Small rant
The average wage is around 1,125 forints or 3.5 dollars for an hour of basic work like a cashier or gardener or construction even in Budapest where you would expect it to be higher.
Austria is a 3 hour drive and one can EASILY earn around 14 Euros an hour or 15 dollars .. and one can quite quickly get onto a much better healthcare plan and unemployment benefits.
The sad part is most supermarket food prices in both countries are the same… things like white bread,eggs, milk , some vegetables will be cheaper but almost everything else equal price or more expensive when it comes to quality.
.. i had to come back to Hungary a while ago to help my partner and our kid and because of some laws and things that happened in Austria. So now I'm really waiting for it to open up more in the Spring. They are lifting most restrictions soon.
The part time jobs i have been doing in Hungary feel like slave labor and the cost of living keeps rising. Im more tired and exhausted and feeling like im spending all i earn just to feel better and if im sick im skrewed because the public hospital is a old sad ex soviet building and people dont really heal there.
Ive been feeling bitter when i see people living from unemployment in more western countries or earning almost 5 times the amount at me. And i feel bad that i have this anger torwards them because its not their fault but seems a bit unfair. So yeah idk i cant keep breaking my back in Hungary and i would really like to tell the managers to find another slave