Curious about daily life in Tallinn – cost of living, what you love (or don’t) about the city, and any tips for someone considering a move!
by Aggressive-Bobcat265
Curious about daily life in Tallinn – cost of living, what you love (or don’t) about the city, and any tips for someone considering a move!
by Aggressive-Bobcat265
33 comments
many russian, bad weather, do not recommend
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Overall nice country only negative is unpolite russians who think they dont need to speak estonian.
If I didn’t have my family in Estonia I’d move away.
Expensive
Love it here.
People complain too much though and have that strange idea that somehow Estonia is worse than pretty much anywhere else (except for Russia, obviously) 😀
* There is lack of food.
* Rental prices are high.
* 8-9 months of year have no visible sunlight. If there is sunlight in winter, sun is very low and not visible behind buildings.
Life is like a box of chocolates
Except now it weights 270 g. and will cost you 8.49
We’re full.
Not great, not terrible
Depends. If you get paid ~2000€ net you can live fine. Decent people, most minding their own business, not crowded. Winters can be depressing due lack of light but if your life doesnt depend on sunlight and keep yourself buzy it will be ok. Plenty to do in the summer.
You can try and find out, in the end it depends on what you like.
You get out what you put in, as shown by these posts. Negative ppl will find all the negatives and tell you that it’s horrible. And positive ppl such as myself will tell you omg it’s heaven 🤩What’s the right answer for you? We really can’t tell you without knowing your preferences, budget, income, personality and so on.
I like that the sea is close – nice to walk and look at ships or go for a refreshing cold swim. Lots of greenery and parks since everything is at a walking distance. Beaches, forests and bogs are not far either.
The city has lots of culture to experience (museums, food etc), the people are nice and speak English. Actually fairly diverse people around.
I think people who are more introverted and have hobbies to keep them busy turning darker season will like it. Extraverted people might have a harder time.
If you do not hate Estonia then you are not estonian… simple as that.
expensive
It’s a nice place. Not even the russian-speakers bother me as much as they did when moving a few years ago. Not that much of a bother anyway, more the mindset.
Prices have gone up, more than pay. Though same case in most countries.
Airport could have more cheap destinations with low-cost carriers, selection is quite limited now. Won’t affect anyone not looking to travel though.
I haven’t managed to find any youngster/roadmen street gangs like in some other European capitols. Feel much safer in the streets than for example, Helsinki.
Overall, a lot more wrong with a lot of other places. Unless Warsaw was an option, I would keep living in Tallinn.
Love it 10/10
Safe, clean, simple, air is clean. Prices are high and winters are D A R K . Screw the cold you can combat that but december you don’t see the sun and sunrise is after 9am. Winters are very depressing if you are like me.
Almost bad
Where are you coming from? That would help in terms of what your reference points are.
Am German, working remotely for a German company. German salary, so I may be biased. Estonian girlfriend. I speak Estonian quite well. It‘s a fun and quiet country, so I love it here. No unneeded convos, much more quiet than Germany. Every time I go back to Germany I notice how loud it is. Apartments are cheap for our standards especially if you‘re open to live in Lasnamäe or Õismäe. I personally live in Mustamäe and it’s really nice.
Food prices are bad though, eating out is not really much different from Germany. Nice people in my opinion, and Germany seems to have a decent rep with Estonians – haven’t been harassed for being German.
I love it here, and I‘ll stay if I‘m able to.
Some people like me are quite torn about Tallinn, it’s not big enough to have the benefits of a big city but it is big enough that things feel disconnected, like apart from job opportunities you don’t miss bascially anything living in Tartu. I would say that there is actually a quite a big lifestyle difference between Tallinn and Tartu for example. If you like planning alot, like your social life weeks or months ahead than Tallinn is great, if you don’t then it can get a bit tricky.
I got back from the south of europe couple weeks ago. Having also been to the americas, Estonia is a lot better.
Living here for 2 years now. It got more expensive but overall still waay more affordable than berlin, helsinki or most other cities that i know. The housing market is also way more relaxed compared to berlin despite its ups and downs but it usually is possible to just look at flats for a few weeks and take one you like vs 200 m queues of hipsters and a lengthy application process that only the top earners get through and takes months to nearly a year. Its also super walkable. I never expected that factor to feel so good and freeing but being able to do almost anything in walking distance without having to take a car, bus or scooter is just quality of life. Its the right size to have everything but not fall apart into disparate sub cities or overload with options. People are friendly and polite, its safe and clean. Overall it feels efficient, stress free and out of your way to be here, things just work, you can focus on what really matters and for the need of excitement there is 10 Eur cab to the airport that is not bad connected for its size and possible to get from leaving the cab to plane in 20 minutes. Rule number one for this thread: Never ask an Estonian unless they lived abroad for at least 5 years. They take all of this for granted and will just ask you what is wrong with you to like Estonia/ Tallinn.
It’s nice, but ask me in December or January…
Not that saturated
It’s alright, noisy but liveable. Rather safe and clean as long as you don’t drive into Lasnamäe. Everything’s more expensive recently thanks to the economy being fucked.
I’ve been in a lot of places for a shorter/longer stay, and the one thing common almost everywhere – people come up to me and ask for the most insignificant things or most commonly – smokes/lighter. Estonia is the place where a person would probably rather quit smoking than come up and ask for a lighter.
On a serious note, I’ve gone for about 3 weeks without any direct human interaction and have had a fully functional life, so take it for what you will. Overall, I’d probably keep living in Estonia instead of Latvia (where I’m originally from).
The civilization in Tallinn has ended and the city is in ruins. All thanks to the car tax.
I wouldnt take it any other way, but probably like with any other place in the world, if youre not a high earning mid 20-s specialist youd probably want to hang yourself considering you have no financial future if your parents dont have an inharitance lined up.
Edit: its about life in major towns. I prefer Tartu over Tallinn 100% of the time but life here in terms or prices is getting closer.
Mostly cold, windy and raining too much during autumn/winter/spring (which can be quite depressing) and prices are high due to failed tax system caused by the retards who run the goverment. Otherwise nice. No problem if you act normal and respect others.
Been living in Tallinn for +5 years now. Moved from Helsinki. Life here is great, much better than in Finland, but big downside is that Tallinn is Russian spoken city. 80% of people I hear and see in Tallinn, are russian speakers. Culture and language goes hand to hand, which means that you see a lot of Russian habits, like really bad car driving culture, russian graffites, very bad customer service etc.
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