Photo Credit — Remington Write / St. Petersburg or New York City?

You Look Russian, She Told Me

But your English, it’s vera good

It’s fun living in an international city.

This weekend we traveled to Russia/Eastern Europe by the Q train out to Brighton Beach. You get off the subway out there and the bracing sea breeze carries next to no words of English. The signs are all in Cyrillic and the glances are not particularly warm and friendly.