Posted on 01/20/2011 6:09:14 PM PST by Clint Williams
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.
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