Kiev - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Ideas about what is a proper parking spot. You make your own parking spot in Kyiv. - May 2021


Prejudice. - Jun 2018


Huge car, consumables, need for things to start exactly on time - May 2017


European wine and food products - it is all here but cheaper and often better quality. - Nov 2016


? If you're used to life in a city with similar climate to Northeast U.S., then your current possessions will serve you well.

Oh, some people will tell you to buy those Yaktrax things to walk on ice in winter... if you plan to take metro every day and cross the park between the metro and the U.S. Embassy, they might help. But we bought them and never used them once. - Jul 2016


Dog dazers; ours has never come out of the box. We read about all the stray dogs before we came, but we have seen hardly any - far fewer than in Mexico. - Nov 2015


Wish to see Chekhov's house in Yalta, the Swallowsnest Castle and other sites in gorgeous Crimea that you won't be able to visit due to Russia's illegal annexation of the area and the conflict in the east. - Jun 2015


Flip flops. - Apr 2014


Prejudice and High expectations. Kyiv is a wonderful city if you keep an open mind. There is some beautiful culture here and Ukraine is just beginning to come into it's own after being under oppressive Soviet Rule for so long. - Apr 2013


Hot weather clothes. - Apr 2013


Dill and sour cream and your expectations of customer service and order. Very few things work as they should. - Feb 2013


Amenities, consumables, bicycles (for the city, at least, I think only insane people would ride a bike in downtown Kyiv). - Jul 2012


Need to hurry through a meal at a restaurant, - Aug 2009


English. - Apr 2008


Golf clubs. - Apr 2008


Expectation of customer service. - Feb 2008


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