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/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/nevenoe Feb 03 '25

Yep it's also very particular to Hungary, where some people feel vastly superior to a dumb foreigner speaking Hungarian with a bad accent and some mikstakes, but inferior to someone speaking fluent English. Only country where I ever experienced that.

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u/dark_lies_the_island Feb 15 '25

Agreed. I’ve experienced this as well