Yeah it’s not looking good for Romania, but at least there is a little bit of a buffer there. I mean Bucharest alone has more inhabitants than all of Estonia.
One interesting thing to point out is that some of the red you see on the “with migration” map amounts to a net internal population movement. Ilfov county is noticeably blue in the migration scenario which to me indicates a transfer in population from the rural/smaller cities to the capital.
But that’s not a good thing either as it means that the country has policies that really neglect most parts of the country except for the capital. And you see this disparity when you are travelling around the country. Meanwhile Bucharest is becoming increasingly overcrowded as well as gentrified, and the traffic with so many commuters into the city from the outskirts is horrible, especially since the infrastructure has been neglected for so long.
Yeah it’s not looking good for Romania, but at least there is a little bit of a buffer there. I mean Bucharest alone has more inhabitants than all of Estonia.
One interesting thing to point out is that some of the red you see on the “with migration” map amounts to a net internal population movement. Ilfov county is noticeably blue in the migration scenario which to me indicates a transfer in population from the rural/smaller cities to the capital.
But that’s not a good thing either as it means that the country has policies that really neglect most parts of the country except for the capital. And you see this disparity when you are travelling around the country. Meanwhile Bucharest is becoming increasingly overcrowded as well as gentrified, and the traffic with so many commuters into the city from the outskirts is horrible, especially since the infrastructure has been neglected for so long.
Honestly Romania is now Bucharest and three other cities in a trenchcoat
The rest is an appendage