Big city life offers people many opportunities but it also comes with a great deal of stress and problems. In recent years, a growing number of Russians are opting out of successful careers and great social lives and instead go where life is simpler. Some look to reconnect with who they really are, while others look to explore new possibilities.
Southeast Asia as a whole is one of the favorite haunts of urban Russians but the tropical island of Bali has some sort of magnetism that draws the bulk of Russia’s creative people. It has always been a big decision to move far away from home but several Russians have made their dream of Bali come true while also doing something useful with their lives there.
Sergey Mikheev and Evgeny Tsyshkov, founders of Surf Discovery surf school in Kuta
Both Mikheev and Tsyshkov are from Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region on the Black Sea. So it is no surprise that since early childhood they’ve spent their lives by the water. Their fathers introduced them to windsurfing when they were very young boys, sparking a passion for all things boarding that would eventually transform their lives and take them all around world.
https://rbth.com/politics_and_society/society/2016/04/21/living-in-paradise-how-some-russians-have-made-bali-home_586435
