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.

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.

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.

Aussie here…