In short
Vilnius old town is one of the largest baroque ensembles in Eastern Europe, a World Heritage site. It is walkable in full and still lived in rather than turned into a museum.
Užupis, an artists' quarter that declared itself an independent republic in 1997, has its constitution posted on a wall in some forty languages. It is a serious joke, and visiting costs nothing.
What it really costs
Vilnius is in the eurozone and costs about half of the Nordic capitals. Housing in the centre stays affordable, which is rare for a listed old town.
The country has some of the best internet speeds in Europe and a fully digital administration, which makes settling in straightforward.
What nobody tells you
The city is small and quickly covered: three days are enough for the centre. What holds people is the cost of living and the quality of remote work, not the number of sights.
Winter regularly drops below minus ten and the day lasts seven hours in December. That is not a comfort detail, it shapes the year.
The Hill of Crosses, two and a half hours north, carries hundreds of thousands of crosses left since the nineteenth century. It is the most striking place in the country and it is not in Vilnius.