tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post4300604990909395387..comments2023-11-05T09:55:13.077+02:00Comments on Itching for Eestimaa: vaikiv enamusGiustinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04756707910693785516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post-21993948920195380832007-11-28T16:35:00.000+02:002007-11-28T16:35:00.000+02:00When you say "Like so many occurrences in this cou...When you say "Like so many occurrences in this country, the latest international news simply ... did ... not ... occur ... here." it reminds me that every time I visit my tiny hometown in central Estonia it feels like a trip to Center of the Universe. Nothing else is important there but the place itself and the people who make it. The world revolves around them and they are most konwledgeable and opinionated people you'll ever meet. Unlike you, they have a firm handle on all the flows of information, that's for sure. They are surefooted and anchored. Me, coming off that American information superhighway I always find the life at the end of the ramp kind of bewildering in its clarity and in it's charming simplicity. Why worry about the consumer confidence index, your portfolio performance in the light of recent merger between xyz and zyx when naabri Leida's son was reportedly carted off to kainestusmaja last week and this winter has been bad for the bees as Velts has lost 4 taru's already.<BR/><BR/>These people are 'keeping it real' while I am just a lost surfer on the world's high waves of uncertainty, doubt and worry.LPRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09397977705898254598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post-90025917053239105732007-11-28T14:23:00.000+02:002007-11-28T14:23:00.000+02:00I ironically just saw an article today (talking ab...I ironically just saw an article today (talking about wealth distribution) which stated: <I>"Väikesed maakohad elaksid nagu hoopis teises maailmas kui näiteks Tallinna elanikud."</I><BR/><BR/>It just continues the point of what a different reality Estonia is for people not living in Tallinn.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02108695780291232809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post-38680952470131740692007-11-28T10:55:00.000+02:002007-11-28T10:55:00.000+02:00Nobody ever sends reporters to Pärnumaa to find ou...Nobody ever sends reporters to Pärnumaa to find out what the people there are thinking. And yet it is this constituency that is most represented in government. You have Reform (Tartu), Isamaa (Viljandi), and SDE (Võru). Those are the party strongholds at least.Giustinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04756707910693785516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post-22908939720591936662007-11-27T23:38:00.000+02:002007-11-27T23:38:00.000+02:00"It is the capital of Estonia, sure. The only prob...<I>"It is the capital of Estonia, sure. The only problem is that it doesn't look too much like the Estonia most Estonians see from their kitchen windows."</I><BR/><BR/>Ya know, it's so true. I have an apartment in downtown Tallinn and a talumaja in the forest of Põlvamaa. I spend about an equal amount of time in both places. And while they're only 2.5 hours apart by car, they're a world apart in almost every other way. I never feel like I'm in Estonia while I'm in Tallinn. It's not until I'm deep in the forest sitting in my sauna or chopping wood for the kaminahi that I get that feeling.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02108695780291232809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406351.post-91939694099988274562007-11-27T18:58:00.000+02:002007-11-27T18:58:00.000+02:00I'm sure some savvy maamehed who ordinarily don't ...I'm sure some savvy maamehed who ordinarily don't read Äripäev are watching the number in the extreme upper lefthand corner of that daily, which appears to have stabilized at 10.5. That's what I'm buying.Kristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01394211030848077681noreply@blogger.com