Friendly? Just what is that?

I have had people just walk up to me and stare in Korea, once you get out of Seoul many have never seen a foreigner.

My nephew lived in Cambodia until he was about five, and being blonde haired and blue eyed he thought it was natural for people to stop him in the street for photos. He was crushed to move to Australia and discover he wasn't a rockstar.

Amman is the friendliest city I have ever been to, love that place, and anywhere in Morocco has the friendliest women. Basra and Kandahar are tied for the worst.

Edited by crusader: 1/9/2015 11:00:03 PM

This is hardly a reflection of Paris generally. But when I was there years back, on my last day, I bought some mini Eiffel Towers from the African vendors (working illegally) near the bottom of the actual Eiffel Tower. I handed over a 50€ note (if memory serves) to this bloke and was waiting for him to give me change. He was trying to find change then police turned up and he had to scram. He ran off with my 50€ note. I was resigned to the notion that I'd never see that 50€ again. I was a bit annoyed. My friends and I did the Eiffel Tower tour. We got back down an hour and a bit later or something.

After we got back down, the bloke went and found me and gave me back the 50€.

Seriously, France would have a far better reputation if they let more people like that work legally in their country.

Well jesus of course that led to trouble. :roll:



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Your right that the French outright banning people from working is unhelpful but it's because of stuff like this why Parisians get so pissy at tourists.

Edited by melbourne_terrace: 2/9/2015 01:37:01 AM

I even made you breakfast, and I didn't even stab you.

That's pretty friendly, if you ask me. :lol:

Heini doing his best to change public opinion...well done

Fair weather fans like you are a disgrace to the club.

Sydney: friendliest city
My area of Sydney ; just you keep fucking driving

I got a laugh out of that

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Hope alls been well mate, you're missed on these parts of the interwebs.

Moved house and all that shit that is life

Exciting stuff!

Moved far from you last place?

Of my very limited travel experience i found londoners to be unfriendly... watched probably 50 people walk passed this women who was trying to get her kid in a stroller up some stairs while holding the hand of another child before my wife and i gave her a hand. She was super greatful.
In Spain the people in madrid were friendly... same with seville and in valencia we were looking for a deutsche bank to get cash out but the two that were on the map on the westpac app had clearly moved or closed down. I asked a guy in a booth for a carpark in terrible "valencian" if he knew where it was, he spoke a little English unlike most in the rest of Spain and he shut up shop and walked us there, he was so awesome! Then we went to Barcelona... safe to say everyone were assholes except for one guy in a supermarket who had emigrated from Pakistan and knew we were aussies straight away and just wanted to talk cricket! Was really good to be able to have a conversation in English with someone other than my wife!

Tokyo, because there are so many people, ignore you completely and never look at you.

Being smaller cities, Osaka and Kyoto on the other hand at least acknowledge you and you can get a smile or two from passer bys.

This is how I imagine Japanese and the rest of that region see us as.
Growing up on the goldcoast I worked a few tourism style jobs. I remember during a brief stint at White Water World in one of the food stands you could see how some people reacted to asians not being able to say what they wanted (other than the word Coke). Some people would handle them fine and calmly figure out what the wanted to eat. Others would snap almost instantly and go straight into snob/rude mode as soon as they couldnt articulate hotdog correctly.

Some where on a 442 japan forum, someone is writing how beutiful OZ is but the people are arrogant pricks. :lol:

Out in rural areas and small islands like sukoku they would buy me drinks all the time. Really excited to see any foreigners . And if you saw another non Japanese ( Indian guy or African American woman ect) you would wave at each other and at least nod heads to window ledge each other . Like a special club. Kyoto were ore used to westerns but VERY friendly.

Nah, still out in the outer outer suburban sprawl. I'm not a millionaire so can't afford a house in the city of Sydney .