Moving Abroad: Requirements

Finding a job abroad requires more effort usually. It takes years to develop required skills for a specialist position. Here is a list of the most demanded Java developer skills required by employers in Western Europe.

Moving Abroad: Reasons to Leave

There are many different reasons to leave a country. Everybody, who has done it already or is just thinking about, has at least one. Some reasons are more or less country specific while others are general.

Let's enlist at least some main reasons to leave Estonia. Your comments are welcome.

Moving Abroad: Is It Worth It?

It's just the first article in a series of comparing standards of living from point of view of IT professionals. The series primarily intended for software developers living in Estonia — a very small country in the north-eastern part of European Union.

Estonia is beautiful. As any other country in the world. But some people living here keep thinking about moving to other countries. Including me. For different reasons described here.

It simply makes no sense to compare standards of living in different countries based on salary ranges solely. Taxes are different, price levels are different. However, cost of living indexed net salary is quite good for draft comparison.