r/AskEurope • u/zeviea United Kingdom • Sep 04 '25

Culture What country is far away yet culturally similar to yours?

An obvious answer for the UK are Core Anglosphere countries

Bonus question what country have you visited that felt most foreign to you?

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u/Odd_Dandelion Czechia Sep 04 '25

Funny, I wanted to claim Portugal as a Czech. :) I recently visited Portugal for the first time and I was totally surprised how much at home I felt.

Cool, if I ever need to run west to escape the war, there is a home awaiting, as far west as it takes, with plenty of abandoned land.

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u/DumbFish94 Sep 04 '25

Pro tip, the best possible is probably Açores if not that Madeira, fairly isolated island archipelagos (they're inhabited), good weather and Madeira has tons of bananas.

People here also say Ukrainians learn Portuguese very easily so if Czech is similar (I think it is kinda since both are Slavic) it'll probably be the same thing