> In the poor and remote province of Maramureş in the northern Carpathians, cut off by bad mountain roads from the rest of Romania to the south... Sadly, even

> In the poor and remote province of Maramureş in the northern Carpathians, cut off by bad mountain roads from the rest of Romania to the south... Sadly, even from the first sentence, this article is full of sensationalist, incorrect and exaggerated information. I lived 20 years of my life in Maramureș - albeit in the city - and it is neither a poor region, nor remote, nor cut off by mountain roads from anything [1]. It's very hard to take anything in this article seriously. It was a very sad and disappointing thing to read this morning about a beautiful region with friendly people and old traditions... [1] http://tinyurl.com/q98g9g5 http://tinyurl.com/q98g9g5 (google maps)