When meeting my husband, who was born in Pärnu but grew up mostly in Germany, we both agreed we would not get old in New York City and wanted to move back to Europe at some point. When we started considering our options more seriously in 2017, London (where I lived for 5 years prior to New York) was already out of the picture with the whole Brexit, I personally did not want to move back to France and my husband did not want to move back to Germany. The reason being, we had both built our careers in English-speaking environments and we were not sure we would be able to fit in the working culture of our home countries (and our home culture in general as we had both been gone for so long).

We were also considering starting a family so we wanted a place that was safe, affordable and kids friendly. We had come to Pärnu a few times over a few summers and thought it corresponded to all our requirements so we arranged our work life to be done online, bought a house over a 2-week holiday period, packed everything and moved in November 2019.