One of the misconceived ideas about Hungary is that everything will be so much cheaper! Not true, at least in my experience. OK, going out for a meal, if you don't go to the big, posh hotels, is cheaper, but I bought a bike from Decathlon a couple of days ago, it is a B'twin 5 which cost 279€. Looking on the French site, it costs 20€ less!! as do the bells, counters and so on.

In Planet Saturn here in Budapest, a Macbook costs 1100€ instead of the 990€ I paid in France. As so it goes on. Cheap cars are cheaper, but expensive ones seem to be the same in price. The whole problem is that average incomes are much lower!!