Posted on 01/06/2020 5:27:53 AM PST by Kaslin
Recently, an oft-cited Business Insider survey ranked the rudest cities in America. The top 10 are all bastions of misguided liberalism. They are sanctuaries to illegal aliens and often hostile towards law-abiding citizens by imposing oppressive taxes and silly regulations and by encouraging lawlessness by handcuffing law enforcement.
Intrigued, I compared the Business Insider list to a survey that ranks cities on a conservative-liberal spectrum, and to other surveys that rank by friendliness, safety, and crime. The results are insightful: independent surveys indicate that the rudest, most dangerous, and least friendly cites are overwhelmingly liberal and sanctuary cities. Moreover, some conservative cities that rank more favorably are larger than a few of the degenerate liberal cities.
Let's start by comparing a list of the most liberal cities, as compiled by The Economist and published by Forbes, to the Business Insider list of rudest cities. It's uncanny: two completely separate surveys are almost interchangeable. Indeed, seven cities are on both lists, while neither of the ignominious lists has a single conservative (mostly) city. Juxtaposed is Forbes's list of the most dangerous cities.
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No way Philly is 9th rudest.
I’m gonna make this quick this time because i’ve seen this silliness before.
Got lost a few weeks ago in Brooklyn. Had broken phone and thought i could actually find a hard to locate place in Brooklyn.
I got lost Forever.
Had to ask no less than 10 to 15!! people for help.
In brooklyn, in Terrible neighborhoods, and to my embarrassment, in Manhattan in good neighborhoods.
YES I ended up in Manhattan on the way home to Staten Island! :)
So maybe with those people, I asked 20 altogether.
What a NICE group of people who got their cell phones out and wrote directions and took their time.
While busy with work or going on their way to work or just going home.
Black dudes who looked like gang members, white dudes who looked like self centered businessman.
Women who looked like they wouldn’t trust a guy for one second in this cold, hard city.
ALL of them were great to me.
So before folks start beating their chests about how friendly their neck of the woods are, VISIT and EXPERIENCE a place before you decide on something like this.
It’s AMAZING how so many here WANT to believe that’s what liberal cities are like.
Their politics SUCKS, I’m SURE, all the people that helped me.
Their humanity was a lot better.
bump
Evolution. As people move closer together they have this need for more rules(government). Just look at condo associations. Restrictive. That would make me irritable. In Jeffersons time 90% of the people were farmers and probably enjoyed company.
Same
With all of the large cities listed, Stockton (CA) as the 8th most dangerous sticks out like a sore thumb.
BTTT
I was in Manhattan this past weekend. 100% agree with your assessment. People could not have been nicer. The hotel, Central Park, Hell’s Kitchen, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center - everyone was great. In front of Trump Tower, there were a couple of protesters, but there were also pedestrians telling them off and defending the President!
What part?
Yeah I’m not saying they’re up there with folks from the midwest and south. I’m a realist.
But they’re not as bad as everyone thinks.
You should have gone to an Eagles game. Rude doesn’t begin to describe their “fans”.
Every city in NJ where I live sucks. They all controlled by Democrats. Trenton is the worst.
Even if you know your way around, it’s almost impossible when the city is running in “construction everywhere” mode and projects never seem to complete.
I have family in NY so only go once in awhile. It seemed to me the only time traffic was not in “construction everywhere” mode was when Giuliani was mayor. Since I don’t live there, I don’t know if that was just a coincidence. All I know is that there was no unusual backup at that time.
Since you do live there, would you agree that Giuliani was the only mayor in recent history where the never ending construction projects actually completed?
My mother, a Brooklyn native long resident in Florida, had a series of positive experiences on recent visits back to NYC. Relatives attribute the city’s change in temperament to a booming economy and the renewed sense of pride and common identity that the 9/11 attack prompted. A retired New York cop friend thinks that angelic intervention on my mother’s behalf is a more likely explanation for kind treatment of her by New Yorkers.
Makes sense...
My daughter lives in lower east Manhatten. We visit 2-3x a year and stay in a hotel nearby. We’ve eaten at dozens of restaurants, have taken dozens of Ubers/Lyfts and cabs etc and have consistently run into some of the nicest and accommodating people you could imagine. New Yorkers won’t acknowledge a “good morning” on the street, but they’re always looking down or piddling with their cell when walking.
I’ll tell you the “rudest” city in my opinion is Wilmington DE. I lived there for 3 years in the 90’s. Drive thru and stay overnight and eat out on a regular basis on my way to NYC and am always floored by how rude and obnoxious the locals are. Unattractive and smelly, dirty city as well.
I LOVE Rudy, as do most Staten islanders on the south shore.
But the BQE was no better under him than anyone else.
Those dam unions are too powerful even for Rudy, I think
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