FRENCHMAN running a BUSINESS for 10 YEARS IN ROMANIA

Marc is one of our sponsors and owns the company www.kitoffgrid.ro
If you're planning to move to Romania and you're interested in an engineering job with Marc's company please email me a paragraph about your employment history and what interests you about Marc's company. My email address is [e-mail]
I'm also collaborating in marketing Marc's products in the UK so if you're in the UK have an interest in moving to Romania and you think you can market Marc's products please email me your questions and ideas on [e-mail]
I will update the description with more info. in the coming days

[@bucharestred]

I first came to Romania on the toss of a coin. I only planned to stay for 2 years maximum but in the second year I met my wife and have been here ever since, that was 23 years ago. Romania is a beautiful country.

[@randomromania]

when was that exactly? it must be very close to when i came here the first time too

[@bucharestred]

I arrived in Romania in May 2000. Just before the soft openning of the new Marriot Hotel. 👍

[@randomromania]

@@bucharestred haha when they used to hand out free champagne, well they were doing that in 2001, that was the first time i was here

[@DavidHerron]

This is very cool. I'm an American, who has been coming to Romania for about 10 years, and who is also keenly interested in electric vehicles, solar power, energy storage, etc. Nearly 10 years ago I heard about Marc, and his work in Pitesti to convert Logans as electric cars, and I recall the big idea was to have electric Logans for use by taxi drivers since Logans are so commonly used as Taxi's in Romania. The title is "The Frenchman hoping to prove electric cars can take off in Romania’s taxicabs" I'm very happy to hear that the business is growing.

[@raz7864]

I’m Romanian but i have almost the last 10 years spent in the UK. I’ve just subscribed to the channel. Great work you doing here!

[@randomromania]

thank you :)

[@AdeelLoki-dn2jo]

Im in uk too ,wht u think of moving to romania?

[@raz7864]

@@AdeelLoki-dn2jo I guess you need alot of patience and courage my friend

[@florinelitu-lambrache9659]

After 16 years leaving in England and seeing you having that glass of romanian red wine ,you made scratch my head.Fantastic channel... You've got a new subscriber.

[@L2Xenta]

Hope Im not too annoying but you meant to write "living". Typing fast I sometimes do such mistakes also, I guess.

[@randomromania]

glad you like it :)

[@iulian844]

I was just thinking when Random Romania will post another video and 5 minutes later - Boom! I find this notification. Good times. ❤

[@randomromania]

we're getting a bit better organized now, we'll try and get videos out more regularly going forward :)

[@Mirel.]

I'm a Romanian living in the UK for 8 years, 4 in London and 4 in Liverpool. The system here is not perfect but it works but few reasons why I decided to come back this year or next year. 1. The food 2. The weather 3. The culture 4. The women 5. Bucharest

[@randomromania]

seems reasonable

[@gabix7488]

Very interesting channel / interviews I am planing to return in Bucharest as well, after 22 yrs in US Keep doing these videos, very cool idea

[@randomromania]

we're putting a new video up in the coming days, i found a very interesting contact for sorting papers and navigating bureaucracy, she helps people just like you that are planning to return and need documents sorting

[@gabix7488]

@@randomromania Thank you for your reply , looking forward for that video. That's actually a topic i really need to look into Thanks again

[@randomromania]

i'm on email on [e-mail] if you need more detailed info. or have specific questions. cheers. ed

[@cdana2809]

Same here😂I am very nervous about this idea but I'll take the risk as the US sadly is changing in a bad way!

[@gabix7488]

@@cdana2809 Yeah Live in Cali, i had enough

[@andreisucuri3762]

The guy is no longer french he's been romanianised already. He speaks English with Romanian accent.

[@stanciuflorin5328]

You have a new subscriber! Good luck to you and the interviewees!

[@randomromania]

Welcome aboard!

[@FERENDINSoftwareEngineering]

Nice seeing another video in this style. Keep at it

[@ItsPrivateCC]

This was Romania. I think today is a bit different when it comes to bribes and bribing. I will appreciate if you will mention that! I'm only saying this because you say " this is Romania" and o know it isn't. If someone is asking you for bribe, call the DNA, the police and the anti-fraud department.

[@viorica8402]

I'd like to know who's to call when Uschi bought us 10 doses of marnVaxx in? They want usall gone, don't they? Not living inan.en.glishspeakin' part of the.world.

[@abygorsonabor7982]

often ppl themselves WANT to give a bribe

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

Thanks!

[@randomromania]

wow, that's fantastic, thanks very much, we'll put this money into the video budget :)

[@statendrei5]

how long until the french guy develops the axial flux motors ?

[@randomromania]

I'd rather a flux capacitor :)

[@CristiIstrate]

Nice interview! Your chanel deseves more subscribers!

[@randomromania]

they'll come, it's taken us a while to get organized to produce more frequent content

[@stevestone4346]

England is changing, and not for the better. As the west declines I can see more people wishing to relocate to countries like Romania.

[@crimsonlightbinder]

yes, and come fuc***g it up as they have their own countries. This can be compared to the californians who flee California for Texas or rural states in the US and they bring their "values" with them. They will start clamoring for "rights" for *insert fringe unoppressed * group and make the same shit as in France or UK

[@EUTalks]

How about, don't.

[@crashjunipero]

Love this!

[@dr.perfectsmile4175]

Un français qui habite en Roumanie pour le vin😆, il faut dire ça en France😂

[@VoiceOfThePeepol]

Oh my god, a frenchman having the romanian accent speaking english. Never thought I'd see that. As a Romanian living in the UK, I'd rather live here from a structural point of view. It has access to everything you need. But I believe this shift of locations is normal. At the end of the day the English got used to travelling, having nice cars and living this corporate life, while the Romanians got bored of living in nature and huge grey apartment blocks, struggling to buy that nice car they always dreamed about. After you get what you want, you get used to it and some change is necessary. The farmers will move to the city and the city will move to the farm.

[@FERENDINSoftwareEngineering]

He said they need some programming. What is that all about? Hit me up.

[@randomromania]

feel free to email me, i can introduce you - [e-mail]

[@tanasaflorin3699]

👍

[@L2Xenta]

OOoooo ... Je m'appelle Jojo . (Not really). P.s.Historically Romania has been looking up to France many times for inspiration , be it cultural or of different sort. But I have to ask.... must there now be a big-ish scale riot in France for kind of anything that happens in France or the world ? I guess Im a bit Off topic but...

[@basvannuland4743]

Another great video!

[@Retrogamer71]

Mersi. care oraș este afacerea în apropiere?

[@fetitadepeterra5319]

Hey Edward, i'm not sure if it's you, but did you have a project some years ago during which you hired someone to find you a candidate for a youtube channel presenter?

[@randomromania]

no but we're always interested in talking with possible co-presenters - i'm available on email on [e-mail]

[@fetitadepeterra5319]

@@randomromania ooh, sorry, I guess I got confused...three or four years ago I worked with a British guy who was a sort of an independent intermediate real estate agent for expats wanting to buy a property in Romania. He looked for cheap properties in the countryside and I think he added something to the price before advertising them...and I helped him find a Romanian KZbin presenter. He had also been living in Romania for a very long time and he was also...well..bald 😄.

[@randomromania]

@@fetitadepeterra5319 that's a high performance computer in there, it needs baldness for cooling

[@pixel5m908]

interesting views..hmm the problem i see, is a perspective paradox, .. why poeple are proud in Romania, or they seem to be, you have to remember that we lived in comunism no longer than 30 years ago, the opresive nature of comunism , is embeded in our national being. and at evry litle sign of perceived opresion the typical romanian in its subconscient have a fear of opresion and wants to evade it. at least how i see it, i work for 17 years at the same company so it depends on each individual most romanians, if you are honest , not pasive-agresive, and they can speak to you freely, wont leave the company and most likely become a loyal employee and/friend. there are exceptions , called oportunists..

[@ionutsfetcu4550]

Foreigners should not be allowed to purchase property in Romania.only Romanian citizens are allowed to purchase property in Romania.allowing foreigners to buy property in Romania causes price hikes.this eliminates Romanian citizens from the housing and property market.

[@randomromania]

should that apply to romanians in the uk too then?

[@ionutsfetcu4550]

Yes.

[@marcareny5374]

I shouldn't let humans own land on earth says the Universe.

[@randomromania]

@@marcareny5374 if only it were so simple :)

[@alex.andrei]

@ionutsfetcu4550 Stai jos! Ai nota 4 azi.🙄

[@markstill515]

The problem for us brits we have brexshit, if your not rich it’s a hell of a job to stay in the eu longer than 90 days. I would have loved to expect many euro countries especially Romania

[@LauPalomas]

I'll marry you, you get the passport /romanian ID, than the citizenship (or double citizenship, no idea) and you can travel freely across Europe. 😌 A bit ironic if you think about it..

[@gigihentz5510]

hey, french guy, congrats for what you've achieved so far, but you should choose your words more careful...."this is Romania, you know" is not something you should be proud of, just because you had a bad experience with your first collaborator - the proof is that now you have about 20 people hired that make you rich. Putting all people in the same bucket is a sign of nazism as you may know from history.

[@claudiuster6243]

Why would he need to choose his words more carefully? People are not allowed to have critical opinions now? Guy says he likes Romania INSPITE of its problems. I myself have a love/hate relantionship with this country. And what’s with that “nazism” nonsense?

[@gigihentz5510]

@@claudiuster6243 nu ai inteles nimic, dar nu-i nicio problema!

[@dand2810]

The man is a resident and is allowed to express his opinions. This moral relativism is what's regressing societies right now. I'm Romanian too and I know that elements of our culture are inferior to say Swiss culture or American culture. This doesn't mean i want to put Romanians in a concentration camp; taking something to the extreme and removing the humanity is what national socialists, islamists or communists do indeed. I agree that there's a fine line between racism&xenophobia and acknowledging the faults or shortcomings of a people's culture - but when we stop criticising that or equating it ( eg: "all people are the same. some are good, some are bad, whether it's Hamas or the Luxembourgese, who are we to judge?"), that's when our societies fall in disarray. This being said, Romania has changed for the better. I want to move back next year and my girlfriend is learning Romanian as we speak. It's partly because most of our criminals have left Romania and the country is now safer than most Western European countries.

[@anthonybreaux4741]

@@dand2810 If you remove corruption from Romania, it will be an absolutely different country many would not want to live in... like in the UK now. Thanks to corruption it is such a gem! Thankfully, even if there will be less corruption, it takes A LOT of time )

[@gigihentz5510]

@@dand2810 Si eu sint cetatean si am dreptul la opinia mea vs opinia lui... Am sa scriu in romana, pt ca vad ca cei mai multi dintre cei care au raspuns sint romani, poate ma fac mai bine inteles asa: A spune "dar, stii, asa e in Romania" pentru ca l-a inselat unul acolo la Pitesti (luand de bun ceea ce declara baiatul asta) este o generalizare gresita, eu cel putin, ma simt jignit pentru ca, nu am inselat niciodata pe nimeni. Si, toti oamenii de bun simt sint sigur ca asa simt. Asa incat, NU asa e Romania, ci asa e doar o experienta punctuala, cu un om, pe care el a avut-o. Ipocrizia lui (pe care n-o numesc tipic frantuzeasca, ci doar a lui) face ca, sa nu mentioneze nimic de ceilalti cu care a construit afacerea. Adica, succesul e doar al lui, pe cand, lucrurile nasoale sint din cauza romanilor. Am fost in vacanta la Nisa de curand si , la hotelul la care am stat, m-au ars la pret, mi-au bagat pe gat niste chestii pe care nu le-au anuntat dinainte, si mi-au luat niste bani in plus. Asta ma face pe mine sa spun "Dar stiti, asa e in Franta, te fura la hoteluri" ? Nici vorba. Pot doar sa spun ca acel hotel este incorect si hot. Atat. Sper ca acum e clar ce am vrut sa spun.. Cat despre acele "elemente de cultura" inferioare elvetienilor sau americanilor, la ce te referi ? Probabil la cultura de business, pt ca la altceva nu stiu sa fie superiori. Am stat 16 ani in SUA si putem avea o converstie pe tema asta, oricat de "in-depth".

[@jon-kp2rq]

ive been subscribed and watching your vids for a few months now, trying to decide on bulgaria or romania to relocate, im a bulider with 35 years experience, also repairing selling salvage vehicles and parts, so this episode piqued my interest, what is the salvage/parts industry like in romania, either marks company or independently?cheers.

[@cipim3]

I think we have like 1% tax on salvaged parts, so most all car salvage firms are legal today (not the same story a couple of years ago). I would say buisness is booming, you should look at the average age of the car park in RO, the density of cars / people in urban area, what kind of cars new /sh are sold here (hint, a lot of premium cars on SH market). Maybe also take in to account the economic prognoses for this country (seems to be positive).

[@randomromania]

hi, drop me an email on [e-mail] i can give you a lot of info. i have friends that have moved here from bulgaria :)

[@randomromania]

also i'm personally interested in the parts business, i can give you some good info. on that

[@alex990ism]

as a builder, in romania , you won't have a shortage of well paid work, best advice is to work as a private contractor with his own team and offering a better service than romanian contractors, which is not hard to do, altough romanians do excellent work in construction jobs, they lack profesionalism in more superficial areas like overbooking and delaying clients due to an overabundance of servces needed in the field, so if you are more profesional , keep to your word, and do a good job , youll make the same ammount of money in construction in romania like in the west, theres even room to expand on the national levels if you play your cards right and have a little vision

[@alex990ism]

the same thing also aplies to mechanics, i dont know how developed is the restoration of old vehicles market , but as a classical mechanic, you will not have any shortage of work, especially if you are very good and professional. you could make a business out of restoring old vehicles , hiring cheap labor and hardware, but you must have a well established clientele already ,averege romanians ussualy try to spend theyr money wisely , buying a new second hand with 10 k rather than restored 3 series, but if you have clients outside the country, and market yourself really well in ro and outside, and gave a kot of passion and aproach it as a passion project and not a bread winner, i think youll do fine, but if you want a sure thing, a more profesional construction and mechanic aproach is a sure thing in ro