A New Home—Without Leaving Home

I was at a dinner meeting near the Arctic Circle recently, sitting at a table of international business leaders, and the conversation quickly focused on Estonia—its ultrahigh literacy rate, majority female population, and famous Singing Revolution of 1991, when citizens staged mass protests and broke away from the Soviet Union, all while chanting patriotic hymns. I was smitten.

“Apply for residency,” the Estonians said, insisting I’d