FIRST IMPRESSION/ RIGHT or WRONG????

We are a large Canadian family traveling through the republic of Georgia on our way to Russia.
Thank you for all your love and support!
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[@user-gg7ey7il8q]

С интересом послушала ваши впечатления о Грузии😊. . Добро пожаловать в Россию😊

[@Erik3E]

get ready to be drafted

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

febrile seizers are so common when kids have high fevers glad that all it is hugssssss

[@lindylou4338]

I am enjoying your adventure very much. Thank you for sharing. Love from Trent Lakes Ontario Canada. God Bless

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Thank you for your feedback!

[@user-ok6bt8uc1c]

Да, судороги от высокой температуры не повреждают мозг, но нужно не допускать высокой температуры, сбивать жаропонижающимм лекарствами.

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

i think you started off small and found the diamonds in the rough hugssss

[@tracycouture3955]

Whst a wonderful journey, Blessings from Canada ❤🙏

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Thank you!

[@christineiscrocheting]

Wonderful results👍 So glad you have been in Georgia long enough to have the various experiences 🙏💜🙏

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Yes we are glad too, this nation has lots to offer!

[@debbiekrueger5576]

Glad Finn is ok! My hubby has mild epilepsy, he had a small seizure as a teenager & a grand mal in 1989 has never had another. He doesn’t take meds anymore. I’m always amazed by people who up & move like y’all do. My one brother use to move like every 5 years..by move, I mean far away from friends &/or family. It’s not perfect here but I just don’t have the desire to live anywhere else. We have roots here, unless God would move us anyways. Good & bad everywhere you go, just gotta see the whole picture! God bless 🙏

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

It's not for everyone but we have enjoyed parts of it. Everytime we move we meet new wonderful people and God has always provided for us.

[@landthatilove6556]

Very encouraging video today, AND you aren't a week behind anymore. I'm glad the babies are getting superb medical attention. It had to be difficult navigating your way through a new country and culture, when your babies were sick. I've been watching your old videos, while waiting to see a new one pop up. Your very first one with the duck frozen in the water was great. The children's laughter with the duck in the bathtub was adorable. Be safe! Prayers to you all from Florida, until we get back home to cold Indiana next week. 🥰🤗🙏❤️

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

We got caught up, hard to go out and make content when your sick lol. We will deliberately fall behind again to give ourselves some cushion room, though. Thank you for going back and watching some old videos!

[@ccunningham6449]

. I'm glad Finlay is ok, and Maddie is also! It is always a culture shock when you go to a different country. Now, instead of seeing the good to the bad first, you've seen the bad to the worst. Great educational learning experience! Just remember, regardless of what you see or do! Have happy thoughts!! Love to all! Stay safe❤

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Good point! Thank you!

[@Yegorific]

There's an old Soviet joke: A Russian goes to vacation in Georgia (back in the Soviet days, obviously). He gets into a taxi, and asks for a tour of the city. The Georgian driver agrees, and speeds off like a bat out of hell, weaving in and out of traffic, screeching the tires, and not really watching the road as he points out various landmarks to the Russian tourist. Finally they come up on a red light, and the driver actually speeds up to run it even faster. "Are you crazy, that was a red light back there!" his passenger tells him. The Georgian cabby laughs it off, "I'm a Djigit, (a traditional warrior with a particular reputation for daring horsemanship and general fearlessness) I don't care about danger! I laugh at death!" After a while, they come to a green light, and the car stops like it hit a wall. "It's green, what are you doing?" the Russian asks. "It's the other Djigit's turn to go" replies the Georgian. I've never actually set foot in Georgia, or personally known anyone from there, but that was their reputation at one time. Especially the taxi drivers, although to be fair Moscow's taxi drivers were said to be equally terrifying. Georgian food used to be very popular in the USSR, and I'm guessing still is in much of the former territory. Georgian traditional dance is also something worth seeing. Car insurance: The Soviet Union did not have credit, or for the most part, personal debt. You rented your apartment, at a discount. Public school was free, all the way even university. Health care was free, and medicine heavily subsidized. You worked at a government job, or a co-op of workers with the government, and public transport was very cheap and got you just about anywhere you wanted to go. Actually that was a big shock for us coming to Canada: the city bus here came past a stop every half-hour. We came from a place where flight to a given city left every 15 minutes, and buses/trams/mini-busses could be expected at 5 minute intervals until about midnight, and then slowed down to every 15 minutes or some remote services were stopped. Soviet cities were built in Micro-Regions, where a 15 minute walk could get you almost everything you needed day to day, and some Micro-regions reachable by bus or light-rail would have things like hospitals or airports that most people would only need occasionally. Most people didn't own cars, and there was little need for them. What you're experiencing is more or less normal life for most people. Again, I don't know Georgians on any personal level, but Russians (definitely in Soviet times, and probably still a few out there) tend to be cautious around strangers until they figure out who the new people are, and how they fit into life. So they tend to say little, and be very observant. But once you're a known quantity, they open up and become much warmer, sometimes very suddenly. As you learn customs and mannerisms, you become less strange and easier to figure out. But with as many children as you have, you are in actual unbiased fact, zoo creatures. In any country, with very few dubious exceptions where life is hard enough that a significant percentage will not survive to have children of their own. I'm sorry about that, it's not a moral judgement, I'm sure you have good reasons for having so many, but it is very clearly not the social norm in modern times.

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Hahaha ya that perfectly sums up some of the drivers we had in Georgia! So far we love it here in Russia and the people are very friendly.

[@user-nm4oe4zp8d]

Если бы грузины были менее темпераментными, они бы не потеряли 20%своей территории. Навсегда.

[@tammyvaughn6662]

I wasn't impressed with the first leg of the journey (Babushka) the first apartment, the second apartment too. But, it's a beautiful place where you are now.

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Like everywhere it has its ups and downs, we are we are very thankful to have been here long enough to experience the good as well.

[@botieff]

Молодцы большие..

[@casperbkuw]

SHALOM & SHALOM!

[@src5769]

I watch some Russian channels and they show inside apartments of run-down buildings that looked really great inside. I guess you can't tell a book by it's cover!

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

so all the people are awesome except the library lady lol

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Hahaha yes she was positively miserable lol

[@marcelfeenstra1624]

Wow that was a really good video.

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Thank you, please share!

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

so when do you go to Russia ??? hugssss

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

We will make a video soon.

[@PeterFranks-ls5qw]

good luch from don loustel in winnipeg former swift current sask

[@ritaconklin9664]

Have they checked for Thalassemia? With that iron deficiency, you are not supposed to even take iron!

[@diannajohnson6693]

I will continue to pray for your beautiful family; for God’s abundant Life in and through Jesus Christ!!! I love you all and will always be thankful for meeting each one of you!!!

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Thank you and God bless you also. Hope you are doing well. Was so nice to have bet you also.

[@Patty747]

The only thing you didn't mention, unless I missed it, how does the health insurance work?

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

I'm not sure how it works here, the locals pay less than we do I know that for sure. We paid out of pocket and will send the receipts to our travel ins. Provider back in Canada. I believe they have government ins. here but I'm not sure.

[@OxygenDirect]

Have you been to Vake?

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

We were there this week for visa applications at the embassy. Is there something in particular you think we should see there?

[@OxygenDirect]

​​@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 still haven't been 😅 but I hear it's a nicer neighborhood.

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Ahh ic

[@OxygenDirect]

@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 Lisi Lake is north of Saburtalo but I hear a nice place to visit for some nearby nature, which you may appreciate.

[@asbjrnjohannordstrm1772]

Hei, hva er deres problem at dere ikke får kjøpt en farm i Russia.?. Følger dere men får ikke tråden i hva dere tenker videre. En hilse fra Norge.

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Foreigners may not buy agricultural land in Russia. Same law in Georgia actually. We will lease land as soon as possible

[@ashleydavis6809]

It’s just my opinion but I think you should stay in Georgia. I think it’s a safer option than where you are thinking of going. It’s just not safe where you are thinking of going for your family. It’s so unstable there.❤️😢

[@countrysideacreshomestead2008]

Believe it or not it is more unstable here. Georgia is a small nation stuck between two powers. The west is pulling on one sleeve and Russia on the other. Depending on who gets voted in here they flip flop their allegiance a little.

[@abeegale8716]

Unsafe? 😅😂 are u totally brainwashed? Russia is very safe n stable.. Stop spreading western lies 😮😮