Hungarian Impoverished Demand ‘Car-Boot’ Style Flea-Markets
- 8 Jan 2013 8:00 AM
An increasing number of people struggling to stay afloat in Hungary’s draconian austerity and economic climate have demanded that the government and local councils allow them to vender their “"junk" to generate a meagre living. Elderly and unemployed citizens told Budapest Report that they have no formal vending site to sell their scrap and unwanted belongings.
“We are constantly hounded by public area supervisors, who make us pack up and scatter as they demand that we obtain a vending permit,” said appointed spokesperson and unemployed fitter and turner Janos Szabo (54), “what we need is a car-boots style flea-market where anyone can sell anything legally for a token price.
All I wanted to do is sell my old safety boots and my wife’s curtains and old porcelain dolls to buy groceries, before I was ordered to pack and go by the authorities,” he said.
By Tamas S. Kiss, published on XpatLoop.com with the permission of BudapestReport.com
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