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For example, Google: living costs london cluj (I was outsourced to Cluj, Transylvania in Romania.

We have a great office in downtown Cluj-Napoca, but you are free to work from home if you want.

Example: Nokia closed their factory in Bochum, Germany to move to Cluj, Romania for cutting costs.

On average for calendar year 2024, it was $35 a day, living in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

And two major hubs nearby with a growing startup culture (Cluj and Bucharest).

Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) also appears on the list – a student from the Bălcescu Lyceum there won silver at the Linguistics Olympiad in 2024.

I am talking here about Cluj-Napoca (the second largest city in the country), not the capital, where salaries are better.

Romania gets more benefit from an American cloud like AWS domiciled in Cluj compared to a German owned and domiciled "cloud" like Hetzner.

Sadly, that term seems to have fallen out of use -- I have had to explain it to lots of young computer people in Cluj.

There are major cities with good amount of software talent: Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Brasov, Timisoara.

Larry Wall said at a Cluj.pm meeting earlier this year: "most of the Perl modules are released under 'the same license as Perl', but Perl itself is not bound under any kind of license".

I did a road trip through Europe a few years back, and when we passed from Romania (coming from Cluj) to Hungary, the road immediately got _comically_ bad.

Romania gets more benefit from an American cloud like AWS domiciled in Cluj compared to a German owned and domiciled "cloud" like Hetzner.

Larry Wall said at a Cluj.pm meeting earlier this year: "most of the Perl modules are released under 'the same license as Perl', but Perl itself is not bound under any kind of license".

The thing is, most American companies aren't interested in hiring "real talent" at scale in the UK because the salary ends up becoming the same as the US but the pool of candidates is shallower - especially when I can hop over to CEE and open an office in Warsaw, Cluj, or Prague and get significantly higher quality talent at the £50k-£80k range.

> why should I pay "market rate" German salaries when I can hire someone in Cluj, Lodz, Brno, or Sofia in the €20k-40k range, and be given a €5k-20k per head tax holiday along with fairly low corporate taxes from these countries.

We have a great office in downtown Cluj-Napoca, but you are free to work from home if you want.

Example: Nokia closed their factory in Bochum, Germany to move to Cluj, Romania for cutting costs.

On average for calendar year 2024, it was $35 a day, living in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.