What's up at home today...?

Well, you would need a jeep first and maybe 10-15.000(or more) Euros to complete
the house as you like it. The problem is transportation. If the village was fully occupied
you would have a school to send your kids in the early ages at least, some kind of
little hospital, a shop for groceries and some bakery. This would be the perfect scenario.
You would have to travel to work somewhere between 30 mins and 1 hour. If you get
a 500-1000 Euro salary, it's considered good.

The village is really isolated from cities. Just to get to Hunedoara takes around 30 minutes
or more. Don't try to imagine winter conditions Maybe next time we go, we'll mount
a Go Pro for the whole ride.

If you want to practice your Enfield on shooting bear hunters...
These guys think they had such a fun time killing animals in Transylvania.
My grandfather was also a hunter. Killed 3 bears once He didn't have
a very pleasant death. When I would sleep at my grandparents in the
summer, he would wake us past midnight because he thought he heard
a cat and his shotgun was a good way to find out what it was However
you look at it, that gun was very efficient in scaring off gypsies.

Actually I think he was missing the sneaky gypsies and not just shooting
to alert them If you shoot at night from more than 50 meters, you might
miss the "enemy"

Still at least 6-times cheaper than a house here in Austria

I actually was thinking about using the Enfield for hunting, but neither bears nor bear-hunters - just wild boar (or some other animal with a high population).

You had/have gypsies sneaking around your houses at night? Wtf?

Why kill bears though ?

Well, not around my house. My grandparents from my fathers side live
just outside Hunedoara, maybe 5-6km. The gypsies would come and search
for steel after everything got closed in the mid 90's to early 00's. Hunedoara,
the city and also the county itself is well known for its steel production
capabilities during communism era. So, since everything in the area was
rusty, the gypsies would live from that stolen steel and also get food and
stuff from the fields and houses close to the factories. Since Romania
entered the EU in 2007, now they are OUR problem. These are the Romanians
that you hear on the news in the West. Most of them don't even speak
Romanian, but they are Romanians

My mom still works in the steel production industry here. She worked in the
same place for almost 33 years, getting payed 200 Euros in average over
the last years.

Why shoot bears for fun? Because they can't shoot back at you ...and
anyone who could make laws against it or give you prison years is also
corrupt and in their circles get to do the same kind of shooting. Over here,
enough politicians get away with proof that they stole hundreds of millions
of euros each, and the judges give them 2 years in prison with suspension.
There was an old lady here that got 3 years of prison for stealing a loaf of
bread. With execution. She was 81 years old

As usual at this period since nine years, it's La Lorientaise run.

They are 11000 women today, braving the wind and rain for running against breast cancer. All the collected money during this event is to be given to associatives and care structures providing help to the patients.