Budapest Is The World’s Third Most 'Honest City'
- 26 Sep 2013 11:00 AM
Based on a recent social experiment by Reader’s Digest, where wallets were dropped in 16 cities around the world and then it was counted how many were given back, Budapest won the bronze medal. Reporters from the magazine dropped the wallets containing the equivalent of $50 in cash, a cell phone number, coupons, business cards and a family photo in public places from Bucharest to Rio de Janeiro, and waited to see how people would react...
The survey showed that whether the place was "rich or poor" that had no effect on people’s honesty.
Mumbai in India came as second by returning 9 out of the 12 wallets, while in the wealthy Zurich only 4 were returned.
The golden medal went to Helsinki with 11 returned wallets, third place was actually a tie between Budapest and New York, where 8 wallets found their way 'safely home'.
In Hungary, "Seventeen-year-old Regina Györfi called the cellphone number included in one of our wallets immediately after finding it a shopping mall. However, a woman in her early sixties opened the wallet, and then entered a nearby building. We never heard from her," wrote Readers Digest.
For more details visit: Readers Digest Online 'lost-wallet-test'
Words by Tímea Klincsek for XpatLoop.com
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