The best way to people-watch in this city is to travel on its extensive metro network. Of course, eye contact is still a bit taboo here, although people tend to smile more and do look a lot more relaxed and happier.
The best way to see every single person in Moscow is while going up and down the incredibly long escalators at metro stations. Heading up or down in the opposite direction is the intellectual 50-year old with the beard, the excited college student from Penza, the sports coach, the bureaucrat with an iron face, the pensioner, the fashionista, the kissing couples (a rarer site these days), the Uzbek labourer, fashionable young man wearing an expensive suit and reading a paper on his iPad...
The best way to see every single person in Moscow is while going up and down the incredibly long escalators at metro stations. Heading up or down in the opposite direction is the intellectual 50-year old with the beard, the excited college student from Penza, the sports coach, the bureaucrat with an iron face, the pensioner, the fashionista, the kissing couples (a rarer site these days), the Uzbek labourer, fashionable young man wearing an expensive suit and reading a paper on his iPad...
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