You can check Estonian real estate sites if you don't believe me. You can get a cheaper apartment easily. Like the cheapest 1 room ones are like 40k and outside the capital it's way cheaper still or it was last I checked but that was no more than 5 years ago.

Local candies and food production is definitely a thing here now but according to my parents it was less prominent during the soviet era because you were obligated to give some of your production away to the occupiers. The most famous local candy companies is definitely still running and taste the same according to my mom, they are called Kalev if you wanna look them up.

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I looked at Prague prices and it's insane and Nestle bought a ton of candy companies in the EU and cheapened the product which is as expected from Nestle.

[–] Harrison@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can get a cheaper apartment easily. Like the cheapest 1 room ones are like 40k and outside the capital it's way cheaper still or it was last I checked.

Isn't this because half the population left?

[–] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

??? No idea what this is referencing, as far as I know nothing like that has happened. The soviets gulaged a lot of people and many fled during that occupation but nothing as dramatic like half the population.

[–] Harrison@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean post Soviets, haven't all the Baltic nations seen significant depopulation?

[–] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. A lot of Russian citizens left or where made to leave when Estonia got it's independence back but outside of that I don't think there has been a major population shift.

[–] Harrison@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EST/estonia/population

You can see here that it's been in decline consistently for the past 20 years.

[–] FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

According to the Estonian census it dropped between 1990 - 2015 (period after we got our independence back) and has been on an uptick since then. Though the massive drop right after 1990 is when soviet citizens left.

No idea why that graph is predicting that the population will halve in 80 years, seems a little ridiculous considering Estonian birth rate is fine and the population has been increasing for like 8 years.