The good things in life.

so to balance it out a bit I thought I would write about the good things here. Yes, there are some.
The people, thats the real, honest normal folk are really nice here. Street crime just doesn't exist in the majority. I can walk the dark streets without fear of being attacked most of the time. If you get into trouble and people are around they always jump in. Once I saw an ignorant van driver try to force his vehicle through a crowd of people at a red light. He was getting angrier and angrier. Imagine HIS surprise when a couple of guys in the crowd he was trying to force out of the way dragged him out of his van to teach him a lesson in good manners. YES! One up for street justice. The real honest folk here (thats the poor, the rich dont care about anyone but the dollar in their pocket and there is no middle class, you are either rich or poor) are decent honest hard working people and will help you when you need it. Coming from england that's refreshing. In the villages everyone greets everyone else as they pass, something I have NEVER seen back home.
Kids are well looked after and raised properly with the correct moral standards and respect. You NEVER see drunk teenagers throwing up on street corners here and the kids are always quiet and polite when out and about and would never even think of abusing someone as they would quickly get exactly what they deserved. If someone assaults someone else then the police are called and that person is summarily "dealt with" then dragged off and given his just deserts then told to go home. To some that may sound a bit severe but it works, you just dont do stuff that may incur the business of the police, they carry sticks they can and WILL use and for the really stupid they are also armed.
The Ukrainian countryside is beautiful, long rolling green fields and small villages dot the countryside. The sun shines all day and it mostly rains only at night. In winter its covered in snow all the time with regular and heavy snow falls and temperatures that drop to a bone chilling -30C and in the summer it glows all day in a hot and steamy +40C. the seasons are definate and marked by stunning changes in scenery as you go from the grey and white of winter to the green and blue of summer with all the shades in between in spring and autumn.
I feel that Ukraine has a lot to offer the right people but has a lot of problems it needs to address before it will reap the rewards that the countryside and the mountains can offer its people.
I do have a soft spot for Ukraine and what it can be, however, what it is at the moment is really tough for someone like me and I admire anyone who can live here all there lives and not fall into the traps of poverty and alcoholism.