As a Romanian I can confirm that, all things considered, we are not doing that bad. Inflation hurts a lot of people, of course, but we’ve had way, way worse tha

As a Romanian I can confirm that, all things considered, we are not doing that bad. Inflation hurts a lot of people, of course, but we’ve had way, way worse than this back in the ‘90s, so those of us who are older than 40 or so just sigh, maybe swear at the politicians and then hope that things won’t get worse. What’s really helping, for now at least, is that housing is still relatively affordable (with the exception of Cluj, a very IT-focused city). If that housing affordability were to disappear then, yeah, the optics would definitely change.