Traffic, landmarks, air, and cost per square foot can make a big difference when you’re looking for a home. The new index called TRAI shows the standard of living by adding up 4 indicators.

*Landmarks refer to shops, supermarkets, bars and restaurants, schools, kindergartens, playgrounds, parks, medical institutions

Top regions of Romania with the highest score

Aviatorilor, Bucharest – 67.9

Zorilor, Cluj-Napoca – 60.3

Gruia, Cluj-Napoca – 57.3

Dorobanti, Bucharest – 57.2

Primaverii, Bucharest – 57.1

Piața Romană, Bucharest – 55.1

Centrul Vechi, Cluj-Napoca – 53.7

Victory Square, Bucharest – 53.3

Bukov post office barrier, Ploiesti – 53.1

Historical center, Bucharest – 52.9

Check TRAI Overall Score (link)

Why traffic and landmarks are important when choosing a house

There must be options. They can be built if “everyone will continue not to perpetuate, not to support all kinds of negative examples: unsuitable buildings, the location of new microdistricts that are isolated and not connected,” says Bohdan Suditu, a professor at the university. Doctor of the University of Bucharest and housing expert of the Make Better Association.

All this, according to him, will mean an increase in the quality of life for everyone. Everyone should combine their actions, actions of investors, buyers into one idea: improvement.

“Everyone is talking about traffic. It’s traffic because we generate traffic because we had no choice. The option of cheap housing was far from what the city is like – public transport,” says Suditu.

Unfortunately, he says, very often neighborhoods were built, sometimes with hundreds or thousands of residents, and there was never a request for public transport connections.

“Landmarks such as parks, schools and kindergartens should not be the responsibility of investors. This is the need of the residents, the responsibility of the authorities, but all this should be together. If they do not go together, according to plan, the results will be negative,” explained Bohdan Suditu.

• “The choice for many of us, very young, when we buy a First Home (I mean the program) is cost, that is, to fit into this scale, and I leave out some elements, some important milestones, a few years later.

• “When the first child appears, we see where the kindergarten is. If it’s a kindergarten. If not, do we have to buy another car and what do we do? We generate traffic.”

Florin Enake, an architect, says that the very objection to buying a home is probably sometimes one of the most expensive decisions you make in a person’s life.

“We cannot buy housing with an emotional quick decision, like when we buy tomatoes at the market. If they spoil, you can buy other tomatoes the next day, no problem. We have to start learning to define our housing goals,” Enake said.