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Romania. Seriously, that place is a hole if Bucharest and the surrounds are anything to go by. I visited for one day and by the evening I was high-tailing it out of there. Craters in the road, cripples and hunch-backed babushkas begging everywhere, taxi men trying to rip you off, policemen trying to charge you made up fines, litter everywhere, stray dogs roaming in packs and generally unpleasant and rude people. The only place where people got pissed at me for making an attempt to speak their language. All the poverty was made all the more comical by the parliamentary palace, the second largest building by mass in the world (after the Pentagon) and so large it's still unfinished yet the cost of upkeep is such that they can't afford to maintain the older parts. It's also to expensive to keep lit so as you move throughout the building the guide clicks the lights on and off; grand crystal chandeliers are lit with fluorescent bulbs. All materials were sourced in Romania and so much marble was used that they had to look to other materials for gravestones for a while.
I'm actually being unfair, it's a huge country and I only visited the capital. The Transylvanian Alps for example are awesome, it's just that poverty and communism ruined Bucharest.