The New York Times on Bucharest's Flourishing Housing Market, a load of bullocks.

Don't be fooled while it may be the Europe's sixth largest city I doubt that there is one more ugly. Dirt everywhere, historic center in ruins (ill maintained buildings are the norm as clearly visible in the front picture), danger of stray dogs (a year ago they bitten to death a Japanese businessman), very little and continuously shrinking green space, horrendous architecture legacy of the communist times.

I've only spent 3-4 pleasant hours in Bucharest, while dancing and savoring fine Romanian red wine: so it does not count.

All of the pictures where shot from inside the apartments vs actual places from the city. And the article is filled with the mambo-bambos of a real estate agent mixing the term "need" with the word "demand". They thrive on housing bubbles! City with a lot of potential ... absolutely true, but it does not show much journalistic objectivity to have its current state be hinted by so poorly.