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Romania: Help ! pls:
Hi There!
I would very much appreciate if someone living in Romania (Brasov, Sibiu) could help me out on some info.
My family - mom from Germany, dad from Israel and a 10 year old boy - are considering to "retire" in Romania. For background info, we have lived in Germany, Switzerland, US and Israel because of work. All of us speak fluent German, English and Hebrew - another language will not be to big of a problem.
I need some input on Romania that so far I could not find on the general searches of the internet:
What about health insurance costs? How is the system vs. what you know from whereever you are living now?
Cost of private insurance ?
Motocross or Enduro sports (youth)
Anyone knows some clubs or tracks in the area of Sibiu or Brasov ? Races ? anything that I can get a link to ?
School
Need some info on a good german or english school (I am so fed up with the israeli schools / education system......)
Alternatively the possibility of a private tutor for a 5th grader. Costs involved ?
I appreciate any comment
thx
Romania: Moving To Cluj with 3 kids:
How did the issue with the school end ? We are planning to move and and I still seek some input.
Israel: Taking a car from the US to Israel:
As a Tourist you can bring your car for half a year. You need carnett (green international insurance which covers Israel!). You and whoever is signed on this paper can drive the car. You can drive with your drivers licence. After half a year you will have to give a deposit for the taxes at port in the value of the car as Israel has 128 % import tax on cars ie your car is worth USD 30,000 - you will have to give a deposit of USD 30'000 to customs here. This deposit can be a bank guarantee from an Israeli bank. You will have to take out your car after the total year.
http://www.aaci.org.il/articlenav.php?id=45
Israel: English Lessons:
Dear Layla, if you speak at home English - your kids will speak English, the English that you are using.
If you do not speak English at home, they have no means to learn it. So, if you want your kids to speak proper English, just talk to them. ONLY talk or reply if they speak English to you. My son speaks English, German and Hebrew - we never spoke English to him, but my husband and me speak English to each other. So, no special teacher necessary - they pick up what they hear.
Israel: proper children shoes:
I just found the most wonderful shoe shop for kids - finally some proper quality and excellent service! check it out: www.pickashoe.co.il
Germany: House for sale near Ulm:
We have left Germany for good, just the house is still for sale. I have been thru 3 real estate agents in the last year and a half, and I am fed up. I am not on location anymore otherwise I would handle it myself. Anyone interested in a very nice and spacious house in a quiet subburb of Neu-Ulm just outside the city please contact me (detached, 190sqm, built in 2000, wintergarten, 4 bed rooms, kitchen, 2.5 bathrooms, cellar, garage, small garden.....)
Israel: Buying online & shipping to Israel:
Value can be upto NIS 1200.
Israel: The positives & negatives of living in Israel:
I have been here since 2003 on off and established myself for good in Israel since 2009. Before I have lived in four other countries because of my job.
What is killing me in Israel is the bureaucracy. Yes, you do have it in any country, but Israel seems to be the only one where the person in charge makes up rules or invents them anew or applies non existing ones because HE is in charge and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do about it.
And I am not talking about one incident. I am facing this situation all the time in business as well as personal life up to the extent that I could write a book about it.
Sometimes I think that Kishon, as much as foreigners (ie non Israelis) think that he is funny - he is not, he is telling the plain truth, just in a humouristic way.
The other thing is driving. I do not think that I have to go deeper into this issue.
What is very positive is the social environment; that the people themselves are very open, most of them friendly, and a lot of them very heartly - I believe that this is because most of them also are not from here, or at least their parents were not.
In all, if you stopped laughing about it, it became way to serious.
Israel: Shipping a car to Israel:
You need> a valid drivers licence (after one year, you need to obtain an israelilcence), a GREEN Insurance form (International Policy saying that Israel is covered) and the registration papers of the car.
Check if you have insurance at all for your car in israel. I had trouble with that and had to change the insurance to cover also Israel.
possibility A is that you RoRo your car (roll-on roll-off). You can travel with it by sea. check www.grimaldishipping.com to see where they load.
cost is depending on the season (we paid in October 2008 EURO 300 for the car and EURO 400 per Person)
Advantage is that you can take a lot of things with you in the car. Disadvantage is that you will be at sea for at least one week.
possibility B is to containerize your car. Get with some forwarders to submit an offer including all costs (and I mean all) from whereever you sit to CFR Ashdod or Haifa. Shipping lines are ie ZIM or MSC. You can ty the car yourself in the container or have somone do it for you.
Once the container comes to Israel you need an Israeli forwarder to custom clear the car (will also cost about EURO 200) , you need to do this with the forwarder together. Cost for shipping is ie from Central Germany to Haifa about EURO 1200.
Advantage is that you can bring even more stuff inside the container - note that you will have to custom clear that too. As it is personal belongings taxes are nearly none (we paid on a VCR once...)
Disadvantage - your car will be at sea for min. 14 to ?? (where you are from) days. ie no car.
Now, once your car is in Israel, you have half a year that you are allowed with your car here. After this half year, the Transportation office will address you and ask you for a bank guarantee for the value of your car (taxes), to extend your car permit for an additional half year.
This bank guarantee must be from an Israeli bank (check prices, should not cost more that 2% a year, plus of course that you have to have that amount of money in your bank account)
I am not sure that you can extend it for an additional (2nd) year - check this with the transporation office at the port of haifa or ashdod.
I am also not sure whether the insurance will allow you to stay that long abroad.
This Bank guarantee issue can only be avoided by getting the car outside of israel for min. 3 months. and then reentering (ie get out to Taba, Cyprus, Jordan..and have the ca parked there for 3 months...)
Hope to have helped.
Israel: Israel - a place to come to or a place to leave??:
Studies are never satisfactory as you are learning theories.
If you dislike so much what you study - maybe consider changing the field.
I am 36 and still did not finish experimenting and I am not planning to do so. (see song from Baz Luhrman - something for everybody)
PS What you did NOT do - you cannot regret. You can only regret what you did do.
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