Since childhood, I do not like big cities . What do you say it is not surprising , since the first six years of my life I spent away from civilization, in a cabin on a hill in the taiga. And when this idyll of my six and a half years dragged into the center and let a small , but still the city - I was in a state of shock and did not want to put up with the recent changes. "I was bad here ! " - I cried so much that within a kilometer , no one had any doubt that I was really bad. - " There is a lot of people ! " :) .
Somehow I got used to city life. Yet in small , quiet , comfortable cities I feel much more comfortable than in statysyachnikah and even more millionaires . Some large cities in which I have visited in my life , got into my black list of the most horrific human settlements. For a long time this list was headed Novosibirsk .
What I do not like the "capital of Siberia" ? The first time I was in this town in the last millennium , in June 1994 . We went with my parents at some market. I only remember that it was located on a vast wasteland of approximately one square kilometer , and from any point in this market was clearly seen sixteen- building hung with advertising. Impressions of the trip were creepy . Even then, the city's roads were the cork, which is now in Kemerovo not at peak hours. Tens of thousands of people in the market , noise, noise , crush also contributed to the positive values of this trip. And when I returned to the small and quiet city of Berezovsky - Novosibirsk was immediately blacklisted most horrible cities.
In the new millennium, a few of my friends and passions left Kuzbass in Novosibirsk . I resented it deeply. How so? How was it possible to exchange silence , romance , comfort to the most horrible place on this planet? : o In search of an answer at the end of May 2010 I decided to visit this city to see him in a new light . Still, sixteen years ago . Suddenly something changed?
I can not say how much the city has changed in the time that I have not seen him . But I can tell you exactly what has changed my opinion of him . The few hours that I spent in the city, I spoke with interesting people. With someone I had known for many years. Someone I had never seen before . Knowing my attitude to Novosibirsk , they struggled to show me the city with the best sides. And I'm back in Kemerovo with plenty of endorphin , with vibe . I do not think the worst Novosibirsk city on Earth? Yes. But this change was not in the city , but in me . And thanks for such a revolution in the consciousness of the need of people with whom I spoke in the "capital of Siberia" two years ago.