Moving to the country after a life spent in the polluted and crowded city is a dream for many pensioners in Romania. Many idealize life in the country, without taking into account the challenges, especially for the people who passed by the early youth.
The idyllic life in the country attracts many pensioners. Photo: moved to the country – life without clock
“Hello to everyone. Recently I had a discussion with parents who no longer want to stay in Bucharest and insist on buying a house somewhere in a village/city. I can do this financially and I was going to do this, but not right now. The apartment in Bucharest is also mine, the one in which they now live without any invoices, their pension goes only on the food they buy ”, He wrote a Romanian living abroad on the Reddit platform.
The man claims that he has reached quarrels with his parents because of this, because it seemed to him to make this move. “I admit that they helped me to buy the apartment in Bucharest. Am I too exaggerated or are they too misequinists?“He added.
Finally, the man, however, asked for advice on areas located at most one hour from Bucharest. “Because when I come to the country I will want to stay in Bucharest, thank you”he concluded.
Many of those who commented have drawn attention to the hardships of life in the country, which, at first glance, seems to give peace and peace, in an idyllic landscape that anyone would like compared to the crowded, gully and polluted city. “This story is more common than it is believed. And than the elders and parents believe”, He held a first connection.
“People buy a romance … I wake up in the morning I look at the chickens … I sit on the porch”
“I find myself in the reverse situation, that is, mine moved to the country in the grandparents’ house and sold the studio from here and with the money I made a series of improvements there. We had to repair the fence, take a bath, buy the plant on the pellets. In a few years the level of work there exceeded, my father became ill and everything has become a permanent burden and shuttle for me. From things that break from age or improper conditions, to buy and carry wood, water, food. In winter it is very expensive and tiring to always make the fire, it is constant fighting with them on this topic. People there to help not find, any problem have to consume to find someone or go to solve. As a tip, if they are not in power, with work and life, a good team, and you do not have some money set aside and go for a month in the country or rent something during the summer …“, A user of the platform recommended.
Another one gave him justice: “Exactly that’s right, people buy a romance… I wake up in the morning I look at the chickens … I’m sitting on the porch. But reality comes over you quickly. ”
One of the network user claims that it is inevitable that in this situation parents become a burden:
“You do not have help, you have no hospital, you have no family or pharmacy doctor. Maybe the pharmacist comes 4 hours a week on Thursday and so on. A man probably in the flower of the age there is isolated from a career point of view. it is a very selfish idea. ”
“The problem in the country is that people aging need medical assistance, ambulance … and with the passage of years the mobility decreases”, someone else commented.
“Yes, they need access to medicine, supermarket, etc. Many idealize life from the country. The problem will be for you … when they will have to go to some analysis, hospitalizations, solved daily problems of all kinds that are more complicated in the village.”someone else detailed.
“You curse your fate if you have to go to the city daily”
“Life in a village where you have no relatives, you have no acquaintances I know nothing about how it lives in all seasons is very different, even difficult, compared to how they imagined. The lack of craftsmen is the first big problem. Supply with food, materials for big or small repairs, other problems. Access to the sanitary system and a problem.”, A user intervened.
“If you do not want to move to the country in the next 15 years you could rent a house and give their apartment in rent.”someone came up with a solution.
“There are more and more that they want to move to the country. It’s not unusual. I think it’s a good idea to rent something than buy. Find OLX enough houses to rent around Bucharest. Disadvantages.explained another commentator.
A Bucharestian who was in Ilfov, one hour from Bucharest, claims: “You curse your fate if you have to go to the city daily. I tell you from your own experience. I do 15-20m when there is no traffic (for holidays) or half an hour in any other day during the week.”
“When you are young and active you want to be in the middle of the action, in the city where you work, you can go to the theater, museums, film, different workshops, socialize, etc. It’s normal for you to want in the city. When you are over 60, you don’t do much. One of the things you want to do is to stay in the yard, in the fresh air not in pollution, to eat naturally, to be quiet. Both are understandable. The problem is who on whose back does these things.
I mean, it seems normal to me to do this through their own strengths. If I will retire and I will want to say the clean air somewhere in Satu Mare, that I like it and it is cleaner air than in Bucharest, I will sell my apartment in Bucharest and I will buy in Satu Mare. I will not beat my baby to move me, or take a house to the country from his money to live there”, Said someone else.
“He ended his business, he sold the apartment, he bought on the Prahova Valley”
There are also users who believe that moving to the country, after a life spent in the city, is beneficial: “I really know a guy who when he retired was decided to move from Bucharest. He ended his tasks, sold the apartment, bought on the Prahova Valley, now at 70+ is happy, he has friends of her age and in the summer he hiking the mountain! So you can! ”
“Being parents, one day they will need a hospital (hope as possible), so I advise you to buy near a provincial city for administration, transport, shopping, events and hospital. Consider the fact that the area is important (the plain offers nothing, only work and tuna), go to the hill or mountain areas. The other parameters you introduce them”, O someone else.
Another user has drawn attention to high costs, if conditions like in town:
“I know several families who had the idyllic dream with life in the country. They usually bought land and then built their house. Then they realized that they did not have utilities so they did, well drilled with submersible pump, hydrophoric, their own thermal central on solid fuel (they do not have septic gases) (they have no sewerage). All the fun costs several hundred thousand euros at the moment. And after only a few years or moved back to the city due to the lack of kindergartens, schools, various supermarkets, varied entertainment, private medical services and mainly the dependence on the car for any trip from which it appears and the need for the second car with all the related costs. That if you are in power and you can lead, if not someone else has to do on the driver. Guess who? ”
Of course, you can cheap a warehouse with 15,000-20,000 euros but that is not the house with all the utilities from the city described above ”explained another commentator.
“Life in the country is for peasants or who can be peasants or allow themselves to hire peasants (if there). someone else supported.
“I don’t think it is so simple to move to the country. I mean, it seems like a nice dream, but people imagine something pretty broken. For example, they underestimate the physical effort that comes with a home house. They need wood for winter (and it does not cost as much as maintenance in the block). A yard?.
If it is an old house, the level of living honestly will not be very good, if it is not isolated in winter you will not be very hot ”concluded another commentator.
