Fourth edition, November 2018 OPR:
[email protected] Table of Contents How to use the Guide Culture Shock & Expatriate Adjustment Hungary Facts First Days Finding a Place to Live Money & Banking Health Care Education Driving Communication & Information Flow Community & Free Time Pet Care Environment Dear SAC Newcomer, It is our honor to welcome you in our on base. Today, you are joining those who small, but active international commu- have the chance to shape them further. nity. The purpose of the Guide you are The Newcomers’ Guide you are holding, holding is to help you manage your every- along with an amazingly useful commu- day life in Pápa, Hungary, which might be nity website InSitePapa.com run by vol- very different from what you have previ- unteers and the numerous community ously experienced. Nevertheless, nothing events taking place throughout the year can replace the experiences you gain, the are all just very recent achievements, friends you make, and the life you will which the management, the employees have here. and members of the community all in- tend to keep running and improving into Pápa is a small town in the middle of the the future. Transdanubian Region of Hungary. Al- though the international community in You are joining a team of professionals Pápa consists of three different organiza- who are working in a rapidly developing tions (HAW, NAMP, Boeing) made up of environment operating three SAC C-17 nationals from over twelve different na- aircraft, which have the highest mission tions and their dependents from all over capability rate among all global C-17 us- the world, it is not a large community, ers, all while being able to keep budget totaling less than a thousand people in a execution below target.