Crime in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Cluj is great as someone who lived in London and Madrid amongst others, can tell you.

This is not a place to live, it is a way to live it! There is this tranquility around everywhere as well as diverse pub culture .. but of course bad people attract bad vibes ;)

We were a group of 4 - Me from the Netherlands, my gf is from Sweden, and 2 friends from Greece.

We had a general felling of extreme disappointment regarding almost everything about Cluj-Napoca. The problem as I see it, is the almost aggressive marketing campaign that the majority of Romanians put forward about this specifically city. Either the general standards for a decent city in Romania is extremely low, or Romanians suffer from what seems to be an inferiority complex fueled by how the West presents itself aka lots of marketing but its actually pretty crap, such as London, Paris, Barcelona.

In other words, as I do not want to discuss too much about the people we met in Cluj-Napoca..., the infrastructure is garbage including public transport, car rental, traffic; rents are disgusting both in hygiene, prices, and service itself; general attitude of store clerks was abysmal, English certainly not being present at all in some cases; prices in restaurants and bars are sometimes competing if not equal to those in the West.

I could go to great length to also express my opinions on why in Good God's Name we had to always hear Transylvania instead of Romania, but it will certainly say a lot more about me rather than the quality of people who continued to confuse us. There were certain aspects in the comments down below which should've been kept to a minimum but tbh I understand them completely .

as I went to the festival this summer, I was astonished of how bad and unorganized Romania is. not to mention the fact that Cluj itself felt like it was totally unprepared for it. I must admit the show itself was fine, but anything else was deplorable to say the least. similar to the last comment, half of the people did seem intentionally rude and mean, with the other half (mostly the younger part) totally awkward considering their continuously obnoxious attempts to "look good", if I may, in front of foreigners. I hate using this word, but their were extremely "cringe"! also, I understand that if you have a high influx of people, you are allowed to raise the price. but the quality and service was extremely(!) bad. gypsies did not make anything better. I will not go into other more specific details, but the borderline is that if you want to visit Cluj, take precautions as Romania made little progress ever since the fall of the communism.

this was a personal experience, written after several days from the events. take it with a grain of salt.