Szeretlek Budapest - my story
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Long story short, I am in love with Budapest, I have lived here for 1 year, and I would love to come back, but I need a job offer to get me started. Short story long? Well, here goes:
) language, never bothered to listen closely to it, it's probably because there is much animosity in Romania between the native population and the Szekely (a branch of Hungarians that have been living in Transylvania/Erdelyi for a lot of time now). I didn't know anything about the city, just what I've been google-ing after I've got the job offer, so I just packed my bags and off I went, and after 14 (fourteen goddamn it) hours on the train, I finally arrived. Man, was I impressed! Actually, I think "impressed" does not give Budapest credit. I was BLOWN AWAY! I've never given much thoughts to architecture styles and stuff, but if there's one style that I truly LOVE, it's the way old buildings look in Budapest. I just fell in love with the city at first sight! It was clean, but not SPARKLING and ARTIFICIAL clean (ever been to Switzerland or even Germany? you'll know what I mean), the people were smiling but they weren't grinning like idiots, girls were beautiful, dang, I was in paradise! The first few months were bliss: I had loads of money, parties non-stop (Szimpla kert is my favourite place in Budapest, yes I know that everyone loves that cafe, oh and also, Mumus is a great place), I started even liking the language haha! I was living in a quite posh neighbourhood (in the 12th district, around Mom Park), life was good man. But after about 1 year, my job contract expired, and I was left on my own. I hadn't saved any money ('cause I totally rocked the parties back then), and after 1 month of unsuccessfully searching for a job, I came back to Bucharest. I never gave up searching for a job in Budapest, but I was never lucky (or maybe, qualified) enough to get one, although I have applied in these 3 years (2011, 2012 and 2013) for dozens of jobs. Strange thing is that I was even called for an interview like 1 month ago, but I couldn't go since I'm not living in Budapest at the moment, and apparently they haven't heard of Skype grrr! 
