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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • Back in the days, vacation was an affair organised by workplaces. State companies (all companies were state companies) owned vacation venues, and workers were entitled to an organised trip there, so that’s why you have a bunch of people who don’t really know each other on the same vacation at the same time.

    Ismerkedési est means essentially a soirée organised in order for people to “get to know each other”, but in Hungarian that term has a strong connotation that it’s for romantic purposes.

    So the situation is essentially an organised vacation party where people are supposed to find romantic partners.



  • Hey, I did grow up in the country. It’s bad, but not simply “we’re all racists” bad.

    Roma people have communities that are regressive and extremely poor. People trying to break out are often disowned, you can hear testimonies from Roma people who went to university that their families consider them traitors, to the point they get beaten to the brink of death if they visit home.

    On top of this, tenant laws are basically not enforced, which is a miserable experience on both sides. A tenant whose deposit has been stolen by a landlord and a landlord trying to evict a tenant for not paying rent and moving in 30 people can both wait 6-10 years for a ruling.

    I can tell you more, but these are the biggest points to make.










  • So some context. In communist era Hungary, a lot of the population lived - and still lives - in big prefab apartment buildings that run off central heating.

    In the winter as it was getting colder, the heating would get turned on at the same time for the whole district if not the city.

    The “they” in “they are finally heating at Jucika” is the government. It’s a hot topic every year when it gets turned on, as the people pay a flat rate for warmth.