I had a fun time reminding Cory Booker about this on twitter. You should too.
does anyone really think the top most unfriendly cities in the world are US cities?
Maybe they could check out the murder capital of the world lately, Caracas. Maybe they should fly on into Pyongyang for a quick trip to the beach.
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Las Vegas. Watch your wallets, everyone there wants part of it.
If you wear your FreeRepublic T-shirt, then I promise to be friendly here in Oakland :-)
I'd call it something more like "the wet spot on Las Vegas's mattress."
Charleston nice can have a bit of a dagger to it, depending upon who’s speaking with you. They can bless your heart with the best of them. You’ll eventually be able to pick out the accent. There aren’t many southerners that I’d classify as being arrogant as a group, but Old Charleston blue bloods are at the top of the heap, as well as their Virginia counterparts living around The Fan in Richmond.
Asheville, NC? I don’t know about friendly but there are plenty of weirdos there. The town gives me the creeps for some reason.
Where’s Rio Vista on the lista?
As Woody Allen once said, his definition of God: An omni-present being, inhabiting the entire universe, except certain parts of New Jersey.
Anyplace run by democrats/heavily populated by Holder’s peeps.
From my experience Camden, New Jersey would be not only the be the unfriendliest. It would also be near the most uninhabitable.
This survey should really be more oriented towards what sections of cities are the most friendly and least friendly. Usually. even the crummiest cities in the US (i.e. Filthydelphia - the area by the Liberty Bell) have nice sections and some that are downright scary (Washingto DC, SE - Anacostia). The only exception to this rule seems to be Newark where I have yet to see a section of that city that is inhabitable.
My wife and I lived in Austin in 1990-91. Most locals were stuck up, arrogant and extremely unfriendly. We had just married and were recent college graduates when we moved there. When my wife went on job interviews the most frequent introductory comment from the interviewer was "So, I see you're a Yankee. Did your husband drug (sic) you down here or did you drug (sic) him?"
We often tried to diffuse the open hostility by jokingly explaining that we were Cheeseheads, not Yankees. Usually, the joke was met with blank stares. If we instead explained that we were from Milwaukee, the most frequent response was, "So, y'all didn't like living in Minnesota?"
If we persisted and attempted to correct their geography, the response ALWAYS was, "Sugar (or Honey or Boy or Son), if it's north of the Red River, it ain't important!"
The only people in Austin who were nice to us were not from Austin. Our neighbors (husband and wife) were from Florida and Sweden, respectively. The four of us spent most weekends together waterskiing on Lake Austin.
One of my co-workers was from Boston. She and her husband stuck out even more than we did - being actual Yankees and such. Another co-worker (and her husband) was from East Texas. They were nice to us. He invited me to play on his work softball team. After going 4 for 5 with a HR in my first game, his entire team was nice to me. But I will say that anyone we met who was orginally from East Texas seemed to be much nicer and more friendly than the locals.
Don't get me wrong, Austin is a beautiful town. The weather is beautiful. The hills are beautiful. But the people were downright ugly. Maybe things have changed in 25 years. Maybe not.
I still have a hard time buying top 5 most friendly.
Bravo for Galena. Every time I have been there, it has been a delight.
However, my vote for,least friendly would be Baltimore. That place could give the French lessons on rudeness.
DemonRat and muzzie controlled hades holes all NOT on the bucket list of places to visit. Who makes Newark, NJ a destination to visit anyway.
I like Romans. They have been invariably friendly and welcoming to me whatever anyone else says.
Croatians, too, are friendly.
Washington D.C., hands down.
You can feel it’s hate and contempt from anywhere in the world.
I never trust anything written by a Conde Nast publication.
Travel is written for New York neurotics that fear leaving The City and must be given direction at every step outside
I have had friends and FReeper friends in New Jersey that are dear, lovely people. But my experience on my one trip to New Jersey was that it was the most unfriendly, unwelcoming place I’d ever been. How nice people exist there, I have no idea.