Living In Romania Is A Challenge?

Most of the people consider that living in Romania is difficult because this is a country whose people suffered a lot especially during the communism and now they try hard to catch up with the other developed countries of the world. However, nowadays living in Romania seems to be easier than in the past.

A typical day in the life of Romanians is closely related to work activities. In general they are very busy and they only wake up under the shower, in the morning… They usually start their work day at 7 a.m. and finish it at 3 p.m.

Family is very important for them, though and there still are traditional families in which meal times can be respected, especially in the case of families which set up home businesses.

Romanian economy is developing because of economic reforms. The main industries in Romania are textile and footwear one, metallurgic industry; light machines industry and machines parts assembling. Furthermore in Romania there are mines and wood engineering factories. They also produce construction materials, chemical products, food and they refine oil.
Other developing sectors in Romania are medicine industry, heavy machines one and home appliances industry. Nowadays, cars industry is developing too, as well as IT industry.

We have told you about industry in order to let you know what living in Romania means nowadays. Thus, Romania has become a quite industrial country, agriculture suffering now from lack of work force especially.

On the other hand, people here are friendly, they like spending time with their work mates over a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a cup of coffee and a chat in the case of women.

Most of the Romanians are hospitable and flexible and they consider that living in Romania has improved a lot in the last 17 years. As far as their work is concerned they usually have their rhythm which seems quite slow to people like French, for example.

To continue, the nice aspect related to living in Romania is that they do not obey to strict rules, like Germans, they do not always know what the next step is in their activity. Romanians are ambitious and yet some of them are not quite so disciplined.