[emilsundberg]

I would recommend you to keep out of Eastern Europe. The people there wants to believe they have left their history behind but they haven't.

When I visited Budapest the police acted as Stasi and on the local metro they only asks foreigners for valid tickets. Very unfriendly. I would never recommend anyone going there.

[zalew]

Budapest ticket inspectors are not a representative of the Eastern Europe region, you know?

[PeterisP]

In the recent years Hungary seems to come up repeatedly in media with a much stronger anti-outsider sentiment than the neighboring countries.

I have no firsthand experiences like that (traveled for a few days through there 2 years ago, no such observations) - but can locals elaborate, is it really so or just media exaggeration?

[lgieron]

You might have as well generalised that experience to the whole northern hemisphere, would be as justified.