[nuconvert]

I have found that if you ask a New Yorker for directions or something, they’re friendly and want to help.
But don’t expect a “HI”, “How are you?” “Can I help you find anything?” at the local grocery store. You’ll be lucky if they even look up or if they count your change back to you rather than just dump it in your hand.

Ahhh, New York

[chargers fan]

Rude or not it seems they will still rally when it counts (i.e. when that Airliner went down in the Hudson).

[cuban leaf]

I’ve heard it said from two different people that have homes in both New York and Seattle that said the same thing: New Yorkers are friendly, while Seattleites are polite.

By “friendly”, they mean that they don’t politely keep you at arms length.

There is even a cartoon about this. Let me see if I can find it. Nope. Couldn’t.

[Larry Lucido]

You just have to know the rules. :-)

[AndyJackson]

I love New York and New Yorkers. The most straightforward people in the world, actually. Want a rude city. Take Washington DC. They lie and lie and lie, and then they steel their money and lie. For the most part New Yorkers leave you alone, unless you need help, and then they actually held. DC, hah, did I say they just want to take your money and lie. Well that is not true. They also appoint themselves as heads of committees and commissions which they then select with the objective of telling you what to do, and why the money they haven't yet taken needs to be handed over, and why they need a government subsidy in the meantime until they get their hands on your money.

Try being a small government constitutional conservative in DC. Then you will find out what rudeness is.

[odds]

I once heard a couple of people who had lived both in NY and California say that if you weren’t exactly welcome, a New Yorker would invite you to lunch, make it short and leave. A Californian would invite you too to lunch but then stay the entire time and just ignore you.

>>”But don’t expect a “HI”, “How are you?” “Can I help you find anything?” at the local grocery store. You’ll be lucky if they even look up or if they count your change back to you rather than just dump it in your hand”<<

That’s how the average Australian does it too in Sydney or Melbourne, unless they know you.

New York, New York... so good they named it 2ice!

[Shery]

My experience, exactly, and I lived there from 1966-1972. ;)