The people of Tara Oasului (Northern Transylvania) were the first to leave abroad, a fact that translates into the subsequent development of their native villages. Their beginnings in France (mostly all the people from Tara Oasului and Maramures are settled now in Paris) are rather dubious. Having at the beginning, work restrictions, in the '90s, they were eager to earn money with any means. They turned false beggary into an amazingly prosperous business, monopolizing the distribution of the poor man newspaper (a social project in France which basically consists of drawing people away from beggary by giving them newspapers to sell) and, at the beginning of 2000, speculating on French laws which were very protective of minors, they brought their children over to France and sent them to break park meters - an undertaking of wide scope which resulted in the change of all park meters in Paris. Today, as being citizens of an EU country, having abroad the family reunited, with legal forms for labor and residence, they have become a serious force on the work market. Men work in constructions, while women do housekeeping. . Although the salaries are pretty good, they continue to live crammed together in modest conditions, in order to save as much money is possible, dreaming to come back to Romania and start a business in their native villages.