What is going on everyone? Welcome back to world according to briggs and an international video
today we're looking at countries where tourists say the locals are the friendliest a couple months
back we did a video about the rudest countries on the planet so now we're doing the other side
of that coin i ran a poll that was directed on frequent travelers and travel professionals and
i listed 40 of the most visited countries and asked the travelers and professionals to pick
the three countries they feel the locals are the friendliest this list is ranked by how often these
countries showed up in the respondent's top three i also found a survey of ex-pats where they listed
a couple different categories from one to ten one being the best and i'll be including two of those
categories in this how easy it was to fit in and how easy it was to make friends all right let's
take a look number 10 vietnam vietnam has become a great place for tourists and people that are
looking for a new country to live in vietnam has become kind of a hot spot for all that
sure they had the vietnam war back in the 60s and 70s but that's ancient history to most the
vietnamese people and they're very welcoming very friendly vietnam is considered a very safe country
and it's an easy place to make friends actually on average it's given a four for ease of making
friends and ease of fitting in their average is a six there 43 percent of the respondents had
vietnam on their top three number nine canada canadians are friendly sure just like any other
place you're gonna run into some jerks and that's fine no place is you know immune from
that we're just talking averages here and people's experience i've been to canada several times and
i don't think no i did in montreal i believe it was there was some rude people there but
that was about it i've been to vancouver i've been toronto hamilton nothing but nice people in canada
the average score for fitting in and finding friends is five in both categories in canada
if you've ever thought about visiting and you don't know much about canada or actually want
to move there sometimes a little rough to move to canada and become a citizen but if you go there
and you're the outdoor types you're really going to enjoy canada because a lot of the people there
are the outdoor types they're always willing to take you for a hike or whatever they're gonna do
46 percent of the respondents had canadians as one of their top three friendliest countries
number eight ireland ireland just you know they just have a friendly vibe i mean sure they get a
little wild and they get a little drunk sometimes at the pubs but the pubs are very friendly places
i've never met one person that has gone to ireland and said they didn't have a good time or the place
sucked or the people were rude you know you're gonna have some just like i always say people are
people but in general on average you're gonna find nothing but decent nice people in ireland i've
never been to dublin but from what i understand it is a very easy city to navigate there's always
people to help and it's a very very historic and interesting city that you should visit i'm
going there in 2024 i'll let you know what i think about dublin then but when it comes to fitting in
their average score is a five and finding friends is a six in ireland forty-six percent of the
people surveyed had ireland as one of their top three friendliest countries number seven
spain now i've heard many people say how lovely the spanish people are and they're just great and
it's a great place to visit i was there once very briefly not long enough to really get a
vibe of what was going on there but i've never heard anything but good things about visiting
spain especially when it comes to the people i did read one thing where a guy said that if you want
to see a rude spaniard be stupid do something stupid be rude or disrespectful they have no
tolerance for that but if you're there to have fun and enjoy yourself and be friendly you'll get
the same thing back i guess that's true for every place but spain is kind of a thing they don't have
a lot of tolerance for rude people i guess when it comes to fitting in their average score is a five
and finding friends their average score is a four on that one 51 percent of respondents had spain
as one of their top three friendliest countries number six bahrain bahrain is a very interesting
country it's in the middle east in the persian gulf arabian gulf whatever you want to call it
and when i say it's in bahrain is actually 50 small natural islands and it has another 33
additional islands that are artificial and this is a country that's growing because they keep adding
new little islands most of the time when you talk about a country growing they're growing in
population this place is actually making their own country out in the middle of the water you know
occasionally you hear some really bad things about some of the other middle eastern countries but
you never hear anything bad about the people of bahrain it's a beautiful country with really good
people that are friendly and happy to have you visit i did see a couple things where americans
or english-speaking people had a hard time finding people that spoke english so you might
want to have a way to communicate in arabic if you wanna really enjoy bahrain their average score for
fitting in is six and finding friends is also six fifty-five percent of the people surveyed had
bahrain in their top three friendliest countries number five costa rica costa rica's friendliness
and ease of fitting in is legendary everyone seems to think costa rica is just a great place
to move to if you've had enough of the united states canada or someplace in europe it's warm
it's beautiful amazing beaches and amazing people it also has one of the longest life expectancies
on the planet so if you go there and make some friends they may be friends for a very long time
for both fitting in and making friends the average score is three in costa rica
and 63 percent of the respondents had costa rica as one of their friendliest countries
number four the philippines this is another one that canadians europeans and americans
seem to love moving to and staying there for life a lot of expats are in the philippines they have
some places just like every place else you want to stay away from but in general the people of
the philippines are great they're friendly they're welcoming they want you to come to their country
they want you to experience their country when it comes to fitting in and making friends fitting in
gets an average score of six and finding friends is an average score of two with one being the best
so that's pretty good i had a neighbor that was from the philippines and she broke in english
she said yeah having an american husband is like a delicacy and i was like i don't think you're using
delicacy right human beings are not delicacies but 64 of the respondents had the philippines
as one of their friendliest countries number three taiwan once you get past all the international
stuff going on with taiwan i mean china thinks taiwan's part of china and taiwan thinks it's
its own thing so there's a little bit of a disagreement on that one if you visit taiwan
you're gonna end up in taipei that's like where everyone goes and kind of uses that as the home
base when you're traveling in taiwan if you like amazing architecture taiwan's a great place to
visit their temples that they have there and some of their buildings are just amazing taiwan in not
recent years but for a while now has been a hot spot for canadians that leave canada but it is not
hard to find friendly people in taiwan when you look at the ease of fitting in and how easy it is
to find friends ease of fitting in gets an average score of five and finding friends is three that
is not bad 67 percent of the people surveyed had taiwan as one of their three friendliest countries
number two mexico mexico is a beautiful country that gets a bad rep because of a lot of the things
that go on there with their cartels and things like that and you know if you've ever experienced
tijuana or juarez you're really not experiencing mexico the way you should those are poor examples
of what's going on in mexico if you go down a little bit further you're going to find some
beautiful people and beautiful country and outside the resorts too yes and you do have to watch where
you go you got to be careful and protect yourself just make sure you know where you're going and it
is a beautiful country to visit and the people i mean the ones that aren't carrying machine guns
are extremely nice i have a few friends that left the united states years ago bought homes in mexico
actually some of them they were first-time home buyers in mexico i've spent some time down in
the yucatan peninsula area and that's my favorite that's just the people are just great it's really
strange you talk to someone long enough and they're eventually gonna invite you over for
dinner i don't know what that is all about it's just something they do i had a friend that was
with me down there one time and he wasn't used to going down to mexico but we stopped off at this
little roadside place and we were you know getting some beers and relaxing talking to the people that
own the thing and they invited us back to their patio thing to eat some food that they had been
making and i was like yeah absolutely so i go walk back through my friend grabs my arm goes we're
about to be kidnapped dude get in the back and eat some food and he did they're very wonderful people
i'm still friends with two of them on facebook they found me after years when it comes to fitting
in their average score in mexico is a four and finding friends is a two this is a very friendly
country actually 72 percent of the respondents had mexico as one of their three friendliest countries
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on to number one and number one portugal this one does not shock me i've heard for many years
that the people of portugal are just amazing when you go visit the country just talk to the
people and enjoy this country and their friendly vibe portugal borders spain spain's friendly why
shouldn't portugal be friendly where most tourists go are the islands and the coastal destinations
around portugal and you will find nothing but great people in those towns you also find some
pickpockets i wouldn't really consider them friendly but most of the people in portugal are
extremely friendly when it comes to fitting in in portugal their average score is three and finding
friends it's two this isn't just a great place to visit it's a great place to live 81 percent
of the respondents had portugal as one of their top three friendliest countries that is not bad
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other