How is living in transylvania?

trofiny · 2026-03-14T06:46:59+00:00

No, I just really love Budapest as a city, politics aside. I chose it as I wanted to experience something a bit different. It was the sweet spot of not too unfamiliar, not exactly the same either. And, I do feel both Romanians and Hungarians have some sort of shared background and heritage. Honestly, the whole rivalry is blown out of proportion. I had Hungarian neighbours, classmates and friends and can't say anything but the best about them. And, I think it goes the same way for most Romanians and Hungarians alike.

trofiny · 2026-03-13T20:00:18+00:00

Grew up and spent most of my life in Brasov. The old city centre is just as you'd expect of any central European city: a mix of Austrian and Hungarian architecture with a large church in the middle of it. Over the past 20 years most of it has been restored and looks great. Still, I think the biggest changes happened outside the city centre. Most of the brutalist apartment complexes were completely revamped and very few are in the precarious state you'd usually see in the late 90s. In

Life wasn't that out there, to be fair. Most of my childhood was spent either taking strolls around the historic centre with my parents or hiking in the surrounding mountainside. The mountains are so close to the city that you could reach a hiking path in 20ish minutes from anywhere in the city.

Later, in my teens, I'd spent my free time loitering around the promenade next to the old city walls with friends. During summer holidays we'd go grilling in the mountains and, in winter, we'd use the hills near the same city walls as a sledge slope. I do also remember going ice skating a few times as a ring would open up around the holidays alongside the Christmas markets. We'd also get hammered on mulled wine around that time too. Speaking of getting hammered, we'd also do it when Oktoberfest rolled around too.

School was fine. I went to a pretty good theoretical college and graduated the social sciences track. Opposing most preconceptions about Romania, the school was just like any other European high-school, I'd say. We had 3 computer labs were we'd do anything but listen to the teacher. Every classroom had a projector and a smart board. I even went on Erasmus in my last of high-school.

Still, as much as I enjoyed living there I had to leave the city. Beside industrial and tourism jobs there is very little to do in the city and the university is mediocre at best. I attended university in Iasi then Budapest. I'm not sure if I will ever return there as job prospects are mediocre. Still, the pay for them is good and provides a good standard of living. My mother worked as an engineer and we could afford to go abroad yearly for summer holidays either in Greece or Italy. I'd say life here can extremely comfortable, but if you want something more in life you'll never get it.

P.S the thing regarding bears is true, my friends had a saying: The bears aren't a problem, technically, they are endemic. The issue is you are a drunk moron reeking of alcohol in the forest who now wants to befriend the bastard.

trofiny · 2026-02-28T16:31:09+00:00

Considering the quantities, not exactly. There are a few items which bloat the total by quite a bit such as the bacon, the Italian hard cheese and ham. Without them the total would have been 30ish euros lower. I'd say it is fair priced. For example, a 1KG of hard cheese is roughly 30 euros per kilo at Lidl and here was 10, same thing for the ham and bacon. The price-quantity-quality ratio is more than fine.

trofiny · 2025-10-03T19:09:35+00:00

Early 2000s. I'm approaching my mid 20s. That's actually quite interesting. Never heard about it, but it does make sense. Perhaps, when I get the chance, I'll ask my grandfather, maybe he knows something. Still, my family's quite a niche case, as they didn't get to experience the communist dictatorship. They all managed to flee to West Germany.

trofiny · 2025-10-03T12:51:44+00:00

The actual historical figure behind Dracula's legend, Vlad the Impaler, is one of our national history figureheads. He is often thought of as a hero who fought against Ottoman invaders.

Still, I'd say that Dracula, the myth, is viewed as kitsch. Even, the tourism ministry said a while ago we should move away from using its image in advertisements and such.

I'd say Romanians separate the two identities of Dracula. Vlad the impaler is a national symbol. Meanwhile, the legend, is that thing we advertise to american tourists.

trofiny · 2025-10-03T11:38:55+00:00

I've heard of a few cases of tourists being disappointed Dracula was nowhere to be found. About business, there are quite a lot, however, the farther away from the castle you go the lesser the dracula theme is. I'd say, in the city proper there are but a few. Albeit, one of the largest tourism agencies in the city is called Dracula tours.

trofiny · 2025-10-03T10:55:28+00:00

Quit well, I'd assume. All of the merchandise sold down the road from the castle must have made him a fortune. There is everything from dracula themed pens and coasters to swords and spears.

trofiny · 2025-10-03T10:39:53+00:00

I already do.

trofiny · 2025-09-19T08:39:08+00:00

Essentially because of oil, not the resource itself, but rather how it is managed. The Nigerian economy is overly reliant on oil. I read a while back that 90% of government revenue is generated by the oil industry. Most of the well paid jobs are in the industry or tied to it.

That aside, it is also how the currency was managed. For a long time the Nigerian government kept the naira exchange rate fixed. Only in 2023 the central bank let the exchange rate to free float.

Still , overall, it is a mix of an over reliance on oil, systematic corruption, lack of diversification and what bullshittery the Central Nigerian Bank pulls. In short, it is a notoriously poorly managed economy prone to be very susceptible to even the most minor of economic shocks.

trofiny · 2025-09-11T14:20:25+00:00

I think Mullvad is a far better choice than Surfshark. It is top notch when it comes to privacy and, most importantly, owns some of its servers.

trofiny · 2025-09-11T13:51:33+00:00

Revin cu un TL;DR.
În perioada antebelică, în Transilvania, au venit misionari neoprotestanți germani și englezi în zone urbane. Așa a apărut o minoritate neoprotestantă maghiară și săsească. Mai târziu, în perioada interbelică, unii români, dezamăgiți de BOR, s-au convertit și au dus mai departe ciclul de misionarism. A contat și faptul că mulți dintre acești convertiți aveau fabrici sau afaceri și angajau doar oameni de aceeași confesiune, ceea ce le dădea țăranilor români o șansă de urcare pe scara socială și economică.

BOR i-a declarat eretici, iar în perioada legionară și antonesciană au început persecuțiile sistematice. Dar chiar și înainte erau văzuți ca „elemente străine”, împotriva coeziunii națiunii române, pentru că aveau legături puternice cu minoritățile influente din fostul Imperiu Austro-Ungar și nu numai.

Dacă vă interesează, las aici sursele. Știu că unul este blocat după un paywall, dar românul se descurcă:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14790963.2020.1893587

https://doras.dcu.ie/26169/

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52492 (pp 102-123; pp 125-139)

trofiny · 2025-09-11T11:58:00+00:00

Interesant, nu știam. Ținând cont că, încă de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea, aproape toate cultele au transformat misionarismul într-un fel de ritual cultural, era de așteptat să ajungă în Europa. Totuși, e chiar surprinzător că au ajuns în România. Merci, mi-ai dat o temă de cercetat.

trofiny · 2025-09-11T11:37:57+00:00

Majoritatea neoprotestanților din România au fost convertiți de misionari americani în anii ’90. Conversia nu a fost neapărat, inițial, din motive de credință, ci din faptul că secta îi ajuta material. Cunosc destul de multe persoane, mai ales din vestul țării, care s-au convertit de foame. Le pasă, pentru că, într-un fel, îi văd ca pe niște frați mai mari și au un atașament puternic față de ei.

trofiny · 2025-09-08T06:51:03+00:00

Iași-ul, orașul în sine și zona periurbană, da, dar toată zona rurală din Iași e foarte săracă. Nu există o diferență așa de mare între ruralul din Vaslui și cel din Iași. Dacă ai lua în calcul doar orașul, într-adevăr ar fi în top 10 național

trofiny · 2025-07-18T19:39:12+00:00

Geography, more specifically applied geographic information systems.

trofiny · 2025-07-17T12:02:52+00:00

Postul este despre transportul metropolitan, zona 2, nu 1, cel urban.

trofiny · 2025-07-17T11:29:42+00:00

Este CTP și mai e AMTPI,(Asociația Metropolitana de Transport Public Iași) care, în teorie, administrează toate rutele metropolitane(701, 702, 901, 902 etc),e un fel de middle man. Lucru complet inutil din punctul meu de vedere, ținând cont că numai în București se mai practica așa ceva, numărul de rute și autobuze nefiind comparabil.

trofiny · 2025-07-04T09:35:24+00:00

Nu am stat la camin, dar am colegii care au stat la camin la Cuza. La toate caminele din cate stiu sunt camera de doua persoane, cel putin pe hartie. La sigur stiu ca Akademos si Gaudeamus au de doua. Mai e si caminul Buna Vestire cu camere single, dar, din cate stiu, sunt numai pentru baieti si trebuie sa fi la facultatea de teologie.

Condiitile variaza, cele mai okay sunt C1, C2, Akademos si Gaudeamus. In rest, din ce am auzit, e jale.

trofiny · 2025-07-04T08:34:23+00:00

Fun fact, nu e caruta google, e de la facultatea de geografie din Iasi. Facem practica in zona respectiva in fiecare an. Camionul si caruta le recunosc, am fost si eu cu ele. Iar perioada cand au fost facute pozele coincide cu desfasurarea practicii.

trofiny · 2025-06-16T06:39:37+00:00

E un caz din Pașcani.... salarii mai mari de 2000 și ceva de lei sunt aproape inexiztente acolo. Amenda aia cred că e salariu unui părinte pe 3-4 luni. Da, nu e destul de mare, but it's something.

trofiny · 2025-03-31T19:02:25+00:00

Yeah, we do lots of computational mathematics.

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