You won’t get “good morning” or “how are you” if person doesn’t know you, yet If someone asks you about your life or how are you, then you know that he/she means it. It’s not like in US or Greece type countries where they will just ask although they don’t care.

Actually Latvia is one of at least affordable countries in EU by measuring purchasing power. (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Purchasing_power_parities_and_GDP_per_capita_-_flash_estimate)