Posted on 08/08/2013 7:40:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States, land of freedom and opportunity, is also the land of scowling faces and folded arms, according to a new poll.
Travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler has unveiled the results of its annual readers' choice survey.
More than 46,000 readers gave their opinions last year on everything from favorite airlines to best hotels and friendliest and unfriendliest cities.
It's the latter category that might cause the most surprises, with U.S. cities dominating the "unfriendly" list.
Newark, New Jersey, is the unfriendliest city in the world according to the survey.
"Newark is best known for being the site of an airport near New York, and for many of our readers, that's the only reason to stop there," says Conde Nast Traveler.
In total, five U.S. cities were voted into the top 10 unfriendly cities list and eight made the top 20. Oakland, California (third), "has an image problem and a split personality" according to a reader who answered the survey.
New Haven, Connecticut (seventh), home of Yale University, is the city of "rude, unfriendly folks;" Detroit (eighth) was called the "armpit of the world" by one reader and Atlantic City, New Jersey (ninth), was dismissed as a "pale shadow of Las Vegas."
Other cities in the list include Islamabad in Pakistan (second least friendly), Luanda in Angola (fourth), Kuwait City (fifth) Lome in Togo (sixth) and Tangier in Morocco (tenth).
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Whooooo HOOO !
Savannah is #16.
(Actually I think we are FAR more friendly here in Savannah than the folks in Charleston. Conde-Nast just likes Charleston better. :)
That’s interesting because I’ve been favorably impressed with all the Venezuelans whom I’ve met in person.
Interesting. Some of the unfriendly ones are big hulking places like LA and Moscow. The friendly ones for the most part are boutique towns of various stripes. Auckland and Dublin might be the biggest of the bunch although some I am unfamiliar with.
RE: Interesting. Some of the unfriendly ones are big hulking places like LA and Moscow.
Bali, Indonesia is a HUGE city with nearly 4 million people. It is Indonesia’s PREMIER tourist destination.
The metro city around Chiang Mai, Thainland has nearly a million people. It is also one of Thaniland’s favorite tourist destination.
My daughter lives near Albany, NY, and the folks there are puzzled at how they got this designation. “But, we’re nice people” is the word heard on the street.
Home of the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field.
That’s when they still had Republicans in CA.
Clearly, Conde Nast misunderstands the target audience.
Oakland and Islamabad are very friendly... if you're an anarchist terrorist.
-PJ
It's not a surprise that these countries are well represented on the "Friendliest Cities" list.
I was there for the TCU/Wisconsin game a couple of years back. They were so gracious in defeat. Friendliest people I have met that didn’t say, “bless your heart.”
If they know you (or of you) then they are nice to you but otherwise..puph!
Me too! I thought I was going to get absolutely slammed on this board for my opinion on Atlanta. Where I grew up, everyone thought Atlanta was “so cosmopolitan.” Yuck. They can keep it. My opinion on Atlanta was cemented during a two-day trip to the Peach Bowl over New Year’s Eve and it seemed like every resident we encountered was of the opinion that we should get the hell out of their city, the sooner the better.
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