Since we just had the friendliest, let’s look at the opposite. Not exactly the one with the rudest locals but the unfriendliest, be it scams, pickpockets, aggressive touts, unfriendly environment, or bad service.
I’m a woman in my mid-30’s. I’ve visited Egypt once, for two weeks.
I’m pretty sure half the gropings of my entire life were during those two weeks.
Chile. Maybe it’s because I’m American but nobody there was interested in talking to me, sharing their culture or learning anything about me. I tried multiple times but all my interactions with Chileans were purely transactional and most of them seemed annoyed to have to deal with me. I’ve been to ~25 countries and wouldn’t bother returning to Chile.
I mean we did help assassinate their president in the name of business interests and then installed a dictator that literally fed his own people to his dogs. But I don’t know if that represents all Chileans attitudes.
What a chilly reception.
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USA 100% Ive been all over Europe, and to central America and the USA (I’m Canadian). The USA is by far the unfriendliest.
Really curious to hear details
They’ve got a LOT of guns.
France, if you don’t happen to speak French
As someone who’s lived there for six years (albeit mostly homeless); yes.
Even if you’re trying to speak French, you’ll get treated like you’re speaking Swahili or something.
They just respond in English after hearing my childlike attempts to parle français
And asking them to speak English is like an indecent proposal, I guess they’d react more favourably if you asked for a public blowjob
Just say ‘excusez moi?’ it’s like a magic word to make them suddenly and eagerly speak English.
They won’t do it otherwise, but if you threaten to pollute their language with your barbaric pronunciation they’ll gladly jump on that grenade.
Next time just ask for une pipe
I’m European and never left the continent. I found Copenhagen (Denmark) to be one of the least inviting places I’ve ever been. That’s not to say Denmark is like this or even that I didn’t have a good time in Copenhagen. It’s just that pretty much everywhere, people seem to be in a hurry.
But my baseline in Europe is that everything is just amazing. People are nice, accomodating, helpful. Especially in the slightly smaller cities. I especially enjoyed Krákow and Gent.
I’d say Iraq, but being that I was there as a part of an occupying force, it’s my fault they hated me for being there, so I totally get it. That aside, America (as an American) definitely has unfriendly people that one is forced to interact with on a regular basis.
I only have experience with European countries, and from those I pick Austria. Very self-centered people; even service staff is very unfriendly (in the rare occasions where the staff is actually Austrian). Pet peeve of mine: I’ve never seen people skipping the queue as often as in Austria.
Belgium
Of course, when I went it was part of an school exchange trip when I was 17. I was almost always with a large group of American teenagers with only a few teachers as chaperones. It’s 100% understandable why people wouldn’t want to be particularly friendly to us.
I just want to say while not overly friendly, my wife and I were in Belgium last year and as long as you don’t insist on trying to speak English at someone who said “no English” it was a perfectly nice place to be… Even when we were off the beaten path
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Utah. Other than the staff at a restaurant everyone was rude. I think a motel manager may have lied about not having rooms, at the very least he made it clear he didn’t like us.
Utah is a US state, not a country - you must be Murican
Utah is like another country to me.
Oh no, I didn’t mean for my pickpocketing scams with hostile service and aggressive touts to mean that I didn’t want to be friends 😢. For sure the US though.
Where did you go in the US if I may ask?
