I studied cybersecurity in college and it’s funny how many of these nerds have a massive boner for Estonia.
Seriously I had a professor who owned a vacation home there, they fucking love Estonia. I guess being a weird tiny Nazi collaborator nation both proud and ashamed of their own history appeals to these nerds.
I actually went there with my parents for a brief vacation back in like -98. Late 90s Tallinn remains the most depressing place I have ever seen. To be fair, I’m sure they are doing better now than back then, but I also don’t think the place I saw could be fixed in a mere 27 years even with good and competent governance. And - very much not to my surprise - no good and competent governance arose from that hellhole.
Old towns can be found all over Europe yes, and they’re pretty cool. But this was like that old saying: we couldn’t see the Old Town for all the pimps and battered prostitutes.
Probably because they want to be sexpats or sex tourists, but are too racist to go to an impoverished Asian country, so they find a nice little impoverished European country instead.
I studied cybersecurity in college and it’s funny how many of these nerds have a massive boner for Estonia.
Seriously I had a professor who owned a vacation home there, they fucking love Estonia. I guess being a weird tiny Nazi collaborator nation both proud and ashamed of their own history appeals to these nerds.
I actually went there with my parents for a brief vacation back in like -98. Late 90s Tallinn remains the most depressing place I have ever seen. To be fair, I’m sure they are doing better now than back then, but I also don’t think the place I saw could be fixed in a mere 27 years even with good and competent governance. And - very much not to my surprise - no good and competent governance arose from that hellhole.
I saw a video once of Tallinn old town and it looked cool, but I feel like most Euro cities have a cool looking “old town”.
Old towns can be found all over Europe yes, and they’re pretty cool. But this was like that old saying: we couldn’t see the Old Town for all the pimps and battered prostitutes.
Probably because they want to be sexpats or sex tourists, but are too racist to go to an impoverished Asian country, so they find a nice little impoverished European country instead.