Romania is EU, so it seems like it will eventually fall to typical EU nonsense one way or another. Still, might be better in the short term and a country that's kinda incompetent and features (low-level) corruption can actually have advantages in this case.
Not that I'm suggesting you marry this girl, but if you did get Romanian citizenship you could* then live and work in Moldova, as well. Moldova is an even bigger crapshow than Romania, but again, that has benefits and it's not EU and is under the aegis of Russian protection to some extent, which again is a mixed bag but in this moment I'd say is a net positive (our friend @arynus might disagree).
*check whether or not this is true, there might be some fine print saying "Romanian citizens who've lived in Romania for at least the past x years" or something like that to prevent exactly this happening.
Romania is not nearly as corrupt as people think. This is not the 90's anymore. Recently a doctor got caught selling vaccine certificates to unvaccinated people and he got caught and is in deep trouble now.
Also corrupt politicians have been trown in jail recently.
Romania is a very wannabe western country and tries to please the EU, so i'm afraid it will end up like the west one day.
I'm seeing more 3rd world immigrants too, every time i visit the supermarket or mall i see them. And i dont even live in a big city, it's more a 2rd or 3rd tier city. I have no idea why they are here, maybe they work in factories or maybe they are "refugees" on their way to the germanic countries.
Today i saw an arab, but most of the times i see paki's/bangladeshi's or africans. In the past i'd never ever see a 3rd world immigrant anywhere.
It seems white people are not allowed to have a homogenous country, even eastern europe, the last homeland of the white man has to fall under kalergi plan. Thats why i hope EE will stay relatively poor, its the only way to keep a mass invasion of parasites away.
And it's not cheap here either, only restaurants, rent, internet and taxi's are relatively cheap...all the other stuff is almost as expensive as western EU countries... some things like the gym, quality clothes or electronics are even more expensive than in the west, while the wages here are a joke.
There are other balkan countries that are a bit cheaper, but learning to fluently speak slavic or albanian would take a LOT of effort.
Moldova might not be under EU dictatorship, but it's a complete s-hole, dont know why anybody would want to live and work there, i assume you mean "work" as in digital nomad because the local wages are on the level of sub-saharan africa. But even then i would not want to live there, it's a boring, depressing place without mountains, forrests or beaches.
The only reason i came to Romania is because one of my parents is Romanian so i have citizenship and i have invested some money in real estate a few years ago when the prices were still decent. Now i can live of the rent and have an early retirement lifestyle in a homogenous country with very little violent crime and much less insanity compared to the west.
Forget about investing in Romanian real estate now, the prices have almost doubled in recent years and are now on the level of some places in east-germany.
Another reason i came here is because i was born and raised in a western EU city with a population of 500,000 which has seen such a huge wave of immigrants that the native white people are now less than 50%. My ex-hometown looks like a mix of africa and the middle east now with a lot of crime. It used to be a beautifull city but is forever ruined now.
In other words, if you are from outside the EU (US or Canada) it makes no sense to move to Romania imo. It is relatively expensive, low wages, brutal winters, not easy to get permanent visa, there is a reason all the young people are leaving the country and moving to Germany, England, US, Canada, etc.
