I don't have any really big problems with the place where I live, what I do have problems with is the people who make the decisions in our country. It seems that here in Hungary we are slowly going back to the dark ages and it is getting harder and harder to make ends meet.
We moved in together with my girlfriend in 2012 and a little later we moved to the capital, Budapest to get our transitions going in a more LGBT friendly environment and to get a job.
The first 3 years we lived in downtown in really nice flat for the price, very close to public transport stations and shops and neighborhood was pretty nice looking, the window and the door opened to the inner courtyard so it was quiet and the air was cleaner. Walls were 50 cm thick brick walls, sound proofing and heating was great. What we didn't like were the congestions, the smog outside at the streets and the drunken homeless people everywhere. I couldn't go shopping to any of the nearby stores without at least one of them asking for money or something else, sometimes bordering on harassment.
A few month ago we had to find a new flat but the prices were 1.5 times higher than what we paid before and every flat was worse in some regards than the one we rented in downtown so we had to settle with one which is farther from the city center and generally in a worse neighborhood. So far we didn't have any problems here, but it's too early to tell.
The cost of living here is quite high, but at least there is a chance to find a job. So far(knocking on wood) we always managed to not starve here and rent a flat with our money and even go on holidays which was a new thing to me as my family couldn't really afford a holiday.
The city has a lot of beautiful districts, it has a quite unique atmosphere but most people cannot see that as they have too many issues to care about anything else.
People are really negative, lot of them are always complaining, they always know better than everybody else but when something should be done nobody cares enough to actually do anything and corruption is ruining everything.
I think after I'm gone full-time we will seriously start weighing our options and take the steps to start a new life abroad because it seems that everything goes downhill in this country.
