Honestly? It’s the cold, I am not made for the cold 🥶

The communism and corruption. Nice pic tho✌️

i'd go to siberia, and further out than novosibirsk, but being equipped to live safely in that snow is not cheap, all kinds of nightmares for a person living in a rural area to deal with, and it's hard to get residence there and these days a lot of limitations about what you can do - a lot of english language based services now actively block and prejudicially treat signals originating in russia, even romania gets stick and it's on the edge of it all inside NATO

Beautiful picture

You could be conscripted, by force, drafted to the Russian army and quickly or slowly die in the war in Ukraine, like 300,000 Russians already have

You could go to prison for 15 years for criticism of the government, like for calling this war a war; their propaganda calls it a "special operation"

There is more, but I will stop here

Of course, US and EU are very far from ideal, in terms of freedom, monetary policy, economic policy, etc

There is a lot to criticize there

But Russia is the order of magnitude worse

Sure they have beautiful nature, mostly friendly people and so on

But Russian Federation is an oppressive and corrupt state

I wish it was otherwise but this is the reality, at least how I see it

Check any freedom index or human development index countries ranking, easy to find online