Argument One: Budapest is just the right size
It is small enough to get to know it in a month, and big enough to offer all the sophistication of the Old World. With 1.74 million inhabitants, it is varied enough for most venues and services providers to recruit young, English speaking staff members.Argument Two: It is physically beautiful and varied
With a magnificent river in the middle. As the country, it is hilly in the West (called Buda), and flat in the East (called Pest.) It is never, never boring. And how mesmerizing the city is at night with the illuminated sights, oh, boy.Argument Three: You can dispense with a car
There is quite a dense public transport system, especially in Pest. The collection of vehicles is both intriguing and varied: metro, trams, buses, trolley buses, boats, chairlift, funicular, and cogwheel train. And free bikes are on the horizon, expected in 2014.Argument Four: It is a Big City and a Spa City at the Same Time
Spa cities tend to be in far-away, mountainous, small places, where there is hardly anything else to enjoy. Budapest is a metropolis and a spa city, with old style grand baths and state-of-the-art wellness centres.Argument Five: It is an over-cultured city
There are fourteen repertory theatres and seven symphony orchestras (two of them world class!), a rich art cinema programme, and over eighty museums (most of them very small, you are pampered by the staff if you show up!), a thriving gallery and auction scene. And information about the events is abundant in English.Argument Six: A Mecca for young people
In the wake of the ever more successful Sziget Festival (established in 1993), held on an island, Budapest has become a capital of partying especially since 2002, when the first ruin pubs opened in temporarily unused and neglected inner city residential blocks. Ten years later. the one-time summer pastime has been extended to all seasons, and many other districts.Argument Seven: It feels like “Spring, Recently Unleashed”
If you are in Budapest, you can still feel the thrill about not-expected, sudden liberty. Though the Transition took place more than two decades ago, the itch of Budapest people to launch new restaurants, to take untrodden paths is typical. It subsided a bit in the first years of crisis, but it soon returned. It somehow lingers in the air.
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