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| Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 1:27pm On Jul 04, 2022*. Modified: 4:11pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
When did you decide to move abroad? It wasn’t up to me per se. My parents wanted me to study abroad, so it was just natural. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by jesmond3945: 1:31pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
Thats a sweeping statement 1 Like |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 1:33pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
jesmond3945:Some is not all. What makes it sweeping? Please no carry APC broom come here ooo 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by Cypress042: 1:38pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
Op you haven't told us your mission  Remind me again what's your mission  |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by wallarwallar(m): 2:05pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
Na 2day lfa Sango, Ogun and all dere accessories don relocate 2 Europe even d oyinbo dey feel dem |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 2:29pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
wallarwallar:Really? |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by justwise(mod): 5:27pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
essentialone:How do you describe fetish behaviour? |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:25pm On Jul 05, 2022 |
justwise:Fetishistic disorder refers to recurrent, intense sexual arousal from use of an inanimate object or from a very specific focus on a non-genital body part (or parts) that causes significant distress or functional impairment. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by ednut1(m): 5:29pm On Jul 05, 2022 |
essentialone:https://www.nairaland.com/5089914/nigerian-woman-spotted-ritual-sacrifices |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 1:40am On Sep 17, 2022 |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:11pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What’s your travelling history like? Before I came to Hungary, I’d only been to two countries — the Benin Republic and Ghana. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:12pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
How did the process of moving to Hungary go? I was in SS3, in 2020, when my dad came home one day and gave me an admission letter to study software engineering, from a school in Canada. It turned out he’d applied to one of those schools in Canada that didn’t require the usual exams. I told him I wasn’t doing it. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:12pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
LMAO. How did you guys get to that point? It was in early 2020. I couldn’t write WAEC because of the pandemic. But I’d written GCE the previous year and passed. So he’d done the entire application process himself. Hence, the admission letter. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:12pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
Classic African parents I didn’t want to study software engineering because I wasn’t interested in anything related to computers. I told him I wanted to study biomedical engineering, and he said he knew this school in Russia that was very good for courses like that. In my head, I thought, “From Canada to Russia? Jesu”. But I was like, “Let’s have it”. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:13pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
LMAO. How did that go? Omo. We started applying to the school and there was nothing they didn’t ask for. They asked for my WAEC certificate, my school results and even my JAMB score. I’d written JAMB by then, so I just sent everything over. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:13pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
Mad. You weren’t even thinking about Nigerian universities? Most of my relatives studied abroad. So it was only natural for us to do the same thing. I actually applied to the University of Ibadan. But because we didn’t know anything about how Nigerian universities worked, we missed the deadline for the submission of WAEC results. So I changed my institution of choice to the University of Jos. I was offered admission a day before I left for Hungary. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:23pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
Okay, let’s roll it back a bit. How did the Russian plan go? I was asked to write a math and physics exam. It was an online test because of the pandemic. That was the hardest exam I’d ever written in my life. I was like, “They didn’t teach us all this one o”. It was so strange. I knew I’d flunk it, and I did. So they told me I’d spend my first year doing something called “foundation”. It was meant to help me bridge the gap between what I’d been taught in Nigeria and what I actually needed to know. And it was a lot. What was even more interesting was the first semester would be a language immersion programme. COVID was still on so I was going to school online. I spent the first semester learning the Russian language. It was hell. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:24pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
How so? I had Russian classes from 5 a.m. till 6 p.m. every day for three months. When the second semester eventually started, I started taking math and physics classes, and they were teaching us in Russian. I just knew I couldn’t do it because I literally just started learning the language. I told my parents I’ll just end up failing school and I didn’t want to study biomedical engineering anymore. This was in February 2021. We started looking for schools in different parts of the world. There was no country I didn’t research for schools. I even found one in South Africa and applied to it, but I forgot to upload my results. In April, my mom remembered that we have a relative who was a student in Hungary. She asked the person to link us up with their agent, and that’s how we started making plans for Hungary. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:24pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What was the application process like? It was just me sending my personal and academic documents over to the agent. I was offered admission to the same school my relative was in and I was going to be studying physics. I got invited for the visa interview at the Hungarian embassy in Abuja. They asked me Hungarian current affairs questions. I got my visa approved in August 2021 and moved a week later. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:25pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
Expectation vs Reality: Hungary edition I honestly wasn’t expecting much because I just wanted to get to school and start sha. But I expected some of that European ambience. The architecture and all that. But it’s very mid. It’s probably the “middest” place I’ve ever seen. Everything about it is mid. The economy, the buildings, the roads, the social life, everything. It’s even worse in my city. My school is in Debrecen, and the city is dead. Literally nothing happens there. No parties, no crime, nothing. I can’t even remember ever seeing the police. I don’t know where the police station is. Also, not even sure they have prisons at all. But on the other hand, the quiet helps me focus. Coming from Nigeria where there’s so much bustle, the quietude is what I really need for school. 1 Like |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:26pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What culture shocks did you experience? Everyone here smokes like they’re drinking water. Whether you’re a man or woman, young or old, and even pregnant, or carrying a toddler. It was wild for me at first. Another thing is this liquor they have. It’s called Pálinka. It looks and smells like diesel. I find it disgusting, but they drink so much of it, and it doesn’t even get them drunk. The last thing would be the educational system. When I got my admission, I was told I didn’t need to do a foundation year. It was odd because most Nigerian students have to do a foundation year to bridge the gap in our terrible curriculum. I wanted to do a foundation year, seeing how I’d flunked my Russian test. But I was also glad I only had to spend three years instead of four. When I started, I saw shege. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:27pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What happened? School here is really hard. I literally lost weight after my first semester exams. People lose their minds over how difficult it is. Also, even though they teach in English, there’s some communication bypass that just makes things weird. One time, I had an oral exam, and the examiner asked a question in English that made no sense to me because of how the sentence was constructed. I kept asking him to clarify, but he was repeating the same thing. He eventually called someone else who understood what he meant and answered correctly. He said he’d have no choice but to fail me. I was happy because I hadn’t prepared well for it, so I now had more time to prepare and retake the exam another day. In my second semester, I realised that physics really wasn’t for me. I had chosen it because it was the only subject that I enjoyed studying in school. But what I was doing here seemed very different and I wasn’t learning much. So I wrote a letter to the dean of my school, requesting permission to switch to Computer Engineering. In the end, I went back to what my dad had suggested. I just started studying it, and I’m looking forward to what it holds for me. 1 Like |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:28pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What’s your social life like in Debrecen? It’s almost non-existent. I don’t make friends easily so I have a very small circle of Nigerians here. I also have one Hungarian friend, but that’s about it. As for going out, Hungary is a dead place. I wasn’t kidding at all. It can be 7:30 p.m. and the streets will be empty. Nothing goes on here, so I just stay in my room and chill. Also, Debrecen is a really small city. It’s smaller than Gwarimpa Estate, the biggest estate in Abuja. I think that size influenced the population, which could be a reason why nothing ever happens there. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:28pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
Do you see yourself staying back after school? LMAO. No, please. I want to leave this dead place and go somewhere else. I don’t want to start my career in Nigeria sha. Affliction shall not rise again. Maybe when I’m much older and rich enough to start businesses, I’ll consider it. Even as an undergraduate, I don’t think I’m going back to Nigeria anytime soon. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by essentialone(op): 4:29pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
LMAO. Why? Because I like my freedom here. I can actually do what I want. I recently got piercings on both ears, and I know once my parents see me, I won’t get a return ticket to this place. So, no, thank you. |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by hotplate: 5:00pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
What's MSC program like in Hungary? |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by tensazangetsu20(m): 9:26pm On Oct 24, 2025 |
No wonder MatrixReloaded doesn’t want me to rest. 😂😂😂😂😂😆 1 Like |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by Gerrard59(m): 9:58am On Oct 25, 2025 |
tensazangetsu20:Absolutely!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And to think dude is in his 40s, married and has a child in perennial flooded Agungi!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by Gerrard59(m): 10:11am On Oct 25, 2025 |
Interesting commentary you have there OP. I live in Japan and it has made me understand there is a huge difference between living or relocating to an Anglophone country vs a non-Anglophone nation. Both aren't the same. It's even more why one should be careful and specific when moving outside. It's why when I read netizens recommend certain countries, I smile. There are very few non-Anglophone countries that are economically worth it for the average Nigerian. I'm specific on Nigerians because it seems to me that Françophone Africans can opt for a use_less place like Latvia provided they leave the African continent. Eastern Europe is only good if the prospective student wants to study a math based program on affordable tuition. Otherwise, South Africa is better off. Too many people go to use_less countries, thus wasting their precious years especially after graduation. Most of our people (I see their comments on Facebook) head to these countries where the young natives (owners of the country) cannot find good jobs. So where and how do you expect them to offer you - a Black African - a good job? No wonder many work at odd places that have no career directions or actual names. But then, this depends on the person's situation in Nigeria before he left. If you can finish your program, brilliant. Find somewhere else to build your career and has better entrepreneurial opportunities. What's even the pathway to Hungarian permanent residency? The Gods forbid I find myself in Eastern Europe other than to sell cocoa  6 Likes |
| Re: Hungary Is a Dead Place, and I’m Not Even Kidding by tensazangetsu20(m): 12:09pm On Oct 25, 2025 |
Gerrard59:The language is even useless. Imagine learning Hungarian what are you going to do with it? 😂😂😂. I can’t imagine MatrixReloaded suffering to learn a useless language that is spoken in a landlocked poor EU country. 1 Like |
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