It's a just funny how people theorize about quality of life in some countries with maximum knowledge of them from TV, wikipedia or beighn there as a tourists couple of days.
Schools in Kyiv are stored ammo? Childrens are studying in Kyiv same as in peace time, wtf about any ammo? Or childs sits in their classes right on ammo box? What a a*****e could even assume this for thinking of moving or not moving there.
Unfriendly people without stupid smiles? Lol, nothing wrong there, just a part of mentality, where face of the people just display current mood, unlike mentality of some stupid countries, where everyone smiles everytime even if literally s**t on you.
Corrupt countries? Just learn how to cook it and instead of big taxes just pay a little of taxes and put a bit of envelop. In result you will have bigger amount of funds in your pocket.
Unlike some snobs from Germany or DR who are literrally chew their ego with 0 real help, it's a lot of places in the world where you could buy decent house at price of 300k and pay adequate amount of taxes.
Almost all eastern Europe is suitable for it.
Starting from Slovakia or Poland, Baltics, where taxes\real estate cost will be somewhere higher, till Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine where you could swim around quite low taxes with cheap real estate.
Just look at Iași or Oradea instead of Bucharest in case of Romania.
Or Rzeszów instead of Warsaw in case of Poland etc. With smaller towns you will get cheaper prices where 300k will quite enough.
Another question it's a personal preferences in your and your family life: hobbies, climate, acitivity, language, mentality, etc.
As you said you like Romania and Ukraine, Bulgaria is also quite similar to these countries.
Hovewer Baltics and Poland a bit different in mentality with a more western mind, so depend on what exact you liked in above countries you could like or dislike them.
In any case, corruption level in Ukraine and possible tax changes in Romania is a absolutelly not a main factors to make a decision if move or not to move there. You are not investor from Rheinmetall to worry about Ukraine's corruption level and with dramatical changes of taxes in Romania you will be at same boat with almost 20 million of Romanians who face this problem, so 'solution' will be found any way.
