Budapest vs. Vienna

Z! — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:07:55 +0000

It’s a mystery to me how foreign people can actually like Budapest… especially those that have also been to Vienna. The two cities are not even in the same league. Surely, Budapest has beautiful architecture but all the buildings are dirty and in very bad shape. Most of them didn’t even get a proper painting for 15 years. The walls of the buildings are full of graffiti, the streets and pavements are full of trash and junkies are all around the city, especially around subways. When I show a visitor around in Budapest I usually feel ashamed about my nationality mostly because of this. Budapest is a capital of a dying nation and that’s exactly how it looks like. Vienna has more or less the same architecture as Budapest but the buildings there are all in good shape (newly painted in bright colours) and you can walk around the city without bumping into beggars and homeless people at every corner or junkies urinating at public building walls. Vienna has many beautiful parks where you can spend hours by just relaxing and looking at the little wonders of nature. In Budapest you can do the same thing only by looking at empty bottles, cardboard boxes and used condoms right at the bench you sit down (in case you find one that isn’t broken). Truly I felt very sad after coming back home from my latest trip from Vienna because the two days I spent there were kind of magical thanks to all the beauty that city has to offer.

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