaginable We put on our winter coats it was very cold But here as you can see it is very warm Daytime temperature plus twenty degrees Nighttime temperatures drop say to plus five or plus ten degrees That is the contrast The climate here is sharply continental so the contrast is very pronounced It feels warm at times and then very cold What else do I want to say We have rented an apartment for a day That is we pay by the day and live and look for an apartment for a long term But it's clear that now Tractor But it's clear that doing it now is extremely difficult Because according to the Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs in just a few days approximately from Russia into Kazakhstan Two hundred thousand people Two hundred thousand Russians That is an enormous number of course For example I think there are about 1.7 million people living in Almaty Therefore there aren't that many big cities So of course it's a huge number of people yes They all came all looking for housing And prices have even jumped to incredible amounts For example a thousand dollars is in principle good If you could rent an apartment for a thousand dollars Before of course before the mobilization before the mass migration of such Of course there wasn't Here you can see a McDonald's which is called McDonald's here I'll remind you that McDonald's in Russia underwent a rebranding Now it's delicious and that's it There There is a McDonald's here in Almaty and in fact there are no sanctions in Kazakhstan at all Everything works here Here you will find all brands all stores and all infrastructure Everything is very convenient and very modern Regarding by the way modernity Very interesting thing how everything here is digitized We are now passing the local bank branch The bank is called Caspian Well probably because Kazakhstan has access to the Caspian Sea Probably that's why it's called the Caspian Yes the Caspian The Caspian that's what they call the Caspian Sea Now we will be passing the bank and if you have been to China or if you live in China you surely know About such a payment system and messenger as WeChat WeChat This is exactly the same and it works in exactly the same way as the Caspian This is well not just a messenger but also a marketplace And the bank that's also transfers that's also payments via QR code this is all possible thanks to Caspian A very convenient system everyone uses it and it only takes you 15 minutes to make a bank card There are special machines that you can use They print the map instantly In short the level of digitalization in Kazakhstan is impressive Many things here are much more shall we say digitized than in Russia Well for example there is an equivalent to the Caspian in Russia They exist but they don't quite work the same way In short very very interesting Here by the way is Lanzhou It's a restaurant a café in Chinese in Chinese style There is all kinds of well Chinese food it's not exactly Chinese not authentic Chinese food but very similar Because you know the city of Lanzhou in China is known for its noodles There's also a lot of noodles here and we often go there every evening to eat dinner because it's very delicious Very cheap and it reminds it reminds me of China I don't know what I'll do next honestly because What oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh there's a step and I missed it And I bumped my knee Oh my knee hurts I don't know what I'll do next while we're looking for housing in Kazakhstan Honestly there's no desire to go back to Russia right now We already left Russia after the war started for a number of reasons The reasons I have already spoken about many times And but we came back later Why we came back again will be in the podcast and about all of this I will talk And so I feel like some day of the groundhog Again something global has happened and again you're moving Even though I didn't want to go anywhere anymore because this year I don't know it was just a year of moving around I'm just tired of it already But nevertheless I understand that's all Until there is at least some clarity and certainty I don't want to I don't want to go anywhere I don't want to go back to Russia trying to plan anything Because we and Yulya had planned a lot but it all turned out to be useless I wanted to show you the mountains but the mountains don't want to appear this morning Well friends I don't know let's see how much time I'll spend here what happens next Will it be possible will it be possible to find housing I hope it will We'll watch we'll think and I'll keep you updated Here I'm ending this short video here and will continue monitoring the sites for further information Housing so that you can still rent a place I suggest you look at these wonderful Kazakh kittens Come here little cat Can I pet you little cat Okay There Little cats don't want to be petted