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Posted on 01/20/2011 6:09:14 PM PST by Clint Williams
We have coffee, rain, traffic, and apparently some of the rudest people in America.
According to survey in Travel and Leisure Magazine, Seattle is ranked number 16 in a list of the country's 20 rudest cities. The magazine recommends striking up a conversation at Pike Place Market, which is actually Washington state's number one tourist destination meaning you'll probably be talking with an outsider.
Cities ruder than Seattle included Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Miami. Los Angeles beat out Boston and New York for the top spot. People in Seattle are nicer than those in Anchorage, Houston, and Santa Fe.
So what makes a city rude? Travel and Leisure says congestion. The more people crammed into a space, the uglier the attitude.
You can practically smell the smugness in that hellhole of a city.
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How in the hell did San Francisco not make it to #1 on that list. If you have not been there, I have never been in a more hateful place EVER and I’m from LA and we all know the reputation they have. The people in SF are the most mean, rude and hateful people I have ever had the misfortune of being around. There are the ever so few exceptions. It’s a shame that all of the beauty of that city is being wasted on such hateful evil people.
Where’s Ann Arbor?
Another stupid list: How does one define “rude”? I mean objectively and measurably.
Not surprised LA is #1. The few times I’ve been to Seattle the people actually seemed pretty nice. But maybe that’s because I’m used to LA, so Seattlites seem nice in comparison!
It's the friendliest place I've ever been.
I've been in over 70 countries and most of these United States.
16?
That’s the best we could do?
Retards!
(Not us, THEM!!)
Not that I have any great love for Seattle, but coming in 16th for rudeness out of a list of what appears to be the 20 largest cities in the country isn’t bad.
“The more people crammed into a space, the uglier the attitude.”
Then Kansas City should rank as one of the friendliest cities ‘cause we’re really spread out! :-))))))))
“The more people crammed into a space, the uglier the attitude.”
Then Kansas City should rank as one of the friendliest cities ‘cause we’re really spread out! :-))))))))
Sorry for the double post, don’t know how that happened.
Sea-rat-hole. Libertards, feminazis, lesbian capital of the US, I’m surprised it’s not on the top of the list ?
I guess I need to change that since I just quit the plywood plant. But I don’t know how to adapt that phrase to particleboard (where I’m working now).
BTW, I grew up in Snohomish, and have lived many years in Seattle.
I've never noticed any directed unfriendliness.
I think Phoenix is getting a bad rap from Scottsdale
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Seattle is ranked number 16 in a list of the country’s 20 rudest cities.
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Not a suprise.
In the late 1980s, as a graduate student I connected via Seattle to
get to Vancouver BC for a meeting.
I spent a couple of days on my return using a rented car to drive out to
Mt. Rainier...simply awe-inspiringly beautiful.
BUT...on the shuttle bus getting to my flight back home...
a guy cursed out the young female driver because HE didn’t understand her
instructions about the terminals.
I guess I’m a old-school gent and when the @$$hole finally left the
shuttle-bus I told the lady driver that it was sad she had to put up
with that Bravo Sierra.
She looked at me like I had a third eye and said “What?”.
That was my small-town Oklahoma exposure to the crap folks in a
big (Democratic!) put up with on a daily basis. Awful!!!
‘Blue areas’ are all rude...if you enjoy arrogant, obnoxious people; New England is your cup of tea.
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if you enjoy arrogant, obnoxious people; New England is your cup of tea.
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(being facetious here!)
I will say that one spot of New England did exhibit a sign of advanced
civilization.
When I visited Boston for about three days and road “The T” rail/subway system,
I was impressed by the Dunkin Donuts at a number of the stops.
But I don’t know if I’d been swayed enough to move there!!!
And for your screen name...
“The Shadow Knows”...what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
(I only know that because of my late father talking about his memory of early radio)
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People in Seattle are nicer than those in Anchorage, Houston, and Santa Fe.
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I’d give the folks in Anchorage the benefit of the doubt.
Living through long, horrid winters might make the average
Joe/Josephine
a bit cranky.
There couldn’t find any cities between Baltimore and Chicago.
Love those old radio programs...great for the imagination. It was always fun trying to ascertain the source of the 'sound effects'...rattling dried peas in a can for thunder, and so forth...
A gentleman from Ohio recently told me that insurance companies would cancel your life insurance for either skydiving or driving through Cleveland.
I think Pheonix is getting a bad rap from Mexico.
Last time I was there I saw, first hand, a high-speed police pursuit and a red light-runner accident. Both were illegal aliens from Mexico, I found out later.
Yep, SF is the most incredibly rude place I’ve been. I grew up in Chicago and really think the people there are OK. In SF it seemed like everybody was bitter about not being a billionaire.
Good one!
Yes, there are a few areas that you are wise to avoid. But at least the muggers and killers aren't rude, since Cleveland didn't make the list.
In fact, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit don't even exist for the folks that took the survey. Maybe they are correct about Detroit, but I've been to the other two recently and they are still there.
I have to agree. Although I spent most of my time there on the Eastside, its the most civil place I’ve ever lived.
Silicon Vally, Palo Alto, SF all struck me as far ruder.
Boston? Don’t even go there...
One of Howie Carr’s callers noted one day that Dunkin’ Donuts is practically a state-sponsored religion in Massachusetts.
*I lived in Seattle for over 20 years.
It’s the friendliest place I’ve ever been.*
I am not as widely traveled as you, but I agree.
This headline is pretty stupid, too...um, Seattle was in the BOTTOM quarter of the cities listed. That does not make it “one of the rudest”...that would be like saying “Seattle’s traffic is the worst in the country...except for cities a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m & n”.
It’s like those headlines that shout TOP AL QUEDA LEADER KILLED IN STRIKE, and it turns out to be some measely 18th in command or courier or somesuch. Nonsense.
It’s more of a coldness and don’t get too close to me standoffishness that turns people off.
The city? In Michigan. A person? I dunno.
I've found Seattle a bit unpleasant, but the people are generally not rude. At least not if you stay off topics political.
And it's still customary to thank the driver when you exit the bus.
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LOL! Dunkin’ Donuts are as common around here as Baptist churches in the south...
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That is true. I used to patronize (too often for my belly-fat the
Dunkin Donuts in Norman Oklahoma) for my late 20s heart health!!!
BUT, when I lived in West Los Angeles during 1995 to 2005...no Dunkink Donuts.
There were some decent local donut outlets and some other outlets.
(FACETIOUSLY) I suspect the poor souls of the LAPD suffered from this
lack of readibly-available in-freakablibly-aweasome
donuts.
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Love those old radio programs...great for the imagination. It was always
fun trying to ascertain the source of the ‘sound effects’...
rattling dried peas in a can for thunder, and so forth...
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My inexpert understanding is that the “sound effects” folks in Hollywood
were called “Foley” artists.
Some were simpley amazing pre-digital effect audio artists.
I so agree!!! I have traveled and lived in Seattle, Portland OR., Los Angeles and Kalispell Montana, which is a town not a city.
I have traveled all up and down both the east and west coasts, including New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
BY FAR, the rudest people I ever met were in San Francisco! I was amazed at how rude they were.
In Seattle, people do keep more to themselves, I think a lot of it doing with the weather. If you start talking to a stranger in a market, you will get a strange look a lot of times. If you start talking to a stranger in Los Angeles, you will usually have a conversation.
Sadly, I have to agree. I’ve lived here for 8 years and am still astounded by arrogant rudeness that I encounter on a daily basis. People will knock into you or step in your way without a pardon me or any hint that they know you even exist. Saying hi to someone on the street, even your own neighbors, is often met with a shocked look - sometimes you’re just flat out ignored. I’m not saying that everybody in Seattle is like this, but there are enough that are to truly frustrate me.
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