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Alas, everything I know is second-hand. From what I know, however, Georgia pretty much delivers on what's advertised morally speaking. Like most post-Soviet countries, they're the opposite of economically prosperous, but they seem happy enough to have real food over goyslop and traditional stone buildings over glass-and-steel skyscrapers.
The two major issues that I found with myself moving there are firstly that their language, Georgian, is a true language isolate (i.e. it hasn't changed since Babel and shares no ancestry with other language families). While a neat trivia fact and a point of cultural pride for Georgians, those of us who aren't polyglots would be challenged by the task of learning Georgian. The second issue was that the Caucasus are in a prime location to get caught up in pretty much every major global happening. In times of peace, that's exactly what an enterprising man wants to see. In times of trouble? Well, there's a reason that Caucasians- victims of the rise and fall of countless empires across the millennia, have a reputation for ferocity.
It's not just that their language is obscure and difficult to learn, but on top of that it's also written in a script that looks more like Elvish than anything resembling Latin, Greek, or even Cyrillic characters.
The two major issues that I found with myself moving there are firstly that their language, Georgian, is a true language isolate (i.e. it hasn't changed since Babel and shares no ancestry with other language families). While a neat trivia fact and a point of cultural pride for Georgians, those of us who aren't polyglots would be challenged by the task of learning Georgian. The second issue was that the Caucasus are in a prime location to get caught up in pretty much every major global happening. In times of peace, that's exactly what an enterprising man wants to see. In times of trouble? Well, there's a reason that Caucasians- victims of the rise and fall of countless empires across the millennia, have a reputation for ferocity.