It is much harder to save in the countryside than in Budapest

In Budapest, 29 percent of respondents said they could not regularly set aside their income, while in rural Hungarian cities this ratio is 31 percent and in small settlements 43 percent – according to an international survey conducted sent to MTI on Wednesday.

According to the announcement, a representative survey conducted in autumn 2019 from 24 European countries involved 24,000 European citizens, including 1,000 Hungarians.

The European Consumer Payments Report showed that there are differences in living standards between settlements in all European countries, but these are generally much smaller than those measured in Hungary. Similar differences were found only in Latvia, Lithuania and Portugal, while in the Visegrád countries, like most Western European countries, small settlements are also much less likely to lag behind. (MTI)