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dnyhan
Joined 2008
Posts: 19

IT jobs in Lietuva? Moving - advice

16 years ago

Hello,
I'm an Irish IT professional, working and living in Ireland.
My standard of life in Ireland is good, but I'm bored to tears with living here.
I was wondering about a move to Lithuania, my main problem is that I don't speak any Lithuanian, just basic phrases.
I speak quite good Polish and conversational Russian (which i'm working on).
My partner is Lithuanian and I visited her home town, Kaunas, in December.
I found the people in Kaunas were quite rude and people were generally quite miserable (obviously my GF's family and friends were very nice people but I'm referring to the general public).
People smash into you without saying 'a ty proshau', or when I held the door at a bank open for elderly people, they stared at me like I was a convicted rapist.
This is quite strange and very different to Ireland so it put me off Kaunas, and the fact that I don't speak Lithuanian is obviously a huge barrier.
I visited Vilinus and thought it was quite nice. I heard Polish spoken a few times and I was able to use Russian in the shops which was a relief.

Many of my friends in Ireland are Lithuanian, two or three of my best friends are Lithuanian. All of them have warned me against ever living there, but my GF has lived in Ireland for 3 years and thinks I would love the experience.

I did a basic search for IT jobs in Vilinus or Klaipeda but didn't really find much.
I really don't know much about living there barring what I have heard from friends and what I've read here.
All friends have described it as a very tough life, but none of them have degrees and their standard of life is not so brilliant in Ireland anyway, just a lot better than Lithuania.
I saw plenty of poor people in Lithuania but I also saw a lot of people who seemed to be comfortable.
Several people told me it would be possible to get a IT job in Vilinus with an international bank or company if I improved my Russian, given that I'm a native English speaker, but I'm finding it hard to find positive feedback.

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