Hi everyone, So here is my [M 26] situation.
I’m from Paris and I’ve be willing to relocate to another European country. They are many reasons, but the main one is that I can’t stand the atmosphere here in France.
I’ve travelled all around Europe to choose a new country, and there are four destinations I seriously consider, but I would need help from locals or expats to give me pro/cons for all of these countries.
So could some of you give me exemple of both positive and negative experience in these countries ? I’m only taking about events/social habits that are frequents. Not about extremely rare experience that happens with a likelyhood of 1 over 2 billions.
Thanks !
Actually, all postive aspects you mentionned are parts of the reasons why I’d like to move to Estonia.
About negative apsect, I work in the tech sector, so I guess I’ll mainly use English at work.
However, for other aspects, it seems normal to me to learn the local language. I am the foreigner, it is my duty to learn the language of the country. (I know Estonian is very difficult, however, but I’ll try my best).
About having local friends : this is my biggest fear.
So far, I have only one French friend here and another friend of mine from Brazil used to live in Tallinn aswell. Otherwise, I don’t know any local, which sacres me a lot.
On the other hand, in Czechia, I have local friends in Prague and Brno, which would make me feel safer.
This is why I’m hesitating.
Most struggle with finding local friends, but if you can’t make one, will expats not fill the same need? No worries, there are locals are friends of expats and immigrants, who you will interact with anyway once you start interacting with other expats. Tallinn might be harder because everyone is working and they have their own close friends developed after years of living here. But cities like Tartu and Parnu will be different because of younger crowd who are students. That’s how I made friends there who eventually moved to tallinn as i did.