Expat In Romania
Moved from Canada to Romania for work. Hoping to skip the romance of expatriation and focus on the nitty gritty, no matter how nitty and gritty.
12.7.12
10 Reasons Why Romania is Better Than America Really? Yes, really. Let me count the ways.
In America you can get everything you’ve ever dreamed of: GameBoy, Sega Genesis, plants that look like faces, and more. Maybe if you work really hard long hours at the job you hate (but that you tell everybody you love lest you appear to be a miserable person), you can even get a flat panel home theater TV that takes up half your basement (on credit, of course). Awesomeness!! In America you can always be sure to be on top of the latest fad, such as devil sticks or tamagochi and you will be first to read bestsellers like The DaVinci Code and Fifty Shades of Crap Literature. Basically there are thousands of ways of feeling accomplished -or pretending that you are – you just need to be there to catch all these wonderful trends on time!
I know what you’re thinking, how can Romania possibly top all that considering it’s also the land of Root beer floats and Antoine Dodson?
Everything’s been done in America, that’s why people like Dodson and Snooki and all kinds of other morons become overnight celebrities. People there are SO bored by their own lives and so taken by so-called ‘issues’ like saving pandas, that they need reality shows and ‘stars’ to gawk at as caricatures of their fake lives.
Of course there are idiotic Romanian celebs, but it’s very socially acceptable to discuss their pathetic shenanigans around the water cooler at work. People instead talk about their own lives and thus relate to one another in very personal ways. Novel concept, I know.
Here are the 10 ways in which Romania is better than America:
1. America is no longer the land of opportunity. You have the opportunity to get into debt that’s about it. In Romania, you could apply thousands of tried and tested business ideas. I’m not saying it’s easy to start them all up, but do some market research and I’m sure you’ll realize that when you’re first to market with something that brings quality and value, you’ll be doing really well here. My personal dream is a Mexican food truck, dishing out deliciously authentic burritos.
2. At the supermarket, you can actually find items in the grocery aisles that are made from less than five ingredients. In addition, you don’t find high fructose corn syrup added to 90% of food products. No Hungry-Man dinners here and no obesity problems either. So I’ll go ahead and spell it out, Romania is better for your H-E-A-L-T-H.
3. There may be lots of poor and simple people in Romania, but at least they’re normal. Don’t give me any of that social construct bullshit about what ‘normal’ means. You know exactly what I’m talking about, People of Walmart wasn’t invented in Europe.
4. You can walk places. It makes way more sense to walk to the store for a loaf of bread or some milk than to get into your car to drive there. Not only that but in the span of 10 minutes you might pass through two distinctively different neighborhoods and see some cool historical buildings.
5. You can participate in building the future. Assuming you’re not simply looking to profiteer off the misery that does exist here in the way that politicians do, there countless ways of becoming involved, volunteering for civic projects, and if you try hard enough, you can leave your mark where it counts. Almost every single institution needs to be rebuilt so why not roll your sleeves up and put in some work? Your kids will thank you.
6. You can’t get bored. Drugs are not a major concern in this country, as I mentioned above there are plenty of issues to worry about that make drugs both inaccessible and uninteresting. Why chase an artificial high when life is so exhilarating? Don’t believe me, just try ordering a shot of vodka when the vodka is being sold at a higher measure than the amount which fits the shot glass. Bonus points if you can problem solve this one.
7. It’s highly unlikely you will ever get murdered here. Yet in the US, there are certain areas in certain cities where walking for that bread or milk can increase the chances of your violent demise exponentially. Here it’s the kind of thing you may worry about if you get married to a violent alcoholic, but why would you do that? PS: Stay away from Ferentari in Bucharest….
8. (If you’re a man) The beautiful women that live here are usually also smart, nice, and classy.
9. (If you’re a woman) The guy you’re dating will most likely seriously consider you wife material and isn’t playing games.
10. When you want some cultural variety, you’re only an hour or two away from other cool countries in Europe.
All you Americans and Canadians, it’s time to get crackin on that Pimsleur Romanian. Mexicans, you are also welcome, we are badly in need of cilantro!
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