Moscow Not Ready for Suburbia
It seems like an ideal home: A two-bedroom apartment in a newly built residential high-rise overlooking a river, located two hours by car from your office in Central Moscow, for $80,000. There’s just one catch.
The apartment is in Orekhovo-Zuevo, a satellite city about 80 kilometers east of the capital. Outside Moscow, such a distance becomes an obstacle course of traffic jams and overcrowded trains.
