Sorry to go back on subject, but I leave for Kiev on Friday. My lady is not from Kiev. We are just meeting there. She gets to be a tourist too. We have been writing for 8 months. I think she has proven herself to be patient and committed, where as I am just a committed patient. I will have fun no matter the outcome and I will wear a raincoat to honor toad, if the situation calls for it. Any last pieces of advice before I jump in the deep end?
Ditto I wish you to have a good time, and I hope that you and your girl will enjoy each others company!!! And I hope that you will return happy and maybe will share the result with us??:) So anyway good luck!!!:)
Hello All, just returned from 8 days in Ukraine. Will post a more detailed descripiton of my trip in a few hours.
Ditto; I spent 4 days in Kyiv with my my girl and loved it. She is not from Kyiv and watched out for my finaces better than I could ever do. She asked me not to speak while in a taxi and we never paid more than 16 Grvinas per ride (about 3 USD).
I am Hazim from Iraq.My dream now is to visit Ukraine .I make plan to collect money and searching internet site to have more experience and information about that country .Thank you very much for telling us about your experience in order to take care when we travell there.I want to open my eye for everything.
I just have one question .
is 500$ is enough to spend one month there in cheaper procedure to follow?
Hazim
hziraq@yahoo.com
Ukraine doesn't cost much to visit compared to other European (western) countries, but under $20 per day? That's pushing it.
Now if you spoke Russian or Ukrainian (so you could use the mini buses and you wouldn't get taken advantage of by taxi drivers etc.) and if you had a friend to stay with - I'm guessing that $500 per month would suit you just fine.
But for any westerner - or middle-easterner (like an Iraqi) - I would have to say - $500 for a month isn't going to cut it.
Regarding the taxi that wmferg spoke about above...while traveling in the FSU I've always used the same strategy. Never negotiate with the taxi driver directly (have your Russian friend do it) and never even speak in the taxi.
But while in Latvia reently I had a chance to talk to a taxi driver who told me that such behavior makes it unclear, perhaps, what nationality you are a member of - but they know instantly that you are not Russian.
Why?
Because a Russian man would not have his lady tell the taxi driver where to take them. He would do that himself.
Yes it is correct, at least Ukrainian men will always talk with the driver themselves, tell where to drive, or how it is the best way to get to the certain house...and Ukrainian men always sit on the front place to talk to the driver easier and women take the place behind.
prices in Kiev fo information:
taxi - 1.5/2 grivna/km (1 USD=5.4 grivna)
restaurant - 10-50$ per person
hotel - 20-150$ per day fo 1 person
flat - 60-120 $ per day
Thank you very much (JETMBA,PATICHKA and STRANGER ) I appreciate you very very much to interest in my words and I really get benefit from your experience so I thank you another time and if you have anything I will appreciate that.By the way I have question.what do you think is better to have a student visa or tourist visa to go to Ukraine .Are there any instituate to learn easy thing for one month period and send me invitation letter or tourist will be better.I want my journey to be enjoyment with benefit.okkkkkkkkkk
Thank you very much from IRAQ .
HAZIM
If your budget is limited to 500 U$S per month, I'd strongly suggest you go back to Syria and keep hanging around the same titty bar where you found the first ukrainian woman.
shorter journey with benefit, hazim...
Doesn't sound like you have much of a chance to compete with western men in Ukraine or any other FSU country, mate.
Western fatter wallets, religions and lifestyle conveniencies are infinitely more welcome among eastern european women than islamic religious values, traditions, repressed economies and even culinary customs.
You kill me Toad! LOL...If a person who lives there can get by on $100 a month, I don't see a problem for someone else on $500. He'll just have to play his cards right and very quickly act as though he's from Ukraine.
Hey Hazim. Go for it! Student visas are cheaper and easier to obtain. Do a search online. It's easy to get by on less than $500. Necessity is the mother of invention!
Too much of a blanket statement Toad. What about the Oil-rich, western educated Arab countries? They are not all mad mullahs practicing extreme forms of Islam.
I asked a G/F in St.P what she thought of men from other cultures. She had no idea and just saw men as men, with their own individual characteristics. Her lack of prejudice was refreshing. Her naivety was worrying... How many women want to be swept off their feet by Omar Sharif and taken off to some tented Harem? You would be surprised. It's those dark, mysterious eyes. It certainly beats fish and chips down the Old Kent Road.. ;-))
I asked her if she wanted a MacDonalds or to eat Korean? A no-brainer. So much for western culinary delights!
Goat's eyeballs are okay. as long as you wash them down with a beer. ;-)
Ya know QC - sometimes women tell you what they think you want to hear. Sometimes men do the same thing. Children actually do it too.
Then there is always the possibility that some things are said not to cause offense, even if not particularly to please.
Your travels have been extensive throughout the FSU - so I am amzed that you seem to learn from women exactly what your preconceived notion was anyway.
Having found affluence (not necessarilly possessing themselves but just being exposed to it) Russian women are more than just aware that it exists. The small percentage of EXTREMELY affluent people that they know within their own culture are held in EXTREMELY high esteem.
They are refered to as "VIPs" they are always talked about as building (or having recently built) new houses (compounds) for themselves and family. They have bodyguards and BMWs (or Hummers or Mercedes). They wear exclusively designer clothes in a style that the less affluent try very hard to emmulate with cheap knock-offs.
And the fact is that young girls are much more in awe of these figures than they are of even wealthy westerners. I discovered a pattern. I met about ten women who talked of losing their virginity to a much older (at least twice as old), married, VIP. And they didn't regret it at all.
These guys - have the economic as well as social power. They are seen as the movers and the shakers and they can have virtually anything or any woman they want regardless of their own marital status.
Many of these girls are VERY materialistic and only regret that there are not more native VIPs to go around. That is why many of them look to the west.
(And I for one am happy to satisfy the excess need as much as I can..... :) )
But now I am getting married - probably (never sure of ANYTHING in this situation until it happens.) I leave more opportunity for all of you. (As if you needed more....)
hi everybody from Free Iraq,
I send my thank and my best wishes for all forces which come to Iraq to help us and let us live freely and domoctatic life.Especially U.S and British forces.And the forces of my best country Ukraine.I thank their efforts to help us and wish them a happy new year here in Iraq and return safely to their families to enjoy their time.
Regarding the discussion about my topic.I felt sa when I read the wards from TOAD.But Hope come back again to me when I read words from DALE E and Quietcharm .Actually speaking , when I want to travel to Ukraine .I want to live a very easy and natural life.Not to go to a very expensive places.Also when I talked with my friend she said that worker in Ukraine get only 100$ per month.She also wants to complete her study ,she said to me 500$ per year to complete her study.And that is all .So, I want to work hard to collect money for her to complete her study and to me to travel to see her.I wish I could be beside her now.I cannot forget her beauty.I always watch satalite to follow news from Ukraine and pray God to settle calm and People of Ukraine live peacely.
ok thank you for all of you
Hazim from New , Free Iraq
hziraq, u so naive )))
yop, wokers got 100-300$ per month, but it's a worker!!
good engenier have about 500-600$ per month.That's ok fo life, not by expensive close.and his have a flat! his not pay every day 100$, his pay 20-30$ per month if his ouner, and 150-250$ if his rent a flat.
so,if u want to flight to Kiev & stay for a week u need 1000-1500$
Stranger you should add in Kiev "good engenier have about 500-600$ per month". In Lugansk, and in this region, an engenier at a plant gets 100-150 grivnas, yes I'm not saying lies, it is about 20-30 $, per month! My friend was working at a plant for 2 months, as he wanted to work according to his speciality - he is an engineer, and he like we say "engineer from God" meaning that he is very good, and he had such a salary. He was promised to be paid 400 grivnas, about 80 $, per month, but if he would be responsible for all the equipment...he denied, as he didn't want to be responsible in the case something happens, as he would be made to pay a big sum! And equipment constantly is stolen. So he left, now he fixes the game machines, you know where you put money in and maybe will be able to win some money, and he gets 1000 grivnas, about 200$, per month, and soon his salary will go up to 1500-2000 grivnas, 300-400$, per month....
Ptichka, of coss in Kiev.But we speak about prices in Kiev.hziraq want to trevel to ukraine, 500$ - it's nothing fo this.
About prices, in a small willage near Donetsk the flat cost's 300-600$ so what?
hziraq want to see the Kiev I think & go to restaurant & rent a flat,so his must to have 1000$ minimum.
and if u closely read my prev. post , u see I speak about kiev:
"so,if u want to flight to Kiev & stay for a week u need 1000-1500$"