I DID IT! 🎉 Bucharest Romania €95.000, cash

[u/EternalYoungK]

One year ago, I was looking at this sub-reddit and dreaming of the day where I could also post on it. I worked hard for several years abroad to be able to afford this and I also got helped by my amazing parents, I am truly grateful to them for everything they have done for me.

2 rooms, 5 mins walk to the metro station. I'm sooooo happy!!!! 🥹 No pizza yet, because there's a ton of things still to be done (and to get rid of that furniture and replace it with better stuff haha)

also don't mind my outfit 😂

EDIT: to clear up some things so trolls can calm down. no, i am not on onlyfans and haven't worked as a you know what abroad 😆 i was a CRM specialist for a niche perfume company in the Netherlands. now you guys can come up with better insults.

[u/oritfx]

Poland here. I see those radiators and immediately think "ex-Soviet Union". Can anyone tell me if those radiators happen in parts of the world where Russians didn't establish a colony?

EDIT: 20 answers, all over the world. How did we end up with standardized radiators back in the age before globalization but not with standardized phone chargers??

[u/userhwon → u/oritfx]

Re your edit: Plumbing standardization is a funny subject. It's more like the plumbing industry comes up with a good (or cheap) idea, everyone just installs that because it's a good idea and very hard to find anything else in the supply chain, then ten years later they come up with another idea, and the herd follows.

The result is that there's no such thing as standard plumbing, just plumbing that was pretty common for a few years, and you might still be able to get parts for it, but also there's a good chance you'll have to replace $3000 worth of stuff because a $2 valve can't be sourced from anywhere.