If it is any help, as long as you are Skype, my wife and I could help via a video call, if interested then please let us know. My wife has lived here for 12 years and speaks very good English currently one year left to taking her final exams in English. I am a native speaker.

This report has answered a lot of questions for me. But there are still are a few questions I'd like to ask; 1. If you leave the Ukraine "Before" the end of the 3 month period, How long do you have to be gone before you can legally return? 2. How hard is it to find a job teaching English? 3. If you are formally teaching English under a contract with a school, can you get a work visa or will you still need to leave the country before the end of the 3 month period? Any information will be appreciated. steve

There are 65 SS recipients here in UKraine. The criminal government forces us all to come personally to the Embassy in Kiev every four weeks to PROVE we are not defrauding the government by being dead. There are low cost areas around Kiev that you can set up in, but I am on the border of Moldova. What we REALLY need is a class action lawsuit forcing them to pay for our time and money already spent, and to stop their illegal activity. Oh, thats right, they are now lawless with a foreigner pretending to be president with his wife from the Down Low club. Law no longer matters. Sorry, my mistake.

Steve, I'm visiting in May. I'f you would please post here what you learn. Thanks Steve (also) If you need to rent in simferopol let me know

I have been planning on doing the same as you and for the same reason. Hopefully about a year and a half from now. In the meantime I'm studying Russian. I have spent about 4 months living in Russia 10 years back and I miss the Russian culture and people. I imagine Ukraine is the same but without the entry visa restrictions that Russia has. My hope is to find a solid woman that will enjoy accompany me on my travels and that can develop into marriage, a new family and so on. Perhaps someday we will meet up? Hello, it was interesting to read your impressions about Ukraine! I agree with you that boredom kills a life quality. I am originally from Kiev but live now in Norway experiencing a lot of sensorial deprivation here. Society is deprived of many exciting life opportunities. People are using every occasion to stay away from each other, on holidays they escape from their cities with low population density to the mountain cabins in order to be alone. Almost all cafe, restaurants, places where one can relax are closed. Hope one day to come back to Ukraine! The only drawback that I would advice to be careful in Ukraine is a quality of hospital care. My mother in Kiev, being connected to one of the best hospitals, still needed that my friends would bring her medicines when she was hospitalized with infarctus. regards, Nostalgic Ukrainian.

Hi I am living in Kiev and looking to learn Russian quickly, would you be interested in teaching me Regards Phil