This article is aimed at four groups of people. 1) University lecturers (especially in engineering) or other trainers of engineers, 2) those who run businesses that create appliances and other machines (including…
Tag: prices
Deceptive pricing at Mega Image
When it comes to pricing, no supermarket (in Cluj) is perfect. At Auchan, we’ve seen old labels with old prices left up. I remember working at a DIY shop in Britain, where…
Are toilets and houses overpriced in Cluj?
Here we are in 2026. According to Monitorul (perhaps our favorite newspaper at the moment), the average resident of Cluj spends over half his salary on rent. Average advertised rent prices for…
Scam ATMs are in Cluj
The famous Euronet ATM machines, featured on “The Honest Guide” of Prague, have been spotted in a mall in Cluj. Areound the same time we found that machine, police saw someone wanted…
Cluj and Tallinn
Romania recently claimed the world’s fastest Internet speeds. Estonia also likes to see itself on the forefront of tech. Cluj is the tech hub for Romania, making house prices unreachable. There was…
CTP Cluj, one of the easiest bus payments in Europe.
In the old days, if you wanted to buy a ticket on a bus, you paid the driver. Or, you bought a ticket at a bus stop and validated it. Then technology…
Price rise at Cluj Airport
We all know that things are more expensive at the airport, but seven euros for a box of chocolates? Yes, we heard that is the case. Not a specific brand of chocolates,…
Dog saves family from hybrid fire
A dog saved his family from a fire that destroyed their 135 thousand euro (that is right, euro not lei) BMW in Dumbrăvița (3 1/2 hours southwest of Cluj) Adevărul reports. The…
Overcrowding to become illegal
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do. Well, if that shoe is in Romania, some of them will…
Some things are more expensive in Cluj
On 18th January 2023, Jurnalul, one of Romania’s top newspapers, dedicated its front page to how food is becoming more expensive in Romania than in Western Europe. Romanian phrase of the day,…