Expat: I don't recommend anyone not working in tech sector relocating to Estonia
The cost of living in Estonia is so high now that it is not worth moving here from another country unless you work in the tech sector or have some other source of income, ideally from another country, one long-term expat in Estonia has said, as reported by Postimees.
"If you're living in Estonia, you're not working in the tech sector and you're earning the average wage, or not so much more than the average wage, you will struggle a lot, and I don't recommend anybody who is not in the tech sector to come to Estonia. At all."
"Even before COVID, as I said in one of my previous videos, I was one of the very few persons who in 2019 said that Estonia is very, very expensive when it comes to simple items such as groceries, as compared with even the more wealthy countries, for example, Sweden," Anwar went on.
"At that time, people made a lot of fun of me and said you are making comparisons of too many dissimilar things – but now, with inflation rising and the cost of living in Estonia, everybody tends to agree with me that the cost of living in Estonia has increased quite dramatically, and that the people who have been hit the most are the people who are in the service sector. For example, we have policemen, we have firefighters, we have people in the service sector, including waiters – and these are the people that are struggling the most to make ends meet," he continued.
