Russian travel blogger calls New York the 'best city on Earth', with one catch

Russian travel blogger Marina Yershova has picked her favourite American city, and she doesn't hold back: New York is "the best city on Earth". She wrote about it on her personal blog on Dzen (a Russian blogging platform).

Yershova and her partner Alexander found the city beautiful and huge. She said even an aimless walk was a pleasure. "New York won't wait. It just lives its own life," she wrote, adding that you either become part of the movement or stand on the pavement and watch the madness from the side.

There is a catch, though. In her view the city remains expensive and out of reach for Russians, and you would have to work far too much just to support yourself there. Despite her love for it, she doesn't want to give up her free time to live in New York.

So she and Alexander, she concluded, belong to the group who are happy to visit for a few days, wander the streets, take it all in quietly and move on.

Earlier she described New York flats as places where cockroaches are "considered part of life", and noted that guests there often don't take their shoes off.