[nopardons]

Like any small town, when I was growing up and even as an adult, people in one's neighborhood would smile and/or say "HELLO" when one passed each other on the street. People in stores ( even on Fifth Ave.! ) remembered you and often asked after other members of your family, AND strangers would often chat with you in a bookstore and grocery store.

You know WHO is/are VERY RUDE, in NYC?

TOURISTS and those who just moved there and that has more or less always been the case!

[Alberta's Child]

One of the biggest “cons” to living in NYC is that it hosts a very transient population. I remember reading an article commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and one of the things it pointed out was the astonishing portion of the city’s population (maybe 40% or more) that had moved there since 9/11.