Bucharest was and is sometimes still referred to as the least expensive European city. We have heard this quite a bit, and have been asked whether or not this is true. After researching all the cost of living surveys that we could easily get our hands on as well as talking to as many people inside and outside of Romania as we possibly could, we feel we have...

Is Romania following in the footsteps of Greece? While most of the “news” in Romania consists of headlines that serve as nothing more than “content filler”, some stories deserve discussion. Today it was announced that salaries will be cut by 25% across the board on government related employees (excluding those who would be considered...

Alright Everyone… here’s the biggie topic I see on the web a lot and I have thought quite a bit about this post, as I want to give some good tips and pointers to people asking this question, but will keep it strictly lodging and food for now… Let me start off by saying that I have lived quite a few places around the World, and Bucharest,...

I hate to dig a shovel in the ground and turn up the “Economic Crisis” stuff, but here goes… I seem to be noticing that prices have dropped off a bit. Is this true? I bought a car that seemed to be a great deal, as opposed to about a year or so ago when I would look at the prices of cars and think to myself “I should be importing American...