I don't know the situation in Poland very well, but I think in general in Romania you (assuming you're Polish) are perceived as a success story. In Romania it'

I don't know the situation in Poland very well, but I think in general in Romania you (assuming you're Polish) are perceived as a success story. In Romania it's actually quite hard to buy products and services that are not provided by some foreign company. Most banks, all big shopping chains (as GP noted), lots of the food and clothes, agri-business, almost all the telcoms are foreign. As a matter of fact, even though we have our own currency, a lot of products are pretty much directly priced in euros: cars, home appliances, electronics, apartments, land, rents, utility bills. All of these go up when the euro goes up (they don't go down when the euro goes down - and the euro never goes down).