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So Lithuania is cheap and all, but the website and the job offers clearly fail to mention how much you get paid. Also, of course living in the city center of Vilnius is cheap, but compared to a similar 500k pop city in let's say Germany* and adjusted for the wages, it's absolutely not special. Plus the lower absolute wage will be a problem when you want to retire in a western European country.

The financially smartest (IMHO) way is to live in .lt when you have a remote job/contract.

* I pulled up numbers about Nuremberg which has roughly the same population, average income and average apartment costs are, relatively speaking, the same. However as mentioned above you will safe less towards retirement in absolute terms, limiting your choices later on.




For software development jobs across Europe you typically make at least as much or more in cheaper countries, as salaries are not significantly lower. Things are not in your favor for other fields though.




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