I live in Budapest now. Not as a tourist, not on a layover, but as someone raising a child with Hungarian roots. And every day I walk through this city, I feel the layers of history beneath my feet. From Memento Park to the Hospital in the Rock, from ruin bars filled with Cold War debris to quiet squares haunted by old ideologies, Budapest doesn’t hide its past. It flips it, recycles it, and sometimes even laughs at it. This video is a reflection, not just on what the city has survived, but how it transformed that survival into culture. Into food, into art, into spaces that breathe with both memory and possibility. Because when you’re raising a family here… you start listening a little closer to the stories beneath the surface. #Budapest #RaySaidIt #Hungary #MementoPark #RuinBars #LivingAbroad #EasternEurope #ColdWarHistory #ExpatLife #HistoryThatLives