what is going on everyone welcome back to the apocalypse or just another day
we'll see how things shake out a couple months back i was watching a travel youtube channel
and they mentioned a couple cities outside the united states that they had visited as
tourists they felt the locals always seemed rude this is nothing new as long as we've had humans
we've had rude humans you could be one of them right now but these days some places have more
than their share of rude people a travel website ran a survey from june to december of 2020 where
they asked travel professionals from north america south america and europe what cities
have they experienced the most unfriendly and rude locals they came up with 56 cities across
the globe that were most frequently listed as having rude residents i took the top 30 and asked
people in a survey targeting travelers to list the three cities they felt had the rudest locals
this list is ranked by their responses in full disclosure though a couple that made the list i
excluded because we already did a u.s cities one if i had included them new york would have been
number three and boston would have been number five and also la and atlantic city would have
been 11 and 12. just so you know all right let's take a look number 10 buenos aires argentina
buenos aires is a beautiful city and it serves as the capital of argentina and it was voted
as the rudest city in south america and the 10th rudest city on the planet buenos aires has about
3 million residents with almost 13 million living in their entire metro area this place
has a lot of people and a lot of people that don't like you just because you visited their city
one man said that he was a tour guide there for many years that a lot of the locals have no time
for you and before smartphones they would often send you in the wrong direction when
you asked for directions he told a story about how one of his customers asked some local where
something was and the guy gave him directions and he went there and he finally realized
that the directions the guy gave him would have led about three or four hundred yards off the pier
a lot of other people visiting buenos aires claim that it's become too much like an american city
it's like they've in a lot of ways abandoned their culture and the traditions that this city has some
people refer to it as the paris of south america and if you know anything about paris which you'll
see later on this list they're rude and i guess buenos aires decided to be fashionable and rude
37 percent of the respondents had buenos aires in their top three rudest cities on the planet
number nine monte carlo monaco monte carlo is the capital of the principality of monaco and
it always seems to show up in james bond type movies monte carlo is one of the most popular
tourist destinations in europe attracting spies and millions of tourists each year most show up
for the grand prix this is a big event here they have an f1 race every single year except pandemic
times that takes up about a third of the country keep in mind this country is smaller than new
york city's central park it's not that big and one thing you'll learn as this list goes on apparently
rudeness has become an art form in this part of the globe there's a lot of cities from this
general area that are extremely rude this city has what is considered favorable residency laws
this has led to a lot of celebrities and very rich people becoming citizens of this small country in
this city basically what it breaks down to is there's so many freaking rich people that live
here it makes it hard for ordinary visitors to you know kind of fit in and get with things here
when you visit apparently you get that feeling like you're a stray dog you know there's just
a certain amount of neglect nobody pays attention to you you they just kind of walk past you on top
of that this is one of the most expensive cities to visit on the planet i imagine that plays into
people feeling like they're rude here just because you know i mean you go to get a beer and it costs
you 30 dollars that's kind of rude 41 of the respondents had monte carlo in their top three
number eight london london is an extremely historic and dreary city i mean it's always
cloudy it's like living in portland oregon all the time just without all the hippies during normal
times london sees close to 70 million visitors every single year and most complain that they get
the cold shoulder from the locals they don't have any time for them don't want to talk to
them most the time unless they're working in the tourism industry one man said in 2019 he visited
london he stayed there for five days and in four different pubs one of the patrons and locals asked
him what the hell's going on with our politics here in the united states and what's wrong with
us now if you're coming from canada or the united states chances are you're not going to have a
language barrier you got to jump over in london so i guess that makes it easier for them to ask
us what the hell's going on with their politics besides rude residents most visitors complain
that all the attractions are way overpriced now this could be said for any place tourists show up
but i guess it's pretty bad in london 44 percent of the respondents had london in their top three
number seven beijing china there's a lot of complaints tourists have about beijing
and one of the biggest ones is how rude the locals are and they don't even try and hide
it if you try and talk to them or there's some kind of communication they just have this look
of disgust on their face that they have to deal with you or you're there or whatever another big
complaint tourists have about beijing is in most countries it's not hard to find someone
in the hospitality industry wherever it's the hotel or an attraction that can speak whatever
language you happen to be speaking this isn't much of a thing in beijing it's like if you
don't understand chinese you better have a tour guide over and over i kept reading things where
get a tour guide get a tour guide if you go to beijing beijing is china's capital city and it
is also like the capital of poor air quality for the planet too keep that in mind if you're
going to visit 46 percent of the respondents had beijing in their top three rudest cities
number six marrakech morocco have you ever heard of marrakesh morocco not many people have but it
is a very interesting and historic city one of the biggest complaints most tourists have about
marrakesh is the haggling that's just the way they do business but if you're a westerner sometimes
that seems a little rude the way they do it it's a little aggressive but that's just their culture
and i think it's misunderstood honestly haggling's a little interesting if you're like say from the
united states or canada the first four or five times you do it but if you're there for a few days
you find yourself in a shop some place going can i just give you the five american dollars
for the lamp and not have to spend 30 minutes of my day trying to talk you down 1.50 and it's
not just the shopkeepers they have a lot of street people that are always asking for money
they want money whatever they're trying to sell you something there's always some kind of scam
it seems like and you just have to be wary one of the first things they tell you about
marrakesh is keep your wallet in your front pocket and maybe put your backpack on the front
too because they've got a serious thing with pickpockets here and that is rude when someone
reaches into your backpack while you're walking down the road and takes a bunch of your crap
yeah most of us consider that rude 46 percent of the respondents had marrakech in their top three
number five can france every spring the cannes film festival attracts the rich and famous
this is one of the most prestigious film festivals every single year many filmmakers
were nobodies until they did really well at this festival when the festival is over it's
still a seaside town in the french riviera where most the locals would rather you not
be there if you pull up in a giant yacht you might get a different reception compared to
if you pulled up in the tour bus can has quite the reputation for having a bunch
of snobs living within the city limits one travel agent said if you're trying to plan
a budget visit to can just don't 56 percent of respondents had can in their top three
number four frankfurt Germany in my experience the only ones that obtrude the french are the
germans and frankfurt is leading the pack when it comes to german rudeness
I did a video some years back on the worst airports in the world now frankfurt wasn't
one of the worst but it kept popping up as having rude people work there like people complain that
there's zero customer service at this airport it's just matter of fact point blank and
very transactional there's no nuance to the way the germans deal with you at the frankfurt
airport they're almost like Buddhists trying to achieve nirvana but germans are trying to
achieve abrasiveness 59 of the people surveyed had Frankfurt Germany in their top three
number three Moscow Russia now long before they decided to attack Ukraine Moscow Russia
was labeled as having rude people it's not just Moscow. Moscow's leading the pack but
st Petersburg was like number 13. travel agents often suggest that you go in a group
like with a whole group to visit Moscow just so you can always see a friendly face you know
Russians are very much like Germans when it comes to just the facts type attitude towards everything
and to a lot of westerners it seems very very cold and business-like whenever you're talking
to someone about something 66 percent of the people surveyed had Moscow in their top three
number two milan italy while reading different travel blogs about milan there seems to be a lot
of advice on taking guided tours and they'll take advantage of you and be very careful and
just all these different things that seems to be a theme for milan italy and if you feel like you're
getting ripped off by a tour guide you know it's got some problems and people are gonna think the
whole place is rude or unfriendly the residents of milan have a reputation for being kind of
self-absorbed combine that with the pickpockets they got your money your stuff and your emotions
are not safe in milan italy one guy described dealing with people in milan he said it felt like
he stepped into a saturday night live skit where they're just trying to be euro rude type thing 72
percent of the people surveyed had milan italy in their top three rudest cities on the planet
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one paris in case you're confused with paris texas i'm talking about the one in paris france one guy
described the people of paris france like everyone there acts like they're the hot girl at school and
you're some desperate troll that just wandered into town from underneath his bridge the rudeness
and unfriendliness of paris is legendary and it's not just in north americans or south americans or
central americans people from japan think france is rude people from europe think paris is rude
even people in france think paris is rude one man said there was a street performer that was rapping
and he was rapping about how he hated americans and wish they would quit coming to france
and then he flipped off this older couple that was obviously from the united states or canada
while he was performing you gotta have some balls you're trying to get people to donate money to
your little hat there and you're talking trash about it and flipping off your audience smooth so
that's just the people and the locals france has put a lot of money over the years millions to get
tourists to come there the city attracts over 20 million people a year they got this reputation for
being this romantic city and the city of lights and all that good stuff but the people just aren't
on board and they would rather you not come i mean if you're a shop owner or a guy that does tours in
paris i'm sure you love to see people show up and spend money but the locals just don't like you and
they're rude and unfriendly in seattle they have a thing called the seattle freeze that's where
a lot of the locals they just don't try and make new friends so if you move there it's really hard
to make friends in seattle it's just this thing they do there paris has their own version of it
it's called the paris syndrome and it's just this thing parisians have where they're just unfriendly
81 of the people surveyed had paris as one of their top three cities that's just plain rude
all right everyone that's today's video i hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got
some information of it now go out have a great day and don't be rude to each other