15 May 2007 - 15:32Weird feeling

For some time me and my wife have been talking about the possibility of returning to our home country, Romania. It would be nice to be in Romania (I’m not using the expression “back home” because I have been living here for such a long time I don’t think I can call Romania home) and the high demand for IT professionals would raise the odds considerably for both of us. We have been talking about it for a while now and in a certain way we have started preparing for this. Except that it is starting to take on a weird feeling…
This weekend I talked to a friend of mine from Romania and I was surprised to find him happy (I know, it sounds horrible to be surprised by people being happy, but in that part of the world happiness is the exception to the rule). Things were going pretty well for him, to the point where he brought up the possibility of returning, after congratulating me for 15 years for leaving the country.
Things are going well over there. My friend spent quite a lot of time to tell me about the 9-figure investment by a major European corporation into Romania, about how everything is changing, how the dinosaurs so far in control of the country will be obsolete, etc… All very nice.

Except that right now I get the feeling that moving over there right now is buying shares in a bull-market. Not a comfortable feeling…