If you're a guy who's looking to relocate to this country basically I'm in Odesa in Ukraine
today that's the first country we're gonna deal with and I'm gonna outline the five big cities
here in Ukraine and some of the pluses and minuses that you should consider
when moving to Ukraine which city you want to locate yourself in what I've discovered
with my consulting calls with clients who want to relocate here to the region
or on my high level consultation
group Slavic Utopia Secrets: Ukraine is that it's hard to rank the cities one to five
or something like that because it's very individual like what one guy is actually looking
for he mightn't find here in Odesa but you will find in another city
and vice versa so I'm gonna have just a little
bit of a primer video today in this Tip Thursday with me Conor Clyne
we're gonna go into the five
big Ukrainian cities and what you should consider before picking which one
or which ones to live in поехали!
So let's start in the city that I am in right now which is of course Odesa Mama now if you
watch lots of my previous summer vlogs from here you're going to see that there's a lot of crazy
parting going on la dolce vita during the summer but in fact Odesa in the winter is quite quiet
that is something that you're going to have to take into account and it is actually a bit gray
in the winter time not quite the summer sun that you get here on the shores of the Black Sea
now bring up the Black Sea I remember reading a book called the Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
probably over 10 years ago at this stage and he was describing being able to work from a laptop
basically the four hour work week from kind of an idyllic setting with the waves lapping at your
feet sipping on cocktails and that was the way that we you could set up your life to work now
if that is what you're looking for then probably Odesa Mama is not the spot because the water quality
is not the best here it's actually a little bit green as you can see the water at times
from the algae now of course the center city is quite historic and beautiful in its own
way but it's not that kind of Bali setting whatsoever on top of that you know I say it
often enough in my videos here on the channel Odesa Mama is scam central those dastardly
scammer girls they are on the lookout for foreign male victims in particular with the romance scams
so in fact when I talk to clients on my consulting calls if they tell me that their top priority
is meeting like a partner in life or something like that I'd say
Odesa Mama is not where you want to be heading if that is your top priority but on the flip side
Odesa does it does have its charm I think it is definitely a good spot to come to especially
during the summer months and really enjoy you know the great weather in the south of Ukraine plus the
fact you have the seaside and the sea definitely gives its own special character along with
some of the interesting architecture and vibe in the city center so let's go on to the next city
So the next city to consider is a lovely Lviv in the west of Ukraine now Lviv has a very special
old world feel that's how I like to describe it's a lot more like Central Europe
it does have common history with both Poland and Austro-Hungary so that's not a big surprise so
it definitely gives it a unique kind of feeling and charm that's more reminiscent of say being
in Vienna or being in neighboring Poland that said even though it's a bit cheaper than Kyiv and Odesa
on the whole to live or to buy property it is also a bit more conservative, people in general
speak in Ukrainian not in Russian in everyday life so that's also something if you've been learning
Russian it's not going to be super useful in a city like Lviv as opposed to here in Odesa and
the ladies of Lviv are not as renowned for their beauty probably why you don't see any dodgy marriage
agencies out there in the west a very few of them anyways they're all based here in Odesa Mama or
the east or the center of Ukraine I have another TT about that another Tip Thursday I'll link it up
above in the card if you want to see where the beautiful girls are in Ukraine but that's Lviv
some things to consider about it
On the other side of Ukraine is the country's second city, Kharkiv
Now Kharkiv it's the student center of Ukraine there are lots of students lots of universities there
it's again cheaper than it's going to be in Kyiv and here in Odesa and that's a lot of nice parks
it's not going to be as happening or as dynamic as being in Kyiv but at the same time has a burgeoning IT
sector and it has all those students it's also more of a youthful vibe so that is maybe a reason
to consider Kharkiv as opposed to being in the capital, Kyiv or another city in Ukraine now
moving on to the other city that is sometimes overlooked and that is Dnipro now I made a vlog
dodgy Dnipro so it definitely has more of an old-school feel to it go check out that vlog
if you're wondering what that means exactly I'll link it up above in the car down below
in the description it's about a million people city it has had big investment it's really been
renovated the center of the city so it does have a lot of cafes, bars and clubs there that are all
new and it's actually one of the few places where you'll see foreign students I actually bumped into
a lot of them from the UK and the US so definitely a different vibe now it is under the river Dnipro
hence the name the name Dnipro and there did feel like there was a bit of pollution so I'm not
sure if you're unless you're looking for that old school in a big city in Ukraine that's probably
where you're gonna find it on the other hand it is a little less developed than the other places
So lastly and not least obviously is the capital, Kyiv now it's a massive city not really sure how
many people actually in reality live there probably somewhere between four and five
million people so it's dramatically bigger than the other cities it's the cultural capital as well
as the administrative capital it's business capital is where everything goes down is where people come
from other parts of Ukraine to make their fortune so it has everything you'd expect in a big European
capital has lots of good connections via the airports to other cities so it's easier to
travel if you don't want to spend the entire year in the city there's something going on every day
of the week in Kyiv basically because it is that massive metropolis on the other hand it has all
by virtue of the fact a lot of foreigners moving there compared to other places because
it is that pulsating capital and it is a European capital where for example you know
the cost per square meter of real estate is a fraction of the cost of going to London and to
Paris you have a lot more foreigners moving there now of course the bigger city can absorb
all that but you're not really going to be as unique in Kyiv actually in Odesa well it
doesn't summary no but outside of some of you are actually a bit more unique here i guess
but that's basically it because it's so obvious there are a lot more foreigners going there
so some of my clients actually don't like that they want to be somewhere where there are less
foreigners that said overall it is the place where probably 80% of my clients are deciding
to settle in because there is stuff going on all year round and it is a great city
So there you have some food for thought from my five big cities here in Ukraine what you should
be considering before moving here or spending a lot of time here and picking one or several
of those cities now other things you might want to consider are that here in Eastern Europe in
general especially with this covid mess over the last 18 months or so I'm filming this in August
2021 there is a greater soft feeling of freedom here I would say especially in the last year than
what I've observed in Western Europe it's actually been a little bit hard for me to relate to friends
and family in Western Europe because we just haven't been faced with the same restrictions in
terms of lockdowns and wearing masks it's been very light here and that is another reason why a lot of
western guys who can work remotely are considering to live in Eastern Europe whether it happens to
be the real heart of Eastern Europe so Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova this region and this is
the most popular country now what I already mentioned is I help my clients in particular with
my high level concentration group because not only you get the tap into me and all the information
you also get to connect with the other guys who have commited you know who are interested
in coming here for three to twelve months a year some that are actually committed have actually
already moved here and are living here and got the residency and now investing in real estate and
whatnot that is a great network to plug yourself into because as one guy said to me recently who had
moved he's a consulting client he related a lot to my video my former vodcast about my
previous podcast about being Billy no-mates in you can how you want to avoid that because that's how
he felt when he came here he was really looking for that community so that's gonna be down below
how I also help my clients is with my consulting calls you might be considering
you know Conor I have this particular situation and I'm not sure if it should be Russia,
Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova somewhere else in the broader Eastern European
region or you really want to dive deeper than in this primer video and get down to which cities
are going to be good for you especially if you have a time frame let's say six to 12 months
you want to spend some time in one city you know another time in another city and you want to get
that combination right really streamline this also you might have some other requests like
investment whatnot so anyways I'll put a link to that down below my consulting program and finally
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Odesa Mama, Kyiv and Minsk in neighboring Belarus so that is completely free and down below I'm
gonna leave you because I need to go to the beach so I wasn't really giving you too much reason to
come here for the seaside you know if you compare it internationally but I do like it day at the sea
sometimes not a big beach bum myself personally and I have this pasty Irish white skin so I have
to be careful I make sure I don't get myself burnt but that's what I'm gonna do this afternoon maybe
that's another reason for the south of Ukraine pretty awesome weather here in the summer time so see you in
the next video до побачення до свидания from Odesa Mama one of the big five cities in free Ukraine