Is Hungary under Orban A Happy Place?

How does it compare with the country of your residence?

In 1999, while teaching in Europe, I told my fellow Americans to take a look at Hungary; that’s where the US would be in 20 years. Well, I was only a year off; the year of commencing total corruption in the US turned out to be 2020.

These days, the progress of the NWO agenda is making living in the two countries eerily similar.

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As someone, who has a lot of past and current knowledge of Hungary, I would like to rectify a few prominent myths circulating about the country in the West. I also figure that the following details might prove useful for those, who consider moving there. At least, they won’t be able to say they haven’t been warned.

The Hungarian government has an amazing number of trolls all over the Internet*, spreading “good news” about the country. In the meanwhile, energy prices are multiplying (although Orban rejected the EU sanctions on Russian oil and gas, so he is receiving both fuels at the original prices, assuming Ukraine is not going to keep the pipelines turned off, which is clearly an option). Residential consumption is capped at about one third of the volume normally used at the original prices and, after that, the price goes up seven- to tenfold, which makes sure a lot of people will be unable to pay for it this coming winter. The new pricing is clearly aligned with the “you will own nothing” part of the WEF’s promise for 2030. For the time being, my best guess is that Orban is planning to sell the “excess” fuel (that Hungarians won’t be able to afford) to the West at some astronomical profit and/or will charge the consumer for the bribe Ukraine is expecting for keeping the pipelines open.

In Hungary, not-so-differently from the US, prices usually involve some, or even a lot of speculation. The government is now telling the average Hungarian to cut down trees for heating in the winter, which will quickly transform the semi-desert climate of the agricultural lands (where the poor, who won’t be able to afford the new energy prices, live) into full desert in a process that will resemble the Great Dust Bowl in the US in the 1930s. That outcome is quaintly compatible with the WEF’s plan of total impoverishment among the general population that will ensure full dependency on the government.

Electricity, for one, is the second most expensive in Europe, while half of it comes from a nuclear plant that generates the cheapest possible electricity for HUF11.80/kWh. With the current prices, no sabotage is needed to curb consumption, because many people will not be able to afford to pay for utilities.

Water fees are ridiculously high, billed by the cubic meter, but they are still lower than the accompanying sewer fees. And even water pulled from your own well is taxed, while international corporations can bottle mineral water from natural underground reservoirs for pennies until they fully exhaust them. Again, something the US and Hungary have in common! Most of the infrastructure was built in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for the 1,000-year millennium of Hungary in 1896, and it is rapidly deteriorating and breaking down to the level of Flint, MI in some places. Forty years ago, Budapest, the capital, still had excellent tap water and now it is stale at best, but more often than not, it is stinking of chemicals and/or sulfuric-hydrates, forcing people to buy bottled water for about $4 per gallon.

Russian oil and natural gas are flowing to Hungary, but Orban has now raised the prices to exorbitant levels. Many Hungarians use natural gas exclusively for heating, and they can now expect a heating bill of about $300/mo for a 1,000 sq.ft house.** How is that going to pan out? Some elderly people will freeze to death, others will lose their assets, have their homes taken away, and/or will turn to crime. Is that enough argument against high energy prices even for those, who can afford them? To make the picture a bit more complex, Ukraine has turned off the oil pipeline a few days ago (they will be happy with a bribe, but only after the US taxpayer’s aid runs out), which will make the next scenarios even more intriguing.

As for the availability of food, it’s only a step away from rationing; there is a limit on stuff you can buy. The real deal is that current government-controlled food prices are making sure that growing produce and practicing animal husbandry cannot turn a profit, which forces farmers out of business. This is in sync with the US proceedings of creating food and fuel shortages soon.

Most people in the country are dirt poor and Gypsy crime is extremely high with about 800 thousand Gypsies in the population. About a third of the Gypsies represent cultures that are incompatible with European traditions, so they are claiming discrimination. (Slovakia has an even bigger Gypsy problem, but Canada has been importing Gypsies from both countries, giving them refugee status and thousands of dollars a month.) Their socioeconomic status makes them look quite a bit like illegals in the US, except that the taxpayer-funded benefits are a lot more meager there.

Out of the existing 10-11 million Hungarian citizens, about two or three million don’t even live in Hungary (emigrated, mostly to Britain and Germany after Hungary joined the EU in 2004) or live in a neighboring country, but received citizenship from the Orban government around 2000, because the government wanted voters and the population decrease exceeded the sociologically-determined threshold towards inevitable extinction. Sending money to these diasporas also offers opportunities for money laundering, which no Hungarian government has shied away from since around 1995, but Orban’s merry gang has become extremely professional at the habit.

Orban is one of the Young Global Leaders (a Schwab graduate, like Putin) and he had the “covid” theater cruelly enforced with fines for not wearing a muzzle in the street (!) that amounted to 30-50% of average worker’s wages for each fine. Recently, he refused the globalists’ 15% corporate tax, but only in order to blackmail the EU for 28 billion Euros in return. Hungary has a 9% corporate tax and a 27% VAT/Sales Tax; small business taxes are so high that if entrepreneurs didn’t cheat with their tax returns, they could keep only 3% of their profits (still better than Ukraine, where around 2004, honesty resulted in a 1% loss). Refusing raising corporate tax was also necessary, because all other taxes and prices are so high that corporations couldn’t operate at a profit in Hungary otherwise.

In 2020, Orban took the bribe that the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, rejected (for Lukashenko, it was $900 million) and Orban set up the “covid” theater, poisoning two out of three of his people with the injections. The theater is still going strong, spiked with some forced “vaccinations” in rural areas.

The corruption is Hungary is exceeded only by Ukraine in the region. Most, if not all, EU support money simply vanishes with the exception of a few token arrangements.

The gang takes everything that can be moved and make sure they profit from it. For instance, a few years ago, they monopolized the trade and sale of tobacco products and only their own friends and family were granted the right to run such transactions, which included the lowest level, the ownership of tobacco stores. The gang’s most recent “acquisition” is the money and package delivery by allowing the ownership of the stocks of the Hungarian Postal Services by their friends and family (well, lucrative government contracts with six thousand dollar hammers and ten-thousand-dollar toilet seats are always there in “democracies”).

The 27% of VAT in Hungary beats everything else in the world. Prices in stores are the same as in Western Europe, but even basic foodstuff for the poor is taxed at 12%. Personal income tax is there (employers pay about the same amount after employees) , but property tax is not, because Orban and his altruistic gang have been assiduously buying up (or selling out some parts, depending on which of the two is more lucrative for them) the country ever since they first came to power in 1998 for four years (and have been in power since 2010, changing the Constitution to their advantage multiple times; let me not get started on “fair” elections...). The vast majority earns less than $300 a month. The approximately $150/mo unemployment benefit is linked to a 40-hour-a -week mandatory community work (street cleaning, snow shoveling and the like) that politicians’ businesses are still paid for by the taxpayer.

Taking a cab can be a disheartening experience in Hungary, because if the tourist cannot speak Hungarian, he will be occasionally overcharged, and if he refuses to pay, bear spray might be applied into his face until the police arrive, who are, of course, participants in the deal. I had similar bad luck in Prague at one point, when the driver charged me $30 for a quarter-mile five-minute drive. I preferred to pay over spending the night in a holding cell. Going to restaurants can also rip you off, unless you are with people who speak Hungarian.

Foreigners, naive ex-patriots included, are fervidly targeted by con artists, who act kind of like the Nigerian “prince,” but it’s mostly real-estate fraud, which is also rampant all over the place.

Hungary is also a hub for the Ukrainian and Albanian human trafficking system. The police are paid off to protect the traffickers. It is quite dangerous for a “marketably” young and attractive person to be in Hungary, especially at night or in deserted places. The police are part of these operations, so don’t expect any help from them. So, no different from the States, right?

Public transportation is extremely dangerous because of the gypsies whom the police don’t even dare to touch. The gangs are organized and policemen either don’t want to be called “racist” or are satisfied with their kickbacks. Most people can’t afford Uber etc. and are not walking (don’t have the time); they take public transportation.

Going to a pub can be life-threatening. You get “invited” for a drink, which would be “too rude” to refuse. Next time you wake up, you realize you have been drugged, kicked around in the streets, and scrupulously robbed. It happened to my friend from Ohio, who taught at a Hungarian university for a semester.

There are safe areas/neighborhoods in Hungary, but unless it’s a place, where real estate is “protected” by the “government,” it can quickly go down and become extremely dangerous, depending on the criminal profiles of those moving in. In cities, if you are not familiar with the environment, taking the wrong turn, just like in the US, can be a poor choice or even your last mistake. The resulting stress goes on all day, because public transportation nearly always crosses bad neighborhoods. Driving is like driving in NYC, not for the faint of heart, but still a lot safer than taking the bus or the subway (pickpockets are also everywhere, working in gangs, and if you make a row, they can frame you by planting stolen stuff on you).

More than anything, Hungary is so stressful that you can feel it in the air. It’s surreal that people actually live there... Well, the US is now catching up or even taking the lead, especially in metropolitan areas.

How do you feel about Costa Rica?

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Quite a few people still believe that living in Hungary is for winners. I used to believe the same about Uruguay, but in the last two years, they were also part of the “covid” theater. It might be a good sign that a few weeks ago, a judge stopped the “vaccination” of young children and subpoenaed Pfizer for the contents of its vials and Pfizer preferred to leave the country, but the muzzle, the “tests,” and the injections for the rest still seem to provide more than enough population control. While people are quite poor there, too, at least the demographics is more or less homogeneous. Prices are astronomical, because nearly everything is imported; too many middlemen are involved, which is always a sign of corruption. If you want to move there, nonetheless, you have to learn their special blend of Spanish and befriend the diet, which is for determined beef-eaters. As cow-farming is the major sources of the country’s revenue, I’m wondering what’s going to happen to all the cow fart there.

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*Especially on rt.com, but Zerohedge is not lagging much behind.

**Consumers allowances will be determined by their previous consumption by the month (the government first announced that unused energy can roll over to the next month, but the clause was removed after a singly day from the official announcement).