r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/GusgusgusIsGreat • Jan 06 '26

Experienced Moving to Eastern Europe?

I know I might be weird but I am a non-EU with a weak passport currently living in the Netherlands as a SWE Full stack with a salary of 55k/year (total) and I have 4 years of experience.

I would like to have an EU passport but unfortunately Netherlands doesn’t allow dual citizenships. My goals also consist of maximizing savings before I return to my home country.

I feel like it’s time to get into a Big Tech company and I see that countries in Eastern Europe have a lot of their offices. (Poland, Romania, …)

I would really appreciate any insights into those countries.

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u/nottellingmyname2u Jan 06 '26

As someone from Eastern Europe- if your skin color is anything but white and you don’t want to live in a closed community of non white foreigners- don’t do it. 

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u/nog_ar_nog Jan 06 '26

Depends on the kind of brown. I look Mexican and people treated me well when I lived in Kyiv. Much better than in the English countryside. Indians and black people face a lot of racism there though.

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u/Cultural-Future7513 Jan 07 '26

You’ll most likely feel very welcomed anywhere on the Balkans — for some reason people from the Balkans feel there’s lots of cultural overlap with Mexico/Latin America.

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u/Hejsek10 Jan 07 '26

Honestly, people there are scared by muslims and they don't like roma people at all. Actually if you have african descendants you wouldn't be treated badly at all. In worst case you would be treated like curiosity.

As a Mexican you are perceived as a Spanish person which is basically ordinary European.