Romanian here and also a software engineer. It is correct, we are a developing country, except for some cities, where the quality of life is equal to the cities in western europe, but they are a few. Also, the IT sector makes about 6%/7% of Romania's GDP and it has only 150k IT workers where the population is 19 mil (2014) with a rate of ~200k people leaving the country every year since then. I'm still here but don't know for how long tho.