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sâmbătă, 10 iulie 2010

After two years of repatriation (and culture shock)

[English translation of previous article.] It seems that two years of repatriation passed quickly, and after all sorts of experiences and complaints, some contained in the below articles, some friends and acquaintances asked me (just as I asked myself in first article) if still, the decision to repatriate was good or not.

Although in those two years more or less pleasant things happened, still the advantages of being home prevail to the other disadvantages. Reasons to live in one place or another are numerous and different for each individual or family, so probably makes no sense to detail my personal reasons to live in Romania. But shortly it is about living close to family, relatives and friends, classic kindergarten and school for children (instead of foreign ones), the holiday house in a mountain village and how it disconnect me from the city life, etc.. Other aspects of social life has changed much in Romania, and although I met many people who still don’t know that, it is quite possible to live in Romania having very little to do with state institutions, officials, queues, payments counter, etc.