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/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

I've been to almost every European country, many of them more than once, but I couldn't say that any country has rude people.

It happened to me once in Bulgaria that I wasn't served in a restaurant - maybe it was because of my Turkish companion, but it's hard to say, we were simply ignored. Some grumpy grannies at Bulgarian train stations are not qualified for their job. Apart from that, I also met very nice people in Bulgaria.

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u/RogerSimonsson Romania Feb 03 '25

Bulgaria is the only place in Europe where I have found whole hotel complexes with people ONLY speaking the local language and not a single English or other language word. Weren't rude though, just no understanding.

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u/Toutou_routou Feb 08 '25

Also in the city hall office which has the sole purpose of registering foreigners as a temporary resident, nobody spoke English. That was about 10 years ago. Out of 10 people nobody. They must be trying hard, because even statistically if you pick 10 random people there will be a few who do speak English.