I've found them quite impressive, too. On my two trips to Romania, I saw some of the most beautiful, cultured ladies I'd ever seen. They don't have the ragged, tatted, pierced appearance so many American females have.
Just dated a Romanian recently for a couple weeks, and talking to another one in Bucharest, and she is a bit mixed with some Asian interestingly, the attitudes are even better than the German women I was dating. Sorry to say it, Modern American Woman < Modern Eastern European woman.
Ditto here, Scott. Educated, poised, fashionable, spoke multiple languages, and beautiful.