History Main / QuirkyNeighbourCountry

** Not to mention Scotland, Wales and Ireland to England.
*** England also sees America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as these.

* Canada to the United States. This even has [[CanadaEh its own subtrope]].
** Not surprisingly, many Canadians also think of the US this way.
** Whilst many [=QNCs=] are smaller than their related country, Canada manages to invert this by being the second largest country by area. It is significantly less populated, and most Canadians live fairly close the the American border, however.
* Cambodia to Vietnam.

* Eritrea to Ethiopia.

* Israel and Jordan to each other.

* Korea to Japan.
* Laos to Thailand.
* Liberia and Sierra Leone to each other.

* Afghanistan to Iran.
* New Zealand to Australia.
* Niger to Nigeria.
* Portugal to Spain.
* San Marino to Italy.

* Switzerland and Austria to Germany.
* Ukraine and Belarus to Russia.

* Taiwan to China.
* Togo to Ghana.

** Whilst many [=QNCs=] are smaller than their related country, Canada manages to subvert this by being the second largest country by area. It is significantly less populated, and most Canadians live fairly close the the American border, however.

* ''BlackBooks'' references this a few times between Ireland and the UK, as does ''Series/TheITCrowd''. Both have Irish characters in the main cast who usually blend in but sometimes make jokes about their nationality. E.g. in an episode of the latter, Roy meets a guy who claims to "looove Irish people!" and is rather patronising about it.

** Whilst many [=QNCs=] are smaller than their related country, Canada manages to subvert this by being the second largest country by area. It is significantly less populated, and most Canadians live fairly close the the American border, however

* New Zealand to Australia.

* Malaysia to Indonesia.

*** South Jersey is broadly this to Philadelphia, with [[{{Gangsterland}} Camden]] serving as the "nasty" bit and the rest of South Jersey being merely quirky. (By the by, New Jersey is, as BenjaminFranklin said, "a barrel tapped at both ends"--you're either the QuirkyNeighborCountry to New York or the QuirkyNeighborCountry to Philadelphia. Although honestly, South Jerseyans are liable to consider Philadelphia to be the "quirky" neighbor: Philadelphia is something of a hipster mecca these days, while South Jersey is home to "average" All-American {{suburbia}}).

* ''BlackBooks'' references this a few times between Ireland and the UK, as does ''TheITCrowd''. Both have Irish characters in the main cast who usually blend in but sometimes make jokes about their nationality. E.g. in an episode of the latter, Roy meets a guy who claims to "looove Irish people!" and is rather patronising about it.

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** To some extent, France and Italy are this to each other.

** Whilst many QNCs are smaller than their related country, Canada manages to subvert this by being the second largest country by area. It is significantly less populated, and most Canadians live fairly close the the American border, however

* Denmark, Norway and Sweden to each other.

*** South Jersey is broadly this to Philadelphia, with [[{{Gangsterland}} Camden]] serving as the "nasty" bit and the rest of South Jersey being merely quirky. (By the by, New Jersey is, as BenjaminFranklin said, "a barrel tapped at both ends"--you're either the QuirkyNeighborCountry to New York or the QuirkyNeighborCountry to Philadelphia. Although honestly, South Jerseyans are liable to consider Philadelphia to be the "quirky" neighbor: Philadelphia is something of a hipster mecca these days, while South Jersey is home to "average" All-American {{suburbia}}).

** Not surprisingly, many Canadians also think of the US this way.

* Brazil to the Spanish-speaking South American countries that border it.

* Indonesia to Malaysia and vice versa.

* Ukraine to Russia.
* Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia for Argentina

*** North Jersey is this (both "nasty" and otherwise--think of [[{{Hipster}} Hoboken]]!) to New York.

* Given its geographical size, the main regions of the US often come off this way to one another.
** The US-centric version of this is "the quirky City right across the border". Some of these are in Canada/Mexico, Vancouver/Seattle, for example. Others use state boundaries. Some are just quirky, but many times the "nasty" part of a City is in the next State. Gary Indiana to Chicago, East St. Louis to St. Louis, New Jersey in General to New York.

* Given its geographical size, the main regions of the US often come off this way to one another.

* The Czech Republic to Poland.

* The Ukraine to Russia.

* The Ukraine to Russia.