Most rudest people in US? (Re-take)

[VansTripp]

Choose from poll then post there.

Thanks. :)

[VansTripp]

I have said Boston because alot of rude people was roaming on street, I got some bad experience from this.

[Renkinjutsushi]

I choose other.....all the cities listed....either I have not been to or I didn't experience rude people there

....as for the answer to the poll....Memphis had the rudest people IMO....I was really turned off by a teacher telling the kids to shut up (I mean she actually used the word "shut up") in a museum and a customer really getting angry at an African kiosk worker at the mall.

[VansTripp]

I choose other.....all the cities listed....either I have not been to or I didn't experience rude people there

....as for the answer to the poll....Memphis had the rudest people IMO....I was really turned off by a teacher telling the kids to shut up (I mean she actually used the word "shut up") in a museum and a customer really getting angry at an African kiosk worker at the mall.

Damn. We loves kids as great children, teachers does not know about kids so well.

[DarkFenX]

New York. Everytime i go to New York I almost get runned over by a taxi. But thats probably because I went to New York wearing a Red Sox hat just to pissed them off. :)

[aion26]

The rudest people I've ever dealt with were in Texas, seriously.

Dark -- well, what do you expect there bud ;) However, taxi drivers will do that to you regardless of what sort of hat you are wearing. A friend of my here in Chicago once found himself on the hood of a taxi who felt the red light was optional.

[Jasonhouse]

I gotta go with Miami. In my experience, that city is brimming with rude, arrogant people. but keep in mind, I haven't been to all that many cities.

[lammius]

New York. Everytime i go to New York I almost get runned over by a taxi. But thats probably because I went to New York wearing a Red Sox hat just to pissed them off. :)


It was either the hat or the poor grammar. :doh:

[denvernative1982]

I have been all over the US and I know you wont agree with me unless youve been there. I have to say that Fargo, North Dakota and St. Louis are the rudest cities in America.

Fargo,ND has a major superiority complex they think that if you are not from Fargo that your not cosmopolitan like they think they are. All the college students wear Abercrombie and Finch and look down on people who wear fashions that are not in vogue. North Dakota State University students act like its Harvard, one of the newspaper staffers even wrote in article saying that NDSU was an affordale Harvard. The farmers drive through town at 90mph because they drive that fast on the farm roads and honk their horn the moment somebody doesnt accelerate at the sight of a green light, they also merge aggressively and run red lights unformly.
The customer service is terrible, one time I got a cold meal and they would not take it back to the cook so I poured the meal on the floor, cusssed him out and left. All and all, one of the most arrogant, snooty and insular places in America. On top of that, people dont know their neighbors. Aspen, Colorado is friendlier than Fargo.


St. Louis is rude in soe ways, only because it is such a stressful place to live and the people are their wits end. I think the reason is residents have too contend with terrible sprawl, crowded interstates going from O'fallon to County everyday and a high crime rate. I think that people in St. Louis are down to earth though, which is a positive.

[maryland4ever]

NYC, I got family from their and they are rude!

[aion26]

NYC, I got family from their and they are rude!

Now now, I had family from nyc too, and they were as nice as can be. Seriously, my grandfather was from the Bronx and was the friendliest person ever.

[Furiine]

Washington: the whole area, not just the city. It's unreal. If you enter the city using Route 50 (which turns into New York Ave.), I mean literally as you enter, people will jaywalk right in front of you. There are crosswalks, but people will take their sweet time jaywalking across the street. My brother has this philosophy that they do that if someone runs them over, their pals will gang up and go after the driver. Now that's DC in a nutshell, but then you get to about the beltway where people drive like it's going out of style. On a 55 mph speed zone, the average person will hit maybe...meh, about 70. If you're the only person obeying the limit, people will try to tail you. And that's another reason people will tell you to take the subway to get around DC...seriously...

[atlrvr]

Only 70 mph? You better be in the far right lane on I-75 or I-85 in Atlanta going that slow......80 mph is the norm and if you are in the left lane then you better be going at least 90-95......god I love driving there.....

[NovaWolverine]

I've driven in Atlanta quite a bit, and I don't remember people driving that fast on 75 and 85, I remember going 100 and and flying by everyone.

[djm19]

San Fran. But, I feel a little rude myself, painting the whole area with one broad stroke.

[lammius]

These threads about rude vs. non-rude cities are nonsense. Southern hospitality is B.S. and northern rudeness are as well. In lots of cities the pace of life is fast and people lack patience when out-of-towners or slow people cost them time. So whether you're driving slowly in DC or Atlanta or don't know how to swipe your Metro Card in New York people are going to get impatient with you. Just deal and tell them to f--- off.

[Furiine]

Only 70 mph? You better be in the far right lane on I-75 or I-85 in Atlanta going that slow......80 mph is the norm and if you are in the left lane then you better be going at least 90-95......god I love driving there.....

Heh, you won't get far in Maryland going over 70 (or somewhere around 15 mph over the limit.) The troopers will nail you, because it's such a high populated region and Maryland's strict about driving laws and such. I'm sure a good amount of people who live in the area would agree that it's probably not the wisest thing to go too fast. If you ever go down I-95 through Baltimore, definately don't go over the limit, because the trooper HQ is located overlooking the highway and is often the stopping point for drivers carrying illegal drugs.

[Imperfect Ending]

Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[samsonyuen]

NY. Bostonians are really polite but in a subtle way.

[VansTripp]

Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You want see if LA won at all time so it seems ignorant.

LA isn't most rudest city but Boston will going on your nervous.

[Imperial Teen]

I would have to say New York. Chicago ain't for patsies either. Never been to Philadelphia.
Los Angeles has a lot of frustrated drivers that can be rather rude.

[UPWARDATLANTA]

I have said Boston because alot of rude people was roaming on street, I got some bad experience from this.

Same with me. Bostonians think they are the cultural attache.

[VansTripp]

Same with me. Bostonians think they are the cultural attache.

Yeah. I don't like if people who are impatient on driving, pay fares for mass tranist and toll station in between New Jersey and NYC.

How can get deal with them?

[BHK25]

Actually Atlanta is quiet nice. Once i was taking picture of the skyline on I 75 right on the shoulder, so when I actually finish and wanted to get back on the road it was almost impossible. People were flying and a truck YES A TRUCK (SOMETHING UNHEARD OF IN MIAMI,) stopped so i could get back on the road.

[datilguy]

Bostonians can be quite rude. Alexandria LA. has possibly the most unfriendly people in America, followed by Nashville Tenn. EVERYONE was frowning, mumbling and seemed unhappy.

[sargeantcm]

Boston hands-down. Along with most of the rest of New England.

[Killadelphia]

New Yorkers have always seemed to me to be the overall rudest people just in terms of being on the street. I'm sure many fo them are very nice at home, etc.

Philly people are nasty, but rarely rude. Atleast from experience.

[*Sweetkisses*]

Ummmm.... dunno. Anyone can be an asshole. LoL

[VansTripp]

Thread going be old.

[aion26]

Biggest jerks I've ever met were from Dallas (and I've been to Boston loads of time, but I'm biased in their favor, that is where my grannie is from, so I see Bostonians through rose colored glasses I think) .... I agree morons are everywhere.

[Joe84323]

I get into it with Black people in NYC. They try to be assholes about stuff and then find out I can be exactly the same when I blow up at 'em. I love black people, don't get me wrong, just something about every time I go to NYC I get in an argument with a few.

[Justadude]

I find Chicagoans relatively warm. They're tough, no doubt... but not rude.

[VansTripp]

:rofl: Its getting funny. :cheers:

[i_am_hydrogen]

There are rude people in every city. Some of you will encounter them, some of you won't. But the existence of a few rude people in a city doesn't necessarily mean the entire city is rude.

[SChristopher]

Exactly...there are nasty people all over the place...no place is more RUDE than others....Some places are more fast paced....

[aion26]

There is a huge difference between faced paced and rude but some people seem to get that confused.

[aion26]

I find Chicagoans relatively warm. They're tough, no doubt... but not rude.

Hehe, the only people who actually think Chicagoans are rude are from Wisconsin and only come down here for Bears games, and then of course we are rude ;) Everyone else rightly knows how friendly we are (except if you are from California and start talking about going to the beach in January).

[Azn_chi_boi]

LA, so many car chases, traffic is horrible, when there is no traffic people drive over 90. At the Amtrak station, I saw people stealing this thing that this tourist left on the ground while getting on a taxi to out stuff in it.

People just dont help each other, like it was like a reality show.

[AZian]

Washington: the whole area, not just the city. It's unreal. If you enter the city using Route 50 (which turns into New York Ave.), I mean literally as you enter, people will jaywalk right in front of you. There are crosswalks, but people will take their sweet time jaywalking across the street. My brother has this philosophy that they do that if someone runs them over, their pals will gang up and go after the driver. Now that's DC in a nutshell, but then you get to about the beltway where people drive like it's going out of style. On a 55 mph speed zone, the average person will hit maybe...meh, about 70. If you're the only person obeying the limit, people will try to tail you. And that's another reason people will tell you to take the subway to get around DC...seriously...

When do people go 70 around the beltway?!! Were you there in the middle of night or something? The beltway never even moves at speedlimit, let alone 70 mph. It is almost always at a crawl, as is the 295, 395 and I-95 to Baltimore.

But I do agree, the DC area has some incredibly rude people. Once, my friend and I were walking in downtown Alexandria and these two black guys (we're both asians) started yelling, and throwing stuff. I'm not kidding. Then at the Tyson's Corner mall, this one lady would not give us directions to on how to get to Union Station. Another time, we were on the beltway, and some idiot clipped our front fender, cut-off the driver in the lane to our right, and flew off an exit at Leesburg pike before we could even move over. I have countless other horror tales of the DC area too.


Phoenix, AZ, the world's largest suburban community

[SChristopher]

Well if they were two black guys and you are both asians that makes perfect sense....

[SChristopher]

There is a huge difference between faced paced and rude but some people seem to get that confused.

Yes, when you are in the city it is hard for people to act like ma and pa living lazy in a rocking chair down in Mississippi because they more than likely have a bus or train to catch or something to do.

[Nameless]

I voted for other. Because you can find a-holes anywhere in the world.

[lammius]

LA, so many car chases, traffic is horrible, when there is no traffic people drive over 90. At the Amtrak station, I saw people stealing this thing that this tourist left on the ground while getting on a taxi to out stuff in it.

People just dont help each other, like it was like a reality show.

Not indications of a rude culture in the city. Traffic is bad everywhere. I actually found drivers in LA to be very courteous. When attempting to merge I'd put on the turn signal and people would actually let me in on almost all occasions. I cannot say the same for most east coast cities I drive in.

As for picking things up off the ground, so what? You'd have to be stupid to leave something unattended anywhere.

[denvernative1982]

From what Ive seen big city people are always nicer than small town people.

I live in a small town now people from small towns are always rude and nasty.

In fact usually when I go to a small town I treat everybody the way they want to treated: LIKE CRAP!!

[Justadude]

^ That's a pretty good point. "Rudeness" is different in different places. In a small town, it's not that hard to find people that are flat-out intolerant or provincial. If you're in a minority, small-town life can be hell. On the other hand, people in big cities are usually blunt or uncaring with everyone equally. It depends largely on what kind of treatment you're used to.

[Ben]

Also in small town areas there is a pecking order. If you aren't satisfying the person in charge's sick wishes and lusts(ie: having you do every little thing their way instead of improvising) then things will be hard. I say this is sick because if someone is trying to do something and it isn't by the book there are busybody people that will just make a huge drama deal about it. I also find that not many are open to nor care about being specific about much. A lot of smaller town folks are more prone to gossip and distorted assumptions.

It's very tough when you naturally want to go against the grain.

[skokster123]

From my experience I think that people only voted for New York City because of the false sterotypes the media puts out.

[Azn_chi_boi]

NYC isnt that rude, we are all being brainwashed!

[aion26]

yeah, anyone who has been there knows it is BS.

[denvernative1982]

I will say Indianapolis and Des Moines are very friendly cities.

[Killadelphia]

^^^^Uh- I go to New York on average like 5 times a year and know many New Yorkers. I think that (atleast from my experience) New Yorkers tend to be very shovey. There are many friendly people in New York, no doubt. But overall they are most in a rush, therefore causing them to be rudest.

[Jay]

THis is absurd. You can't judge a cities population by a few rude people. Most people from any of these cities are fine, nice people. It's just some Assholes that make the rest of them look bad.

[JivecitySTL]

I have never met more miserable, rude and hard-nosed people per capita than in Philadelphia. That is a mean city, and that's why I LOVE IT!! It doesn't put on a show for anyone-- it is what it is and makes no apologies. PHILLY RULES!!!

[fredcalif]

MIAMI

[denvernative1982]

People have every right to be in a rush and shovey in Philadelphia and New York City.

What excuse do all these midwestern small towns have for acting so rude?, I mean its like the cold makes them look for a fight!!

[Jules]

Why is it that so many people think New York is full of rotten, nasty, and rude people? I go to New York pretty often and from my experience New Yorkers are nothing of the sort. My entire family is from New York, and none of them fit that description.

[*Sweetkisses*]

Why is it that so many people think New York is full of rotten, nasty, and rude people? I go to New York pretty often and from my experience New Yorkers are nothing of the sort. My entire family is from New York, and none of them fit that description.
True. Like I said before they live a fast lifestyle so when youre in the way of them getting to where they have to go,well...

[luv2bebrown]

[QUOTE=denvernative1982]
Fargo,ND has a major superiority complex they think that if you are not from Fargo that your not cosmopolitan like they think they are. All the college students wear Abercrombie and Finch and look down on people who wear fashions that are not in vogue. North Dakota State University students act like its Harvard, one of the newspaper staffers even wrote in article saying that NDSU was an affordale Harvard. QUOTE]


hahaha fargo? cosmopolitan?!

[SChristopher]

Hey now, where are you talking about...?

[milwaukeeunseen]

Why is it that so many people think New York is full of rotten, nasty, and rude people? I go to New York pretty often and from my experience New Yorkers are nothing of the sort. My entire family is from New York, and none of them fit that description.

New Yorkers just don't have time for you. That doesn't make them rude. If they stopped to "be nice" to every person on the street they wouldn't get 3 feet from their front door, for chrissakes.

[Furiine]

I spent yesterday in New York, and while not a "good" representation, everyone I talked to was really nice and helpful. The only "rude" people were taxi drivers blaring their horns impatiently, but everyone else was more tolerant and actually gave a damn to say "sorry" or give you the time whenever you had a question. Sometimes several people nearby would offer information to a question not even directed at them. I don't know, it's hospitable behavior I'm not really accustomed to here in the suburb of a medium-sized city as Annapolis. And being as it was a yucky and gray day, I'd say most people there were in a good mood regardless.

[Jasonhouse]

In my personal experience, it's Miami, without question.

But that's only because East St Louis wasn't on the list.

Runner up is definitely Boston. There's areason I've only ever been there twice, both times for only two days. It's also why I'm generally dreading going to a Pats home game later this year.

[Service Lift Attendant]

Bostonians are a miserable lot who have a mean sense of humor, short tempers, and who are largely oblivious to the advantages manners can bring to social relationships. Why? Because it's way too congested, the class system is bitter, and the weather stinks (among so many other things about Boston that stink - it has all of the trappings of wealth and culture, but its vibe and soul is a charred tangled knot of pettiness). Why be nice when your life is rotten? As a Bostonian, going to New York or Philly is a relaxing vacation for me. While those places are busier, there's more sense of space and social interaction than in Boston, where everyone is clawing for their own selfish space. The only content Bostonians I know are those who spend large amounts of time outside of Boston.

Also, the Boston accent is completely at odds with decency and gentleness. It is vile: the worst accent I've heard in the Western Hemisphere. An americanized mishmashing of the worst elements of Irish and Italian accents.

The only populace that could outdo the horrid character of Bostonians is that found in Long Island. In many ways, Long Islanders are paranoid and vicious.

Gladly, I've found Americans to be decent and polite nearly everywhere else to varying degrees.

[lammius]

I haven't found people in Boston to be outrageously rude, though I've only been there twice and both visits were rather brief.

Some of the people I have met that are FROM Boston, however, have been some of the slimiest, most vile creatures I've encountered. I'm nearly ashamed to say I'm a friend of one. :)

[aion26]

Also, the Boston accent is completely at odds with decency and gentleness. It is vile: the worst accent I've heard in the Western Hemisphere. An americanized mishmashing of the worst elements of Irish and Italian accents.


Back of the accent there bud.

<--- had a grannie and a great-uncle with pretty thick Boston accents, my mom's has faded, 30+ years in chicago will do that to an east-coaster (although my grannie seemed somehow immune), so I can't quite put her in that bunch, but she was going on about her "directional" the other day, so it isn't entirely gone yet ;)

[Azn_chi_boi]

Rushed people are usually rude people... but that doesnt seem right for North Dakotans for being rude, they arent rush.

Tourist attraction cities are not usually rude cities, because they want your MONEY.

[DarkFenX]

It is funny how Service Lift Attendant always bashes Boston. He never ever look at the good side and always look at the bad side. I am glad he is finally moving out of Boston.

[Service Lift Attendant]

What do I like about Boston?

Sorry, I just hate the place. I hated it when I was little when my parents brought me in for shows and events. I hated it in high school and I hated going out on the town with friends. From when I was 18 to 26 I lived elsewhere, mostly abroad and loved it. I came back to Boston in 1996 and immediately met my wife, so I stayed. For the past six years we've been planning on leaving, but it never worked out for both of our careers at the same time. Now we can go, so we're out of here.

What's supposedly great about Boston, and what do I think of it?
1.) The history. The Revolutionary history here is rich, and the literary history is very rich and perhaps more vibrant than the Revolutionary history here. That doesn't enrich my life or that of those I care about at all. It's great if you're a tourist. The Civil War history of Boston was a definining moment in Boston's perception that the rest of the United States is unworthy: abolitionists from Boston were just as much about asserting moral superiority as they were about protecting the exploited. Bostonian history since Reconstruction isn't covered in glory by anymeans.
2.) Shopping: some great high end shopping, but nothing you couldn't find in any respectable city. The galleries are pretty bad - catering to very conservative tastes.
3.) Restaurants: again, nothing special, and I enjoy the Little Italies in SF, NYC, Toronto, Baltimore, Providence, and even Pittsburgh far more. Boston's Chinatown is poor, and there are no Boston places I love like the many places I love througout North America. There are places in suburban Boston that I'll trek to before I think about eating in Beantown.
4.) Sports: hands down, one of the best sports towns in the world. I'll give it that.
5.) Education. The colleges in Boston are growing out of control and absolutely choking the life out of the non-academic circles of Boston. It's like someone planted bamboo in the flower bed. Bamboo is great, and bamboo is strong, but sometimes you have to prune it. That will never happen, because the town would die economically without the colleges.
6.) Parks. Boston has a fantastic park system, and I'll miss it. BTW, they have parks in other cities too. Some of them are pretty darn nice.
7.) Culture. Don't get me started on how smug and intellectually sterile the liberal artistic mindset is here. It's the same knee-jerk idealism that is seen in republican suburbanities done in the name of fitting in. It doesn't take any brains or courage to be a liberal in Massachusetts. You just follow the crowd.
8.) The ocean. I hear they have large bodies of water near other big cities too.
9.) Changing Seasons. Winter: Frozen Wasteland Spring: Rain, rain, rain. Summer: humidity that doesn't burn off, so 85F feels like 105F. Fall: September and October are excellent, and November is bleak.

So, adding it all up, I like Boston Common in September and October. That's it. And by the way, DarkFenX, your post about me is rude. :)

[denvernative1982]

Weve done this before and I stick too my guns that Minneapolis is the rudest city in America. The people act like they live in the Hamptons or Aspen. I live in Minnesota and people in Minnesota are just vicious. I even saw a lady try to run over a police officer with her car at 4th street and Nicollet mall with her Ford Escort. The people dont even know how to give directions in a city that pretty much everybody is a native. People in Minneapolis like to just start in attitude because the NYC based movie characters act like that.

Oh, if I could afford to live in NYC or Boston I would have an attitude too. I mean seriously those people have every right too be in a rush.

I find the nicest things in Minnesota to be the mosquito's.

[jmancuso]

northerners can be a bit brash and won't think twice about giving you the finger or telling you to "fuck off" while southerners are nice to your face but are passive agressive.

[Shawn]

Apparently the answer to the question posed in this thread is "me."

I'm from Boston, as is my entire extended family, all the way back to about 1840. So obviously we are all bitter, rude, vile and at constant class-war with basically everyone else. We are elitist, racist, smug, liberal idealist with the most offensive-sounding accent known to mankind.

Take my advice and never, ever go to Boston. Ever. Because if you do, you are guaranteed to be verbally and quite possibly physically assaulted by a hoard of people just like my family and me: uncontent liberal lemmings who, due to our rotten lives, lack social interaction and demand that others conform to our selfish pace.

There simply is no worse place than Boston.

[aion26]

Shawn - are you my cousin? ;)

[Nameless]

This thread should ask where are the rudest people in the world? I doubt that rude people are restricted to the US.

[Architorture]

shouldn't it just be "most rude"

[LAuniverse]

For me it was a tossup between NY and Philly. From personal experience, people there had really short fuses.....I really liked it. And Blink, LA can indeed be rude. We're just rude in our cars. In my opinion, in any city that's become congested for a long time, rudeness gets worked into the local culture. The "laid back" persona is really misapplied.

[*Sweetkisses*]

^^ lol

[DarkFenX]

So, adding it all up, I like Boston Common in September and October. That's it. And by the way, DarkFenX, your post about me is rude. :)
Damn you got me. :)

[Palal]

People from the 'burbs expect city folks to be nice and stuff. When you're from the middle of nowhere and you know everyone around you you have to be nice to them. Not so in a big city. That's why I don't consider the attitude that some claim big cities have to be rude. It's just a matter of life.

I do, however, dislike xenophobia that comes from people who live in the middle of nowhere and think they own the world.

[phillyskyline]

Boston or Long Island

[Jeff]

I found people in San Francisco to be suprisingly rude, and that is actually pretty atypical for the rest of Northern California as the folks there seem to be pretty outgoing and freindly more or less.

When I first moved to Dayton I was suprised at how rude (cold?)(ignorant?), people were as Midwesterners are usually fairly pleasant and polite...but I'm a bit more used to that now, and realize not everyone here is like that...but boy what a bad first impression waitstaff at a restuarant or hotel clerks can make when one is new to a town....

[DTO Luv]

Forget the big cities being rude. I've seen more rude people on a whole in little small towns than big cities. Maybe they haven't warmed up to "colored" people like myself yet. :)