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Lol at people saying NY'ers aren't rude, we just don't have time to say thank you or please. Um - yes, that is the definition of rude. People in NY are generally ruder than any other place in the country. At any given time, there's ten million people in the city, so of course there are exceptions.
I think it generally stems from every thing in this city comes with stress - just getting from point a to b. Also, we are packed in like rats and see so many people, it somewhat desensitizes you. There was a dead homeless guy at 12:30pm on the corner of William and Wall Street about two weeks ago - a doorman of one of the buildings called the cops, but most people couldn't be bothered or were even snapping pictures.
There are so many people, and so diverse that the majority of people you just don't have a single thing in common with. For 99% of the history of mankind! people lived amongst people of similar culture, values, goals, etc. Western civilization is really a test case in whether extreme multiculturalism truly works.
After you live here long enough you just don't have any patience for putting up with other people's crap. Especially when it's the fiftieth time you've heard the same sob story that week. Get to the point so we can get on with our miserable lives already.
At the rate the natives are leaving, dying, forced to leave, being replaced its only a matter of time to the new new yorkers are gonna be ***** punks constantly asking "is it safe".
NYC people have that generalization. Long Island people tend to be stuck up and spoiled. I can attest to this, I grew up around people who literally had anything they wanted growing up in very wealthy families.
Upstate NYers tend to be a lot more friendlier in my experience. I met quite a few in college and found them to less resonate this New York stereotype as others from Queens/LI.
I graduated college and moved to NYC recently from Indiana, and surprisingly, I do not find people here any more or less rude, rushed, etc. than back home. I don't see the stereotype either.
Lol New Yorkers tend to do everything fast and ****, women most of them are rude and think they're on top of the world, most people are selfish, as also seen in basketball where people go one on one and never pass the ball. Plus idk it's just a life not worth living you're always stressed always in a hurry for no reason. Just be happy.
I don't think the "rude" stereotype is well-deserved. Sure, due to the fast-paced nature of the beast in much of NYC (not true everywhere, of course), you may not hear as many pleasantries as you do in other parts of the country (I actually think that this is where a lot of the stereotype comes from), I've found that most NYers seem to be very nice if you actually do get the chance to talk to them. Whether from giving out directions to providing advice on places to eat, drink, sleep, etc.
I never understood this stereotype either. I think people often mistake the fast pace here, and people running around in a rush for rudeness.
Whenever I hear this stereotype I imagine tourists from Kansas or Montana or something somewhere in a busy street in Midtown blocking/slowing the flow of pedestrian traffic and wondering why people are annoyed with them.
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