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water rat · Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica

I'll give my answer a little later as not to create any bias from the beginning.

Please tell the rest of us about the worst country you have visited, and why it's the worst.

It's not necessary to have worked there, it's enough to have simply been there, though I do hope you spent more than a half hour at the airport before making your decision. However, if that's your worst...

happyinshangqiu · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:12 am Post subject:

Saudi Arabia.

Awful place overall. Not saying everything is terrible there because there are some good aspects like food, low crime, sunny climate but it takes something when you can be turned back from departures because you haven't got the right exit visa from your employer. Rolling Eyes

BadBeagleBad · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:03 am Post subject:

I guess Guatemala, though it wasn´t really that bad for me when I was living there, it is only in retrospect, and in comparison to other countries. There were two coup attemps, and one successful coup when I was living there. One, I didn´t know about till I was on vacation in Mexico a couple of weeks later. I guess you just got used to soldiers with machine guns standing around and it seemed normal, so seeing a new more soldiers with machine guns (during the coup attempt) didn´t really register on my radar as something major. And not a peer in the press.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Nigeria

psychedelicacy · Joined: 05 Oct 2013 Posts: 180 Location: Beijing

Vietnam (north). A true hellhole.

MuscatGary · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:52 am Post subject:

I've lived and worked in Spain, Ireland, Germany, Venezuela, India, France and Oman but the only country that I find to be absolutely horrible was KUWAIT!

water rat · Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica

Thank you, but except for Beagle, none of you have told us the why.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:57 pm Post subject:

Dear water rat,

Vietnam in 1965 - 1966. I'll let you figure out why Very Happy

Regards,
John

buravirgil · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:11 pm Post subject:

I love everywhere I've lived and make no exception for this dump.
(said like Bette Davis' Rosa in Beyond the Forest, 1949)

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I did visit England - but have never had to work there. The natives are STRANGE !.

MuscatGary · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:04 pm Post subject:

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

I totally agree with MuscatGary - KUWAIT. I could not find any redeeming features during the time I was there.

santi84 · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea

The USA. I wasn't impressed by homicidal taxis in Egypt, but it was easier to see coming than the madman waving a handgun at me in Miami.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I don't enjoy most of the US either (bipolar country!) but Egypt was tough. Some very beautiful stuff, and am glad we had a holiday there before the most recent disturbances. But in a country where women aren't supposed to work in public, public toilets, including those in airports, are too foul to even imagine. Just totally gross. Not 100% sure about restaurants, either.

santi84 · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea