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I live near Boston and work in Boston every day, and most people are RUDE, RUDE, RUDE - no doubt about it.
They push, they shove, they knock you down if you're walking too slowly. I think the "mindset" that I see is that everyone (the rude ones) think they are "important". That's why they're so rude.
We finally got a light at the crosswalk on a very busy street that everyone takes coming out of the train station, but do people wait for the light to change? NO - they're STILL going across when there are cars coming from both directions. They're so arrogant, like "look at me, I'm SO important at my job, and I just MUST beat you across the street".
DuPage County, Illinois, hands down! Locals there are known to call the police on anyone who is not a neighbor and does something as harmless as ride through on a bicycle.
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New Englanders are insular and nasty.
It's amazing how most people here are city centric, yes that's often true of Boston, and Connecticut, but go up to New Hampshire, and Vermont. I've not been in Maine, but people speak highly of its recreational state parks and resorts, Kinnebunkport, camping, seafood, and research facilities, etc.
The farther you get from NY/North New Jersey the better it gets in both directions in terms of less insularity and not nearly as nasty.
I'll say though that New Englanders even way up there are very independent still, for touristy, education, but agricultural based economies.
Rural areas in the South. Especially if you aren't a White Baptist Republican.
I would think any city big enough that didn't feel like everybody knows everybody would be big enough that anybody could fit in.
yeah, to some degree... any city below 5000 people maybe...
even then some, i saw this video of several 'hillbillies' who loves nascar is conservative and covert to Islam. They didn't know each other. One stuck out in my mind he lives in a tiny town and married a native Arab or Muslims or whatever, he is conservative and his wife did wear the headscarf. He made a interesting comment actually he said 'everyone here doesn't really treat us any differently, perhaps its because they see me and see me as an all out American guy and see her and go 'ok' '... then he made a remark about when he walks around 'all of the town people think "wait! whats she doing with him???" and when they walk around the Muslims they think "whoa! what is she doing with him?"
so to some degree some are rude, but they are rude people everywhere. Cities always seem to be rude to me, the countryside is much friendlier.
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Originally Posted by triton1
From my experience, New Yorkers are not that rude at all, even in Manhattan!
they don't make much an impression on me, I was reading around there threads and found an "i hate tourists" thread... they hate anyone who isn't from NY, or at least the people who posted. The misrepresent us by throwing eggs at brits... I mean... it made me sorta of angry, I would love to see that amount of tourists in Dallas, but they seem to take it for granted.
DuPage County, Illinois, hands down! Locals there are known to call the police on anyone who is not a neighbor and does something as harmless as ride through on a bicycle.
Sounds like Kennesaw,GA. The police were called on my for riding my bicycle at night. That to me sounds like an "I'm scared of whoever is outside because he or she could be a robber" attitude.
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