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> Romania is 1st in Europe in terms of number of certified IT specialists. The number of engineers per capita in Romania is greater than in the US, India, China, or Russia
I've heard anecdotally that tech industry pay is awful in Romania compared to the rest of Europe. Perhaps the high number of tech workers is the reason?
In Romania, companies which have under 100.000 euro / year income are called microenterprises. Microenterprises have an income tax of 3% which should be paied quarterly. If they have at least one employee, the tax is 2%. If they have at least 2 empoyees, the tax is 1%. The tax on dividends is 5% and IT specialists are free from salary taxes. We moved our headquarters to Bucharest in Q1/2014, but this autumn the team…
This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose though. I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source. They were using the absolute number of robberies not per capita. The way they used it is sneakiness bordering on outright lies. This kind of bad-faith abuse of stats always irritates me.
There's no need to skew the data even with a few issues it's still a good place to work or make a start-up.
Let's break down the modern, flashy PR move and check some reality: LGBT rights in Romania (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Romania ) - Decriminalized in 1996 - Gender identity: change of legal sex allowed since 1996 - Discrimination protections: protections since 2000 (still don't national ones in the U.S.) - No marriage - No civil unions - Adoption HAAAHAHAAH cmon be serious LGBT rights in the UK…
It's very easy for an outsider to judge it like that. You can't compare the UK with an ex-communist, very religious country. These things can't really change overnight, it takes a few generations. So yeah, I wouldn't advise any gay people to go to Romania.
Yes the laws are a bit lacking but if you have the money you could actually change that.
Nobody really cares what your sexual preference or orientation is in Transilvania and most of the younger generation are very open minded so you don't have anything to worry about.
I just find this initiative mind-blowing. In Western Europe, Eastern part has quite of a bad reputation, especially on subjects like safety or development. I've recently heard about several good opportunities there and this makes me even more curious about Romania.
We actually took the budget flight from London to Cluj and the bus to my home-town it was a but dangerous at the bus terminal since that's where gipsies hang out to rob you but if you are careful you should be ok plus there's a lot of people around so they can't afford you making a scene or the security will kick them out.
All the other places we went to were quite safe an entertaining.
Mind you I'm a local so I know what places to avoid to not get into trouble so there's that too however most places are quite safe anyway.
If you avoid bad neighbourhoods and some transport hubs with bad security you shouldn't have any problems.
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015 rank 58 on the corruption index (behind greece and ghana),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Romania 54% of Romanian interviewed stated they would never have a meal with a homosexual. 53% preferred that homosexuality be outlawed. 79.7% of those questioned would not want a homosexual neighbor
In Romania, companies which have under 100.000 euro / year income are called microenterprises. Microenterprises have an income tax of 3% which should be paied quarterly. If they have at least one employee, the tax is 2%. If they have at least 2 empoyees, the tax is 1%. The tax on dividends is 5% and IT specialists are free from salary taxes. We moved our headquarters to Bucharest in Q1/2014, but this autumn the team…
Interesting! I was wondering this, too. What happens when the income goes up? To, say, a million euro per year? Do you suddenly get hit with large, "European style" taxes (~40-60%)? Or is it fairly small like with microenterprises, just somewhat increasing as you go up?
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We're from the US and were looking for promising European land. No, we incorporated a brand new company(WELOVEHN SRL) not to hassle with bureaucracy. Which is cool from an administrative point of view. Romanian lawyers seem to be fluent in English and we still maintain a productive collaboration.
Thanks for your reply! Do you manage from abroad or did you personally relocate as well? Hope your move proves to be a success!
Let's break down the modern, flashy PR move and check some reality: LGBT rights in Romania (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Romania ) - Decriminalized in 1996 - Gender identity: change of legal sex allowed since 1996 - Discrimination protections: protections since 2000 (still don't national ones in the U.S.) - No marriage - No civil unions - Adoption HAAAHAHAAH cmon be serious LGBT rights in the UK…
It's very easy for an outsider to judge it like that. You can't compare the UK with an ex-communist, very religious country. These things can't really change overnight, it takes a few generations. So yeah, I wouldn't advise any gay people to go to Romania.
Yet the above website did just that.