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Not to mention remote work for the US. You get 5 time the french pay in the bay, 3 times if you remove health insurances, taxes and retirement savings.
Where do you get those
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What do you mean by "minorities"? Do you mean "non-white" people? If so, then sure, but most of eastern Europe is fairly homogeneous in terms of skin color. I take argument, and actually some offense to your comment because there could definitely be maligned groups in the website. Polish people deal with discrimination in many parts of Europe even today, and Lithuania has a history of this (read about the Lithuanizat…
To be fair though, last time I went to Poland (Krakow 2011) they were super-racist. One of our friends was black, it was very scary at times. Lots of skin heads, random people spitting at our friend, getting followed by gangs of people. I have no idea what it's like in Lithuania, but there can still be some pretty extreme racism going on in E.European countries.
I have a couple of Indian friends who live here and they don't have any issues. To be honest I'd say this country is more welcoming to foreigners than the UK.
So Lithuania is cheap and all, but the website and the job offers clearly fail to mention how much you get paid. Also, of course living in the city center of Vilnius is cheap, but compared to a similar 500k pop city in let's say Germany* and adjusted for the wages, it's absolutely not special. Plus the lower absolute wage will be a problem when you want to retire in a western European country. The financially smartes…
I can't help but notice the absence of minorities on this website. Edit: Like it or not, people of different colours bring culture and a welcoming variation to a city. I get it, the French are minorities in Lithuania but you're nitpicking, being ignorant and missing the point. There are 12 picture with exclusively white people. Why would any who isn't white want to move there is that's the only group represented.
> I can't help but notice the absence of minorities on this website Aren't a region's minorities a product of its composition? White people are minorities in Asian countries.
I moved to Vilnius from Sweden four months ago and enjoying it a lot so far. A lot of the things from the website are true - low costs (I pay 500e for 2-rooms in city center), very safe city, lots of green. Can get anywhere within 30 min and I walk to work every day. Working in here might be a pay cut but the low costs make up for it. Tech is much more well-compensated here than other industries. My perception is tha…
Fellow Lithuanian here living in Denmark. Did you try exploring Lithuania, like visiting other cities? If so, did you like it? It's flattering to hear that Vilnius is improving and you are enjoying living there.
It's weird that this website seems to target people from countries much richer than Lithuania.
Why is that weird? Specialists could form a nucleus around which more jobs form. If I were looking for work I'd rather work in Lithuania than San Francisco.
And no, the lower cost of living doesn't completely offset that. Unfortunately Eastern Europe is still less developed and poorer than the West.
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What do you mean by "minorities"? Do you mean "non-white" people? If so, then sure, but most of eastern Europe is fairly homogeneous in terms of skin color. I take argument, and actually some offense to your comment because there could definitely be maligned groups in the website. Polish people deal with discrimination in many parts of Europe even today, and Lithuania has a history of this (read about the Lithuanizat…
To be fair though, last time I went to Poland (Krakow 2011) they were super-racist. One of our friends was black, it was very scary at times. Lots of skin heads, random people spitting at our friend, getting followed by gangs of people. I have no idea what it's like in Lithuania, but there can still be some pretty extreme racism going on in E.European countries.
I moved to Vilnius from Sweden four months ago and enjoying it a lot so far. A lot of the things from the website are true - low costs (I pay 500e for 2-rooms in city center), very safe city, lots of green. Can get anywhere within 30 min and I walk to work every day. Working in here might be a pay cut but the low costs make up for it. Tech is much more well-compensated here than other industries. My perception is tha…