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That's what happens when you take 8 million people and put them inside 320 square miles. They'll learn to get along much better than anyone else wants to give them credit for. (We're not quite a friendly if we're forced to listen to someone babbling on about how much "better" some other city than New York is. But in most cases, we can hold our own in the friendly and helpful departments with practically anyone else around the U.S.)
I agree with all of the above posts, however- I would rather have 'fake nice' than 'in-your-face' nasty. Fake nice may be condescending and annoying but 'in-your-face nasty' is soul-crushing. Better to have the former of the two IMHO. I get depressed by it now, having moved back to the good ol' Midwest. But never as depressed as when I was in New York, living it.
LOL, yes, that's something I've learned from time on City-Data. If I ever go south and someone says "Bless your heart" to me, I know it's OK to flip them the bird in response.
People can definitely be rude. You can stretch it to say there just products of their environment or at best they are just average. If someone tells you that New Yorker's are friendly...then they are just pushing it. Matter of fact, tell him to wait two seconds before going on a green light and see how the friendly New Yorkers react.
New Yorkers like to think things like this are true because they like to feel like badasses, but they're really not any different from people in any other large city.
The stereotype is that New Yorkers are rude and reserved, but I've heard many people say New Yorkers, especially after 9/11, are shockingly hospitable and friendly. Is this true?
I would say that NYers are superficially friendly. But they are quite helpful to others when the others ask for directions, etc. in the street.
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