@Mousel I have a feeling you and I could go grab a mini Boffer someday (soon, before I leave the G.Duchy again), especially that I've lived in Georgia.
PM me, my number on the typical messengers is here:
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My general feedback is as follows:
- Georgia certainly reeks "developing" country as opposed to "developed".
- Tbilisi has very bad pollution all year round due to being encircled by tall hills. It's particularly nasty in the summer where it's plain toxic to breathe.
- There is no (hardly) such thing as "cheap" service providers here, you have to go to the Big︀ 4 or close to them. Everyone else is just a heap of thick bricks and︁ utter waste of time.
- The same as above goes in regard to many kinds︂ of personal service providers (cleaning, taxi, para-construction etc.). Most of them have no grasp on︃ the basics of what western quality standards and expectations are.
- Taxation is attractive in︄ theory, in practice, as always, there is a fair amount of small print.
- For︅ a non-youngster European, Tbilisi can be a tad boring (I'm 30+ with a family, so︆ well beyond my one night stand period). Most of the local goings out are either︇ European-priced or subpar by some standard or other. The Nomad scene is concentrated along what︈ is essentially one building.
- Real estate is generally meh. You can get a nice︉ private house but there is an utter lack of asian-style resort-like condos unless you head︊ to Batumi. Its inexpensive, but value-for-money, worse than some asian or even island counterparts.
- The local population is not particularly adept at servicing you in English. IF you chose︋ to work in fluent Russian, do so at your own risk, because in 90% of︌ cases it will be a language-barrier solution and in 10% a cause of explicit and︍ misplaced racism (or, at the very least, a protracted geo-political lecture to substantiate the explicitly︎ non-racist position of your overly politically enthusiastic conversation partner)
- Everything outside of Tbilisi gets️ very rural very fast. Expect very little in terms of western standards outside of Batumi or Tbilisi.
- Georgia is not particularly easy to get to from Europe. Especially Batumi, which is the nicer place in Georgia - most inexpensive flights go to secondary airports and its another ~30-40 bucks to get anywhere reasonable from them, as well as the stress of taxi-faring in poor road conditions with constantly speeding drivers.
- There's this generalized "shifting" factor or underdeveloped countries. Things pop in and out of existence quickly, what you took for granted a few months ago is no longer valid at all and you︀ are a fool for thinking that it is. There is less permanency and establishment to︁ rules and laws.
- Traffic, general tidiness etc. are not all superb.
- The black︂ sea beaches are explicitly not white sand with palms type.
- The medical system is︃ not Sub-Saharan, but not up to modern western standards either (notwithstanding, Georgia has a good︄ grasp on classical medicine and leaps of advance in the medical use of Phage therapy,︅ for example).
Notwithstanding,
+ There, indeed, are, subject to certain conditions, explicit tax advantages to︆ working in GE.
+ Immigration for both yourself AND employees is a piece of cake.︇ No visas or work permits for most countries. Just take a plane and settle.
+ It is non-blacklisted jurisdiction with decent banking options.
+ Its not particularly dangerous, violent or︈ remote.
+ There is a lot of undeniably striking natural scenery, especially in the realm︉ of mountainous terrain.
+ Spring-to-autumn, the coastal areas are very pleasant climatically, very suitable for︊ medium and large-scale farming/garden compounds.
+ Whilst not being a shopping hotspot (like UAE etc.),︋ it's still well ahead of exotic countries from the point of view of availability and︌ pricing of +-decent quality household goods.
+ There is little-to-no corruption in the servicing of︍ mundane daily administrative requirements.
+ The prices are, if you keep watch, lower than many︎ places worldwide. I would say, approximately, a little lower than in a place like Thailand.️ Maybe closer to Philippines after all.
Given all of the above, I wasn't too sad to relocate back to the G.Duchy during COVID.
Georgia is on the "nicer" side of the scale of countries for me, but it's not perfect.
