--- title: "Survey: Estonia is millennial expats’ second-favourite country to settle" id: "44437" type: "post" slug: "survey-estonia-is-millennial-expats-second-favourite-country-to-settle" published_at: "2020-02-24T22:28:44+00:00" modified_at: "2020-02-25T23:00:49+00:00" url: "https://estonianworld.com/life/survey-estonia-is-millennial-expats-second-favourite-country-to-settle/" markdown_url: "https://estonianworld.com/life/survey-estonia-is-millennial-expats-second-favourite-country-to-settle.md" excerpt: "According to a recent survey, Estonia is millennial expats’ second-favourite country to settle or at least to live in. The 2019 Expat Insider Survey is […]" taxonomy_category: - "Life" publisher: "Estonian World" language: "en-GB" author: "Sten Hankewitz" author_url: "https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/" --- # Survey: Estonia is millennial expats’ second-favourite country to settle ![Wondering in Estonian forest. Photo by Raul Mee.](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/an-expat-in-an-Estonian-forest-Raul-Mee-1024x683.jpg) Wondering in Estonian forest. Photo by Raul Mee. By [Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/) · February 24, 2020 · [Life](https://estonianworld.com/category/life/) · 2 minutes of reading ### According to a recent survey, Estonia is millennial expats’ second-favourite country to settle or at least to live in. The 2019 Expat Insider Survey is compiled by InterNations, a global network with members in 420 cities. The survey is based on the answers from 20,259 respondents around the world. According to the survey, Estonia is, overall, the 23rd favourite place for expats to live. However, according to a recent New York Times article, among the millennial expats, Estonia came second after Argentina. ![Image](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-22-at-5.53.59-PM-1024x754.png) The organisation doesn’t have an age-group based data available on its website, but for the New York-based newspaper, it did tabulate where the most expatriates in four individual demographic categories currently live. In the millennial category, the expats’ favourite countries are Argentina, Estonia, Ireland, Norway and Germany. In the other categories – professionals, families and retirees – Estonia doesn’t feature in the top 10. ### Taiwan is the overall favourite InterNations is a website dedicated to expatriates and the NYT calls it “perhaps the most comprehensive” one. It was founded in 2007 by two German entrepreneurs and now counts 3.7 million members in 168 countries. Overall, the expats’ favourite destinations are Taiwan, Vietnam, Portugal, Mexico and Spain. ![Image](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EI2019_top-destinations-1024x724.png) And good news for Estonians who like to compare their country to their southern neighbours of Latvia and Lithuania – these countries don’t feature in the top 64 at all. However, Finland is the 19th favourite country for expats to live. Russia, however, is ranked 56th. Estonia’s place in other metrics (out of 64 countries): 1 Digital Life 8 Work & Leasure 7 Working abroad 10 Health & Wellbeing 10 Economy & Job Security 12 Safety and Security 14 Quality of life 20 Career Prospects & Satisfaction 23 Cost of Living 23 Top Expat Destinations 25 Personal finance 26 Travel & Transportation 34 Feeling at home 36 Language 40 Personal Happiness 48 Ease of Settling in 52 Finding Friends 53 Leisure Options Cover: An expat in an Estonian forest. The photo is illustrative (Raul Mee). ## About The Author ![Avatar photo](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/local-avatars/15/1707599474-bpfull-100x100.jpg) [Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/) Sten Hankewitz is a lifelong journalist and the Executive Editor at Estonian World. Having lived in Estonia, Spain, the UK and all around the US, he now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He loves to write and besides working at Estonian World, he [writes books](https://estonianworld.com/culture/the-grand-illusion-estonian-worlds-sten-hankewitz-publishes-a-novel-about-growing-up-in-the-soviet-union/) and contributes to other outlets. He has strong convictions and shows them unashamedly. You can follow Sten on [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@stenhankewitz) , [X](https://twitter.com/stenhankewitz) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/shankewitz/) . You can also [email him](mailto:sten@estonianworld.com) .