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SF might just get spanked in this thread, but I'm sure NY will compete hard.
Honestly, the attitude in SF is way less than what I found in NYC or Boston. I bring out the Bostonian when the going gets tough, and it puts me head-and-shoulders above (below?) the locals...
SF is the city-to-dump-on-du-jour, not just on these forums but in the media, so I'm sure it'll get reamed in this poll. I'm sure by the time I gain consciousness tomorrow, Pollster will again have mentioned the episode of South Park where the fat kid had to wear a suit to protect him from the smugness... which is really a load of crap. People here are much more benign and carefree (*ahem*, cue tired hippie stereotyping...) than they are smug.
The average New Yorker or Bostonian is plenty cool as it is, don't get me wrong... but I've never seen the over-the-top aggressive attitude you get from a burned New Yorker or Bostonian from anyone in SF.
LA has an edge of that, too. I remember the first time someone road-raged at me and demanded, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" ... I answered according to what I saw: "A middle-aged white dude in a polar fleece who's got a problem?" and he threatened to kill me and tried to run me off the road. I heard the "do you know who I am?" line waaaaaaay more in LA than anywhere else in I've been.
I'm surprised that Chicago has gotten any votes... I've never really met anyone from Chicago who had an attitude that I can recall, and when I was there, I encountered few unpleasant or difficult people.
In my travels across the country I have rarely run into a more laid-back city than SF. That's absolutely true. Boston is the city where I've caught the most attitude by far (maybe because I wear a Phillies cap?) even here in Philly it's the Boston fans who come off all aggressive, much more so than New York. Why do Bostonians always talk about beating people up?
People who do the "Do you know who I am" thing to me have no clue who they are screaming at, because I'm just a normal looking white dude. I am a video/photographer and in two seconds flat I start filming whatever is going down while assuring them that if they so much as touch me I will file assault charges. One guy who raged at me drove said 'I'm not afraid of the police' before driving about 200 feet away, stopped and screamed some insults at me and finally disappearing. Thugs and ego-maniacal businessmen alike are far more afraid of the camera than anything else, they know cameras lead to convictions.
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Originally Posted by 415_s2k
Honestly, the attitude in SF is way less than what I found in NYC or Boston. I bring out the Bostonian when the going gets tough, and it puts me head-and-shoulders above (below?) the locals...
SF is the city-to-dump-on-du-jour, not just on these forums but in the media, so I'm sure it'll get reamed in this poll. I'm sure by the time I gain consciousness tomorrow, Pollster will again have mentioned the episode of South Park where the fat kid had to wear a suit to protect him from the smugness... which is really a load of crap. People here are much more benign and carefree (*ahem*, cue tired hippie stereotyping...) than they are smug.
The average New Yorker or Bostonian is plenty cool as it is, don't get me wrong... but I've never seen the over-the-top aggressive attitude you get from a burned New Yorker or Bostonian from anyone in SF.
LA has an edge of that, too. I remember the first time someone road-raged at me and demanded, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" ... I answered according to what I saw: "A middle-aged white dude in a polar fleece who's got a problem?" and he threatened to kill me and tried to run me off the road. I heard the "do you know who I am?" line waaaaaaay more in LA than anywhere else in I've been.
In my travels across the country I have rarely run into a more laid-back city than SF. That's absolutely true. Boston is the city where I've caught the most attitude by far (maybe because I wear a Phillips cap?) even here in Philly it's the Boston fans who come off all aggressive, much more so than New York. Why do Bostonians always talk about beating people up?
Physical fighting seems much more socially acceptable for a wider age range in Boston than anywhere else I've lived... why, I'm not sure... but it seems that it is. It's one of the things that DID take some getting used to from Boston to California: fightin' words in Boston mean there's a good chance you're going to get punched. Possibly by multiple people. Maybe their girlfriends, too. Hell, maybe their kids will take a swing... Here? Whoa... Sorry... Just chill out, man...
There's a reason I have a green t-shirt that says "MAS S HOLE" (without the spaces obviously) in Red Sox font
Yes, the busiest airport in the entire world doesn't help a city become international apparently it just makes people hate on a fantastic city that has the worlds largest aquarium, the birthplace of the most noticed brand (coca-cola) in the world and the birthplace of martin luther king, but yeah it's an international city.
In my travels across the country I have rarely run into a more laid-back city than SF. That's absolutely true. Boston is the city where I've caught the most attitude by far (maybe because I wear a Phillies cap?) even here in Philly it's the Boston fans who come off all aggressive, much more so than New York. Why do Bostonians always talk about beating people up?
People who do the "Do you know who I am" thing to me have no clue who they are screaming at, because I'm just a normal looking white dude. I am a video/photographer and in two seconds flat I start filming whatever is going down while assuring them that if they so much as touch me I will file assault charges. One guy who raged at me drove said 'I'm not afraid of the police' before driving about 200 feet away, stopped and screamed some insults at me and finally disappearing. Thugs and ego-maniacal businessmen alike are far more afraid of the camera than anything else, they know cameras lead to convictions.
and you think is US??
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