take a look until then : http://www.cramabasilescu.ro

Is a huge discrepancy in between people, rich are extremely rich, and poor are very poor. Anyone assume that leaders who were once poor it will change the views and help citizens of their country to have a decent live after their own experience, but this mentality is not valid, in fact they build their own accounts with high sums, help the system not to discovered the amount accumulated and blame others for the internal failure.

The old people rely on their own daughters and sons who managed to escape that country, otherwise they would not have money to eat, not to mention for medication and other daily necessary items to survive as the pensions are ridiculous small after working all their lives.

Doctors still these days get money in an envelope from patients, who mainly are elderly people, because youngsters rarely can afford to see a medic. Note: Doctors will not ask directly for money , but they will let you untreated blaming the short time they have to allocate to each individual patient, or never try to understand and see the cause of your health problem by checking deeply.

Meat, Romanians are well known for be a great eaters of meat, hmmmm, not anymore, the prices are so spicy that the citizen have to think twice, exactly like the price. The once who buy it, normally have to choose in between a nice stake, or a new duvet cover. To be able to do that, in a romanian mind, they will think and say something similar with this ” Anyway, no one will see my bed, but this is delicious”. Some others eat poor just simply to buy nice clothes, and that is again covered by the mentality that no one knows what they eat that day.

The appearances are very important to Romanian citizens being poor or rich, but always remember that if you have problems, the poor will help much more than a rich one. Rich people in Romania do not really mix with the poorer, unless they need their services like having someone to clean their expensive houses, iron their expensive clothes, etc… Middle class is almost non existent, the once who call them self middle class are on the edge, they fight hardly to keep good food on the table and perhaps few unnecessary items in their property. What you said about mobile phones is true, they will always find a way to pay such a bill, is a very friendly and chatty nation, I am talking about the citizen without any power, the simple worker, the student, the engineer…

Finally about my country there is still something that remain the same and valuable, something that only in Latin country can be found, friendship and laughter, social life is much pleasant that in developed countries.

If the social life did not change much, not yet, the corruption did, it reached the highest level and thats shame because Romania is a beautiful country and tourism by now should be blooming, but not is kept below the normal expectations and values. Is much cheaper to visit other country sea side than go and have some pleasant time in your own country.

Roxana Brivent-Barnes

I am sure someone will come against to what I have stated, and is irrelevant to me, simply because I am Romanian, and all I have mentioned of elderly people, medics, corruption I feel it on my pocket. I am still very cross to see that my country after 20 years did not change much although I live and build a new life in England who made me feel welcome.