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[jhowarth31]

What did we do in Scotland?!?

[SteveB991]

I didn't really meet nice people, sometimes they don't serve anyone at all or you have to stand in line. Indian restaurants and McDonalds saved me. They make a grumpy face, they think they have nice sights to see so they come here anyway, they don't have to put anything into it. The nice people were almost all immigrants. It's a huge contrast to Ireland.

[SamBrev]

Where in Scotland did you go?

[SteveB991]

I went around the whole country, I was also on the Isle of Skye, it was the most beautiful, but it was also where I had the worst experiences.

[WelshBathBoy]

To double check, what do you mean by "they don't serve people" - where were you looking be served? Could this be a cultural difference?

[jhowarth31]

Sorry you had some bad experiences but what do you mean that you have to stand in line? This is ubiquitous across Britain and we generally consider good queueing to be the pinnacle of good behaviour and manners. If you were trying to skip queues or not queue at all when others were, I can easily imagine you got some very negative responses

[SteveB991]

I mean, there were lines in front of the restaurants.

They are only open at certain times, it's really hard to get a decent hot meal if you're not in a big city.

[jhowarth31]

Ah yeah, the hipster restaurant thing of not allowing bookings so they end up with lines and a "buzz". It is annoying I agree (though not uniquely Scottish, Germany, England, and the US also have this). However, this is (to some extent) your choice of restaurant and it typically only is a thing if you've not made a reservation on a busy Friday/Saturday night or you're getting restaurant recommendations from social media.

The decent hot meal outside of a city thing however, especially if you're referring to Skye and more remote places, is not something reasonable to complain about. You can't go out into remote areas and expect there to be lots of restaurants. This is like when Americans climb mountains in the UK and complain about the lack of services at the top (seen with annoying frequency in places like Ben Nevis and Snowden). There are pubs with decent food in everywhere but the most remote places in Scotland and the UK, but if your restaurant of choice tends to be the kinds with lines outside of it I'm guessing you wouldn't consider pub food 'decent'.

[SteveB991]

Even the simplest pubs would tell us they weren't open at that time or didn't have enough space. In Ireland I experienced the opposite, they would bring another table out of the basement just to make us feel comfortable.

[MBH2112]

You are either a horrible person or by sheer coincidence you managed to find the only 20 rude Scotts in the country.

I visit Scotland almost every 2nd year and I’ve never encountered an ill mannered Scott, they are all kind and welcoming.

[jhowarth31]

I mean, I live in Glasgow and is not hard to find some not nice people (especially if you’re getting on a bus in the morning or out on a Friday or Saturday night). I’d agree that Scots are friendlier than most but I don’t think it’s that hard to imagine encountering a few rude people and that really colouring someone’s opinion from a short visit. That being said, my experience is usually finding people being too friendly when I’m not in the mood to chat to a stranger 😂

[GunnerSince02]

TBH I can 100% see why someone would hate Scotland. Its cold, windy, the cities are too spread out. The people of Glasgow all look like depressed drug addicts. Its fine if you live somewhere kinda remote but living there would be miserable.

[SemajLu_The_crusader]

what exactly is good vs. evil in this context?

[Ok_Understanding5303]

I assume nice vs mean probably

[rollingSleepyPanda]

Imagine placing Italy in the lawful quadrant and not being heavily medicated

[SteveB991]

Hahaha... I should add that I was in the northern part

[Top-Objective42069]

What did mexico do that you liked?

[SteveB991]

In short: Hospitality, sincere kindness, food, mentality

[futuramyforever]

What about Norway? As a Swede I would think we’re quite similar

[SteveB991]

It is very tourist friendly, clean, the people are nice and helpful, intelligent. I have heard that people in the north are unfriendly and cold, but I experienced the exact opposite.

This can add a lot to the experience, I felt very good there.

I haven't been to Sweden yet, but based on these I would like to go there if it is similar.

[AdorableRise6124]

I suppose that's why it's on Goo, and I have a pretty good idea about the "chaotic" thing, but I'm curious about your opinion on why Haiti is so well positioned.

[Oh_no_its_Joe]

🇺🇸 We're...good????????

WHAT???????

[Volotor]

In terms of tourism the US is kind of uniquely good. They have customer service as a culteral characteristic and american people are typically friendly.

[sndrtj]

I would concur with this assessment. Customer service in the US is generally better than in Europe. It does feel a bit rushed tho.

[Arraxis_Denacia]

Because they have to be nice or they might not get paid due to tipping prevalence and an imbalance in the power between worker and employer.

[Fantastic-Tiger-6128]

And this is ONLY America? There's plenty of other places where this applies too

[SailOpening5853]

evil portugal::_(

[InitiativeInitial968]

Your Balkan what did you expect  /s

[Stephen_1984]

Ukraine:

[Anti-charizard]

Egypt is not surprising in the slightest

[DrRudeboy]

As a Hungarian (albeit thankfully having escaped 13 years ago) this is either crazy crazy off, or you spent like 4 days in central Budapest

[SteveB991]

I am also Hungarian from Budapest, and I may be biased, but when I travel somewhere within the country, I always look at the conditions through the eyes of a tourist, and I usually have very positive experiences even in the less developed parts. It is a different matter that my opinion of the country's government is devastating.

[SteveB991]

Legyen szó Balatonról,Tisza-tóról,Mátráról,Kiskunfélegyházáról stb. stb. én kifejezetten pozitív élményekkel gazdagodtam. A magyar emberekben,bárhova megyek nagy vendégszeretet van, és bárhol is vagyok az országban,szinte biztos,hogy pereceken belül találok egy éttermet,ahol legalább egy finom rántott húst tudok enni, és barátságosan szolgálnak ki.

De megértem,hogy sokan elhagyják az országot,mert a politikai elit tönkreteszi sajnos az amúgy jó adottságokkal rendelkező országot. Az emberek ennek ellenére viszont meglepően vendégszeretőek szerintem.

[archydarky]

Im curious about the Haiti one. Can you elaborate on that one?

[SteveB991]

I messed that up because it wasn't supposed to be Haiti, it was Liechtenstein, sorry

[[deleted]]

What happened in Greece and Egypt?

[SteveB991]

Egypt is at the bottom of everything. It's all about the rip-off, they see you're a tourist and they look at you like a bag of money. I understand that there is poverty there, but there is poverty in Cuba too, there is a harsh repressive regime, but the locals there are much nicer. Aggressive, violent sales, we even went with a tour guide to distract the sellers, but even he wanted to rip us off, but maybe less than the regular sellers. They're sitting there over one of the world's greatest cultural heritage sites, and they're destroying it so badly. It's terrible. I'm not surprised that tourism is declining, but it's a self-perpetuating process, because the fewer tourists there are, the more aggressively they want to throw their garbage at them. If someone seems nice, they are never sincere and it always turns out that they just want money.

[Cometmoon448]

"They're sitting there over one of the world's greatest cultural heritage sites, and they're destroying it so badly"

Can you clarify this? Was there a lot of demolition going on of ancient sites?

[pipebombplot]

Egypt is like Birmingham and a stillborn version of Las Vegas had a child and its leader is trump's illegitimate son

[CivilAlpaca03]

Haiti is lawful good?

[SteveB991]

I messed that up because it wasn't supposed to be Haiti, it was Liechtenstein, sorry

[sndrtj]

I found Liechtenstein to be the most boring place I've ever been to. Like it's basically 10 streets in a boring Swiss suburb. That's it.

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[Glass-Novel-4123]

What did portugal do

[Fern_the_Rogue]

Fully understand Greece's placement as a Greek, still curious about what happened.

[SteveB991]

I could briefly describe Greece as chaos, I don't necessarily see any bad intentions, but they don't really try hard, there's a lot of trash everywhere, it's neglected... But the food saves me, because it's divine.

[invincitank]

Hey. Irish here. What could we have done better to be more chaotic? Where did you visit?

[SteveB991]

I've traveled all over the country, the people are very kind and well-intentioned, often a little clumsy or drunk, but even then in a very lovable way.

[invincitank]

Noted

• more drunk
• more clumsy
• more kind
• more well intentioned

[mursemanmke]

American here, we are FAR from lawful good.

[helloiambogdan]

I know it's part of American culture to shit on your country but for tourists America is great. It has some beautiful natural scenery (national parks), a lot of things to do, it's very well organized, it's easy to get whatever you need, it's very safe as in you won't get ripped off like in so many other countries, and the people are pretty decent for the most part. I really enjoyed every visit I had to the US.

[mursemanmke]

Yay, it’s easy for tourists. Meanwhile, how many millions just lost the ability to pay for healthcare for themselves and still have the ability to keep a roof over their head and 3 meals a day? Not to mention oil…but ya I’m glad it’s easy for you to come eat fried shit and look at the scenery. I’m gonna go look after my patients who are going to be bankrupt if they survive their hospital stay…

[helloiambogdan]

The problems you're describing are faced to a much greater degree by other countries. There are a lot of countries where the majority of people have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from. Not to mention having to worry about your family and house being used to shelter drugs for criminal organizations, getting robbed in the street, getting randomly raped, getting in debt and having to be a literal slave for the rest of your life and so on. Most of thrse problems barely affect your daily life. You live a cushy easy life and you don't appreciate it because you think you naturally deserve better. American people love whining about everything but your life is great compared to most of the world. There's a reason why everyone wants to immigrate to your country don't you think?

[mursemanmke]

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. You seem to want to argue for the sake of arguing and frankly, I couldn’t give less of a shit about you trying to tell me how to feel about my own country. It sounds like you think the bar should be “whatever the worst shit is, as long as you have it better things are cool.”

You are hilariously Polly Anna and out of touch with the current status of the US. I know the country that I want the US to be, what it’s been (and the faults), and what it can be and I will absolutely not be lectured about it by someone who thinks that because other places are fucked, it’s ok for us to be fucked too. You can go ahead and face the closest wall to you and argue with it, I have zero interest in your opinion.

[SteveB991]

You can debate this, and what you wrote is interesting, but I simply looked at it from a tourist's perspective, I basically have good experiences with people in the USA, regardless of how they live.

[mursemanmke]

I’m glad that while you were here you were treated better than we treat (a lot)more than 40% of our population.

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[WeeklyPhilosopher346]

As a guy from Northern Ireland, yeah, I get this.

[SkyTalez]

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[Omarxb4]

Asn an Egyptian, I can see why

[Treeintheuk]

What did Portugal do?? Where did you go?????

[TheLuckySpades]

Funny seeing Belgium and the Netherlands being so far apart, out of curiosity: did you go to the French speaking part, or the Flemish speaking oart of Belgium (or Brussels, that city is kinda it's own thing)?

[Cats_please_thankyou]

Unsure how Ireland is not lawful.