I remember when we had a dream in Hungary and I was totally for that dream. Maybe only because I was a teenager, but others also believed it. It was still in the air 10-12 years ago.
I remember that we were enthusiastically planning the renovation of our house because my parents were eligible for social support from the government. I was about to have my own room after many-many years! That was also the time when they paved our street and the neighborhood started to look Western-European. Broadband internet for the first time! And when the first ruin bars have opened, and they introduced the first useable night buses all over the city! The dream was clearly about that "we have and we will have a future".
Some time after that, something broke. it broke slowly, and once I realized that there is no dream anymore. It was replaced by fleeing, trying to get away from here. The dream was replaced with the belief "get away and it will get better". "The current goverment is the source of all problems." West is the heaven. "I'll finish college and then leave this place for some better place."
Then I noticed that my friends from university are all over the globe: in London, Switzerland, München, USA, Singapure or Scotland.
What went wrong?
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