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Top 10 Billionaires Cities
1. Moscow
84 billionaires (up from 78 billionaires last year) (#1 last year)
Total Net Worth:$366,650.000
Average billionaire worth:$4,364.88
2. New York
62 Billionaires (up from 57 last year)
Total Net Worth: $280,750.000
Average billionaire worth:$4,528.23
3.(tie) Hong Kong
43 Billionaires (up from 38 last year)
Total Net Worth: $195,300.000
Average billionaire worth: $4,541.86
3. (tie) London
43 Billionaires (up from 39 last year)
Total Net Worth:$159,850.000
Average billionaire worth:$3,717.44
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Moscow is booming
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"I Tasted Freedom in.. Russia?"
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Arrival (SVO Airport)
1. Entered immigration, NO armed officers, just the average immigration workers. I walked up to a friendly and smiling lady, she stamped my passport and waved me on.
2. Wow, that was easy, I thought, surely customs would be more like the U.S. I approached the customs section, had nothing to declare, I started to take my backpack off to show to the official, but she didn't seem to think I required extra scrutiny and waved me through.
3. That was it, in 10 minutes I was let loose in the "Evil Russian" empire.
4. I walked through the airport, searching for armed police/paramilitary, but I couldn't find any! I saw maybe 1 armed police officer in the airport. Very strange.
5. Maybe it was halftime in the war on terror in Russia. There were no stupid "threat level" announcements or battalions of TSA workers...just a chill airport like you might have seen here in the 60s.
During my stay:
1. I can't stress enough how CLEAN and ornate Moscow is, I was blown away. It was expensive though.
2. I did not see much police presence, actually it was rare to see a police officer. My small town police force here in FL is 10 times larger than what I saw in Moscow...and here in the U.S. the police are more like Military.
3. Even at the Kremlin and nearby attractions, it was very low-key and stress-free.
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I did not see 1 homeless person during my entire trip.
5. I did not see 1 overweight person during my entire trip... granted this is most likely circumstantial and a generalization, but it was strange.
6. The local population, in general, was very well dressed, clean, extremely friendly, and chill (not uptight/apprehensive like most people in the U.S.)
7. The metro system is AWESOME.
8. The architecture / condition of buildings / infrastructure was beyond compare. I was truly impressed.
9. The local population was welcoming and calm, not like our stressed out society where we are conditioned to be afraid of our own shadows.
10. As for the LGBT community, I saw openly affectionate gay couples here and there, and they were not being oppressed by the state like our media likes to report.
Departing Moscow:
1. Passport control: The unarmed official looked at the photo, looked at me, stamped it, done.
2. Security: I put my bag on the conveyor belt, walked through metal detector, done!
3. WTF???? No weird separating liquids, taking out computers, etc. etc.
