About us, the Paulians...
Well, we are a family like any other (more or less...).
There is Jeanette (the mother) and Lix (the father). And then of course Roxana, the daughter. We are living in Vienna, Austria, in a maisonette at the outskirts of Vienna, on the Schafberg hill. There are quite a lot of parks all around, and it's very quiet. In the summer time we sip our morning coffee on the small terrace in front of our home in the green, listening to the birds singing and the bees humming along. We have a small garden that Jeanette is taking great care of. In 2002 we planted roses (almost 60 of them) and we had a beautiful view (and scents!). Today some of them left us (they died), however, our garden is now full of plants and we don’t seem to miss them!
You may find out more about each of us by following the appropriate links. Of course, we are not the single Paulians in the world! However, this is not a very common name, and there are not too many of them. We were all born in, or not far from Bucharest, Romania. Lix' father (who passed away in 2000) made some attempts to search the Paulians genealogy and some indications are that they have an Armenian descent (unconfirmed).
As far as we know, there are some Paulians left in Romania, at least another one in Austria, at least one in Holland, some in France, and several in the USA (Lix' sister, at least ;-). If there are some other Paulians out there who want to get in contact, just drop us a line (family at paulian.net)!
We left Romania for Austria in 1990, after Ceausescu's fall. We lived in Salzburg between 1990 and August 1992, when we moved to Vienna — Lix got a job at a startup company that he co-founded (you can read more about this on Lix’ corner). In 1995 we got the Austrian citizenship.
As time passed by, Roxie moved out by the end of 2009, not very far away, however, Jeanette and Lix are now alone with each other... Meanwhile, things are not so funny in our neighbourhood, as many new houses have been built… it's rather crowdy now. We both are now retired, but Lix is still active part time (more on this in his corner...)
We did not forgot Romania: we go two to three times a year there. It's nice to meet old friends and relatives, organise grill parties and the like...
Created in January 2003, last updated in February 2024