How Much Can 100 Romanian Lei ($22.90) Buy in Bucharest? 

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As a Romanian, "Another day another Lei" caught me off 💀💀

The only problem come when you're a Romanian citizen and you don't earn 100 or 200 lei/day of work. The prices in Romania seems low just compared with other currencies. But, as a born and rase Bucharest citizen, I really miss Bucharest sometimes.

For us, the ones in Bucharest, 100 lei is not too much money, but hearing that you said it's a fun and affordable city fills my heart with love for my city and my country

its so awesome to see that people from all over the world actually love my country, it feels nice, welcome

As a romanian, I can confirm the city is very affordable, but only if you have an EU Grade salary. People earn between $350 and $1000 per month after taxes and stuff. About 10% earn more than that. So you can see why the prices are cheap. There are very cheap alternatives to what you've got. For example, 100 lei can be equal to 1 week of great and consistent homecooked meals. Also, at the metro station, most likely you walked past a Fornetti. They sell a 250 ml of coffee with optional milk for about 3 lei. The city center restaurants is more expensive than other restaurants. For example, you get a huge meal with french fries, grilled chicken breast and salad for 30 lei from Socului Kebap. The true problem here isn't the cost of food or the cost of bills, but the cost of rent and mortgages. I always recommend freelancers and people that don't rely on living in a particular city to move to Bucharest. For example, I earn $2000. I love a very luxurious life, just because everything is cheap.

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5:53 I was born and live in Bucharest and yes, having many parks I think is Bucharest's best aspect. You should have come in late spring or summer, when the parks are really green and lush with vegetation! Early March is still winter for us.

It's so cool to see how other people can enjoy the things that are simple for us, Romanians! I subbed for this exact video.

Just booked our flights and found this video really informative. Good luck with your channel, really like your style, showing the city not doing selfies. Subscribed!

Well,I'm glad to see people enjoying walks in my hometown!I really liked the way you introduced the whole city!

Romania in general is quite cool in special for tourism which to be honest I think it's the main key of the country since we have plenty of nice places that allow most of the tourists to enjoy them like countrysides, stories. 22.90$ doesn't seem much in dollars but for the Romanian currency, 100 Lei can do you a nice job for the day, in special if you choose other cities as well that are smaller. Bucharest is such a great place but it's a bit more expensive than the usual city - it and Cluj being the most expensive. You might enjoy the landscape "Bridge of God" is something really cool, Sphinx on Bucegi and the mountains in general are amazing, it make you feel like you are in nature.

Welcome in Romania, i live here and i just love to see the Mountains, is so chill and i love that.

Come back and visit each season of the year. You will discover a new city each time. Bucharest is a paradox city, Old-new , same-different and love-hate it.... Finally , you'll cannot live elsewhere even if you'll want to runaway ... This feeling I got only in Paris and Istanbul.

When I clicked on the video I thought you guys were Romanian . I'm very happy to see people from other countries visiting Romania because it's fun meeting other people except for Romanians . Hope you guys like it here and warm welcomes.💞💞💞

Awesome video guys! Local guy here and I really enjoy how you spent the day and how you went explored. Bucharest is a really nice town and I encourage everybody who comes to visit to go and "get lost" in it :D

Your channel is way better than I thought before watching the video. You actually deserve more subscribers than you actually have. Thank you for visiting Romania!

Its nice to see people actually enjoy the country i live in. Many romanians get excited when someone from a different country talks about Romania, they like being noticed

Another interesting video. Good job guys. Keep it up.

Today I was a litle sad because I looked at the news (bad ones) about infrastructure in Bucharest then I looked at this witch made my day better.

Lovely video of my beautiful city, I'm glad you enjoyed your staying!

This was lovely to watch!

Being a possible future Romanian citizen coming all the way from America. This video really makes me find the best in the world and i cant say thank you enough for the way you show the area greatly. I cant wait to see it all for my self.

I went to Romania Bucharest last month and have decided to move there the people have a lot of respect and are well educated and prices are still cheap for food house e.g.

Yeah look very good town and thanks for your share of this video to the world i like your sharing... 💚👍🎉❤️ Good day!!

thank you very much for the visit guys :) but I must insist you come and visit us again in the summer, it's a lot greener and it makes the city look a bit nicer...or at least the parks

I spent 100 Lei on a haircut in Bucharest in June (the cut was actually 57 Lei and I left the rest as tip) still cheaper than Florida.

Thanks for showing us around. $22.90 should be easy for anyone almost anywhere...at least in the USA.

Thank you for making an effort and coming to Romania

Thanks for this vidéos ❤️

Really enjoyed this video! Omgish i want to visit so bad ❤️ thanks for sharing

Good job. Very beautiful,clean and cheap city. Cheers

Thank you for making a cool vlog from the city where l was born. I subscribed. New friends from Las Vegas

Everytime I see vlogs about Bucharest or Romania I get homesick 🥰

when you go to Paris to the Eiffel tower look for the markings on the steel beams Grivița that means the steel beams are made in Romania in the Grivița region,the same markings you can find on the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Either Cincinati is really expensive or Bucharest is dirt cheap. Here in London I can spend about 15 pounds which is about 20 dollars and buy quite a few stuff too. I guess it depends how you spend it, coffee is abou 5 pounds but that leaves me with about 15 pounds to travel from one side of the city to the other and also buy all sorts of street foods as well. It really depends what you spend money on. Street food is generally cheap pretty much anywhere. I doubt that 100 lei would have lasted more than lunch if you went to a restaurant in the city center.

Ay thx for making a vid in romania :D

Hey man I am happy to see you visit my country! Hope you had a great time! Also I am not sure if you tried it yet, but the yogurt strudel from Luca is 100 times better than the sour cherries one haha.

hello, well-made vid exploring bucharest city, the vibe is there, legit. I was born in bucharest and I've spent my childhood in the areas shown on the video, the city has so many secrets as much of it was built on command by the former pre-'90s leader, like the metro train for example. the city is a mix of brutal linearity layout and the pre-communist old organic layout. considering prices, let's not oversee the fact that you've spent 100 taxed ron, because here we have that centralized 'free' healthcare universal, where we pay half on so yeah, the context it's really important. you've spent like 40 ron at a restaurant that can be easily checked on their website, the price for your only plate easily exceeds 100 ron without the drink and tip, but you did a nice little inclusion for them in your video so maths check out; but we don't do bargain like turks, we don't get daily discounts at restaurants, and neither any of the people who will decide to visit and don't own a youtube channel, 100 ron is a large dominos with a pie and soda. I've visited other eu cities, and capitals, prices are painfully equivalent, gas has same price as in any other expensive eu state, more than enough I even had it for cheaper in other places as such as even romanians have their holidays in other countries where it's more affordable. that being said, it's a enjoyable city, with very low crime rate but we expect some import of criminality after other countries become less desirable, at least law enforcement is fairly competent. at this moment if in sweden one person gets shot every day, in romania a few civilians get shot a year. the criminality is not oriented on person but on money, fraud, scam, theft etc. crimes take place in poor rural areas, in families etc, so there's no chance you get stabbed while wandering the city, there are no real dangerous neighbourhoods, anyone can walk at any time anywhere, english language available most of the time even tho romanian is a phonetical language from latin family similar to italian, spanish, portuguese and fReNch. if anyone plans to visit, financially you need far more unless you wanna live the homeless experience.

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Nice vlog ! Romania is glad to great u :) hope you will come back in other cities like : Cluj , Brasov , Oradea . Very beautiful :)

Great video thank you so

@1:45 the statue in the background is The Capitoline Wolf breast feeding the twins Romulus and Remus who founded Rome, according to the legend of the founding of Rome. Rome, Romania.

Thank you for this! Also try Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara.

Very good, I'm so interested in Romania that your video naturally bubbled up in the RU-vid recommendations. Myself, I don't like the touristy area in the old town and spend time in other parts of Bucharest when I'm there. In any case, your video made me want to be back there. The thing you called Crepe is actually called Clatita, hence the name of the shop you got it from. Now... you mentioned the lack of metro systems in Louisville or Cincinnati. I had to grin at your pronunciation of Louisville, since it shows you're not from that city... ;-) In any case, most of the USA doesn't understand the value of mass transit, nor the value of tight compact urban areas, so of course neither of those two cities have a metro system. But, Chicago/NYC/etc do have good metro systems.

In germany equivalent to 100 Romanian Lei you can eat only 1 Meal in a restaurant, 2 meals in McDonalds, 3 Kebabs or 5 Sandwiches compared to Romania where you can eat until you are full and aswell explore a bit, go with the Train / Metro etc

Te salut din Romania🇹🇩/Hello from Romania 🇹🇩

What is the least expensive country you have ever visited?

The crepe stall is actually a clatite stall. Clatite is basically the traditional Romanian version of crepes that are slightly thicker than crepes

The only time when Bucharest shines is in late spring. The parks are a wonder in Bucharest, especially in spring.

He survived without getting ripped off. HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE!

This makes my more proud of my country and my city

I lived there for a month last year it was the best time of my life. Enjoy an Ursus for me please. the metro station your in was close to my house it was very clean as was most of the city, thing are with in walking distance and the people are so nice.

Very useful video. Got any cheap hotel recommendations in central Bucharest? Will be visa running there next month.

Leu also means Lion in Romanian, so instead of calling em "lei" in english, we can actiually call em "lions" 😂 nah jk Romanian people will get confused then 🤣

As a romanian, this country doesn't have the best citizens but its still a great country

try it in Constanta (mamaia), Romania, in the summer season probably 100 lei will be enough for half a day, but it's super nice, try it and you won't regret it!

I really enjoyed your video. Very good joob! Unfortunately, as a bucharest Citizen, i can't say you can afford spend everyday those 100lei because that would be 1/27 or 1/30 of average salary per month. There is rent, utilities, home food, mobility spendings so on....

i live right next to bucharesti and the fact that i saw this video makes me think wow i never saw theese places :) well there where you ate the mici because i nevere saw that place those i saw evrything alse

i live in romania in bucharest!!!! how lucky i found this video

This video give's me 2015 vibes and and i like it

In my city, for 100 lei you can get much more things, for example a Covrig with sesame seeds on top for 1 Leu, or a big shawarma for 12-15 lei. But compared to our minimum wage of 1.500 lei without taxes, some things are very expensive.

Heyy I don't know if someone already told but the metrou ride, 2 times, used to cost only 3 lei (half of the price now) I'm glad you came here, in Romania. :))

If you get the chance to visit Romania again, try going up north, to Maramures; it's like traveling to Tolkien's Shire - even prince Charles has a traditional house over here. It's really a beautiful region. We'll be more than happy to invite you to stay at our house during your trip. Keep in touch!

Liquids?? Thats was a funny one 😂😂 not beverages, or drinks..but liquids 🤣🤣 epic!!

The Romanian Lei is named like that because it's neighbour country, Moldova, (ussually refered as Romania's sister) uses Moldavian Lei.

Minimum wage in Romania 2022 1524 RON (Lei) = 312,89$ after tax. That means around 11$ a day. Imagine that some people also pay rent and bills. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Thank for visiting our brother land Romania😎 y’all shall visit Moldova and see how is it there😌trust me it worth it

I highly recommend any of the "5 to go francise" points for cheap, yet good coffee.

For us, romanians, the prices are still high, because the average monthly income for a romanian citizen is 500-600$, not 4-5k $ as an average american xD

In Romania the minimum pension is 1000lei = $229 per month, the average pension is 1500lei ... and net minimum wage per month is 1524lei = $345 (40 hours / week - hard work).... so, for Romanians, Bucharest is an expensive city...

Another fun thing to do is go to Herăstrău park where I saw you went in this video and rent a bicycle to ride around the lake

1:43 i tripped on the stairs behind you lol

I always recommend Romania to people from western Europe because their income is way higher than ours and they feel very rich, and it's a beautiful country. For romanian people 100 lei is not that much when most people earn 1500-2000 lei per month. 😔

The metro is cheaper and much much cleaner than London, Brussels, Barcelona and other big cities I've visited and worked in before.

nice :D

Show the parks during summertime, the view will be insane. xD

now after the oil price increased, everything is 15% more expensive so you need 115 lei(~24$) to buy all those

I am glad that you folks enjoyed my home.

The Strudel is amazing, ngl.

Woah!i live there :)

Come back in the summer time. 😀

Lei or RON , for people over mid 20's and in their 30's we call it lei and I generally use the old system saying 100 RON => 1 million lei whenever I use money

You should visit Brașov next up!

You made me hungry. What's that, District# 42? Will definitely visit.

As a romanian im happy to see this :) Btw its București :)

I'm in this video at 2:53 lol The guy with the green sweater

yeah the bad side of it is that the average romanian is working for around 100 lei / day. so the average pay is around 450 dollars / month, while the average rent costs is around 300 dollars / month.

I'm glad you enjoyed Romania, but with 200 lei, 3 persons can eat one week of self made food... so life here it's not that cheap...

It must be nice when you have someone to travel with. I came here and most people didn't even want to talk. Nice place though 👌

The problem is the minimum wage in romania is 1800 lei. The rent alone is between 1000-2000 lei. 1500 if you want something decent + utilities around 200 lei and basics stuff such as TV and Internet for another 100 lei. Also, nowadays, everything is way more expensive. Food, drinks, ciggs, clothes, uber. For example the average romanian spends today at least 50-60 lei on food, 6-12 lei for public transportation. So yes, if you visit Romania is very cheap. If you try and live here, is very hard to have a decent life with the wages romania has according to the prices.

Thinking about heading that way soon, any recommendations for lodging or fun things to do? 💗

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Affordable of course! How about the cost of sports activities and going to the gym after this heavy meal ?

It's interesting when people come to Romania and say ,, of look so affordable,, but nobody talks about salary.

I enjoyed the video but the music was like listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks on a bad Acid trip.

Louisville and Cincinnati has 300.000 to 500.000 ish population, and Bucharest has 1.7 to 2.5 million. So surely thats more than enough reason to have a better underground trainsystem, I mean there's smaller european cities with the same, so size shouldn't be the only criteria in terms of transportation.

the prices are amazing for people outside of romania, couze if you think about romanian minimal wage is around 300$ so at least for us the prices are higher if we compare it with the wage

yep. i live in romania and as a gamer its really tough to get the "new games", so i usually stick with g2a to get them cheaper, or play games i already have

when exactly was this filmed? I don't remember raining and being cold in March. Also 100 lei is $20