A very keen eye will reward you with some of the more comical curiosities of Bucharest Life, one of which is the real-life relatively on going saga of the Bucharest Sopranos. See that flat black, tinted-windowed moderately priced family sedan weaving in and out of traffic like the laws of physics don’t apply? See...
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We’re all pretty much “up to speed” on the BP oil spill so we’ll spare you the boring details best suited for “media” outlets… which Bucharest Expat is NOT. But let’s look at something a bit more interesting about this oil spill… In an attempt to essentially reroute the oil through a “cut” and modification...
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Just hitting cinemas is the new Romanian Move entitled Capitalism: Our Improved Formula. Kapitalism: Reteta Noastra Secreta. Official Website. Here’s the idea of what this movie is about. A documentary created by Alexandru Solomon, Kapitalism is a look at the drastic changes that have occurred throughout Romania since the collapse of communism in Europe....
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Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts On March 18th there will supposedly be a Metro strike in Bucharest. This has happened quite often, a memorable one being in 1999 when drivers went on strike demanding the average $113 equivalent monthly salary be doubled. This time, after listening to the “rumor...
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Interesting article yesterday in the media about a potential reform of the educational system here. (Link) Although any of this is unlikely at best, it does show initiative and gets one “thinking” about the true hurdles educational systems face nowadays. The long story short on this is that they are attempting to...
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And yet again the US embarrasses us all in its’ plans for the “new and improved” US embassy. First of all… why? What was really wrong with the first embassy… land lease expired? Yeah… uh huh. The big prison-esque structure behind the Intercontinental is going by-bye, at least as its’ dual purpose “venue” is...
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Here’s a small image of the Sector Map of Bucharest. Although you cannot read the streets at all, you can get a rough idea of how the city is split up like a piece of pie. As this is NOT an image created by BucharestExpat.com, I must give credit and reference to the source: http://spicycles.velo.info/Portals/0/Bucharest/BucharestReport1.png Possibly...
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Want to which areas are nice and the “coincidence” of why? Sector 1 and 2 are the best, in my opinion, while sector 3 is right behind. Sector 4, 5, and 6 are trailing the pack. See the connection? The reasoning their are six sectors is pretty simple. It was established during the King times,...
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