BFL
I have found that if you ask a New Yorker for directions or something, they’re friendly and want to help.
But don’t expect a “HI”, “How are you?” “Can I help you find anything?” at the local grocery store. You’ll be lucky if they even look up or if they count your change back to you rather than just dump it in your hand.
Ahhh, New York
That list is stupid. People voted on it. What if no one has been to the city? Detroit wasn’t on the list because NO ONE comes here.
I’ve been all over the country and I’d rank Detroit right on up there. Especially if one has no hijab or is the wrong shade.
I’m surprised Philly dropped out of the top ten.
Atlanta is more Middle Eastern than Southern. It's become like a foreign country. What a shame.
As someone who lived in the NY suburbs and Boston, I can tell you that Bostonians are far more rude than NYers could ever hope to be. NYers don’t make eye contact with strangers, and can act threatened when you do. During the Atlanta Games, when they spelled out, “How y’all doin?” I joked that NYers would say “What the f*** you lookin’ at?”... and mean the same thing. But you quickly adapt to such gruffness, and when you have the opportunity to make proper eye contact, NYers can be very friendly.
But in Boston, it’s not gruffness; it’s a bizarre level of misanthropy and hatred of strangers. I remember pausing for a second to find a subway token in Boston, and being shoved by a little old lady, must’ve been 90 years old: “GET THE F*** OUT OF MY WAY, YOU G**-D*MNED DIRTBAG!!!!” I remember going to a CHURCH group, being the newcomer, and watching in amazement the way chat circles just close up when someone new comes by. And the plainly bizarre behavior of simply lying whenever a stranger asks for directions. In residential neighborhoods, they won’t even have street signs, because if you belong in that neighborhood, you know damned well what the street’s name is. And most Bostonians would pay $100 to get the chance to rip you off a dollar.
After a while, it stops seeming odd that “wicked” is the local dialect’s word for everything from “pleasurable,” to “astounding” to “very.”
I grew up in NY and these cities I spent several years in were much more rude than NY:
1) DC absolutely f’n a-holes
2) Chicago- arrogant and snotty
3) Charlotte NC —surprisingly rude and very fake but the rest of NC outside of 485 was very pleasant.
4) St Louis—They have little city complex rivalry with Chicago and thus try to out rude them
5) Boston—racist,thug like and very upfront about it.
Manhattan is very crude but Manhattan is NOT the whole of NYC.
I have been to NYC 4-5 times and find the residents put up a “protective” air of rudeness, but it is shallow and once you get past that thin veneer they can be very helpful and friendly.
If they have no reason to know you, or help you, they want nothing to do with you.
The more inadequate the transportation infrastructure, the ruder the people.
Btt
Hang around any airport, and you will find that flights to certain destination cities contain a high percentage of easily stressed people.
Filthidelphia = The City of Thuggery Love
AFAIC New York, Chicago, DC, and SoCal entire can sink into the sea or be swallowed up by the earth as the case may be...I’ll never willingly visit again. But Philly has one little lunch stand that makes the greatest meatball and cheesesteak subs...God will just have to sweep around it.
New York’s #1! You godda problem wid dat?
And it's well deserved.
Well, as far as I’m concerned everything east of the Mississippi still belongs to England.
For the last 18 months I lived within a 50 minute drive of NYC. As a native Southerner I was prepared for the absolute worst. I have found most NYers very nice people, except that guy who stole my bread.