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High living costs. There are lots of nice places in Eastern Europe where the living costs are low, the weather nice and the scenery beautiful. And in quite a
by BugBrother 12y ago
High living costs.
There are lots of nice places in Eastern Europe where the living costs are low, the weather nice and the scenery beautiful.
And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms, except maybe about elections...
- vixin 12y agoYes indeed! Beautiful countryside and really excellent internet connections. For example: "Based on Net Index report at the end of first half of 2013, Timișoara has become the city with the highest download speed in the world. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Romania
- tomp 12y ago> And in quite a few (e.g. Romania) the government is too busy stealing stuff to bother about oppressing freedoms Doesn't that also mean that the government would gladly accept a bribe from a foreign state actor in exchange for suppressing the freedom of the telegram team?!
- BugBrother 12y agoProbably not from Russia, in Romania's case. But it is a point, maybe not worth betting on.
- StavrosK 12y agoIf things there are anything like in Greece, the system is corrupt and dysfunctional enough to not care about newfangled problems (there's literally no enforcement of anything limiting online (maybe even offline) freedom here), but not corrupt enough to do egregious/outright illegal things because of bribes.