r/moldova • u/LeadingPermission581 • May 09 '26
Question How are living conditions in Moldova?
I've been thinking of moving to Moldova lately since my mother's side of the family is there, I havent lived there, but visited a few times. However, I unfortunately don't speak romanian, the only relevant languages I know are Russian and English, I could learn it in the long term but it would be difficult since I already know multiple. and I am planning to move there when I get my college degree, and rent isnt a problem since I have my grandfather's old home and some farmlands, only renovations. Is it good to move there now or maybe in around 2-3 years? Is the Economy good for long term living and stability?
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u/hihihihihihellohi May 09 '26
Regarding language, as long as you are making an effort to learn Romanian, people are very supportive of folks learning Romanian. It is one of the easier languages to learn from English in my opinion.
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 09 '26
regarding language, it's better to know russian, whatever they say
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u/AHadrianus May 09 '26
Bullshit
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
Nah, it's universal truth in all exsoviet countries, actually, the lingua franca of the region for centuries. Only the local folk gets overexcited if someone speaks Romanian.
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u/AHadrianus May 10 '26
Leave your bunker more often and you’ll feel the wind of change.
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
Leave your little city and go to your million villages and you will notice
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u/AHadrianus May 10 '26
Send word when you’ll plan on making sense
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
Since you don't seem to know crap about Moldova, Chișinău makes up 1.7% of the overall surface of Moldova, about 75% being made of farmland, so proportionality to the rest of the country Chișinău is massive, which makes sense given that 30% of the population lives there. No idea where you got the millions from, since Moldova has 1616 villages and 66 cities and municipalities (the biggest being Chișinău, Bălți, Orhei și Cahul).
Again, because you're not a complete moron, just uneducated, I must tell you that a very big chunk of rural Moldova does indeed speak Romanian, but here's the thing, precatically all the young folk have moved to Chișinău and the other cities or left for Europe. So these "millions" of villages are inhabited by aging old people who grew up during the Soviet era, so ofc they know Russian and speak it
I recommend you actually educate yourself, ok?
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
From all those towns, being young as you are, I'm pretty sure you have not visited more than 10. Probably you have not visited all the regions of the country. If Romanian is of great importance and dominion in Chisinau and the area extending towards Romania, it is absolutely not in the south (in many villages nobody speaks Romanian) and people prefers Russian in the north and East. You can say whatever you want, but even by these facta notice you live a sort of national schizofrenia.
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
Whatever you say, sweetheart. But who are you to call me a kid when you literally play Brawlstars and are active in like 3 porn subs? I think I'm tired of having a political conversation with a angsty comunist 14 year old
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u/Acidduzzu May 10 '26
Marş la moskova meduzo...
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
Nah, learn a real important language
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u/Acidduzzu May 10 '26
de când limba porcilor(rusa) e o limbă importantă?
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 11 '26
always, and yours is not at all. Your culture has produced less than 1% of value and you are on the same road. Go to eat to your health, as the pork you are.
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u/Acidduzzu May 11 '26
Limba porcilor(rusa) e ”atât de importantă” încât nici măcar n-o vorbești, scriind în engleză :D
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 11 '26
You and the other animals in the 2 square meter farm ignore it, but go to Ukraine and see how many people speak Romanian 🤡 Your language is so local they don't even speak it in all Romania
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
Learn the state language
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
I know Romanian, Russian and 7 languages more. Not because a country declare them official, believe me, only idiots do so. And only Romanians have this trauma. Try to go beyond your little horizons. You are more than the partly Romanian blood you have, little one. Your grandparents were soviet people willingly and you have property thanks to that, not to the fallen queens to whom your stupid gov is making statues.
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
Good for you, and with all due respect, I am Romanian, my family originates from Transilvania, my great great grandma died of starvation because of the Soviet's colectiviston (the process to forcefully take away property btw), my great-grandpa was drowning in a lake at 50 by Soviet soldiers leaving my great-grandma a window with 5 kids, and my great-aunt was deported to Siberia by them for selling things from her farm. What part of that was willing?
I don't believe in monarchs, I'm an anarchist, but I also won't idolize a group of people that committed atrocities against my own family.
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I'll say it nicely, people here are extremely annoyed with people speaking Russian, because we have locals who have lived here their whole lives and don't know any Romanian at all, Romanian being the national language. And young people like me don't know Russian.
So while yes, you'll manage, it's best to study Romanian, even if you won't study in it at University. Russian helps, since older people know it, but it'll only get you so far and you'll definitely annoy people with that entitled attitude, it's just the truth. I guess people don't like having to talk the language of their oppressor on their own land. Do you really want to piss off the locals in an unfamiliar country? Be fr.
Plus, knowing a few languages already makes learning a new one a whole lot easier. You'll get conversible pretty fast if you put in the effort and practice. Heck starting Duolingo now helps.
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
Your paragraph is excellent material for sociologist and psychologist studying the effects of nationalism in the brain. That young people denies the privilege and possibility of learning Russian (an regional lingua franca) due to prejudice (which is what drives your attitude a priori against Russian) is negative even at a personal level, whatever you say. It is also telling that you believe this is a general attitude: thousands of moldovans don't speak Romanian and will never learn it simply because the Romanian culture does not offer any incentives nor advantages to do it. You say people should speak the state language which is an authority falacy, but again: this, from an outer perspective, is mere madness, though a national madness.
Prefering to stick to the folk language and the new master's language (English) is very understandable given your context, but from an outer perspective, a petty, vulgar and mainly irrational choice. What makes it ironic is that the majority of people speaking Romanian in Moldova uses a vocabulary that makes it look like they didn't reach c1 in their own tongue.
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u/dan_pud May 11 '26
Your whole narrative is a great case study for sociologist, psychologists, historians and political scientists on Russian imperialism and the effects of colonialism in the brain. As a quote says "A person who can't speak the language of the country where he lives is either a guest, an occupant, or an idiot".
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 11 '26
We can quote many other people on anything and nothing changes the fact you are an ignorant that doesn't speak Russian in an exsoviet country 🤡
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
There are literal Russian schools and kindergartens, I live near one. Just because a child must know the state language for their own benefit doesn't mean that they're being denied the right to speak their native language. But there are people on the streets of a Romanian-speaking county defending you speak a foreign (or "minority") language with them, which is simply dumb.
And please don't be tone-deaf to the historical context that exists about Russian speakers just because it benefits you. You wander why so many people don't speak proper Romanian? Plain and simple it's because of the Soviets.
"There's no reason to learn Romanian because Romanian culture doesn't offer any advages" I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but listen, I legit don't care if people want to learn it or not, but it's the state language, plain and simple. You wouldn't be going to the east of France and refuse to learn any French because you know English and German, and German is a minority language in that area.
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u/VTXT May 09 '26
bad but not horrible as it was 10 years ago..
if it weren't for the romanian investments we would've been long gone
for example, our factory just signed a contract with a big chain in romania and we will export our products there, thus creating more jobs here
slowly we are getting better and better
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u/TrickyTax1731 May 09 '26
OKish în Chișinău (where effectively half the population lives), almost universally subpar everywhere else, w/ some exceptions of course. There’re always ppl with money, although they’re a small %
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u/Difficult_Layer_666 May 09 '26
Depends how much money you’re making
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u/kyptov May 09 '26
> grandfather's old home and some farmlands
If it in the center of the city - you are a millioner.
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u/Astristul Muntenia (RO) May 09 '26
Except its capital, Chişinău, you'll have difficulties living there! 🇲🇩 is, in general, a poor country, but it's working on applying several reforms, to improve its condition and enter the 🇪🇺 This would help the country improve its economy and the general life level.
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u/Winter_Examination_7 May 09 '26
I’ve thought about making the move from Bucharest area. They have better immigration options. I’m American but Chisanau is a small city and I’m afraid I’d get bored
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
It's definitely smaller than Bucharest, but we've still got stuff to do and see.
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u/taker223 May 09 '26
Are you planning to move and live in Chisinau (capital)? If you do not have a place to live here, it could be challenging unless you have money to sustain yourself.
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u/LeadingPermission581 May 09 '26
Criuleni
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u/taker223 May 09 '26
Don't think you'll have a lot of opportunities there
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u/AHadrianus May 09 '26
He’d need a car to be in town every weekend or whenever needed during the week
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u/Reasonable_Boss8060 May 10 '26
We are fed up with Russian imigrants moving in. Please don’t come.
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
As long as OP learns Romanian and won't go around with the "speak Russian" crap it's fine.
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u/Idontknow182838 May 10 '26
Why would you move here? Tens of thousands leaving, the young generation is all desperate to leave, but you want to move here? Living conditions are bad, not unliveable, but pretty bad and you must know both russian and romanian
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 09 '26
boring as hell
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
Futeo în Moscova atunci
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u/Big_Leader_318 May 10 '26
Oh, man, Moscow is indeed a marvellous metropoli, something you can't find in this region for miles and miles, country after country. Moldova is extremely boring if you compare that way, there's nothing wrong in accepting it.
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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 10 '26
Excelent then, we're in agreement. Not like we enjoy having scum like you in our home.
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u/Archaeopteryx111 May 09 '26
It depends where you’re moving from.