Housil, as a "bauer" I can tell you that most Romanian people are very decent, hard working people.
They don't complain very much, and yes, there are criminals coming here.. (they come here for money; working or stealing)
Western Europe is where money is easy to get, the hard way, or the easy way. Loads of exjugoslavian and eastern european criminals come here, because the criminal profits are extremely high here.
Lots of those romanian, bulgarian "gold salesmen", pickpockets, moneymachine skimmers, etc are gipsies, like AK70 says. They have the nationality, but are a different "breed" of people.
The poles have a lot of car thieves; your right.. but that's very easy to explain.
There are a lot of polish, russian, and other buyers of luxury cars in that corner of the world.
The polish border is relatively open compared with other borders from the EU (like the czech republic, the balkan)
It's very easy to make a car dissapear via poland; and I can tell you.. they tried to steal my car aswell.. (and that's a 1994 polo!) 99,9% sure it were poles, because they talked(!!) to me the weekend before, if I was selling my car..
And what happend to the old times?
In 1943 you still called the romanians "der Mitkämpfer" now they are criminals?
I worked with loads of eastern european people, and I have to say that the romanian and lituanian are my favorite.
The polish are nice, but are to much "party" minded. Most of the "white" romanian people that come here are very religious catholics, and wouldn't even steal a cookie.
There's only one problem with eastern europeans.. they tend to drink to much before work
Ok.. the evening before, but in the morning there's still not enough blood in their alcohol to function properly after a good night of partying
If you might visit the Netherlands sometimes, tell me in advance, I'd be happy to invite you
There's nothing scary with those people
PS: Most popular is the X5..
Ahh.. your safe..
atleast.. for 60%.. it's only an X3
Not ment badly to you AK70; but there is a lot off poverty in in the countries of the former soviet union.
And we, we are just easy prey for their criminals
last week there was an interesting thing on television:
Since the fall of the berlin wall; organized crime rates dropped with 35% in one year alone in the DDR
The groups simply "dissapeared".. and they popped up a few years later, all over the BRD and Austria.
With stuff like person smuggling, printing false money, prostitution etc..
There is simply a lot of money "that's just waiting to get picked up" around here.. (and X5s)
Sure, someone may one day kill me with my own gun.
But they'll have to beat me to death with it because it's empty.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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