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[jonniboy]

[Mike_2007]

I think the main difference now is that Romanian professionals are now getting decent salaries. A lot of my students get salaries of around 20K Euro per year (before tax) and because they have often inherited properties or bought them when prices were cheap, they have a lot of disposible income. When I came here in 2004, there was little chance of finding private students as even a well-qualified engineer was only getting about 300 Euro a month.

The language schools probably still pay peanuts but certainly if you could get a gig at a private/international high school and/or privates you could probably bring in enough to live comfortably, depending on your dependants and lifestyle.

Also there have been quite a few big companies who have moved to Romania in the past few years. A few have now backed out again due to the crisis, but they'll probably be back. Transylvania has good airports (Timisoara, Cluj, Targu Mure, Sibiu), cheap labour, cheap land, EU membership - so makes quite an attractive location for major companies. The road/rail infrastructure still sucks, but when they (finally) finish the highway it'll be pretty good.

[Littlebird]

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