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Hungary is pretty far from underdeveloped :) http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/underdeveloped-co...

We have nuclear power plants and stuff.

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In terms of political maturity we are not much better than a banana republic :)

So do 3rd world countries. It's all fun and games in Budapest, until you go around in villages where people walk barefoot. Last time i've been there I thought about taking pictures as the nationalist government of hungary does its best to hide it. But the issue is not that, the thing is it does have an opportunity to develop into something green, as do most east EU countries.

Yeah, I grown up in a village at the north-eastern (the least developed part of the country) border with 2500 people living there. My first 10 years was during socialism.

Even my “underdeveloped” village has now 24/7 electricity, water, sewer system, gas pipelines for heating, CATV and ADSL internet.

So please stop try to prove me, that it is a 3rd world country.

How many of these villages, once you leave the bubble, have roma people living in mud-homes and other vulnerable people that you so cleverly chose to ignore, and claim the everything is fine?

That's like judging the development level of the US by examining the Amish.

BTW I hope you realise that the original meaning of "3rd world country" included extremely rich countries like Sweden and Switzerland - basically, all countries not aligned with "1st world" (United States and Western NATO countries) and "2nd world" (Soviet block) where Hungary was.

Hungary is not as rich as e.g. Germany, but it's certainly not a backward country; it has indigenous culture that runs universities and is comfortably in the "Very high HDI" bracket for human development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

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