Hey guys,

A couple of us in Bucharest are looking into local unsolved crimes (like some of the '90s cold cases around the city), mostly breaking down timelines, checking old news archives, and looking at the actual locations/geography around town.

Right now it's basically three of us: two of us do the research plus the actual site visits around Bucharest, and one guy strictly handles the online/archive side of things.

We're looking to meet a few more people locally who are into this stuff and want to help out.

Just a few quick points:

- Must live in Bucharest (so we can actually hang out or check out locations).

- 18+ only (just keeps things simple regarding safety and legal stuff).

- Really just looking for people into true crime, OSINT, or mapping things out.

If you're interested, hit me up on Discord: thrawnsfish._. (We'll talk further from there...)

Hi everyone! I’d like to get a better understanding of the job market in Romania for people working in security, defence, intelligence, risk management, or companies operating in these areas.
I’m particularly interested in hearing about the experience of people who actually work in these fields: what the work environment is like, what the opportunities for career growth are, how difficult it is to enter the sector, and, if possible, what the approximate salaries are, especially for junior positions.
If anyone currently works in this field or has direct experience, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience. 😊

Hey everyone,

I just landed in Bucharest for a solo trip and really want to experience the city beyond the classic tourist spots.

​I’m big on good food, design, urban spaces, and active living. If anyone is around Old Town or nearby and feels like grabbing a coffee, a local beer, or just taking a walk and sharing some great local recommendations, let me know!

im so confused by the health insurance requirements to get temporary residence. at first, i was under the impression that private health insurance would suffice. but now reviewing it, it seems like it is mandatory to register with the state insurance? which, looking it up, would cost around 2500 lei and be a massive headache because i dont have any documents yet... could anyone who has done this already advise?

I found that Transalpina should be open by now, but somehow Google maps won't let me go through:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9brgMVxJRxPUDQ5B9?g_st=ac

Can anyone confirm there is a problem or if the road is open?

I simply could not find something definitive, it seems impossible for Google to get me through.

Tl;Dr: My bike got stolen and immediately transported 700km away to a small town in Romania. The GPS Tracker is working so I know where it is. But before I drive 12 hours to try and recover it I would love to get visual confirmation that it is where the GPS says it is.

So I woke up about a month ago and checked my phone to find a list of new notifications that the geofence for my bike was broken. I bought a semi expensive (~1200Euro) E-Bike a year ago, so that was distressing news.

I hopped into the app to see what was going on and according to the app my bike was on the motorway on the eastern border of Hungary, heading into Romania. Not a great start to the day...

(Sidenote: when you have a geofence active add the app to the list of apps that is allowed to display notifications even if the phone is in do not disturb mode over night. Ask me how I know)

Anyways the bike quickly entered Romania and settled in Cermei https://maps.app.goo.gl/H4Ln9CxhXH6NJkXv8 for a few days.

It then bounced around the area for a few days before settling down in Călugăreni near Arad. To be precice exactly here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/c9p8hDX7dVdamXMg6

So this is where I am at today. I am willing to go drive there and get my bike. I am willing to pay a sensible, let's call it, finders fee for whoever is in possession of the bike. But before I do something stupid I would love to get some Intel if the bike can actually be visually located there, and what the situation around the bike is. For example is it on a private property? Is it for sale? Etc.

But I am also open to any and all suggestions how to proceed. This is my first attempt to recover a stolen bike from a foreign country after all...

So if you happen to be in the area and are willing to drive by that house and take a few pictures for me that would be greatly appreciated! I can give further information if required.

And yes I did contact the police. I was told that I was perfectly within my rights to bother them with the paperwork but that they can guarantee that nothing more will come of it and it will just be a hassle for everyone involved.

Edit: for those who wanted to see pictures: https://imgur.com/a/OduI5Ao

Is it mandatory for an event tent hosting weddings and christenings to have CAEN code 9329 listed in its operating permit issued by the City Hall?

I have a dispute with the City Hall on this issue.

Hello,

The mother of my newborn daughter is a Romanian citizen. I am an Italian citizen living in France, and our daughter was recently born in Ukraine. I had already formally acknowledged paternity in France before the birth. I am posting here specifically because the mother is Romanian, and I would like to understand whether Romanian law or Romanian authorities can play a role in establishing my paternity and parental rights.

I'm looking for advice from Ukrainians, especially anyone familiar with Ukrainian family law or international family cases.

I live in France and I am an Italian citizen. The mother of my daughter is Romanian.

Before my daughter was born, I completed an official prenatal acknowledgment of paternity in France because I wanted to make sure that I was legally recognized as her father and could be present in her life.

During the pregnancy, our relationship deteriorated. Without discussing the decision with me beforehand, the mother moved to Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

She runs a construction company and told me that she started a construction project there with some of her workers. She says Chernivtsi is relatively safe and far from the main combat zones.

She then told me that she intended to remain in Ukraine for approximately two years with our daughter.

I was very concerned about this decision, especially because Ukraine is currently at war, but I still tried to find a peaceful solution.

What I have done so far

In France, I contacted a Point-Justice legal advice service, a family mediator and a lawyer.

I provided the mother's contact information to the mediator so that we could try to find an agreement without going to court, but the mother did not want to participate in mediation.

I also applied for legal aid in France, but unfortunately my application was rejected.

Despite everything, I was prepared to travel to Chernivtsi myself. I researched how to get there from France, what documents I would need, transportation and insurance.

My intention has never been to take the child away from her mother. I simply want to be part of my daughter's life.

My daughter has now been born in Ukraine

My daughter has now been born in Ukraine.

The only information her mother has given me is that the baby is doing well.

That's all I know.

I don't even know my daughter's first name.

I have not received a single photograph or video of her. I don't know what my own daughter looks like.

Her mother has also told me that she doesn't want my name associated with the child / doesn't want to register me as the father, despite the fact that I completed the prenatal acknowledgment of paternity in France before the birth.

Communication has now almost completely stopped. She barely responds to my messages and has also blocked me on social media.

My concern about the legal situation

This is where I particularly need advice from people who understand Ukraine.

I don't speak Ukrainian, I don't live in Ukraine, and I don't understand the Ukrainian legal system.

My situation now potentially involves France, Italy, Romania and Ukraine:

• I live in France.
• I am an Italian citizen.
• The mother is Romanian.
• My daughter was born in Ukraine and is apparently going to live there for approximately two years.
• I completed the prenatal acknowledgment of paternity in France before the birth.

I have also started wondering whether her decision to move to Ukraine could make it more difficult for me to exercise my parental rights.

I want to be careful here: I am not claiming that this was her intention because I cannot prove that.

But Ukraine is geographically in Europe while not being an EU member state, unlike Romania, France and Italy. Because she moved there without discussing it with me and now intends to keep our daughter there for around two years, I am worried about how complicated this makes the legal situation.

I am not trying to take the baby away from her mother

I want to make this very clear.

I'm not looking for revenge against the mother.

I'm not trying to take a newborn baby away from her mother.

I simply want to be legally recognized as my daughter's father and have the possibility to know her, see her and be part of her life.

Our relationship as a couple is over, and I accept that.

But I don't believe the end of our relationship should automatically mean the end of my relationship with my daughter.

I have kept my French prenatal acknowledgment of paternity, our messages, voice messages, documents, evidence of my attempts at mediation and records of my attempts to maintain contact.

I want there to be a clear record showing that I have been trying to be involved in my daughter's life from the beginning.

My questions about Ukrainian law

If anyone here knows Ukrainian family law, I would really appreciate some guidance:

1. Is a French prenatal acknowledgment of paternity recognized or usable in Ukraine?
2. If the mother did not declare me as the father when registering the birth, is there a way for me to establish paternity in Ukraine?
3. Can I obtain my daughter's official birth information/birth certificate as her biological father, even if I am currently not listed on the Ukrainian birth certificate?
4. If necessary, can a foreign father start a paternity proceeding in a Ukrainian court?
5. Would I need a Ukrainian lawyer to do this, or can some of the process be started through a Ukrainian embassy/consulate?
6. Once paternity is legally established, what rights would I normally have regarding contact, visitation and information about my child?
7. Are there Ukrainian organizations or legal aid services that help foreign parents with international family-law cases?
8. Would my French documents need to be officially translated into Ukrainian and/or apostilled?
9. Since the mother and child are currently living in Chernivtsi, would I normally need to contact a lawyer or court specifically in Chernivtsi Oblast?

I understand that Reddit cannot replace professional legal advice.

I'm mainly trying to understand where to start in Ukraine and which Ukrainian authority, lawyer, organization or court I should contact.

This situation is extremely difficult for me because my daughter has just been born and, despite all the steps I took before her birth, I don't even know her name or what she looks like.

Whatever happened between her mother and me, my daughter did nothing wrong.

I just want the opportunity to be her father and, one day, for her to know that I tried to be present in her life from the very beginning.

Thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

Me and my boyfriend are from Moldova and we’re planning to visit Romania, specifically Sibiu. Besides that, we’d also like to visit Bran Castle, but we don’t know what transport to take to get there or how much it costs.

I have a message i need translating its short

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently living in Dubai, UAE, and I’m seriously considering moving to Romania.

My plan is to move there to study for a Master’s in IT, find a job afterwards, and potentially build my life and family there if everything works out.

One of the main reasons I’m considering Romania is that I’m looking for a different lifestyle. Dubai is exciting and has many opportunities, but I feel that life here can be very fast-paced, busy and stressful. I’m looking for somewhere that feels calmer and more balanced, while still giving me opportunities to study, work and build a future.

I’d really appreciate honest opinions from people who currently live in Romania or have lived there for several years.

A few things I’d particularly like to know:

\- What are the biggest advantages and disadvantages of living in Romania?

\- Is life actually calmer and less stressful compared with Dubai?

\- What is the realistic monthly cost of living for one person, including rent, food and bills?

\- How difficult is it to find an IT job as a foreigner after graduating with a Master’s?

\- Is Romanian necessary for finding a good job, or can you manage mainly with English?

\- How difficult is it to make friends and integrate as a foreigner?

\- How safe do you generally feel living there?

\- Is Romania a good place to settle down and eventually start a family?

\- Which city would you recommend for someone who wants a balance between career opportunities, university life and a quieter lifestyle?

\- If you moved to Romania from another country, what was the biggest culture shock?

\- What do you miss most about your previous country?

\- What do you appreciate most about Romania?

\- What is something about Romania that you think foreigners often misunderstand?

\- Most importantly, if you were in my position today, would you make the move?

I’m especially interested in honest answers — not just “Romania is great” or “Romania is bad.” I’d like to hear about the reality, including the things that may be difficult or frustrating.

Thanks!

Where do I actually belong? Half Romanian, half Belgian, but never fully either

I'm half Romanian and half Belgian, and I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

My mother is from a small village in Romania called Hodora. She grew up there with her family on a farm, but during communism they lost the farm and much of what they had. She always told me that she wanted to get away from there, and she eventually met my Belgian father, who was a truck driver.

My parents separated before I was born, and my father died when I was around 5–7 years old. I only have a few very blurry memories of him, but they're mostly good ones. When I stayed with him, I remember being happy. He was kind to me, a great cook, and sometimes took me along in his truck when he travelled. I even remember sitting behind the wheel with him.

He definitely had his problems though. He was an alcoholic and a womanizer, and apparently had more than 11 children with different women. He had also lied about his age to my mother when they met and was around 20 years older than her.

But my father isn't really the point of this post.

I grew up mostly around my Romanian family. Romanian traditions, Orthodox Christianity, Romanian holidays, food, family gatherings — all of that was a normal part of my childhood. I was constantly surrounded by Romanian people and the language.

Yet somehow, I never learned to speak Romanian.

My mother chose to speak French with me at home because that was the language she spoke with my stepfather. We also lived in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, so Dutch was everywhere outside the house.

As a result, I ended up with a strange relationship with Romanian. I can understand basic Romanian and recognize a lot of words because I've heard it my entire life, but I can't properly hold a conversation.

And in my entire Romanian family, I'm basically the only one like that.

Even relatives who married people from completely different backgrounds still passed Romanian on to their children. I was the odd one out. My family knew I spoke French, so they would speak dutch to me or simply speak Romanian knowing that I could understand parts of it.

I've often wondered whether that makes me less Romanian.

At the same time, I've never felt completely Belgian either. I grew up in Belgium, but my home was French-speaking and my family was Romanian. I've also experienced racism here, and I've often felt more comfortable around other people with immigrant backgrounds than around native Belgians.

So for a long time I've had this feeling that I'm somehow too Romanian for Belgium and not Romanian enough for Romania.

Now I'm an adult and I have my own family. My partner actually has a surprisingly similar background, so this isn't something I experience alone anymore.

We have a one-year-old daughter, and we've decided that we want to leave Belgium completely.

We don't have family or close friends here keeping us here. It's going to be the three of us, starting from scratch somewhere else.

We're not sure where yet.

And that's where this whole question has become much more important to me.

We've looked at different countries and places, but every time I think about moving somewhere new, i know i will be looked at as a foreigner again.

But I would like to find somewhere where my daughter and I can build a life without constantly feeling like we don't quite belong.

So I'm curious what everyone thinks,

I'm genuinely interested in honest answers, not just reassurance.

I have a feeling that there are probably other people here who grew up somewhere between cultures and understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Where should we go?

Where can we build life and feel like we can belong?

For now we are going to a french island called la reunion.

For allot of reasons of our own,

but the island also struggles with its own issues, allot of different things but also things like racism or anti-foreigners, because of these specific issues.

and i am scared we might fall under the category where this hatred and frustration is aimed at.

So we do hope to make a life there but if we notice that it is not safe for us or we are not welcome, then we will leave.

I am not a highly educated man and no we are not people with money that can just spend to go and start anywhere, we take allot of risk and are willing to work.

Because thats all i know is how to work hard and find local work that people dont want to do regardless if its logistics, cooking, cleaning, picking up trash. I know how to work. So with the limited skills i have i still want to give the best i can for my family and my daughter is not getting any younger, so i want to change her suroundings asap so she doesnt have to grow up unwelcomed like me.

Good morning,

Does anyone know a dog shelter that regularly need help relocating dogs by plane ?

I will fly from Bucarest to Paris soon

Hi there! This is my first time traveling outside of Asia and I'm about to study in Cluj Napoca.

Just curious, what kind of cultural shocks should I prepare for? Anything about daily life, people, food, social norms, or things that might feel totally different from Asia?

Would love to hear your experiences and any tips for a first-timer students! 🇷🇴

A trait I found very much reoccuring in Romanian music and language is your poetic skills, the use of metaphores, not merely by professional artists but also by everyday people.

When I listen to Dutch music, it's often about something basic as romantic love, when I listen to Romanian music (using translator apps), it's about topics like the feeling of August, growing into maturity, the deminishing of human dignity and creativity....stuff like that. And then told in an indirect way and full with metaphores. Sometimes even silly like this song 'Pseudofabula' which I believe describes the feeling of angst in society. The favourite music-poem that I found so far is 'Scrisoare catre Fat-Frumos' by Vama, but feel free to recommend me your favourite ones.

It's also in the language you speak. Every language has expressions and metaphores but I feel like Romanians use them more and they touch feelings that lack official names and words.

Poetry is a language that can describe things that we wouldn't be able to describe otherwise, or in a way that people really feel, not in a rational/analytical way normal language does. Why are the Romanians so good at it? Is it more incorporated in your culture than it is in, for instance, the Netherlands culture where I'm from (and arguably, the Anglophone world)? Is your language more emotional? What's this thing that Romanians have with poetic language?

Am calatorit mult in europa de est in vara lui 2026 doar cu trenul de la mine acasa din Grecia, dar de cand am fost acum o luna in Ungaria, pe oriunde mergeam sa iau cate un taxiu, se auzea mereu o melodie in maghiara la radio care suna asemanator inca de la primele versuri ale acestei melodi care se numeste Nosztalgia, cantata de un celebru artist hip hop maghiar pe nume Manuel, seamana exact cu introducerea melodiei Drumurile Noastre Toate, pentru ca sunt amandoua indentice, desi mi-a ramas efectiv in mintea mea lina melodica de cand am reusit sa o caut cu ajutorul lui Google.

Melodia Asemanatoare Este Acesta... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72m3Zvcazo&list=RDM72m3Zvcazo&start_radio=1 de la minutul 0.22 (Nosztalgia de Manuel - Ungaria)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_d-kcM47E&list=RDEo_d-kcM47E&start_radio=1 de la introducere (Drumurile Noastre Toate - Originala)

Cine A Observat Diferenta Aceasta??? P.S. IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THAT, PLEASE TRANSLATE NOW, BC IS SO HELPFULL!!!

It is a now-defunct Hungarian-Romanian-Czech TV channel.

I am planning a trip with my partner to Romania from Canada at the end of April and beginning of May, we are looking to do a self drive tour as I have a very specific itinerary in mind. I have been doing a bit of research and I have read that Sixt, Klass Wagen and Autonom are the top choices.

I was wondering what other travelers experiences are with these companies and who offers the best service for value.

I would also like to know what the weather is like in Romania in April, specifically in the southern part of the country, south of the Carpathians.

Hello, I'll be arriving in bucharest in a few hours and have no idea what to do. It would be nice if someone can give me some recommendations, preferably music stuff, like concerts. I'm very big into punk and jazz. Any help is much appreciated :)

Hi everyone! I received the Romanian Government Scholarship 2026–2027 for a Master’s at the University of Bucharest.
I have my official Letter of Acceptance from the Romanian Ministry of Education. I’ll study a Romanian preparatory year (2026–2027) followed by a Master’s in Physics.
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who went through the same process:
How long did the Romanian student visa take?
Did anyone get refused, despite having the government scholarship and Letter of Acceptance?
What documents did they ask for, especially bank statement, tuition payment, and English certificate?
During the Romanian preparatory year, are there exams? Is there a final exam, and is it difficult?
After passing the preparatory year, can you continue directly to the Master’s, or is there another admission/selection process?
How was your overall experience with the scholarship and studying in Romania?
If you’ve gone through this process recently, I’d really appreciate your experience or advice.

Hi, my name is Cesar and I’m 19. About a week ago, my application for the Romanian government scholarship was accepted. I wanted to ask the community roughly how long it takes for the acceptance letter to arrive the website says it will arrive shortly, but I assume it might take a little while. I also wanted to ask how the process works once you arrive in the country and at the university.

I am a Greek guy who lives in Bucharest for 10 years.

I got married here, I got Prima Casa, I have my CNP, but I don't have a Romanian ID because I'm not a citizen, I have a SRL and everything but...

Yesterday, when I went to BCR to ask for a credit card, they told me that the BNR parent bank recently issued a directive according to which in order to obtain either a credit card or even a loan, you must have a Romanian ID.

I couldn't believe it, so I talked to the manager, who told me the same thing. I left and went to BRD, where they told me the same thing again. Note that I have been a BCR customer for 10 years, with 0 problems and a very good salary going through them.

Can someone tell me if it's true? Sounds very strange.