Hi
If you have been to Budapest before, and you know the city well, it won’t hit you by suprise if I say we are flooded with homeless. Some people are angry at them (I am one of them), but the majority of the people just feel pity for them, and rather not do anything to fix the situation. People give them money, which attracts more of them to the streets and underground stations day by day.
Anyways, before I become labeled as someone socially irresponsible and radical, I just quickly share my surprise that struck me the other day I was walking through the Underground Station in Blaha Lujza square.
There were a couple of chairs put in a circle, just like it is in your living rooms, and there was even a carpet in the centre. I saw homeless sitting there drinking just like as if they were at home, enjoying with family and friends. Look at the picture, its really bizarre.
Read on for more details and another picture:
Every day I pick up a Metro magazine on the way to the underground while making my way to work, and this was no different on the day after I saw the chairs and homeless enjoying at the square. I was reading through the articles while riding the old, rusty subway, when I saw a picture about the scene I was describing above. It was labeled something like “Social Gathering” and apparentely it was set up by some Art University Students from Budapest, someplace in Germany and Portugal. I read the article, and it said they set this place up for people to meet, and they wanted to show the uniqueness of Budapest. Once the students were gone from the place, it got taken over by homeless on the instant. When I got out of the subway at the very same square, I saw some homeless sleeping in those chairs, and wine bottles were laying around them everywhere.
I thought, if this is the way Budapest in unique, i would rather not take pride at it, and show it in news papers, etc 
Anyways, here is another picture of the scene. I let you judge this story, but I am not shy to state my opinion, this is one thing I hate about Budapest. Every day I am disgusted at the people I meet on such squares / stations, and this is how my mornings start each day, seeing them.
