How do most Russian ladies fare being so far away from home, is homesickness a problem?
Yes, in the very beginning it’s a problem. Women feel very lonely and even cry sometimes. It was a problem for me, too. A woman does not know the country and people, she experiences difficulties with the simplest things like buying things in a supermarket, she can’t fluently communicate. But women don’t want to go back to Russia. They miss their friends and family but not the country itself. As I said, women don’t realize how big the difference is between Russia and Western countries. When they have lived for a while in a country like the USA or Western Europe, they get used to it quickly and think about coming back with fear. Some of my friends emigrated to USA with their families. They live in quite poor conditions according to American standards. But they don’t want to go back though they had used to live much better than the average Russian families, had property and successful businesses. I got rid of my homesickness when I went back to Russia after a few months. My husband asked
