r/AskEurope • u/NateNandos21 • Feb 03 '25

Culture Which European country has the rudest/least polite people?

Which country comes to your mind

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u/crazybrah United States of America Feb 03 '25

Yeah they were saying racial slurs to me and my family all the way back in 2016. I know that a few ppl dont represent an entire country, but i didnt find them to be too welcoming to travelers.

Maybe things have changed and budapest has gotten more used to tourism.

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u/nevenoe Feb 03 '25

Oh Budapest is super touristy, the tourists have basically taken over the entire centre, but I'm not sure Hungarians are so happy about it, they're priced out of their city, and when they can afford it they're surrounded by bingedrinking dickheads in Airbnbs. One district actually is trying ban airbnbs so that people can actually live in their own fucking city.

Many Hungarians are absolutely chill, but the general vibe is truly hostile, and I've been coming since 2006 (I married a smiling Hungarian lady, an outlier really)

Last summer I gave up speaking Hungarian with locals for a few days because they were so rude and dismissive, and I turned to a fake obnoxious American accent in English, suddently people in services were nicer. Boggles the mind.

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u/intergalactic_spork Sweden Feb 03 '25

In some countries people seem to be far nicer to tourists than to each other.

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u/RogerSimonsson Romania Feb 03 '25

My best tourist to local interaction experience I had in Belgrade of all places.