when will be right time to evolve as city ?
Over the last weekend I’ve considered to be a good time to spend some time knowing my city; oh no, that was a total mistake. Except some customization made on a general level, and the pubs in the Pta Unirii – the Timisoara former city square – nothing is changed in the past 3-4 years. Nothing new worth mentioning, nothing new worth speaking about. I can recall most the the places being the same as 20 or 25 years ago, as if the years just made scars on the buildings walls but forget to improve them. Same pipes, same “under construction” with no constuction sites, maybe the same construction workers on the city streets and roads trying to fake the working process over a pet of beer (I especially love the working crews with 1 worker and 5 people watching him doing the jobs, you can almost say the worker is the medic and his bosses – I guess they where on higher ranks in the construction company since they where not working, just watching – as I said you can almost compare them with an student crowd watching the doctor doing the daily round).
One noticeable fact over “my promenade” was the attitude of the sales persons: most of them where more friendly, almost approaching to the European attitude of a vendor/tab person. I’ve even seen ice-cream people selling their products with a smile on the face, which is an totally unseen attitudine in the Romania, happiness and smiles from the person that sells you something can be seen starting from the Romania / Hungary border, heading vest.
Iulius Mall: ofc, I’m there almost every 2 days but now I spend more time watching over people’s faces; and my Romania’s impression was confirmed again: sad or grumpy selling people, with eagle eye, watching you all the time and worring that you might steal from them. WTF’s wrong !!!!
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