http://www.travelandleisure.com/americas-favorite-cities/2011/category /people/friendly (new window)

The full list, and not a slideshow.

markie_farkie: davidphogan: The full list, and not a slideshow.

You're not helping, jerk.

/amidoingitright?

Good work!

/my city wasn't in the top 20, we're pretty friendly here

DC is 3 and Philly is 11? Fark you, author.

Marcus Aurelius: I've never been treated rudely in NYC. I've found Phillly to be ruder by at least an order of magnitude.

I've never had problems in NYC either. Love the city. Of course, I'm not stopping right in the middle of the subway exit to gawk at the buildings and fumble with my map either.

Vodka Zombie: I love that their Friendliest Cities list is the same as their Rudest Cities list.

Hacks.

Maybe they just like verbal abuse.

downstairs: Bucky Katt: The folks in Philly aren't going to be happy about being only # 11

Its such a myth. I've been to Philly (as I mentioned, wife's family lives there). Everyone was friendly.

Sure, like any city, there are assholes.

Philly residents aren't assholes. They just don't hold back their opinions. The same opinions mid-westerners have, but culturally are taught to hold back.


nope, philly is full of assholes, through and through. they should be #3 on that list. it's good to see nyc and dc high on the list too.

Step 1: write down the 20 biggest cities on little pieces of paper
Step 2: put them in a Yahtzee cup and shake
Step 3: pull them out 1 at a time, recording the order in which they came out



I don't want to sound like I'm defending NY, but jeezum, look how big it is. You could go there 50 years in a row and have 50 bad experiences, just the luck of the draw what people you encounter. If on average the people there are rude and live up to the stereotype, excuse the hell out of me.

I know my friends from the other end of my state always say how nice people are up here when they visit. Having lived on both ends, I always just chalked it up to us having less fark tards.

1. New York City
2. Miami
3. Washington, D.C.
4. Los Angeles
5. Boston
6. Dallas/Fort Worth
7. Atlanta
8. Phoenix/Scottsdale
9. Baltimore
10. Orlando
11. Philadelphia
12. Las Vegas
13. Anchorage
14. Chicago
15. San Francisco
16. Houston
17. Seattle
18. Providence, RI
19. San Diego
20. Salt Lake City

LOL that headline made me laugh! Good job, subby!

Let's see, NYC. LA, Chicago, Boston, Phoenix... just about every major American city.

Perhaps you are all just a bunch of rude A-Holes?

D.C. - the city ranked first and second for its museums and historical monuments.

And that's why we're so rude.

/farking tourists

myinternetname: Step 1: write down the 20 biggest cities on little pieces of paper
Step 2: put them in a Yahtzee cup and shake
Step 3: pull them out 1 at a time, recording the order in which they came out



I don't want to sound like I'm defending NY, but jeezum, look how big it is. You could go there 50 years in a row and have 50 bad experiences, just the luck of the draw what people you encounter. If on average the people there are rude and live up to the stereotype, excuse the hell out of me.

I know my friends from the other end of my state always say how nice people are up here when they visit. Having lived on both ends, I always just chalked it up to us having less fark tards.


I believe you're referring to the FarkTards-per-capita metric...

As someone who works in New York, I don't find the place to be "rude". The most rude people I've found are the computer nerds who work in my office who are so socially awkward that they don't know how to say "Thank You" when you hold a door for them.

I've definitely been places where everyone is "friendlier", but the tradeoff that comes with that is taking 12 minutes to get me a spoon when they forget to put one in my bag, after it took them 20 minutes to ring up my order, and engaging in all manner of chit chat that I don't care to engage in.

Being fast paced, and being rude are not the same thing. Having a low tolerance for stupidity is not the same as being rude (At least not from a New Yorker's POV). We have places to go, and need to get there quickly. We have trains to catch. If some dumb hick tourist is staring in awe at a building, because they've never seen a structure taller than their high school football stadium or a corn silo, I'm sorry if telling you to get out of the way is rude. But in New York, you are the one being rude for standing in the middle of the sidewalk.

So...pretty much every major metro area in the US, plus Anchorage?

/Fail

myinternetname: Step 1: write down the 20 biggest cities on little pieces of paper
Step 2: put them in a Yahtzee cup and shake
Step 3: pull them out 1 at a time, recording the order in which they came out

This.

God Is My Co-Pirate: Marcus Aurelius: I've never been treated rudely in NYC. I've found Phillly to be ruder by at least an order of magnitude.

I've never had problems in NYC either. Love the city. Of course, I'm not stopping right in the middle of the subway exit to gawk at the buildings and fumble with my map either.

Exactly! Speaking as a New Yorker (by day, anyway), here a protip for tourists: Stop standing around in big clumps blocking sidewalks, doorway, subway entrances, Starbucks counters, etc. & about 80% of our hostility will disappear.

/It's tough enough getting around here.

I can honestly say I've never left a city I've visited with an impression of the natives being "rude", "standoffish", or any other particularly negative quality.

I'm guessing there's a large enough percentage of travelers whom either have no appreciation or understanding for regional differences, and/or expect that being a "tourist" is grounds for the city they're visiting to unroll the red carpet everywhere they go. As long as you plan ahead, mind your business, and have downloaded and installed the latest "common sense" app, you should have a fine time anywhere.

people think nyers are rude, but its mainly because they aren't used to the fast pace of nyc and they don't understand that this city isn't disneyworld. People live and work here, we need to get places fast and can sometimes be very short with you. The sidewalks of NYC are the equivalent of a crowded freeway during rush hour, no one likes someone in the left lane who has their map open and turn signal on while slowly drifting between lanes making it impossible to pass them

Marcus Aurelius: I've never been treated rudely in NYC. I've found Phillly to be ruder by at least an order of magnitude.

ultraholland: DC is 3 and Philly is 11? Fark you, author.

I've spent time in each of those cities (except for Anchorage), and lived in a number of them. With out a doubt, Philadelphia is the worst farking place on the North American continent. It is entirely peopled with degenerate subhuman grotesques who are almost not worth executing.

Almost.

Because fark you, that's why!

Boston? Pfff... I suppose you could consider it "rude" that everyone doesn't want to engage in a half hour conversation with a stranger about the weather. Here, we consider it rude to intrude on others. I find Boston to be polite, friendly, and quiet.

Anchorage people are tired of tourists asking about Sarah Palin. And HAARP.

John the Magnificent: Let's see, NYC. LA, Chicago, Boston, Phoenix... just about every major American city.

Perhaps you are all just a bunch of rude A-Holes?

Or maybe you're just a thin-skinned pussy. Ever think of that, chief?

/work in Philly
//it really should be ranked higher, just based on the asshole at Pat's King of Steaks alone

skinink: Because fark you, that's why!

This too.

Huzzah! Little rhody made the list.... There's nothing this state can't do when we put our lack of hearts into it....

ecmoRandomNumbers: Marcus Aurelius: How in God's name did Salt Lake City make the list? They don't even curse in that town.

Have you ever been in traffic in SLC? They're the most inconsiderate drivers I've ever seen. They don't honk or flip the bird; they just cut you off and don't look back.

Csb, my friend got hit by a car there while in the crosswalk. He tried to argue that it never happened, despite the fact that her face looked like raw meat.

I grew up in the suburbs of NY and never felt that people in the city were rude. Now that I live in San Antonio, it's nice to see we're not on the list. Not bad for the 7th most populous city.

Detroit missed the list somehow.

NTTAWWT