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France, but more specifically Alsace and Corsica.
In Alsace, when I tried out my French, people answered in German.
When I addressed people in German, they replied in French.
In Corsica, my friends and I were literally run out of town and pelted with eggs and rocks for reasons unclear to me.

Honorable mention goes to Southern England, where a car coming the other way stopped and the driver mentioned for us to also stop and roll down the window.
My dad stopped next to him and opened the window.
The other driver punched my dad in the face and drove off.

America, by far, and that’s from someone living here. I’ve been to England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Iceland, Mexico, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Canada, and probably a couple others I can’t remember. I’ve been treated nothing but friendly, with genuine curiosity, even when I shouldn’t have been.

Every day in the US, someone swears at me.

USA. Oh, wait. I'm not a visitor but a resident.

USA 100% Ive been all over Europe, and to central America and the USA (I'm Canadian). The USA is by far the unfriendliest.

Chile. Maybe it's because I'm American but nobody there was interested in talking to me, sharing their culture or learning anything about me. I tried multiple times but all my interactions with Chileans were purely transactional and most of them seemed annoyed to have to deal with me. I've been to ~25 countries and wouldn't bother returning to Chile.

I'm European and never left the continent. I found Copenhagen (Denmark) to be one of the least inviting places I've ever been. That's not to say Denmark is like this or even that I didn't have a good time in Copenhagen. It's just that pretty much everywhere, people seem to be in a hurry.

But my baseline in Europe is that everything is just amazing. People are nice, accomodating, helpful. Especially in the slightly smaller cities. I especially enjoyed Krákow and Gent.

Belgium

Of course, when I went it was part of an school exchange trip when I was 17. I was almost always with a large group of American teenagers with only a few teachers as chaperones. It's 100% understandable why people wouldn't want to be particularly friendly to us.

I'd say Iraq, but being that I was there as a part of an occupying force, it's my fault they hated me for being there, so I totally get it. That aside, America (as an American) definitely has unfriendly people that one is forced to interact with on a regular basis.

France, if you don’t happen to speak French

Rome, dirty place, except for the tourist sites obviously. Lot's people getting pissed when you ask something in English. Drinking water taps in the streets constantly running straight to the drain. Thank f**k our Airbnb host was a great guy and helped us a lot.

I only have experience with European countries, and from those I pick Austria. Very self-centered people; even service staff is very unfriendly (in the rare occasions where the staff is actually Austrian). Pet peeve of mine: I've never seen people skipping the queue as often as in Austria.

Utah. Other than the staff at a restaurant everyone was rude. I think a motel manager may have lied about not having rooms, at the very least he made it clear he didn't like us.

I’ve traveled to dozens of countries and never met unfriendly people - unless I was in a bad mood and forgot a smile and a few nice words.

Oh no, I didn't mean for my pickpocketing scams with hostile service and aggressive touts to mean that I didn't want to be friends 😢. For sure the US though.

I'm a woman in my mid-30's. I've visited Egypt once, for two weeks.

I'm pretty sure half the gropings of my entire life were during those two weeks.