Athens? Rome? No _ Bucharest is Europe's most crowded capital city

AP Worldstream | August 18, 2004| | Copyright

ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-18-2004
Dateline: BUCHAREST, Romania
No parking spots. Crippling traffic jams. Sky-high rents and little office space. Is this London, Rome, or Athens? No, it's Bucharest, officially Europe's most crowded capital with more than 2 million people crammed into a city barely 20 kilometers (12 miles) from tip to tip.

The city's woes began under communism _ when peasants were forcibly resettled to Bucharest _ and continue today, with rootless young people gravitating to the capital.

Romanians "come here like it's Mecca, thinking that it is ...

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