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Moving to St Petersburg, taxis, etc.

Hi,
聽 I'm Mark,聽 relocating to St Petersburg in 2 weeks for 2+ years at least.聽 聽

聽 Company are finding me an apartment near their offices,聽 and I will be living in a hotel apartment聽
聽 for a聽 few weeks initially while I relocate, ship stuff over and furnish an apartment,聽 聽

聽 I dont聽 (yet!)聽 speak any Russian,聽 so..聽 if anyone has a number for a reputable taxi company who
聽 understand English,聽 that would be greatly appreciated -聽 I shall probably need them considerably.

聽 Also,聽 anyone know how to find a good English speaking Russian tutor as I intend to take lessons at
聽 weekends if possible,聽 and how much I should expect to pay for this ?

聽 Thanks!聽 -聽 I will probably be here with more questions before I fly out.
聽 Looking forward to the move !
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Hello Mark,
Thus is Victoria. Welcome to St. Pet. I assume you are already here. I can offer English-Russian lessons, on weekends, no problem. Looking at your Software ... profile name I assume you are in a tech industry. I come from that environment myself, so, of course can offer business and interpersonal lessons. Regarding an apartment, did your company found one already? And which part of the city? I do have an excellent place, on a great location.
And of course, a few words about myself, Russian-American. Considering myself more American than Russian since I lived longer in USA than in Russia by now. 馃槉 Can definitely suggest something about culture, some ways to avoid cultural potholes, if it's possible 馃槈. In any case, looking forward to hear from you but understand if you are swamped and might not be already interested.
Take care,
Victoria
Many thanks for your reply.

Yes - I already moved here - been here a month now.聽 聽

Thank you,聽 but聽 I have already found a russian tutor,聽 and am currently having three lessons a week聽 聽(聽 both speech (phonetics) and grammar ) -聽 although I might reduce this聽 number later.

I also found a nice apartment in a good location -聽 fortunately I had a lot of help with papaerwork and agents from our HR !

The聽 taxi thing I'm still not too sure about - I'll probably end up using Uber聽 ( but I hear a lot of bad things about them here..聽 whether that is true or not I dont know ).

Cheers.
I am glad everything worked out well! Good luck with taxi, Uber is ok but unfortunately, sometimes they don't read an exact address and wait for you near...which is a pain to find them, especially if you can't speak Russian. But it's cheap compare to USA and France!

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