Is Budapest a safe city?
The answer is a definite YES with the footnote that Budapest with its two million people is a big city so make sure you have the precautions you would have in any big city: e.g. guard your wallet or purse, don’t flash thick stacks of banknotes or expensive jewelry, don’t leave your bag or bike unguarded, don’t walk alone late at night in unlit deserted streets, and don’t try to withdraw cash from ATMs in dark deserted places, don’t accept friendly happy drugs or unsolicited sexual approach (or run a short risk calculation in your head if you do, and act accordingly), don’t trust people that you instinctively feel fishy, unreliable, way too strange, etc. All in all, act sensibly – Hungary is not a far-away land full of exotic people acting in a strange way, which would explain very funny behavior.
