[poushkar]

You should really consider Lviv, Ukraine. It's cheap yet safe, beautiful and with a lot of IT companies (many meetups and coworking spaces as a result). It's also close to mountains which make a perfect weekend trip. And it's cold enough to let you work but not crazy cold like Baltics.

[dorfuss]

I'd second that. Ukraine in general is just ridiculously cheap. Lviv is a beautiful city with great history, but has a rather continental climate, cold in the winter, humid and hot in the summer. Lviv is quite remote, as well, but has a university with great traditions (maths and logic, Ulam, Banach![1]) and an opera. With even a basic eastern EU income it's really cheap. If you can work remotely for a German company or have an income in dollars from your side projects, you can have a really nice life there.

Someone mentioned Estonia here - well, when I think of differences, quality of transportation (roads, trains) and the rule of law (if you have to do anything with the administration, complaints, registrations etc.) in Ukraine are much worse for sure.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematic...