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0 pointsBugBrother12y ago0 comments

High living costs.

There are lots of nice places in Eastern Europe where the living costs are low, the weather nice and the scenery beautiful.

And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms, except maybe about elections...

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tomp12y ago· 2 in thread

> And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms

Doesn't that also mean that the government would gladly accept a bribe from a foreign state actor in exchange for suppressing the freedom of the telegram team?!

StavrosK12y ago

If things there are anything like in Greece, the system is corrupt and dysfunctional enough to not care about newfangled problems (there's literally no enforcement of anything limiting online (maybe even offline) freedom here), but not corrupt enough to do egregious/outright illegal things because of bribes.

BugBrotherOP12y ago

Probably not from Russia, in Romania's case. But it is a point, maybe not worth betting on.

vixin12y ago

Yes indeed! Beautiful countryside and really excellent internet connections.

For example: "Based on Net Index report at the end of first half of 2013, Timișoara has become the city with the highest download speed in the world. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania

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