Albania: Europe's best-kept secret just got a new resident.

Albania? Bold choice — and honestly, kind of perfect for you. This underrated Balkan gem has been quietly doing its thing while everyone else was busy moving to Lisbon and acting like they discovered it first. You clearly have better taste than that crowd, or at least better Google search terms.

Albania offers dramatic mountain landscapes, a coastline that would make Italy jealous, and a cost of living so low it'll make you briefly wonder what you've been doing with your money all these years. The answer is: wasting it, spectacularly. But that's behind you now, and the Albanian Riviera doesn't care about your financial history.

The food deserves its own mention — fresh, unfussy, and aggressively delicious in a way that makes you realize you've been tolerating mediocre meals for far too long. Byrek, tavë kosi, grilled everything. You're going to eat well and you're going to eat cheaply, which is the dream nobody talks about enough.

Locals are famously hospitable to the point where it gets slightly overwhelming — strangers will invite you in for coffee before you've finished a sentence. This suits you just fine. You've always done better with people who don't really accept no for an answer. You call it chaos; Albanians call it Tuesday.

Tirana is scrappy, colourful, and moving fast — a city that hasn't quite decided what it's becoming yet, which makes it the ideal place for someone who hasn't entirely decided either. Welcome to your completely unexpected future.