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In late 2019, a survey of more than 2,000 Americans was conducted, where each participant was asked to choose the five rudest cities in the country. The audience was balanced by U.S. census data of both age and gender.
In 1774, president John Adams said: "I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another."
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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I'm glad to see NYC hs improved so much since the John Adams quote......sure......!
And anyway to simply see a LIST instead of being subject to massive clickbait?
Too much is never enough
Yeah, the people in NYC are so rude that its the most visited city in the U.S., year after year, including many *repeat visitors*.
It depends on your lifestyle but high on the list for me of places to live would be "things to do" and major cities tend to have more "things to do" than out in the sticks.
It depends on your lifestyle - but if the only thing that a place has to offer is hiking/walking/running - I'd get bored walking by the same trees day after day after day.
One of the reasons I am seriously considering moving from Vancouver Island - one of the world's prettiest locations to Niagara Falls Ontario - close to Toronto. I can see plays, concerts, the Blue Jays the Maple Leafs, shopping, museums and it's a reasonable drive to NY, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ottowa, Montreal, etc.
Plus there tends to be an uptick in the quality of women physically and intellectually in cities and less likely to run into the religious right Jerry Fallwell nuts.
I have relatives from NYC so I spend time there off and on. I would say it's deserved.
I'm surprised to see Buffalo at #7. That definitely hasn't been my experience. I also would have placed Vegas and Philly higher.
I'm not clicking through 50 pages but I have always found Americans in every place I have been extremely welcoming and friendly. Granted I have not been to New York (yet).When I worked in South Korea - all the Americans on the military base were awesome. Also, when I was involved with the Hash House Harrier Running club "A drinking club with a running problem" all the Americans there were great. I dated two of them.
Granted Americans willing to live abroad are perhaps more on the open-minded side of the spectrum, but still.
The folks I meet at the audio shows I have attended are batting like 99% in terms of friendly - ditto when I go to Las Vegas or conventions.
I do sort of getting why major cities will be less polite or friendly - they seem "under pressure" with deadlines and the rat race environment. People want to kind of shut off and try for quiet in a loud tight space (on subway trains) and may be on edge from driving in stop and go traffic for hours to get to a job they probably don't much love to make money for someone else. I know I did it for a time and I would look around in a packed subway station and think - holy crap I am a rat wandering around underground coming up to a city surround by concrete to work for some ass-hat for my scraps of cheese. I knew I had to change careers even if it meant less money. So I get why they become on edge.
Besides, Paris can make most places seem super polite in comparison.
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It's the urban environment. I would expect rudeness to drop off as distance increases from the center of the rude environment.
Eventually you make enough mistakes that you learn something and it looks like talent.
I gag on these top 10, top 25, top 50, top 100 lists. There are dozens of them cranked out daily, and their only purpose is to catch internet eyeballs. Be assured there ain't no scientific or academic value to this particular list. Because they didn't provide a link to the original study. There should be a warning sign before any top listings, best or worst of anything. WARNING! PROBABLE JUNK CONTENT AHEAD. GULLIBLE MINDS BEWARE! READ WITH CAUTION!
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Business Insider is more of your thing...
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I''m too fucking busy to bother reading it.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
10. San Francisco, California. At your service don't forget to leave a tip.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
And that's a personal Thank You, sir!
Officially from SF we haven't been trying hard enough and are shooting for #1!
Wait until we open back up and all the fucking tourists show up again.
Fuck New York, we can out rude those assholes!
BTW, the slow growing but well implemented "Manhattanization" of SF has gone very, very well for the PTB here!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
It should be noted that our flavor of rude is far more passive-aggressive than what you might find in NYC.
Consider a contentious encounter between a pedestrian and driver in a crosswalk...
In NYC this can rapidly escalate to a screaming match, and possibly fisticuffs.
In SF the driver simply runs over the pedestrian and keeps on going down the road.
I'm not sure which scenario represents maximum rudeness.
SF
Come and visit us sometimes I bet you'll learn to use the "sorry" word a lot during a conversation. What can I say we're known to be the sorriest people in N.A.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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"PTB"?
That makes sense.
Thanks.
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