Top 8 features of Vladik

No, it's not about Vladislav. It's about the city. A city that many associate with Japanese cars, the sea and seafood. But I had a chance to live in it for several very interesting months, and I will tell you about something completely different. You may not have heard this about Vladik, sorry, Vladivostok. And yes, this city can break your brain.

Feature number 1. We are all used to the fact that if you need to leave the house, you need to get into the elevator, press the button and go down to the 1st floor. In Vladivostok, you may need to do this ... climb to the top floor of the house, walk along the roof and calmly continue moving in the right direction. This feature is explained by the fact that there are almost no places for construction there. Some buildings are closely adjacent to the mountain ledges. And the road goes somewhere above the building.

Feature number 2. It is related to the previous reason. In Vladivostok, you either go up a hill or go down a hill. There is no third option. There are no horizontal spaces for movement. Constant ascents and descents take a lot of physical strength, and at first also moral: I want to finally find a flat surface somewhere and just walk calmly. But there is such a thing except on the embankment and then a few hundred meters. Maybe that's why all Vladivostok residents are slim.
Feature number 3. In Vladivostok, you can take a ride on the strangest form of public transport. Inside it is a bus, only the seats are arranged like in a cinema and go from bottom to top. And you have to climb the stairs to the upper seats. And it moves from top to bottom. On a road that no other type of transport will enter. This is a funicular.

Feature number 4. You may not be understood and served in the institution if you speak Russian. I went into a Korean barbershop and unsuccessfully tried to explain that I wanted to trim the tips. Even such a simple wish remained misunderstood. After a long time trying to figure out what was needed, I was literally shown the door, albeit with a sad look. Koreans work in some establishments here, and the locals know the language a little. They would not have suffered my fiasco.

Feature number 5. Or rather, a pattern. Car accidents happen here mostly immediately by mass and by steam train. Especially in the icy conditions. I understand that this also happens in other places, but you just haven't seen the Vladivostok trains ...

Feature No. 6. Topographic. If you need to go to a place where you have not been before, you take a map and see that from any point A to the point of interest B everything is nothing, make no mistake. The distance is a couple of hundred meters, but in a straight line it can be insurmountable on foot. This is close on the map, but in real life you will have to get around by taxi or public transport, having traveled almost half the city. And all because your point A will be at the foot, and point B will be at the top of some mountain. Or rather, the hills, as they are called here.

Feature number 7. Of course, it is normal for you to take public transport from one stop, and if you want to leave the same point in the opposite direction, cross the road and take the appropriate transport, which will take you in the other direction. Vladik is not like that. There may not be any stops in the opposite direction at all, because, again, it is a mountainous area. You're going one way from one side of some hill, and in the opposite direction you'll have to look elsewhere. Or you can leave the stop on the other side of the road, but in some other direction.
Feature #8 is not a feature at all. In Vladivostok, it is visible from almost any point. Sea. This view is always beautiful.