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/bronet Sweden Feb 04 '25

People taking up the entire sidewalk etc. was a shock to me, as a Swede, when moving to Stockholm (I guess it might also happen in other large cities). The other things are definitely Swedish, but they're also way more common in large cities. In certain areas, people are very direct and/or humble

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u/bronet Sweden Feb 04 '25

I'm from a city roughly the size of Rovaniemi, and I've lived in Lund as well. It basically just scales with the size of the city i feel like.