Living in Romania 23. More differences between Romania and UK.

Lifestyle differences. If you enjoyed this, check out my other channel: "Books and Isolation with Dr. David".

[@isaakmorse6044]

I want to thank you for the respect you expressed for the seniors of Romania by calling them lady and gentleman.

[@livinginromania]

I respect seniors. I am one myself!

[@radu4549]

I am a Romanian living in Canada. Lovely vlog,, real Romania with the positives and les positives, loved it, very honest and accurate, I would have described the country in a similar way! I loved your British accent when speaking romanian :). Thank you!

[@livinginromania]

Thank you so much for watching. I am working on the accent. But I live in Oltenia! It's not easy...

[@neculalin]

Dogs are chained for many reasons. Not to attack the chickens, not to destroy the grass, not to make holes, etc. But the main reason is that when dogs are chained, they cannot interact with other people, such as visitors, so they are often seen as a potential threat to property and their owners. So they become more aggressive when released at night, usually to defend property against thieves. In the country side, dogs are not pets, they are kept for the purpose of defending property. You will not see pets in the countryside. Only animals that serve a purpose to the peasants, either for food, to help them move (horses), or to defend property.

[@neculalin]

@florian florian I'm not saying I do that. These are the customs of the country's peasants. The peasants, especially the elderly, have not heard of animal rights, and if you tell them about it, they will laugh in your face. In the rural area there is a lack of education, you cannot change the conceptions of the peasants overnight. Only if you want to modernize the villages, but then they will lose their traditions, the good and the bad. Anyway, that will not happen any time soon.

[@neculalin]

I was talking strict about the south of Romania, where Craiova is located. I don't know the customs from the west rural areas. What I don't understand is why are you keep telling me about what is wrong and what is right? I was just answering some questions regarding the chained dogs. If you are so damn activist, than don't be a troll and do something about it in real life. There's always someone who has to prove something and arguing. I don't need a reply, just mind your own business 🙂

[@maratonlegendelenemirei3352]

Next you'll be saying Romanian men should start wearing skirts?@@neculalin

[@Asfanboy1]

Dogs are let free at night and usually will sleep all day. They are guard dogs and not pet's so the chain is there so they don't bite you.

[@steamstories1279]

Pomana is done in the third day (burial day), 9th day, 40th day, after 3 months (usually saturday before death), after 6 months (usually saturday before death), after 9 months (usually saturday before death), after 1 year (usually saturday before death) and now each year up to 7 years after death. So it's quite a few. Dogs can eat chicken/eggs (hunger is too strong sometimes) so they are chained. Dogs are mostly used as a "ringbell" so you know when someone it's near your property, including in the night. It can also help to avoid getting rats near big cages of corn. I don't know how it's on UK, but on RO people eat... meat. They raise all sorts of animals like pigs, sheeps, chickens, ducks, goose, turkey and they sacrifice them, put the meat in the freezer and eat them sooner or later. Village people raise cows so it gives daily milk, in the morning people go with the cow(s) in a place where a guy moves them around to eat grass and in the evening, you take back the cow(s), now you get the milk, you boil it and do all sorts of stuff with it. The same happens with sheeps, but the sheeps are kept for at least 6 months to a foreign guy and it's needed to go every week or so to get the milk. Then in the winter, people need to take the sheeps to home. Village people raise horses, to be harnessed to a cart so it can be used as a car to carry all sort of stuff, like watermelons, soil, garbage, wheat, corn, wood, stuff to burn in the winter etc

[@livinginromania]

Thanks for info and for watching.

[@emilgabriel81]

Don`t worry about that thing with the dogs kept in chains. In the past everyone in the country side used to have quite impressive gardens: flowers, vegetables, all sort of trees and plants, chicken running wild everywhere. The dogs are kind of d-heads when it comes to that by attacking and sometimes eating the chickens, they pee everywhere, it`s just a way for us to hold them still. Beside that, we are usually friendly with our neighbours, they just come and go without asking for special permission to get inside the garden, nobody wants to be attacked by a a lose dog.

[@romahhha]

Thank you very much for so detailed description. This is the first video that I watched, but I plan to watch each video that you've made. I planning to visit Romania and perhaps settle down, so information you provide is very important for me

[@livinginromania]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fly2skyirl162]

Spot on, all the info is very accurate, you're very well integrated in romanian culture it seems like 👍

[@livinginromania]

Thanks very much. I love it here. Thanks for watching.

[@rmarius9341]

Hello there! I just discovered your channel and as a Craiovean myself it is very interesting to see the opinion of someone that has lived abroad for most of their life. Would be curious if you could do a tour of the park, as that is to me the most beautiful thing in Craiova. I am sure many people would be surprised to see it. Cheers!

[@livinginromania]

Have a look at episodes 3 and 13. Thanks for watching.

[@rmarius9341]

@@livinginromania Thanks I just saw it, very nice tour! Another possible topic: could you talk about artist and art in Craiova. Would be curious what you think of our singers, poets, painters and maybe even writers. It's all very fascinating to see! Best of luck and enjoy Craiova my neighbour!

[@adrianagradea4505]

Love this. Btw, aperitiv in Romanian is appetizers actually. First course is always soup.

[@livinginromania]

Good point. Thank you for watching.

[@adrianagradea4505]

@@livinginromaniaOf course. Also, at BBQ soup is hard to serve, so there may be none.

[@mihai-dinulazarescu9124]

wonderful romanian pronounciation!

[@grobert7577]

We do need improvements on certain aspects but i am sure it will come along the way like sorting rubbish before collecting like UK. The lack of doctors, nurses or carers in UK in quite high but i think is everywhere like this even in Ro. Good video.👍

[@livinginromania]

True: I think recycling is growing here. Thanks for watching.

[@IoanAlexandruTatarunet]

Many chained dogs get released during nighttime or when the owner is away/not expecting visitors. Inginer = Graduate engineer Let’s talk about life in Romania: pomana

[@livinginromania]

Glad to hear about dogs. The engineer misconception relates to Uk, not to Romania.

[@ghezoi]

Such a beautiful way to put it... old ladies watching the world go by :D They're mainly gossiping about other people from the village :))

[@livinginromania]

They are the equivalent of the Babushka on your hotel floor in Soviet Russia. They know everything. Where you have been. Who your girlfriend is and where you are going!

[@nyuzoo]

14.09 on the eating issue, its the same in Hungary i think its an eastern european thing. If you travel by train you can see that as soon as people take their seats their drinks and sandwhices are already in their hands.

[@grigoriemirel3065]

Regarding the housing. It is tricky and also part of romanian culture. Most of romanians have a house and it is considered important to have your own. At the first sight it may look impossible to buy one but....We travel in UK, work for 3 years, come home and buy one :D. Also in a lot of bussiness the owners pay the employees with minimum wage on paper to avoid taxation but they give more cash money in reality.

[@livinginromania]

Very interesting. Thanks for the info and for watching.

[@abygorsonabor7982]

Something like 50% of apartments/houses bought in Romania are paid in cash. In reality the people getting mortgages probably have higher than average income. There's a lot of not necessarily tax evasion, but...legal tax avoidance in Romania. There are plenty of small businesses and "liber-profesionisti"/PFAs that only pay the minimum wage on paper and then get the rest of the money from dividends that are taxed at a lower rate.

[@livinginromania]

Very interesting. I didn't know this. Thanks for watching.

[@miloserneculaes3001]

Thank you, for this realistic and raw content about our country. Even, as you could read in some comments, people are not happy to hear these, they don t like it, and they try to explain, or justify the cruel behavior about dogs. So - first - it is a huge, but really huge difference between country side and urban areas. In the country side people are just cruel about animals, in general, not only about the dogs, it must be some reasons for it, one could be that the life is just harder, high level of poverty, poor education; the life is more primitive, people raise farm animals, to eat them, they kill them with their own hands, with a knife, so, the life as itself is more cruel, asks cruel skills to survive; mercy is not something helpful in this situations; keeping the dogs tied is just horrible, disgusting, i cant figure out how this custom appears, and when, maybe it is something related to communism, because after the communism came, they put new rules about farming, about how many animals you can have, etc. My grandparents, and grand-grand parents never kept the dogs tied, and they lived all their lives in a village. In reality, the situation of "pets" in the country side is much worse, people used to kill the newborns, by putting them in a bucket of water, or in the river, if they have a river, or by putting them in a plastic bag, and just let them to die by suffocation; spaying is not available there, or the price is big, for their income, or it is not any vet office in the village. This is Romania, too. In the cities, we have another difficult situation, with stray dogs - some of these stray dogs come from the country side, the owners bring them in the city, to get ride of them. Initially, this situation has roots in the begining of the communism - they demolished the houses, with yard-garden, to make buildings with flats, so, the owners of the houses received a flat in a building, as a compensation, but they didnt take the dog with them, they let the dog on the streets, because most people considered you cant keep a dog inside the house, the dog must to stay out-side, in his cage. These are the roots of this situation, these events were in all ex-communist countries, all have problems with stray dogs nowadays, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine,etc. Things start to improve, abroad adoptions help a lot, local adoption are rare, because for some obscure reasons, romanians don t adopt stray dogs, they buy breed dogs- this is trully insane - when you have millions of dogs for free in the streets, you prefer to buy a breed dog, from the puppy mills.

[@MariusDaf-tf4bd]

I am Romanian...but now I'm Living in Wales (port talbot) ....and thank you for nice Words. 👍👍

[@livinginromania]

F. bine. I used to live near Bridgend. Do a vlog!!! Thanks for watching.

[@MariusDaf-tf4bd]

Good. I will make a video from Bridgent 4you 👍 thank you

[@livinginromania]

Would love that. My Mum now lives in NE England so I made a couple of videos from Chester-le-Street, which you can find on the UK playlist. Best wishes. D. (I learnt to swim in Port Talbot!!)@@MariusDaf-tf4bd

[@MariusDaf-tf4bd]

Health to your mother mr D. Now I'm already looking at the UK playlist. Yes port talbot it's beautiful at the beach. Now it's bad weather.

[@ubuntuposix]

Yeah the health system will eventually get replaced by the horrific US health system. There's an intense propaganda / investment in this sense. Same intention in the UK probably.

[@skd]

Most Romanians have no problem with gay people. We couldn't care less what their sexual preferences are. I don't have to go to their wedding...it's not like they have sex on my lawn. But they should not ask for special treatment if they want to be like everyone else. No one ever marched for me.

[@livinginromania]

Good to hear. I think they just want equal treatment. I appreciate this is difficult in an Orthodox Church environment. I think the EU Commission has taken a view.

[@ioanab2519]

What kind of special treatment are they requesting exactly?

[@skd]

@@ioanab2519 First, I would like to say I am not against gay/trans at all. I actually don't even care who they hold hands with. But take for example a gay man. Me and him have the same rights right now. We can marry a woman and not a men. Me and him both. I can't marry a man either. Asking for a law to change that to fit a certain individual is special treatment. The same goes for a trans man that wants to compete in women's combat sports. You are not abusing the trans there, you are protecting the women. Sexual orientation is psychological, not biological. So changing laws for people who "feel" different than others is special treatment.

[@ioanab2519]

@@skd you're saying a load of nonsense. There is no scientific proof that sexual orientation is rooted in psychology. Quite the contrary. Although there is no definite answer, the current research suggest that it is likely biological. Also, homosexuality exists in other animal species, so the psychological argument does not make sense there. Perhaps you think there is a gay agenda in the animal kingdom? Furthermore, arguing that a straight man and a gay man are equal because they are both marry women is absolutely ridiculous. How is allowing gay men and women marrying each other giving them special privileges? It's a human marrying another human.

[@circularcirclee]

The problem is they are trying to put it in schools and teach our children as early as kindergarten about sexual orientations and gender identity. Its scary.

[@corpi8784]

An engineer in Germany is someone who has an engineering degree from a Technical University or similar imstitution. .It is an academic .

[@livinginromania]

Absolutely. A highly skilled and resourceful professional, normally addressed as "Herr Doktor" in Germany. My father was one! It is bizarre how people in the UK do not understand this.

[@mihaivip7335]

You are very Kind and Ok , but the house in UK are little but UK' People are very Friendly. Very day : You are ok ? 👌. I like fish and chips !

[@livinginromania]

I do like fish and chips. Some houses are small and some are big in the UK. I live in a 2 bedroom apartment here. How many rooms does a person need? I think this is adequate.

[@MrEduarddant]

How did you ended up in Oltenia btw?

[@livinginromania]

I married an Olteanca!

[@MrEduarddant]

@@livinginromania Jolly good, haha! Casa de piatra! I am a romanian person and living in Sheffield with my british lovely woman from Stoke :) I found your video very helpful and very informative, a very good insight! I am from Timisoara, have you been?

[@livinginromania]

@@MrEduarddant Multumesc; La fel. Yes I was in Timisoara 5 years ago. A beautiful city now that the old centre has been pedestrianised and one of the best malls I have visited.

[@BogdanPatrut]

@@livinginromania I hope you will visit eastern part of Romania. Did you visit Iasi?

[@livinginromania]

@@BogdanPatrut Not yet. It's on my "to do" list. I have visited Chisinau however and liked it very much.

[@HorrorSFManiac]

Dogs kept on chains upsets me to no end, but sadly people in villages are set in their ways, I don't think they're going to change on their own and there's no political will to pass more laws that protect animals. I live in Bucharest and all parks except 1 have messages saying that dog walking in the park is forbidden. I feel that Romanians are very 50-50 when it comes to animals, half of us are animal lovers and the other half animal haters or only see them as basically a tool to guard the property (dogs) and catch pests (cats). We actually have 4 sheepdog breeds - Carpathian Shepherds (my personal favorites), Bucovina Shepherds, Mioritic Shepherd and Raven Shepherds.

[@livinginromania]

Those shepherd dogs are amazingly brave. Prepared to fight bears and wolves to protect the flock.

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

gay in Romania: we don't talk much about sex whatever the orientation, that's something private; sort of "don't ask, don't tell" the chain is for the protection of visitors: those chained dogs are kept for guard duty, not for the company; pets will not be chained though.

[@livinginromania]

I sort of agree about not talking about sex. It is also a taboo subject in the UK. I think there is some political tension in Romania between the Orthodox Church and the EU on this subject.

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

@@livinginromania the Church just got the monopoly on "casatorie" like 160 years and they don't want to lose it :-) ... before that it was primarily a matter for lawyers and notaries and accountants, prenuptial contracts were the norm even for very poor people; the church became important as far as marriage is concerned when we gave up on the Byzantine law and adopted Code Napoleon in 1864. The not-very-intelligent social justice warriors don't want gay marriage to be legalized, they only want to provoke the church into doing something outrageous, else they would not have used the word "casatorie" and would have asked for "contract civil", but they have another agenda,.

[@livinginromania]

Interesting insight.@@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi

[@paulpaustovanu8816]

The ''diversity'' has done a lot of diversity in the UK, see Rotherham, etc...

[@livinginromania]

I know what you mean, but we need immigration in the UK for our economy.

[@catalinvasiliu3620]

70k for an apartment is not 6 times the "average" salary of 8.6k according to your calculations. Do the maths again.

[@livinginromania]

You can tell I am not a mathematician. I was assuming that there would also be a deposit of 20-30% due to take the balance down, but maybe I didn't make this clear. In the UK it is now 10-15%. Thank you for watching