While you`ve just had a 7% decrease in your salary, we`ve just had an increase of 7% in my city. But if you think you`re not in a good situation, thinking about leaving your country, just remember how safe your countries are compared to mine. Besides, the conditions of work are not good, sometimes we don`t even have paper, the doors and windows are all broken it`s winter now in Brazil and 7 degrees in my city, and we have no heating here, so... try to imagine the poor students who want to learn (not all of them want) and need to fight against the cold wind in their faces. Listen: I`m not saying that what happened to you is fair, absolutely not!!! It`s just that when I`m in a bad situation, I always try to think about a situation even worse than mine.

Everybody is in a terrible mood. I think the situation is very bad everywhere. The things that dsyssb mentions are so familiar to me. Not here in Spain but in Romania. The unheated schools at -20 degrees, broken walls and windows etc. At least this was the situation a few years ago when I went to school. Donapeter may correct me if I am wrong. I have the sensation that Romania has had to face the crisis since the beginning of the 20th century. I am not a nationalist but I feel so sorry... 

PS I looooove Brasov