Shallow depth of field (selective focus) details with huge potholes filled with water after a rain in a mud road in Bucharest, Romania.

Bucharest: a terrible pot that is becoming more and more unbearable

Lately I had to transit more often than I wanted the famous northern area of ​​Bucharest: Baneasa. And crossing it long and wide, I sat and thought why it is so desired and expensive. Baneasa, for me, is just an unfortunate mixture of luxury and dirt. Only in our country, Romania, you can see 4-5 star hotels surrounded by piles of garbage and mud.

As for Baneasa Business Park, it’s horrible. It all comes down to 3 buildings thrown in the mud. And as uglyness is fashionable in our country, the Baneasa Investments team has already put into operation most of the rented spaces, even if the area is still under construction. Thus, the owners of offices with rents of thousands of euros per month and their employees are forced to walk 10m through the mud to reach one of the entrances. Nice, isn’t it? You also go to work dressed in a suit, clean shoes and you make them cabbage right before you enter the building where you work.

The mix of buildings is also very interesting. By the modest houses of the locals, with puppies, piglets, chickens, you see glass buildings, luxury hotels, and coffee shops. When you go to Otopeni, you look to the right: offices, hotels, you look to the left: just empty fields. As for people, it is very interesting to see a guy dressed in a suit, elegant, clean, and 2 meters from him an old lady who also goes to the market, or a regular worker who is just leaving the factory. Jeeps and Range-Rovers “get along” very well with Dacia in traffic, on the tiny and always crowded streets. As for the rest of the city, it is a slightly happier clone of the Baneasa area.

We live in Romania, and that keeps us busy all the time.

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