Santa Fe is the 17th rudest city!!!! (Albuquerque: house, DMV)

[steel7]

There are rude people wherever you go. Its just the way it is & always will be.

[charlesbarkley]

Originally Posted by Ragtopvette

Are schools are almost dead last so 17th sounds pretty good... We would be last in driving and road etiquette.. Especially if your behind a ******* in a toyota prius or Subaru with Texas or Arizona plates. I was stuck behind one of the jerks on Hyde park driving 35mph when finally I had a chance to pass his ass on the two lane road behind the post office he had the nerve to flip me the bird, So, I slammed on my brakes in front of him walked back to his car and punch him in the face. I bet he will think before giving someone the finger again. Next time it may be a lead pipe....

LOL.

how has this god blessed gem of a post gone overlooked this long?

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by aries63

This is good: in 2009 the same magazine that did this ranking (Travel & Leisure) ranked Santa Fe as the 12th friendliest city for visitors... ... So if you're the 17th rudest and 12th friendliest, what does that mean exactly?

Anybody who understands math could easily answer that one. Obviously there are 28 cities total! Santa Fe is 17th from one end and 12th from the other end. I'm glad I took the time to explain this simple application of deductive reasoning and math to y'all.

I always thought there were more cities than that...

[m92tiger]

Originally Posted by aries63

This is good: in 2009 the same magazine that did this ranking (Travel & Leisure) ranked Santa Fe as the 12th friendliest city for visitors:

America's Friendliest Cities

So if you're the 17th rudest and 12th friendliest, what does that mean exactly? Or have things really gone downhill fast from 2009-2011?

nice catch. I've seen this kind of thing with these kinds of lists before. One day, it's the up and coming city to move to; the next day it's a down and out city filled with foreclosures (and no, I'm not alluding to Santa Fe - merely thinking of cities on these lists in the past where one day they were on top and literally (well kind of literally) the next day they were on the bottom) - I've thought that maybe these lists are driven by realtor revenues and pay offs by state/city govts and/or realtors. Like the bigger the pay off, the higher on a good list the city goes; the lower the payoff or no payoff at all - down with the city to the bad list and a high ranking on the bad list.

[SWCreature]

I've seeing plenty of rude behavior in Santa Fe but I've seeing plenty of rude behavior in many places. What I think is the main issue in Santa Fe is the "negative vibes" that exist between those who have little and those who have a ton.
By the way, I think that most of that energy goes from the locals towards anyone that's not from here and then from the new locals, meaning those that have lived here for a couple of decades towards the "new" new locals and then between the poor and the rich, regardless of "local" status.
This part of Santa Fe, I dislike and have never been able to get used to it.
...and yes, I did read what I just typed and it seems confusing to me as well ;-)

[lemon&lime]

Yes, indeed, with Albuquerque not far behind.

[mortimer]

Originally Posted by lemon&lime

Yes, indeed, with Albuquerque not far behind.

OH! I missed you soo soo much!

It's too bad this post is off topic and will have to be deleted.

[KundaliniGirl]

I had the best experience imaginable with regard to friendliness in SF. I posted another thread about our visit there.

KG

[lemon&lime]

No, there aren't "rude people everywhere you go"--- some places are much ruder than others.

Originally Posted by steel7

There are rude people wherever you go. Its just the way it is & always will be.

[catman]

Oh, yes; there are rude people everywhere, as steel7 stated. What silly rankings those are in any case. It all depends on where in a town one happens to be, what the person doing the study is projecting, preconceptions, etc. what one's impressions are.