I'm 100% Hungarian. When I lived there from 1997-2003 he was The PM then if I remember right. I didn't follow hungarian politics though so don't remember if people liked him or not.
Wow, I can't believe they found something that cheap on lake Balaton. When we came back to the states, we sold our house that was on the Danube in Visegrad for $140,000 cash. Prior to moving to the outskirts of Hungary we had a house on the Buda side of Budapest. We sold that for $160.000 cash to expat English couple. We then paid cash for the house in Visegrad which was $100,000 but needed some work. Dang! If my husband's health didn't deteriorate in 2003 we would still be there! Hungary had its own problems when I lived there though. Illegal Romanians crossing the border to work.