Your expectations from local people in visited countries

This is a very odd question. Travelers from the US (most of the forum) expect many different things. So, you have gotten no answers.

I have the notion that there is a hidden agenda in this posting. Perhaps you might get better responses if you were clearer. Are you looking to start a tourist guide business?

We may ask locals sitting near us in a restaurant for suggestions for our stay in their city.

Reading questions and answers in this forum I think what are your
expectations from local people.

I have no particular expectations. I am just grateful for the opportunity to visit.

Could you provide some thoughts explaining what types of needs you are
willing to show - openness to solving difficulties in language
communication, help with orientation in the field, practical comments,
selection of dishes or types of cuisine, mental support or others?

When tourists are in my tourist city I treat them with the same respect as anyone else and when I am the one visiting a tourist destination I hope for the same. Nothing more complicated than that.

My sentiments as well. I'm a guest in someone else's home and I'm grateful for the opportunity to travel. My only hope is to be treated with kindness and patience.

Different travelers look for different things. I prefer smaller cities to larger ones, but I also need for them to have a reason for me to go - museums? nature? restaurants? easy access to good transportation? a festival? some other sort of local experience?

Then I need a way to know those things exist - that means advertising or media of some kind. I can’t go if I don’t know about it.

Those are a few things to consider. And we don’t all value the same things equally.

Hi,

Regarding Szczecin I was only there once . That was in 2003 in the train station waiting for the connecting train to Gdansk. I was coming from Berlin and Szczecin was the second place to change trains, the entire train ride then from Berlin to Gdansk took 9 hours.

The experience I have had with Polish people in the border villages I have been in , east of Küstrin or Frankfurt an der Oder (these were the two places I crossed over into Poland), those in the service industry, ie, restaurant staff or cafes, were almost always tri-lingual, speaking Polish, German and English. My impressions and experiences with local people I encountered...100% positive, communicative, professional, etc. No problems at all communicating with them either in German or English.

I have been traveling around the world. the worst experience was in Norway.

I try to not have expectations of local people. I am the foreigner in a strange place so I try to treat others with respect and humility

None. But Scotland has the friendliest people of any European country I've visited.