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I have been travelling to the Baltics since 2000, and the development associated with their Western re-orientation is just massive. Nowadays, Riga or Tallinn fe
by inglor_cz 2y ago
I have been travelling to the Baltics since 2000, and the development associated with their Western re-orientation is just massive. Nowadays, Riga or Tallinn feel like Nordic metropolises again. Not as rich as Copenhagen yet, but on their way.
In the immediately post-Soviet era, they were just ghastly.
It is another story in Moldova or Armenia.
- xenospn 2y agoI was just in Vilnius and I completely agree. It’s fantastic and seems like a great place to live.
- hackandthink 2y agoThe baltic story is nuanced: "Between 2004 and 2016, one out of five Lithuanians emigrated, primarily due to insufficient income for residents." (Wikipedia) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1016444/total-population-baltic-states-1950-2020/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1016444/total-population...
- inglor_cz 2y agoThis statistics looks shocking at the first glance, but many Balts are coming back from their Western jobs and building nice houses back home. Some migration is temporary. The idea that you make a lot of money in the West and come back home is fairly widespread in Central and Eastern Europe. IDK how many Poles worked abroad, but at the height of their exodus, there were several magazines just specializing in advertising foreign jobs. It didn't hurt Poland that much, though. Much of their money flew home as remittances and helped build the country.