>>11775446You get to suffer really bad if you were born into poverty or near-poverty, especially if you aren't anywhere near Budapest. You do get some chances to "break-out", but there's usually a catch, or the chance itself is hard to obtain too. The minimum wage is $333 per month and the average salary (allegedly) is a mere $890 per month in the richest region of the country.
Just to put things into perspective, the government puts a 27% tax on everything that's not basic food (5% on food), and it also takes 33.5% away from your gross salary (thus you are left with 66.5% of your money IF you are lucky and wasn't scammed into taking a foreign currency loan back in '00s (because then the bank takes up to 50% from the rest of your net salary). There wasn't any aid for the country's very own citizens during the pandemic (or anything sort of a Trumpbux), yet the EU did aid us with money for that purpose. You can guess where did the money go.
The current political leadership has based their agenda on hate and fear (eg, openly addressing and attacking George Soros, calling the other political parties names, etc.). This is nothing new though, they have always been doing it, although not this shamelessly. They are right in one thing though: the opposition is weak and until a proper unification (which will most likely not happen in this lifetime) won't be able to strike against currently leading Fidesz party. And nor are the opposition angels, they are the same corrupt suits, but with different people. The fight for the "crown" is about small sabotages and not about ideologies and common sense.
State owned hospitals, medical institutions: they are in a bad shape, underfunded, undercrewed. You do get the opportunity to be examined for free with outdated technology, but there's a months long queue. Good luck not dying until then. This overally reflects any government-owned facility's state.
So, to sum it up: it's bad. Really bad.
We do get nice wines for cheap, tho.
