> For Romania up to now it's mostly criminals who travel. I guess due to distance The Romanian diaspora in Western Europe is well over a million people. The va

> For Romania up to now it's mostly criminals who travel. I guess due to distance The Romanian diaspora in Western Europe is well over a million people. The vast majority of them are people from low-prospect regions in Romania who do all manner of perfectly honorable, albeit unskilled labor for Western Europe countries. A substantial minority of them are well-educated city people who leave for abroad after university, because skilled labor in Romania pays less than what they would desire. I don’t deny there is some small minority of criminals, but you are oblivious to all of the completely ordinary Gastarbeiter-type emigration to Western Europe. Also, the common Western Europe conflation of ethnic Roma with ethnic Romanians with criminals has had some very unfair results for Romania the country. A lot of times those Roma you see – who, again, might not necessarily be involved in crime – are actually from Bulgaria (or the former Yugoslavia), but no one bothers to tell the difference. > I guess due to distance You do realize that Romania is well-connected to the rest of Europe with budget airlines now? Even before them, there is a well-developed network of buses that mainly served to carry workers back and forth from Western Europe in as little as one overnight journey.