Bucovina, (Northern Carpathians, Romania)

[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