Things I Hate About Living in Romania
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Romania is a wonderful country I call home. However, there are some things that definitely need improvement. As such, I've decided to compile a short list of all the annoying things I come into contact with while living my daily life in Cluj-Napoca in Romania.
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Pov:Thing Romanians hate about Romania
nah
Damn, imagine having terrible inconsistent conjugations
The best argument in Romania: Pula pula pizda pizda
Can you do a video talking anout Romanian youtube?
If you play this video on 144p it feels like a Yugoslav war documentary
💀💀💀
jokes on you my internet dous not alow more than that
dude i tried it (frfr)
Tried it, so true
thats true
You start to become a Romanian. Developing a healthy habbit of national self- loathing is part of our culture and you begin to blend in.
💯 shit talking our country is a national sport 😂
All slavs are like that😂
@@eEmm1 even amongst each other 🤣
You're only allowed to talk trash about Romania if you're Romanian.
If you come from some Western globohomo country then your opinion is irrelevant.
There is an another reason why robmanians are the thiefs of Europe. It was ours first >:( (hungarians)
The advantage of learning Romanian is that, after that, to learn Italian, Spanish, Portughese and even French, is much easier.
seriously, i tried playing on a spanish minecraft server and as a Romanian I could understand at least half of what I was reading on there
Si nu numai 😜👍🖖!
Can agree a lot of similar words can be found in these languages
Dao dracu pe romania ca mam mutat mai bine mort decat acolo sa mio suga toti bombardierii aia
@@dubl33_27really?
Dude I have tried to understand Romanian and I can't, and I'm @ native Spanish speaker
As an Australian who once visited Bucharest, got drunk and woke up married (true story), I completely agree with this video
😂😂😂😂
:))))))
😂😂😂😂 lmao
Legend
So are you guys still married? 😂😂
-scary grammar
-backward bureaucracy
-old neighbours
As a German, I can't help but see the parallels between my home and Romania. You are just like us with worse public transport but better Internet xD
...and gypsies. don't forget the gypsies
Even Serbia has better internet than Germany 😂😂😂
Ich finde unsere Bürokratie echt nicht so schlimm.
Yeah...we have very fast internet. I have 50MB speed per month and I pay 3 euros. I download 1GB of data in 25 sec. On the smart phone internet its slower ...only 5MB /sec and 5 euros/month
Eh, the part of the grammar that he complained about isn't the worst aspect about. Oh no no. It's CONJUGATIONS that will screw you over!
What is this word? In which person is it used? Is it singular or plural? It is a feminine, masculine or neutral word? What's its role in the sentence? Do that for EVERY word in the sentence or phrase!
As someone who also moved from Serbia to Romania, this is very accurate (we love you Romania).
Bro we love you too Serbia is our brother, I never Felt better in Any other country as a romanian then in Belgrade ❤
As a Romanian, I don't love it.
@@youtubesucks3882măcar e mai safe aici decat afară 😄 so theres that
Where does the Serbian-Romanian love come from? Is it like the bond from being allied against Bulgaria and ottomans?
@@RNKel1 Maybe just a bond of sharing in the economic and corrupt bureaucratic misery of post-communism in the balkans. Also I think Romania doesn't recognise Kosovo
My brother serves in the Polish contingent within NATO. They are stationed in Craiova. And he always told me that Romanians are very friendly people.
That is true for most people and they like offering you food and drinks all the time.
Also the Polish guys from NATO are literal beasts as I see them very often going to the same gym in Craiova 💪
As a Romanian, I absolutely love how you described the "cocalari". They're obnoxious people and I always hate it, when I see one on the streets. I also agree on the bureaucracy part, that we should digitize more procedures. I'm not sure the example you gave with the immigration office was the best one. The fact they only accept Non-EU citizens a couple days a week, might simply be because they don't expect so many foreigners in Cluj.
As for the language, almost all languages have some sort of exception or rule which has to be memorized. But they're not all required for day-to-day conversations or getting by. Out of all the romance languages, I think French is the hardest to learn.
Loved the video! Thumbs Up! Hope see a "Things I Love About Romania" in the near future.
if they have constant queues, its not that they don't expect them, its that they dont respect them, or their jobs.
I am a simple man, I see Living Ironically in Europe talking about my country, I click and liked
Same
Daaaaa! Și eu!
Me too, but about my country.
Și eu la fel
Da frate
Bulgarian here. With the exception of the language difference, the rest of the video is 100% relatable and applicable here as well 😅
I know it is - I've lived in Bulgaria for 1 and a half years and still travel oftenly thru' it. Love your country, it feels like home. Pozdravi ot Romania!
@@latze74 I've been only once in Romania. A romanian colleague of mine took os on a long weekend road trip Sofia-Bucharest-Piteşti-Sibiu. And oh boy... Trasfagarasan mountain pass was amazing. Scary and breathtaking. I didn't mind spending a an hour at the top in the snow while in July clothing :)
Got back home with a month's supply of dried meat and cheese
true, you can buy very good dried meat and cheese in the mountains of Romania@@SyntheticParanoia
That's cause we're the same people, separated by different conquerors and a big effing river.
dude, we live in simulation with small differences here and there Kappa
As a romanian woman who lives now in Germany I have started to love my country even more . Hearing foreigners loving my country as well definitely warms my heart .
Have a happy , fulfilling life there in the Carpathians beautiful , stunning mountains .
Me too 😂. I even started appreciating CFR, which I never thought I would 🙃 (as bad, dirty and slow as the trains are...I've never heard "der Zug ist ausgefallen" and I could count on the company in order to get from point A to B (in most cases on time).
LOL, life in Germany is so miserable that it makes you re-evaluate any country!
As someone near Arad who now lives in Timisoara: Timisoara has more than 300k people.. Arad is around 160k, the two cities are 40km apart… there are two/three buses: one at 12:45, one at two and one sometimes at 11:50… and as someone who works with Germans and people from Bucharest, I like to say that a train ride to Munchen is faster than one to Bucharest
Lol...that's one of the clearest examples of what corruption and stupidity can do...neglecting the infrastructure should be a crime punishable by imprisonment.
Rural Romania and Urban Romania are 2 very different countries imo
Yep
Small town of about 10k pop here and we just got a sewage system in 2022 and you can still see horses chilling and eating grass next to the highway, smell the smoke from burning the dried crops from the city center and hear the incessant car horns after a wedding parading through every single street.
I wouldn't have it any other way though
Also the West and the East of Romania are two different cultures tbh
@@tzarina-alexandra9211same for North and South
There is an upgraded version of "Cocalari" called "Bombardieri". You should take a look at them.
I don't even think they're called Cocalari anymore. Haven't heard the term thrown around in years
They are rarer than "Cocalari", thankfully. They're the hobgoblins among goblins, i. e. veteran/elite units. Their legend lives on. May we be spared of their reemergence. 🙏
@@bickboose9364 Rarer? I dont think so, go into Baneasa at any time and you see whole groups of bombardiers aged 14-18..way more common than your usual mid 30s super big ego cocalar
As a moldovan, I really want to see a foreign person's (who knows romanian) reaction to coming to Moldova and the look of horror or confusion when they dont understand most of the words.
Româna din Moldova e prea schimonosită 🤡 (în orașe nu chiar, dar la țară...)
Ha ha ha😂😂😂 si eu 🤣👋🖖!
Sunt din Moldova 😬👍
Eu is din iasi (langa pascani) deci pot sa inteleg😅
As someone who spent 3 years in Bucharest, I can't believe I made it through the bureaucracy alive. Otherwise I love the city and the country and the people...oh and the drivers, oh God.
I hear ya! The drivers are completely insane -- plus they park their stinking cars everywhere. Oh, and don't get me started on the stinking _concediu medical_ hassle every time you need to call in sick. Plus those ridiculous _tichete de masa._ Fs, just pay us 300 lei more per month and be done with it. 😂😂
Drivers are actually really good in Bucharest, almost as good as in New York City. They are very skilled and creative just like downtown Manhattan. Many things can be said about Bucharest but the drivers are actually really good.
As a Croat who lives in Germany and never was in Romania, I completely agree on everything
How are you agree if you never been to Rumanistan?
@@Dany-wp5zu he is a croat in germany. the moment any balkaner steps across the border into heaven (germany) their achieve all balkan knowledge and wisdoms and finally understand that their home nation is the best in the world and that they need to spend the rest of their lives fighting other balkaner living in germany over it.
69 likes hence i didn't add more
Good man.
what does Balkans have anythiing to do with Romania..@@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202
As someone who lives in South Korea with the highest internet speeds, I still had to bring all my paper copies every year to the immigration office. 😂
Good news: starting about 2 months ago a law came into practice and the state institutions are not longer allowed to ask you for copies of whatever they need so they have to copy the documents needed themselves. Good luck 😊
My most fond memory of romania, were the prices of most stuff. Soft serve in germany cost 3€(now 5€) while in romania it was 2 leu(about 50 cent back then).
hehe, not anymore, capilalism fack yeah
I used to be a bus riding idiot too. But after losing my mind a couple of times on the route București-Iași, i switched to bla bla car. Half the price, faster, more confortable saved my ass a couple of times. Highly reccomend in Romania way better than train or bus. Basically a better Uber but between cities.
It is a good advice, I was visiting last winter Romania and I asked how long will take to travel from one city to another in Transylvania, they calculated me that the shortest way which isc travel with train and bus would be 17 hours, but if I travel only with bus it would take me 48 hours or more.
at least that route has a plane route with favourite airline TAROM
@@csibiedit8046 Ok, I have to ask, which cities were those, cause both those times are either legendary or ridiculous even for Romania.
@@csibiedit8046no city in Transylvania is more than 17 hours apart by bike 😊
I think you forgot about a tanned human race from india that lives in palaces and listen to manele
That certain race doesn‘t deserve to live here but it still does
Yup, Italy, Spain, England....those places had enough of them.
Huedin lore.
Lolol
00:52 📚 Romanian grammar can be challenging, even though the language shares some vocabulary with English.
01:54 🚌 Public transportation between Romanian cities can be inconvenient, with limited options and odd schedules.
04:56 🚆 Bucharest's location in the far south of Romania can make long journeys for those living in the northern regions.
06:48 🗃️ Romanian bureaucracy is known for its inefficiency and reliance on physical documents, despite the country's advanced internet speeds.
09:08 👥 Some Romanian neighbors can be overly inquisitive or report unusual activity, causing occasional frustration.
10:04 🇷🇴 The speaker discusses a subculture in Romania referred to as "cokar," characterized by certain attitudes and behaviors.
11:43 ❤️ Despite the mentioned challenges, the speaker expresses a deep love for Romania and a desire to remain there.
"cocalar"* but in the recent years they got upgraded to "bombardieri"
Me as a romanian i have a deep desire to deport him back in his land
This is painfully accurate, especially not knowing the time a bus comes unless you ask someone who takes it
you take it when the time is right LUL
you don't have boards saying when busses will arrive at bus stops?? we have them at 99% of the bus stations in Galati
@@dubl33_27 we have a board for one of them but there's many others without
I like how every time he shows Romania in intros he always uses Hungarian gypsy music.
Hungarian gypsies are mainly from Romania !!!
There was not a single hungarian word sang by anyone. He used gyspy music... plenty in romaina.
@@mestayno Yeah, gypsy music that was sang in Hungarian.
timestamp it@@agentf672
As a Swede who has never been to Romania, i can confirm that this is accurate
As a romanian that lives in Sweden , i can agree to this
As a austrian with romanian parents I 100% agree too
Lol ... As Ro, who left for 🇬🇧 I also agree👍😅
@@RA28xx91Our Romanian colonisers at work 😊
As a Hungarian living in Sweden, I too can confirm this to be true. After all, I'm as unbiased as they come!
Fun fact! You cannot pay a speeding ticket in Romania through their website as a foreigner because of not having a specific number that citizens get. So if you drive far away you're gonna have to drive back to the region to pay the ticket.
Or just don't pay 👀
I love Romania ❣️🇷🇸. Sending you a lot of 😘😘😘😘😘
As a Dutchman I can confirm that Cluj is a wonderful city.
A dutch would never watch videos about Eastern Europe or comment on such videos, they are way too stuck in their rich western european bubble to care or inform themselves about anything else. You are probably dutch only by citizenship... so what's your ethnic background?
Hahaha that's not true. I'm Dutch.@@Zdamaneta
Yes, Kolozsvár(translated in Cluj by Romanians) it's a beautiful hungarian city in Transsylvania.
@@vasarelly37 found the Orban fanboy
Even the town square is named after a Hungarian king. So yeah. Nice romanian city I agree
Glad to see you are still here, my friend. Btw, hope you'll stay healthy and avoid the medical system as well. cheers!
Funny, so you ' re also one of the non - paying profiteers !
@@victormarian7889 your point being?
What do you mean? Hospitals can be ugly and old with outdated machines, but is not like youll have to sell your house to pay the medical bill or something.
As a person who goes to doctors every year, I never had problems with the "medical system". If you have problems with medical system maybe is something from your city... and pretty sure that is not the same in the whole country.
I think he's in Poland right now though
@jjblomkvist I do apologize, I ' ve thought you are Romanian, here only one in six pays for health - system but most of them would complain !
glad you love Romania and Cluj! Welcome and have always fun, may your days never be boring!
Most találtam rá a csatornádra, remek a tartalom, csak így tovább János! :)
As a romanian you are scarily accurate
As someone living in Cluj too, I gotta say you are spot on. Most of the things you said are 100% true, but none of them are that big of a deal to be honest, as they are mostly just minor inconveniences. I Hope you enjoy your stay here regardless!
Im kinda curious tho, what made you choose Cluj over the other romanian cities?
Same reason one would choose Timisoara over Bucuresti.
Bucuresti sucks.
@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 Timisoara resident without metro (LMAO you're poor) detected
@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 Look at this guy bringing up Timisoara out of nowhere just so he can boast like a typical banatean monkee. Would it make you ppl leave us alone if we gave you a certificate saying how great you are and how bad Bucharest is?
From what I understood he has a girlfriend there.
@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 Timisoara sau Țigănişoara? :))
I live in Romania and there is this one old lady that at night while I was sleeping without even knocking just enters my house. Now I didn't have a key to lock the door and if I use the thing to lock the door from the inside I would lock my mom outside
I remember reading a story back in the 90s or early 2000s about how one Romanian football team acquired a player and the fee to the other team was 15kg of pork sausages.
As a Bulgarian it sounds way too close to home. Except maybe for the transport which is surprisingly decent (if the damn AC works, of course) but the rest is the same down here as well. Love to Romania gang from BG
As a Romanian when I visited BG beside the language witch I didn't understand there was this scary sense of deja-vu , I didn't feel like I was in a different country, o felt like I didn't leave Romania
We are like brothers form different mothers
Salute from Romania!
@@selcovoilucian8253 Yeah, indeed. Sadly I have travelled mostly transit to Romania and for a couple of hours and except for the language everything is … the same . Even the people are identical, haha. It definitely feels like one nation in two countries. All the best to all of you! 🇧🇬🇷🇴
Hey János. I've been a resident of Cluj all my life and a fan of your channel for some time. As someone who just recently discovered you moved here, it's quite surreal seeing you walking around in front of the apartment block in Mărăști which until recently was my home, all the way to my current workplace which is in Iulius Mall. :))
I feel your pain when it comes to the experiences you had. The last time I went via bus or train to both Timisoara and Bucharest was in 2018, and to Brasov in 2013 (took me 12 hours!). I have been to Brasov since but only via car. The only city which I still travel to by bus is Sibiu. It's about 3 hours, and at least part of the journey is manageable across the highway.
Don't get me started on old people. There is an old lady exactly like the one you described living in the apartment beneath me. She seems quite senile, so half the time when either me or my girlfriend bump into her in the stairway she doesn't recognize us, even though we have been neighbors for almost 3 years now. This obviously makes her pretty distrustful, always asking who we are and what our business is, threatening to call the police on us is not out of the ordinary. :))
If you ever find yourself having to sleep overnight in Iulius Mall waiting for the migration office to accept you, feel free to come by Leonidas chocolate stand on the top floor for a chat. I'll ease your agony. :))
I think I accidentally met you
I took the train from Timisoara to Bucharest once. When I arrived I canceled my ticket for the ride back home and booked a flight instead lol. Best decision ever. Also whenever I traveled by train I would buy my tickets online but so very few people do that, that they actually print the list with your names and they search for you in the whole train lol, they put a wrriten signature beside your name once they checked your ticket and they also sign your ticket. I always thought it was so funny how seriously they were taking the whole thing. And talking about bureaucracy, on one occasion the train controller got controlled. I also had the unpleasant surprise to realize that after 5 years abroad, the train that used to take 3 hours to go to my hometown from Timisoara now takes 4 hours and a half. It's evolution, only backwards! Jokes aside, I do believe the country will evolve, it already changed so much (for the better) in the last 10-15 years.
*brazilian who migrated to lisbon here*
I took a bus from cluj-napoca to sibiu 2 years ago and - LOL - I thought I would never be able to get out of cluj (a city I fucking loved, btw).
I didn't understand what was going on at the "bus station" (thank you for reminding me!) and there were families yelling to go to moldova.
I fucking loved romania!!
We romanians need more guys like this dude :)) We that are living in Romania, we got used with this BS, so we already own 3 cars :)) The only way to change all this problems with public transportation is to bring fresh blood like guy that seems is not used to this BS and is still that naive to believe that he can change stuff :)) ( I hope he does, I am 100% sure he would not )))
Germany here. If you need fresh blood in Romania we can help you out. Only tell me how many you want.
He's from Serbia so he's definetly used to some of this shit at least lol😂
@@m4rsianer How many sisters you got?😁
@@m4rsianer as a representation of the romanian community we sincerely reject your offer, we my pass it to the hungarians thank you😂
@@m4rsianer you can keep them
This is just like home😢
Truly the Balkans are the latin America of Europe.
God bless Romania and the Balkans
nah latin america doesnt have as many wars@@commonwealthofman52
Doamne milueste neamul nostru! ☦️🇷🇴🇷🇸🇷🇺🇧🇬🇧🇾🇬🇷🇪🇹🇦🇲💪🏼
@@commonwealthofman52 in south america we have online buroucracy, better transportation, no commie blocks and it shares a common language....
sadly, we do have our own native species of cocalar... sigh
@@userAndrew5 that's because we're entering our communist arc.
After that it will be full blown funni arc
Except Romania is NOT in the Balkans.
I hope that apart of those things you feel good here and enjoy your time!
Everyone, Romanian here, he lives in Cluj-Napoca currently. No worries, I'll be searching the streets and look after him for you (and no, Cluj is a very safe city despise being in the same country as Bucharest, so his pockets are safe)
Pls make a video about things you love about Romania! Everyone just complains about us:)))
Especially hungarians I bet they will comment here right now
Nothing to like about you. Sry bud, lost cause.
@@ReeYuuJee Yes there is
It will be on CZcams shorts only. Logo and end of clip:)
@@ReeYuuJee found the hungarian
I have my wife's 80+ year old hungarian grandma who lives in Romania and who mostly forgot which field of hers she sold and which one is still hers.. Her husband who spoke Romanian, but died decades ago..So when I went there as ' a young man' was given a mission by her... To go and get the needed information from the 'officials'. At this point I entered the Romanian burocracy without being able to speak Romanian. (I speak hungarian and English). In the village I went to the officials and they told me that they do not have this information (said in hungarian) and btw the son of my vife's grandma is a son of a bi...:)) Also that I have to go to a town...where I went.. In that town (Marghita) the office (land registry)I had to go was to be open few hours later.. At this point god looked down on me and a Romanian woman approached me saying that she heard when I told to my wife (in hungarian) that this mission is gonna fail.. She spoke hungarian almost perfectly.. She guided me to a young real estate agent who she knew can get things done and also speaks englis..The guy was also very nice and helped me with his contacts in the land registry as he is in a daily contact with them through business and knows the people.. He called someone in the land registry (probably during lunch break) and 20 minutes later he showed on his monitor the history of buy/sale/court judgements of thet field in question back to the 1800s...
At the end I asked the guy how much I owe him.. He said Zero. I tried to leave money on his table..he gave it back.
So I completed the mission with the help of the locals and find the bureaucracy efficient and very informative there. :) (never really meet the appropriate officials, but got everything I needed)
My main man. That's what we call being connected. Or having PCR, pile, cunostinţe si relaţii. Files, aquaintances and relations.
Well played ol chap.
That sounds like an awesome story
Romanians will hook you up, when you're in need. The people's choice for MVP's of Europe.
@@whatsgoingon71 Romanians are as diverse as us Hungarians..just like any other nation..you have to follow your gut feelings. But I grew up in eastern Europe..where ever in the world I meet rommanians we were at the same page, understood each other's references..facial expressions etc... Some hungarians in Hungary or Romanians in Romania might hate each other, but if you place these two into an alien environment like the US or the UK, the two finds out how similar they are to each other within 3 minutes.. Some people tend to exploit you when you are in need. In my experience these are not the Romanians.
@@Mrac-zz8vhWhat do you think is the best country to live as an expat?
Both are on my mind....
2:52 I kid you not I guessed it! It wasn't that hard, but the fact I was exact is very rare for me.
Also, Hi from your neighbour from below!
Oh, it looks that you like my city, Cluj-Napoca, so that you filmed a lot of videos from it. Are you living here? Good job! Keep on making those kind of interesting videos! :D
TIP: Get a qualified digital signature that's in EUTL. this definitely saved me from 95% of physical beurocracy. If the institution you need doesn't have an online system you just send the documents all via email with the copies signed by you for conformity. Some institutions may fight back but they can't deny you so if you push hard enough, they will eventually accept your digital documents.
can you explain this more please
@@Spincushor Cauta dupa semnatura digitala (think CertSign/DigiSign). Cu ea poti semna digital orice document si dovedeste ca tu esti persoana care a semnat digital acel document.
Make an ‘everything I love about Romania’ video deffo! Always wanted to visit.
He has a "I visited Romania so you don't have to" video that basically acts like a travel guide
Absolutely amazingly spot on accurate. Had me in stitches!!!!! Summed up Romania absolutely perfectly 😂
Bro, the picture of City 17 as Bucharest sent me =)))))
EDIT: In reference to the Immigration Office in Cluj being in a Mall, the actual Bureau of Passports in Bucharest is ALSO in a Mall (the Park Lake Mall in Sector 3, to be specific) and is surrounded by very advanced and civilized-looking stores, while it is at the end of a creepy corridor leading to what I can only assume was a an ex-storage area that is barely organised into a few tiny offices and a ubiquitous aisle of counters
As someone who grew up in rural Australia with no car, the rant about public transport hit home.
A half Serb-Half Hungarian studying Hungarian to get a Hungarian passport whilst living in Romania?
Лебтејебо
pure fire, again, great video, really enjoyed it
János my friend who I never met, great video again! I hope you have a great time in the city of my alma mater.
I had a good laugh. Please, let us know what you love about Romania! Greetings from Czechia!
The outro where you dance while some random kid falls on ground just killed me. I'm glad we have you, fellow Romanian!
He is not romanian tho he just lives there
@@KartingRulesWoosh
There's a law (in Romania) that bans the lady from the office to ask you for any copies of anything, at least for us the citizens.. in most cities the lines are much shorter but we still have a long way until digitalisation
I just discovered your channel and had the best laugh of the day. 😂 Congrats from a fellow romanian vlogger!
When you said there are teo busses going from Cluj to Timisoara I was actually shocked, I though the answer would've been 0 lmao
But seriously, if you don't have a car here, you're in for a bad time 💀
Those buses are not so dirty as he implyes, and even if I'm not sure that there are only two, that network is private, so it's exactly tuned for the demand, that meaning there are not so many travellers for that destination. The real problem is with our trains, wich uset to be and to work much better in ... communism, than now, under the commmies !
@@victormarian7889 Yeah, the current state of the train system is a real shame honestly...
As a Romanian I can confirm that all of this is completely true
I visited my mom's side of the family in Cuba a few years ago. 3rd day into it some government secretaries came to where my grandmother and I were staying to ask us questions. Turns out the neighbors across the street could tell I was American and that was suspicious to them. So they made a call to be safe.
I find this so hilaroious! You should try Cluj - Brașov by train, 300km in 7 hours if you are lucky and don't get like another 2 hours delay.
i was born in Baia Mare and i go in Timisoara for college, i rly know the struggle to only have 1 train from Baia Mare to Timisoara and only in the weekend . and Baia Mare is not a unknown village or something.
edit: in the bloc i live in we have an old lady who is looking into the common dumpster idk why, is is not poor or anything and she doesn't take things from there just needs to know what people throw away i guess
She is looking for copper cables to collect and sell xD
@@HideorEscapeNope, those live in houses !
You're throwing away drug needles, aren't you?
I wanted to travel by train from Budapest to Sighisoara a few years back, there was one option to depart that night around 7pm to Oradea then change for Timisoara then change onto a 3rd train which arrived at 7am the next day. None of those trains had sleeper cabins, and on one train ride I got hassled verbally and physically by an old lady begging for money who got kicked off at the next stop. One of the most frustrating travel experiences of my life. I was told not to even attempt getting a bus.
That's why everyone needs a car.
Be happy you didn't get to travel in a sleeper cabin. You have no idea what you dodged
Friend, pal, bro... use a train if you want to travel between Romanian cities! xD
Either that, or go with driveshare options - there's probably a few each day, though it can vary (I would suggest websites such as blablacar or your local carstop - most cities have an unofficial one - the one for Timișoara is next to the parking lot of the church in Badea Cârțan).
Who needs a gym when you've got the unpredictable streets of Cluj-Napoca to navigate? 😅 Loving the irony in this video. Makes me want to visit and experience the 'adventures' firsthand!
What you mean by unpredictable streets of Cluj? Apart of the heavy traffic due to the undersized infrastructure, the city is very easy to navigate.
I have learned a lot from Romanians, and I can confidently greet people with traditional phrases like 'sugi pula.' Many people respond with smiles on their faces. What a country full of nice people!"
The moment you mentioned bureaucracy, I got the worst shivers. My grandma also lives in Cluj (actually visiting in a few days), and the OCPI/land registry office there makes Hungarian systems look positively user-friendly.
Oh yeah, it *claims* to be open 8:30-16:30, but they only actually start dealing with people until 14:00. If they feel like it that day. And yeah, good luck trying to use English or Hungarian to figure out what is even going on.
When I was visiting home last year from the UK I lost my ID so I had to get a travel pass document from the Romanian consulate here. In good Romanian tradition I pulled up with 50-60 pages worth on documents, you never know, they might want to see my kindergarten documents. Anyhow I made it to the desk of one of the office workers and as per expected she started asking for document this and document that. My English boyfriend was with me as we traveled togheter to the consulate and he wanted to experience a bit of the Romanian office feel (don't ask me, English people are blissfully unaware of the nightmare of bureaucracy, their system is very straight forward). At one point the lady asked me for a photocopy of my mother's ID card, which I happened to have. I say yes and prepare to pull it out when she just jumps to another document which I readily produce. After all was done and dusted and we were out getting some food my boyfriend was, as expected, very confused 😅 Since then we refer to a photocopy of my moms ID as a trick question inside joke 😆
About the AC on the train. On some trains it works. It just gives you cold air during winter and hot air in summer.
my dude, you are officially awarded the title of honorary romanian
I visited Cluj-Napoca for almost two months in 2021! Beautiful city, beautiful culture, and beautiful women💖
Real
Shoutout to the guys there too. Met so many friendly drinking buddies. Good vibes during nights out.
I am also obsessed with Romanian KFC. Real Picant burger best.
I live there, where have you seen the Culture, or what you mean by that ?!
@@victormarian7889 it has ancient catholic roots, practices modern orthodoxy and has touch of Slavic influence. Many people are eager to learn English, Spanish or French; as well as German immigration that focuses on business enterprise. With a small Soviet influence the educational standards are high and the recent capital interest moves it toward the free world.
@@AeontheWeeb keep in mind that kfc decreased a lot in quality and increased in price. Sadly, the kfc I used to eat at Iullius as a kid can’t be compared to the current day one 😔
As a romanian this has to be one of the truest videos i have ever seen, only thing you missed is the school sistem who hasnt changed since the 1800's
In the first scene you were walking 5m away from where I live in cluj.Kinda pog.
Currently on the end of a roadtrip through Romania (Oradea, Cluj, Sibiu, Brazov, Bukarest, Costanza) and can say having a car is really practical and driving is a lot of fun. I'm glad I don't need to rely on busses or trains.
Yes, nowadays even the poor (like me) have at least onr car and don't depend on public transportation. The road infrasrtucture is't great, but, at least, you don't depend on the railway or bus companies.
What I heard from my cousin who lives in romania is that people of a street got together and build their fiber optic infrastructure on their own, which is why its so good there.
It's certainly true in places. But the reality is that there are so many IT companies in Romania and so many Romanians in IT, the internet infrastructure was heavily pushed ahead by big companies. Romanian is the third most spoken language in Microsoft, behind Chinese and Indian dialects. That's frightening.
As someone who grew up in the '90 and saw those cables being drawn through balconies I can confirm your cousin is right 😄
@@Liminal.HeadspaceThat is true, but it's not why you implyed, but because those are very poor countries, intelligent people are also in U.S., but their work would cost much more !
your last statement is simply not true..@@Liminal.Headspace
Back in the 90s and early 2000s, there were no major ISPs, most telecoms were sticking to the more lucrative telephone business as computer ownership was seen as too low (people were very poor back then and computers were very expensive).
Due to this, small ISPs appeared all over the place due to a void in legislation that allowed anyone to enter the market and also use the street poles as they see fit. These ISPs were very small, usually only having a few hundred clients and being ran by 1-2 people. back in the day, even with very small fees, these guys could earn $1k+ per person, which was multiple times the national average income. Given that 100kbps was the norm from the start and given that any tech issues were solved very fast as the ISP guy was literally your neighbor, made this model of business really popular, with ISPs fighting for clients, bringing prices down and services up.
It's only later when big companies came in, started buying these small businesses but some would not sell and would continue to function for many years. In the end, changes in legislation eventually killed most small ISPs that survived, but only after setting the bar really high in terms of internet speed and competitive pricing.
The big ISPs merged and right now, there's a bit of a monopoly (one very big provider and a telecom company as the competition); so things may change in time, but right now, you can easily get 1GBit/s for 7-8 EUR and for a bit more, in big cities, you can even get 2, 5 and even 10 GBit/s connections.
If you ever come to Oradea please let us know and let's grab a beer! Love your content, please never change❤
3:05 We call them microbus, what is that marshrutka thing supposed to be? Generally, microbuses are the preferred option to go from a large city to the small village of Bumfuck, Nowhere; using them for inter-city transit is a bit weird to me.
Another thing: there are 7 trains between Cluj and Timisoara. Unfortunately, they take between 8 to 10 hours; how they manage that on a 4-hour road, I have no idea (prolly by stopping in every little village). Going from Cluj to Iasi takes a similar amount of time, and it's twice as long and going across mountains...
On a minor upside, train tickets don't need reservation, you can just go to the train station and buy a ticket up to half-hour before the train leaves. They're discounted if you get them earlier.
As a German living in Timisoara since 2017 - I FEEL YOU
A deci ești un Saș
nu ?! :S
@@CristiChiri10
@@ConsciouslyEating Nu înțeleg, credeam că dacă ești un german care trăiește în Transilvania (sau Banat mă rog) ești saș
Eu sunt german. Mă aflu în România din 2017. Orice german poate să vină și să trăiască în România în zilele noastre. Nu mai suntem în 1950, frate
@@CristiChiri10
@@ConsciouslyEating Știu, credeam ca erai un saș, ca menționai german, și România avea o populație de germani înainte, adică sași, am înțeles acum
DA ! very true bro. As a creature who had the misfortune of being born in the greatest country in the world, you nailed all these things. CAN ATTEST ! Also, THANK YOU for calling out the COCALARI !!! someone needed to say it !
So you were born in the ... U.S.S.R. ! Congrats !
@@victormarian7889 nope. Romania was never part of the U.S.S.R. & I was born right as the communist plague was ending here, cocalarule !! mai învață istorie !
And in Cluj there are maybe the smallest mumber of "cocalari" of Romania, but plenty enough (and still coming).
@@TheBoomsmith I'm not so sure ...
You understated the bureaucracy. You must hand carry documents and copies to several windows and several lines for said old lady to turn you away for missing a stamp or a receipt to a document that makes no sense.
In Germany there are also few bus lanes between cities, but there are usually many trains driving in between.
romania is beautiful ; he likes to exagerate for a bit of fun
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ive sent u a link with a video to see some things about romania
Dude seriously thank you for these videos, really nice to see my own country explained so well to people from other countries.
As for the grammatical part, I do feel your pain. That is why not even all Romanians know where to stick the grammar. One thing that may lack in Romanian is accents in words. That came to my mind when I saw the lowest word from the right @ 1:35, that is "acelor", which would approximately translate in English "of them" (it also depends on the context). I mean, a native (read - some natives) can spot the pronunciation in the context, but it can be tricky. That is because acelor may mean "of the needles" if you pronounce it as aćelor. To get the meaning above @ 1:35, you have to pronounce it as acelór. In short, the rules are easy, but there are loads of exceptions.
Many examples like this, I was mind-blown when I realized it a while ago: fórma vs formá, íntră vs intră.
@@octpro The last example is mind boggling indeed. How do you put an accent there? That's a mystery.
He is Hungaryan, so speaking about strange grammar ...
gotta admit man, your description of the cocalar was spot on. And yes, the bureaucracy is a living hell - one of the biggest challenges u gotta face here. Best of luck with that!
7:20 fortunately, a law was approved that forces them to make copies of the documents you have
I had to take a bus from Bucharest to Sofia and they only had one service at 11:30PM. Arrived in Sofia at 4AM in the freezing cold and sitting around in the train station. It was one of my least favourite travel moments
Bucharest is the capital of Romania due of the geography. in middle of the country we have the chain of Carpathian mountains, so is difficult to develop here large cities very well connected to rest of the country. Bucharest is placed on a flat terrain a good place to build houses, streets, boulevards, highways and airports. Proximity to the Danube river brought many economical advantages. I remind you that many capitals of Europe are very close to Danube: Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava.
I would like to see a video comparing the pros and cons of Romania and Serbia
This is so accurate! These things also bother me, though I think institutions now have to accept documents received by e-mail too. I especially feel the same about the cocalari, they're so annoying. It would be great to see a video with what you love about Romania too! ❤
Sunt perfect de acord cu partea in care ii sugerati sa ne spuna si ce-i place in Romania, sau macar in Cluj… Nu mai doream sa intru pe acest canal, dar am vazut imagini cu orasul si m-a facut curioasa, nestiind ca locuieste in Cluj-Napoca. Motivul retinerii mele a fost un alt videoclip in care prezenta limba română prin niste exemple care mie cel putin mi-au displacut, dar pe altii i-a amuzat copios si exact asta i-am transmis si atunci: gust ironiile si umorul de calitate, fara aluzii…
Awesome video, this is pretty accurate as I am from Romania. It’s not a perfect country but I still love my home. At least it’s a good place to make videos and memes about though 😅. Also, maybe you can do a video on things you like about Romania ?:)
Ok now I'm just more excited for the trip to Bucharest I just booked!
Duuude! You nailed it!!! :))) I'm Half Hungarian 1/4 German and 1/4 Romanian...... I traveled and lived in many places but being back here (Arad) is crazy. The same things over and over again...the thing about bureaucracy and the old lady made me laugh as f***. :)))))) Good job my friend and keep up the good work. Looking forward to new stuff. "Pace/Noroc" ;) :D
man I love my country, but it has some slippery bad things. Still WE HAVE TO UNITE UNDER THE ROMANIAN TRICLOLOUR(im half bassarabian)
I think any observant person living in one country for over two years can come up with a list of 10 things that absolutely suck about it.
Some countries are more functional than others, but they all have downright dyfunctional aspects.
@@user-th3bo2yp1t yes, but for me is totally special, with its beautiful landscapes, language, culture and unique history.
I have also been travelling a lot to Turkey, Austria, US, Denmark, etc
Let's lower the average GDP by uniting the country that doesn't have anything going for it (other than Russian sleeper agents waiting for Papa Putin to activate them) to the other one that also doesn't have anything going for it.
I recognise the backgrounds as Cluj. On my recent trip last month to my mother's homeland it is such a beautiful city and country. My mum was born and bread in Sibiu.
11:30 the song is called 7 Cai
when i was in holiday in romania,i went to birlad from bacau. not by train but by one of those so called buses im surprised i didnt throw up