The United States Florida and ".Florida Man". What state/province/region has your country's version of Florida Man (stereotypically home to crazy people)?
The United States Florida and ".Florida Man". What state/province/region has your country's version of Florida Man (stereotypically home to crazy people)?
In Germany we have "Mann aus Sachsen", or man from Saxony. If a news article starts with these words, you instantly know it's going to be some crazy (or sometimes crazy racist) shit. There's even a community dedicated to this: !mannaussachsen@feddit.de
I assume that's because most weird shit doesn't even make the news in Berlin anymore.
I'm from Portugal and we are all crazy in here. Nobody really knows how things get done, nobody really runs the country - but we're also not willing to allow others to run it! - we pick fights between two sides of the same village over bread, wine or how some dish is prepared and nobody really likes someother part of the country for the exact same reasons they get disliked back but somehow the lights are still on and still haven't burned the house down.
I was in Elvas a few weeks ago you sure you guys have electricity?
Also went into a bar and there was a gender neutral bathroom, probably just because they couldn't afford a second one
I think you might be Spain’s Florida
Not even Spain's Mexico...
Aussie here...
Australia is the UK's Florida.
Florida just seems to be the Australia of the US. Huntsman spiders are invasive, and there's lots of snakes and giant reptiles that can kill you.
Nah. That's Queenslanders, mate.
In Hong Kong, "Hongkongers love working"
There's a typhoon? We work.
There's a rainstorm? We work.
There's a political conflict? We work.
There's an apocalypse? We'll probably still go to work.So whenever people from other countries complain about work hours being too long or retirement age being raised, we just laugh at them. And then continue working.
Damn... sounds bleak
Bulgaria has Pernik. A declining polluted mining town near Sofia which is infamous for people wearing (counterfeit) Adidas tracksuits, driving VW Golf, and settling their scores with long pieces of metal. Think Russian gopniks.
As a Bulgarian, I definitely did NOT expect to see Bulgaria and Pernik as a top comment.
Maybe Liverpool, but that's really just a joke; it's actually a nice city centre with decent folk. More broadly, probably East Anglia, but that's really more our Appalacia.
Which is funny to geology nerds because Scotland is literally Appalachia.
Nah Essex is our Florida.
Maybe Liverpool, but that’s really just a joke
Calm down.
I've known a few Scousers. They seem hilariously crazy in some ways. Always quick to laugh, always up for anything.
In the Netherlands there's several ones I guess..
Limburgers (in the bit that sticks out down south) are usually seen as reserve-Belgians by the rest of the country. Tukkers are from the border region around Almelo, Hengelo and Enschede. Mostly known for their distinctive accent in which drawn out vowels are very recognisable. Otherwise you tend to get an East-West divide, basically resulting in Countryside vs Cityfolk.
Does that help?
All of it. And barcelona.
Costa Rica here and, while we don't exactly have an "abode of the madmen" like Florida, we do have our particular spots on the map:
- San Carlos on the north is a rural place, and so it has become our Alabama / Monterrey
- Desamparados, Pavas and La Carpio are the epicenters of crime
- Puntarenas (on the Pacific) and Limón (on the Atlantic) are the main ports of the country. Both of them are attacked severely by poverty and drug lords. Limón has the particularity of being the place where most African-Americans in the country come from, via Jamaica back in the 1800's and early 1900's.