Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Bought apartments in Moscow (not a house) for about $200,000 in cash 10 years ago. I'm not kidding, it was a real case with money like in those Hollywood movies about mafia Actually it's very common thing here to buy something (cars, houses, apartments etc) for cash.



P.S. We have a central water supply with a drinking water, but my wife doesn't like its taste (personally I don't feel any taste at all ), so we always drink a bottled water only. So I don't see any problems with spending money for it.