A Muscovite in Prague

Prague natives rarely look around. Unlike us, the foreigners. Look in the distance, you'll see the Castle. Look up, you'll see Vyšehrad, the rocks. Look at the Vltava, you'll see a swan slowly taking off from the waves. Beautiful! Even during rush hour, Prague remains a pleasant place to be – at least compared with Moscow.

Measured by Moscow standards, whatever they call a traffic jam in Prague is nothing: Those who do not have the nerve to crawl through the city can take a tram. In Prague, people do not see tram tracks as another lane for drivers who are in a rush (which is the majority of drivers in Moscow). This comes as a big surprise to Muscovites. And if a ministerial limousine drives on the tracks or ignores the speed limit, it is an extraordinary thing that newspapers write about, using a picture of the licence plate for illustration. In Moscow, people are used to regular traffic jams on main streets, caused by motorcades driving high government officials.

People in Prague complain about corruption, high prices, bureaucracy, a growing crime rate. But a Muscovite has to say: „You can't even imagine what these phenomena look like in the ordinary life of each of the 12 million Muscovites.“

There are naturally many features that people in Prague, unfortunately, lack – but they also have qualities that one can only envy them. Here are three examples:
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