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Originally Posted by Makarov
My location is a bold-faced lie. I was born and raised in Canada (just to a Russian family.) I did however live in China for several years, and ironically, in many ways, people are more free there (in terms of being able to drink beer on the street, cross streets when and where they want, etc.) Those sorts of small freedoms really appeal to me, so in some ways I am just being a devil's advocate in this thread. At the same time, things don't work very smoothly in China just because people take advantage of those small freedoms and do stupid and lazy things like parking their car in the middle of a very busy, crowded sidewalk.
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They do this in Moscow all the time. A driver told me that the police can't ticket a vehicle because they can't prove who was driving. When they come back to their car they just glance around and if there are no cops they get in and drive away.