Posted on 10/23/2007 8:35:21 AM PDT by Space Moose
PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 22) - Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
The city of more than 1.5 million people was also found to be among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly, according to the "America's Favorite Cities" survey by Travel & Leisure magazine and CNN Headline News.
About 60,000 people responded to the online survey -- at www.travelandleisure.com -- which ranked 25 cities in categories including shopping, food, culture, and cityscape, said Amy Farley, senior editor at the magazine.
For unattractiveness, Philadelphia just beat out Washington, D.C. and Dallas/Fort Worth for the bottom spot. Miami and San Diego are home to the most attractive people, the poll found.
But Farley pointed out the results don't mean people in Philadelphia are ugly or the city is a bad place to visit.
"We were asking people to vote on attractiveness, not unattractiveness. Travel & Leisure editors believe there are a lot of attractive people in Philadelphia," she said.
"The relative attractiveness of its residents is only a minuscule factor in evaluating a city's merit."
Philadelphians' self-esteem has been undermined by national surveys showing they are among the fattest people in the United States. The American Obesity Association ranked the city in the top 10 for overweight people every year between 2000 and 2005.
And sporting pride in a city known for the fierce loyalty of its fans has been hurt by not having had a national champion in any of its four main sports since the 76ers won the National Basketball Association title in 1983.
You have a good point (as I live near Seattle and do quite a bit of Business travel
I have a "game" I play when in an airport. It is called "Find the Seattle gate"
. I started this about 10 years ago in Copenhagen airport. Walking down a corridor, looking at people in the gate waiting areas, I can pick out the Seattle flight by the dress and demeanor of the Seattle flight passengers almost every time.
There are two curve balls and they are San Francisco and Portland (OR). Other than that - not even close.
Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women."
“You a “Strangers with Candy” fan?”
The show was loosely based on my life.
I stole a tv.
Big Cracker Medical School?
Of course not. At Big Cracker Medical School, all of the men were handsome, all of the women were beautiful and all of the medical students were above average. Well some of the women were ugly...and some of the students were dumb...and a couple of the orthopedic residents looked like cavemen, but it was a cool place to hang out for 10 years.
you said that, like it's a bad thing....
You sound like a Philadelphia realtor.
I’m not buying.
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Center City has some hotties, but North (including the Northeast), South, and West Philly are home to some disgusting people, and not just in terms of physical attractiveness.
Actually, the “artistes” have discovered Fishtown and Kensington, but there are still plenty of fat, toothless, IQ of 50 locals around “hanging at da tavern” and putting “jimmys” on their ice cream.
I should know, I live 45 from Midtown Manhattan and 40 from Center City, PA.
Again, Center City is OK, just don't go too far north of the Vine Street Expressway, south of South Street (when are they finally going to CONDEMN that Third World outdoor market in South Philthy?), or west of 30th Street Station.
I felt like a raving beauty queen when I was in that town! ;^)
I went to the Franklin Mills Mall once or twice - northeast Philly. Even the grandmothers were dressed like street hoods - way oversized basketball tshirts, hair braided, big silver chains...... ;^)
It never ceases to amaze me why they don’t have two walls: one on Vine (the expressway is not enought) and one on the north at the Bensalem Township line. What’s in between is thugland.
Man, living in Luzerne County, you ladies must feel like you have the beauty of Audrey Hepburn, and the brains of Madame Curie!
c'mon, wait for it... if it (toothbrush) was invented anywhere else, it would've been called a 'teethbrush'...
LOL, I can't wait to tell my husband that one. We moved from NY to Lehigh Valley 3 years ago. We love it here but never in my life have I seen so many toothless people!
Lehigh Valley = Hillbillies, Puerto Ricans, and Amish.
It must be from eating all those pretzels and cheesesteaks.
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