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goobster  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what language do you speak?

Lots of reasons... Hungary was joining the EU, and residency requirements were going to be much stricter. I was self-employed, so didn't have an employer (and their lawyers!) to advocate for me.

I'd been there for many years, and was missing my family back in the US.

And my Hungarian fiancee had just left me, so I was feeling dejected and lonely, and kind of done with Hungarian women.

And finally, Viktor Orban was changing from being the heroic young leader of the rebellion against the old Communist apparatchiks, into a serious nutcase right wing fascist.

All those different factors came together to tell me it was time to sell and get out. Go do something else. So I left.