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In terms of having the "marrying cousins" stereotype.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Either Skåne or anything far up north in Sweden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Skellefteå

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not enough banjos in Skåne.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Podlasie in Poland, definitely. My friend's parents have both the same maiden name despite not being closely related. Their whole village has basically the same surname.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The south. It's always the south.

The question is: does it flip after passing the equator or is the law universal for both halves of the globe?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Costa Rica: Not exactly a province per se, but the canton of San Carlos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

West Vlaanderen. They even talk like they have a hot potato in their mouth!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The fact we have an idiom "sent to Coventry" meaning to deliberately ostracise someone should tell you all you need to know.

I went to uni in that city; there isn't enough money in all the world to make me go back there. City of 300k people with over 3k homeless. Utter monstrosity of brutalist architecture (the university library is based on a panopticon prison, I kid you not). And the ring road! Taking your life in your hand just merging into it!

Absolutely insane amount of crime, with one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in the country (for context, it's crime index is about 20% higher than London's). And I've never seen so many street walkers in my life! Plus they charge, I am not joking, £20 a go.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

In Costa Rica its a subdivision of a province, San Carlos. Very famous for incest (not being taboo). In the costa rican subreddit there was a long thread about it not too long ago. The thread mostly contained anecdotal but has interesting comments; a doctor that sees lots of teenage pregnancy cases, a story of a priest that refused to continue marrying cousins in a small town.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Mississippi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know. There is multiple possibilities here. Maybe Appenzell Innerrhoden where you're at a low degree cousin of one of the members of the council at the head of the Canton. AI has just 16k inhabitants.

But if you ask a French speaker, it will be Jura. It remember me once I went there. I saw a young woman not older than 25. She was definitely not rich. She already had 3 pregnancies and was outside in a cold foggy morning with the 3 kids walking around the small town. The region has the reputation of alcoholism too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

For Austria it's definitely Burgenland

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The armpit of the United States.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

etelä-pohjanmaa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Venía a comentar esto mismo

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