Cities that you have found to be snooby or stuck up.

[Milwaukee City]

Originally Posted by DinsdalePirahna

The wealthiest family I know (stinking filthy rich wealthy) all drove cares that were at least 15 years old and passed down through the family.

One of the nicest, down-to-earth, unpretentious families I ever met.

Spot On! I notice in Milwaukee's "old money" areas that this is very true. Nothing like an old 1995 Nissan Maxima outside a 3 million dollar home. However once you go out into the "new money" cookie cutter suburbs it's all the latest's and newest cars. You can also tell old money and new money by the type of suits they wear. I remember seeing a local Billionaire wear an old crusty suit with a 5.00 Packer hat that he had picked up at a local thrift shop. Then you see the young stud driving a Ferrari who is 30 yrs old and wears $5,000 suits and has a private plane. I have met and talked to both and you can bet who was the Jag Off and who was the nice guy!

[knrstz]

Tulsa, Oklahoma. I grew up in Oklahoma. Tulsa has the hills, old money and potential. However being stuck in the past has prevented them from advancing. OKC has left them way behind.

[tribecavsbrowns]

Originally Posted by knrstz

Tulsa, Oklahoma. I grew up in Oklahoma. Tulsa has the hills, old money and potential. However being stuck in the past has prevented them from advancing. OKC has left them way behind.

Sounds like Cleveland and Columbus.

[TheRickShawMan]

I would say NYC area (i.e. Manhattan), Los Angeles/orange County (people are materialistic and cocky) and parts of New England have snooty people.

Midwest, where I"m currently living, has more humble and down-to-earth people that I can interact with.

[Alicia Bradley]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

Sarasota, my current location......people are generally unfriendly here...we've been voted "meanest" city on numerous occassions and when it rains many of our residents drown...LOL.(noses too high up in the air).

I'm going to have to agree! I LOVE Sarasota.. my parents live there, and visiting them is like spending a week in a picture book. But some of the service people (especially in the tourist-y areas, like downtown and St. Armand's Circle) are very, very strangely rude. (I've heard Miami's worse.. I'd love to visit sometime and see for myself. I'm not a huge fan of the East Coast of FL in general, but I would love to check out some of Miami's historic neighborhoods.) I live in the DC area now, and, oddly, I've never found DC (or the DC suburbs) to be that snobby. Especially clerks in stores, etc. Parts of Manhattan and Chicago are much, much worse, IMO. I also agree that SoCal natives are usually *not* snobby (with millions of exceptions, of course, just like you'll find anywhere, and in both directions of the 'snobby' continuum).

As for the "Seattle freeze" thing, I'm very skeptical. Seattle, and the entire NW, is the friendliest region of the US, from my experience. I mean, you can be shopping in Seattle and a random stranger (not a homeless person - although I don't necessarily have a problem with a homeless person starting a conversation with me - I mean just an average middle-class person also shopping) will start a friendly conversation with you. If you're coming from another part of the country (almost any part), this can seem downright weird. Other parts of the country I've found to be almost (but not quite) on par with the Pacific NW in this sense are Texas and the Northern Midwest (Wisconsin, etc.).