Bucovina, (Northern Carpathians, Romania)

[Nurzat]

i will start with pics from Câmpulung Moldovenesc (16k inhabitants small town)

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7032/cimpulung2.jpg

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8458/cimpulung7.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6383/cimpulung1.jpg

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5905/cimpulung4.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/4971/cimpulung9.jpg

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/176/cimpulung6.jpg

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7299/cimpulung3.jpg

[Nurzat]

the map

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3263/southernbucovinamap.jpg

[Nurzat]

from the vicinity of the same town

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/980/horsesr.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3483/meteostation.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8968/bucovinagreen.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4111/solitudeik.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/3999/adamandevepeaks.jpg

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/512/cloudssea.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4111/solitudeik.jpg

[Dacul]

What is very nice here is that the climate is so harsh,that gypsies can not stay here.
Is more cold than it is in South Sweden.
I will try to find some pictures also,but if you want to see some monasteries from here,search Sihastria Putnei on inet.
It was even a documentary about this monastery on Nat Geo.
Putna Monastery is also very nice,same with Voronet monastery.

[Nurzat]

same photographer, same town's area :) i will search from the other hills too afterwards. it is very small region anyway

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5015/steeprocks.jpg

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5909/bucovinaq.jpg

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/4548/wintercoming.jpg

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2803/rarau1.jpg

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1970/winterid.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8608/girlintraditionalclothe.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7305/blissp.jpg

[Nurzat]

the population is a north moldavian - north transylvanian - rusyn - hutsul - lipovan - malopolish mix since it was part of the austrian empire. german and czechslovak elements mostly left the region but some still reside and many have such ancestry. communists displaced some central moldavians and south romanians in the region to work in the factories, and they stayed too. romanian is almost exclusively used in the towns but a good percentage of the villages are ukrainian or polish speaking still

despite its central-eastern european diversity, no issues have ever been between the different groups and they usually mix without problems so most bucovinans have ancestry from most of the present populations

[Nurzat]

and some pics from the villages inhabited by the hutsuls (ukrainian ethnics) in west bucovina

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2452/hutsulhorses.jpg

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/381/hutsulregion1.jpg

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/477/hutsulregion2.jpg

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2866/hutsulkids.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8098/hutsulboys.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/1314/hutsulwood.jpg

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8181/hutsulchurch.jpg

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/961/hutsulregion6.jpg

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/3759/hutsulregion8.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2956/hutsuleggs.jpg

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/230/hutsulregion7.jpg

[Madonna]

beautiful pics , can you post pics of people there?

[Nurzat]

beautiful pics , can you post pics of people there?

if i will, i will only post groups so no nasty discussions come. but i would stick to landscape, it's more beautiful than the hairless decoulored monkeys that we humans are

[Foxy]

I am not able to answer, bcs sometimes places that look beautiful from the outside are ugly to live in and in places that look less appealing you find better people. Maybe for love I would go there to live, but I should first consider:
- economic conditions;
- how hard is the language (but IMO in this case, Romanian shouldn't be that hard for an other romance speaker);
- how is social life (are people actually willing to accept you).

[Nurzat]

i've been living in the city for the past years, hundreds of kilometers away, and i am kind of tired of it and of the stress at work, the unpaid extra hours, the bitchy way of everyone in the city - the intellectuals think of themselves as of gods, the youth are either low-class bullies either hipsters, the immigrants start to be more numerous, people are only interested in money and useless gadgets... i am thinking of going back to my village, i feel great each time i get there. there is internet, there are drug stores, there are the basic things... i shouldn't miss the city. the problem is no girl wants to live in the countryside anymore, and it's mostly because of unfounded prejudices against rural areas, seen as backward. funny thing, lower-class workers and their offsprings in the city are the most against countryside. maybe out of the frustration of living in communist block ghettos. villages aside, there are also four little towns back in my region from which i could choose, i know them well, all around 15000 inhabitants, pretty small communities

[Foxy]

i've been living in the city for the past years, hundreds of kilometers away, and i am kind of tired of it and of the stress at work, the unpaid extra hours, the bitchy way of everyone in the city - the intellectuals think of themselves as of gods, the youth are either low-class bullies either hipsters, the immigrants start to be more numerous, people are only interested in money and useless gadgets... i am thinking of going back to my village, i feel great each time i get there. there is internet, there are drug stores, there are the basic things... i shouldn't miss the city. the problem is no girl wants to live in the countryside anymore, and it's mostly because of unfounded prejudices against rural areas, seen as backward. funny thing, lower-class workers and their offsprings in the city are the most against countryside. maybe out of the frustration of living in communist block ghettos. villages aside, there are also four little towns back in my region from which i could choose, i know them well, all around 15000 inhabitants, pretty small communities


Congratulation, mate, you have reached the level of your romance brothers in the west. You don't work anymore to live: here you live to work (with the hope to buy new things that will become useless and old after few months).

[Partizan]

One place I would really live in. Thanks for sharing! :)

[Nurzat]

One place I would really live in. Thanks for sharing! :)

well, my region is kind of opposite to the stereotypes about romania

[Corvus]

I could imagine it, I mean I am the best example, I lived for 1 1/2 year in a big town but despite all the advantages a metropolis offers in the end it did not appeal to me in the long run. I felt a similar to the sentiments you described. In a town everything is possible in terms of leissure activities, but people are kind of anonymous, profit orientated and live in their own shell without paying enough respect to others. So now I am back in a village on the countryside in a rather desindustilzed and not very touristic part of Austria and live a more or less moderate life with little consumerism, commercialism etc. But the essential things which enable a comfortable life are present.

The landscape reminds me of the region I am living in btw

[Dacul]

I am not able to answer, bcs sometimes places that look beautiful from the outside are ugly to live in and in places that look less appealing you find better people. Maybe for love I would go there to live, but I should first consider:
- economic conditions;
- how hard is the language (but IMO in this case, Romanian shouldn't be that hard for an other romance speaker);
- how is social life (are people actually willing to accept you).

You will not have dificulties to be accepted,because you are christian catholic.
But other people,than christian orthodox or christian catholic religion will have problems.

[Nurzat]

You will not have dificulties to be accepted,because you are christian catholic.
But other people,than christian orthodox or christian catholic religion will have problems.

i don't know if someone gives a shit about religion as long as you're not a devoted muslim wanting to build a mosque... i know young people that are half turk, jordanian or italian in the region. some foreigners started business here and then settled with local women and their kids see themselves and are accepted as locals

[Myth]

My dad's family was from bukovina