Yeah, we seriously thought about buying an apartment in Riga after the financial crisis where they more than halved in price. I was working from home at that point and we could have spent our winters in Europe hanging out at the beach in Jurmala, etc. And also got a good return renting it to all the tourists when we weren't there.
But then the company I worked for started to struggle and I thought it might be prudent to find a corporate pleb job in town.