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Worst European Country
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foul old ron
I'll decide, thank you.
Wales
They really don't like us do they?
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They really don't like us do they?
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Lord Bracknell
On fire
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Lived there, Northen Ireland, ENGLISH? :US:
Even the Eastern Europeans are being forced out
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
The only country I have ever been to and at times felt really unwelcome was Scotland...many of the locals hate us so much that they won't even utter the word England, they refer to our country as "down south", for fear that mentioning it will cause them irreparable damage. I wouldn't say that Scotland is anywhere near the worst country in Europe, in many respects it is one of the most cultured and visually stunning, but for making me feel as welcome as a pork chop at a barmitzvah it gets my vote.
(I find it really sad having to say this as possibly half of my ancestry is Scottish if I go back more than a couple of generations)
(I find it really sad having to say this as possibly half of my ancestry is Scottish if I go back more than a couple of generations)
Steve Foster
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Would agree about Albania. Cannot get excited about Poland, Germany or Romania either
Man of Harveys
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Northern Ireland is FANTASTIC.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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There is nowhere I've been in Europe that had nothing going for it, so I suspect it's somewhere I haven't been yet - maybe one of the former eastern bloc countries, or somewhere like Bosnia.
Of the places I've been, I didn't think Sweden was that great. Very boring, in fact. But then I was with my wife, rather than single and chasing blondes at the time. Bulgaria isn't that great either.
Of the places I've been, I didn't think Sweden was that great. Very boring, in fact. But then I was with my wife, rather than single and chasing blondes at the time. Bulgaria isn't that great either.
Paxton Dazo
Up The Spurs.
- Mar 11, 2007
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I'd f***ing love to go to Northern Ireland. Gotta do it soon.
severnside gull
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visited the Polish lakes a couple of years back....wonderful countryside and people.
The cities seem to be universally grim though
Honestly can't think of a country where the good parts don't outweigh the bad
Northern Ireland is supposed to be very beautiful in parts. I'd love to go to Belfast too - it's supposed to be a cracking night out. The worst place I've been to in Europe is Berlin. I know a lot of people like it, including some of my friends, but I went for the England friendly in the Autumn and found it the most backward, grey, evil and depressing shiteholes that I've ever been to on holiday (North Kent probably is worse but I've never gone there on holiday).
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
Isn't Albania the only place where UEFA lets you fly in, play and fly out, without doing an otherwise-mandatory overnight? That's hardly a vote of confidence right there...
Franks Wild Years
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Austria. The people ruin the country. What's the f***ing point of living in a naturally beautiful country if you end up being a sullen, miserable, rude, humourless bore ?
The Uninvited Guest
Banned
Albania is fantastic.
Ecosse Exile
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Hate to think where abouts in Scotland you were mate, although im Scottish i speak with an English accent and got far more stick for being Scottish and living in Brighton than i have had in the seven years ive been back up here.
I know it happens both ways round but there are a hell of a lot of English people living up here and they wouldnt stay if the people were as full of hate as you are trying to make out.
The Spanish
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Poland is criminally under rated. It can be shitty in parts but f***ing hell everyone overseas thinks Britains all thatched cottages and village pubs.
Sopot is my favourite spot in Poland. And Hitler's, amongst others. A kind of Baltic Le Touquet.
Cian
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Thats the North. The Republic is an entirely different country as many will quickly remind you on here. Are you judging it based on the North (or a quick trip across the border to Dundalk...)?
Northern Ireland has some very nice areas in it too, mostly in the countryside. People there aren't going to care if you're English, no matter what side they're on.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
I lived in Edinburgh for three years, which is one of the most cosmopolitain cities I have ever been to...however I was subjected to racist abuse from a number of colleagues and on occasion had people turn their backs as soon as I opened my mouth and they heard an English accent.
I wouldn't say that all people were filled with hate, far from it, it only took me a year and a half before I made a genuine friend who was a local, before that they were all foreigners like me. Shortly before I arrived an Englishman was kicked to death in Balerno, for being English, which may have made people a little nervous about associating with us.
I take people as I find them, if they treat me well then their generosity is returned, but having visited maybe fourty different countries around the World I have only received abuse in one based on my ethnicity.
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