Budapest ticket inspectors are not a representative of the Eastern Europe region, you know?

In the recent years Hungary seems to come up repeatedly in media with a much stronger anti-outsider sentiment than the neighboring countries.

I have no firsthand experiences like that (traveled for a few days through there 2 years ago, no such observations) - but can locals elaborate, is it really so or just media exaggeration?

You might have as well generalised that experience to the whole northern hemisphere, would be as justified.