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Oh yeah? I broke down on the Cross Bronx expressway too with my friend. Just like that person's friend, a man pulled over within 2 minutes of us stopping. He looked at it for us, said it couldn't fix it, but we managed to drive a little bit to a shop. And while we were stopped, TWO more people came to ask if we needed help. And remember, the Cross Bronx is a very narrow highway and very difficult to pull over on. These people risked their safety to try and help us. Anyway, he said how he lived in the neighborhood and knew the best shop with good prices. That guy, as well as the guys in the shop, we all really nice. So I guess us NYers really aren't nice.
By the way, this is Rachael84 posting on my mom's name at the moment...
Oh yeah? I broke down on the Cross Bronx expressway too with my friend. Just like that person's friend, a man pulled over within 2 minutes of us stopping. He looked at it for us, said it couldn't fix it, but we managed to drive a little bit to a shop. And while we were stopped, TWO more people came to ask if we needed help. And remember, the Cross Bronx is a very narrow highway and very difficult to pull over on. These people risked their safety to try and help us. Anyway, he said how he lived in the neighborhood and knew the best shop with good prices. That guy, as well as the guys in the shop, we all really nice. So I guess us NYers really aren't nice.
By the way, this is Rachael84 posting on my mom's name at the moment...
I broke down on 75 near Naples Florida and it took 30 seconds for someone to stop and help me
Trust me, New Yorkers look like the most polite people on earth compared to the $$$holes down here.
YES!!!
1. because there are so many transplants in the South Florida Metro Area, can you expect people there to be nice? Not everybody can ignore the differences that others have!
2. so where do you think the #1 rudest drivers ranking for Miami comes from? Do they in general have lives as stressful of those of New Yorkers (#2)? NO WAY! There has to be an explanation for the #1 ranking; many Miamians that are rude drivers must be inherently rude!
I work in a call center which deals with people from all over the nation. IMHO: the places that really are horror shows are :
Florida
California
NYC suburbs (not the city itself)
New England
The rural South
Great Lakes states (IL, WI, MI, OH,)
PA (god awful)
Places/people that are pretty golden:
Texas
NYC itself
Southern cities
Great plains
Pac NW
Franco-phones (no joke)
European tourists except Brits.
This is true, everytime I talked to someone from MA, NJ, PA they were the rudest people ever. NY was actually cool, but the best people were always from MD, AL, TX, LA, CA, NY, GA.
I concur. I have never left this nation except to visit Ontario, Canada (which is practically an extension of us anyways), but I hope to do so someday. When I do one of the FIRST things I'm going to do in order to prepare for my vacation will be to familiarize myself as much as possible with the native language of that particular country. I find many people from the United States to be hypocrites. They whine "learn English" to folks who come here to visit/live from abroad, but when they themselves head overseas, they expect everyone to have a thorough knowledge of English. I know in some European nations nearly everyone is either bilingual or even trilingual. Encourage folks in this nation to consider learning Spanish before they visit Mexico, and you get a "deer in headlights" type of shocked look. I myself am roughly 50% fluent in Spanish, and it was a pleasure one day to assist a woman at a local department store who was asking "Donde esta la escalera?" Most people were rather hostile towards her, but since I was heading towards the escalator anyways I motioned for her to follow me. I have ENJOYED learning Spanish, and I hope to someday learn French as well. However, I think there may be some "limit" to how many languages one can learn, even a polyglot. For example, if I become fluent in English, Spanish, and French, I'm not sure if I'd be able to also learn Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Russian, German, etc. As such, I'd just hope that I would come across residents in Austria, for example, who are at least somewhat knowledgeable in either English, Spanish, or French (which I'd assume most are to at least one of these languages besides German of course).
Take my case : my mother tongue is French, I'm fluent in English AND German, and about 50% fluent in Spanish, have some smattering of Italian, can understand (not talk) some written Dutch and Portuguese, and even know a few words of Russian and Arabic.
And I decided to leave it at that. It's more than enough for a cultured and well traveled individual in our day and age!
It's more than enough for a cultured
I was surprised at the hostility in Mobile, AL - stolen wallet! I've never had a stolen wallet in my whole life in all my travels (including 3rd world countries) and it happened in Mobile, AL...
I was surprised at the hostility in Mobile, AL - stolen wallet! I've never had a stolen wallet in my whole life in all my travels (including 3rd world countries) and it happened in Mobile, AL...
Didn't you know Mobile is the stolen wallet capital of the world?
1 in every 3 people that goes there has their wallet stolen.
Of course I am joking but do you think the actions of one person make a whole city hostile and rude?
Didn't you know Mobile is the stolen wallet capital of the world?
1 in every 3 people that goes there has their wallet stolen.
Of course I am joking but do you think the actions of one person make a whole city hostile and rude?
LOL of course not. It was simply a surprisingly rude action for the south. I would expect that that could happen in certain neighborhoods of northeastern cities, perhaps in Mexico, in China, somewhere where I look like a target perhaps... it was truly the last thing i expected in the deep south. I've been to every state east of the Mississippi including many of the notable cities - I can't say I experienced any surprisingly rude acts except for this! Normally I'm surprised at how nice people are. That happens just about everywhere.
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You're totally right
I myself am roughly 50% fluent in Spanish, and it was a pleasure one day to assist a woman at a local department store who was asking "Donde esta la escalera?" Most people were rather hostile towards her, but since I was heading towards the escalator anyways I motioned for her to follow me. I have ENJOYED learning Spanish, and I hope to someday learn French as well. However, I think there may be some "limit" to how many languages one can learn, even a polyglot. For example, if I become fluent in English, Spanish, and French, I'm not sure if I'd be able to also learn Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Russian, German, etc. As such, I'd just hope that I would come across residents in Austria, for example, who are at least somewhat knowledgeable in either English, Spanish, or French (which I'd assume most are to at least one of these languages besides German of course). 
