"Is Buffalo the rudest place in America? "

[hedgehog]

"Buffalo, New York, is one of the rudest places in America and residents of New York City are far friendlier than folks in the Midwest and the South, according to a series of maps compiled using Twitter comments.

The head-scratching revelations are the result of studying the prevalence of two simple phrases -- 'good morning' and 'f*** you' -- over the course of several days in June and early July."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191250/Twitter-heat-map-tracks-polite-rudest-cities.html#ixzz24ITulwOX

Buffalo's response: "F-U Daily Mail!

[RagAss]

1. That's weird. Everyone I ever met from Buffalo was very pleasant.

[maveric56]

2. I still think my old hometown, Boston...

Is the rudest.
I was one of them for years.

[smirkymonkey]

43. I'm beginning to agree with you there.

I just moved to Boston (well, I was transferred) after living in NYC for 12 years. I found New Yorkers so much more friendly and more willing to engage in conversation. Bostonians are rather cold and borderline rude. Of course there are exceptions, I have also met some very nice people here as well.

On the whole, Boston is a much less stressful place to live, but I really miss the characters in New York and how willing they were to engage in friendly conversation. I can't tell you how many assholes I have already met here and I have only been here since the beginning of July.

[CabCurious]

73. This is one of the great ironies of America.

Genuine New Yorkers are kind and direct.

Boston is full of nose-in-the-air, rude people who will offer a fake smile with their prejudice.

[Shrek]

69. +1

I vacationed in Boston earlier this summer and it wasn't pleasant.

I won't be back unless work takes me there for some reason.

[phantom power]

3. I used to live in Buffalo. Don't remember any rudeness.

I was probably the rudest hominid for miles around.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. uh uh. as big cities go, Chicago is one of the friendliest

LA? fuggetaboutit.
NY? hardly
Miami? only if the drug deal came through
Houston? Only if you complain about the weather
Dallas? Too many traffic jams for people to ever talk
Cleveland? they don't call it the mistake on the lake for nothing
Indianoplace? they view outsiders as a source of suspicion
St. Louis? They still can't get over the fact that we reversed a rived and sent all our shit down their river.

[Odin2005]

5. NYC is the friendliest? Bullshit! Fargo is the friendliest place in the US!

Minnesotans and North Dakotans score 2nd and 1st on the personality trait of Agreeableness.

[ornotna]

13. Well, that's not very agreeable

[hifiguy]

23. Minnesotans are only friendly, in that weirdly

passive-aggressive Minnesota way we collectively have, if you are "one of us." Twin Citians tend to be pretty cool to real big-city types like Chicagoans, New Yoahkes and Angelenos. Something in the lutefisk, I guess.

[Odin2005]

45. I know exactly what you mean by the passive-aggressiveness, LOL!

Oh, and there is a hilarious book out called How Fargo of You, written by a guy who moved here from Arizona and who was shocked by how nice we are. His very first chapter is about his shock that here in Fargo people pay for gas AFTER you fill up your car, and I thought that was the same everywhere.

One character trait very common around here from elsewhere often are amused by is our tendency for understatement and self-effacement. We are in general very phlegmatic.

[surrealAmerican]

6. People are very likely to respond in different ways ...

... depending on the medium they're using. Just because someone's written communication is "rude" doesn't mean their in person spoken interactions will be the same.

This might be an interesting comparison for further study.

[HopeHoops]

7. Not by any means. Ever been to the DFW area? Now THAT'S rude!

[PDJane]

31. Yep. I have. More than once. And I agree with you.

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And even the ones who are extended family continue to be rabidly pro-gun (apparently being armed solves everything. Sort of.), nastily anti-Obama (they can't tell you why) and outrageously rude. They tell me Toronto is a cold city, and that's possible, but Dallas is hot in more ways than one.

[HopeHoops]

38. Toronto is rather nice. Montreal is a hotbed for strip clubs. Hard call.

[hughee99]

8. Well, if checking twitter comments for several days isn't the best way figure this out

I can't imagine what is.

The maps were kind of neat, but I have to say this is the dumbest survey methodology I've seen in quite some time. Congrats to Vertaline for finding a way to profit from providing such useless information.

[closeupready]

9. Not surprising at all. Upstate NY is unfriendly, even hostile.

From my limited experience taking daytrips there.

[hedgehog]

12. Upstate New York varies depending on whether

you are in an urban area (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse) or a rural area.

[closeupready]

14. True - thank you for that correction.

Some of my favorite people were from Rochester/Buffalo.

[CabCurious]

26. no, it depends on weAther

Those people live without sunshine for most of the year.

[PDJane]

32. It's been my experience that those with heat and sunshine most of the year

Have their brains fried. It's either that, or something in the air.

[CabCurious]

34. Touche!

[Earth_First]

44. pffft

we'll survive without you...

-Rochester

[petronius]

46. My Buffalo-bred wife would whomp your behind for calling Buffalo "upstate NY"!

Of course, that would be extremely rude of her - but we all know how those Buffalonians are.

(I've been reliably informed that Buffalo is 'Western NY', not 'upstate.' It's not a mistake I'll make for a second time...)

[CabCurious]

49. That's only because Buffalonians have Albany Association Syndrone (AAS)

[Inkfreak]

57. Oswego, NY hostile?? I think not.

I invite you to check us out sometime. Try during Harborfest. It's wonderful.

And I travel extensively thru all of NY & I find the people to be as fantastic as the scenery.

[closeupready]

60. Okay, it's a date.

And I agree, it's one of the most beatiful states and places, not only in the US but in the world.

[panader0]

10. My friend from Boston says the difference between the West Coast and the East Coast

is that on the West Coast people say "Have a nice day." when they mean "fuck you", and on the East Coast people say "Fuck you" when they mean "Have a nice day".

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. bless your heart.

[Zen Democrat]

11. From my experience, Boston is the rudest; Houston is the friendliest.

[2ndAmForComputers]

17. From my experience...

...no way in hell.

[fleur-de-lisa]

29. New Orleans is the friendliest . .

oh, wait; we're just drunk all the time.

[crimson77]

36. Boston people are nice, not the nicest, but nice.

Nicest people in America are from the central coast of California, I.E Santa Barbara.

Rudest people in America are from Los Angeles. I exclude Santa Monica and Pacific Palasides from LA

[CabCurious]

50. Not in my experience. Boston is certainly the snottiest, rudest place I've been in the USA

[Art_from_Ark]

52. San Bernardino, CA sucks big time

It's one of the crappiest American cities I've ever been in.

[2ndAmForComputers]

15. Hardly.

And that's all I'm going to say on the subject, lest a swarm of "REGIONAL BIGOTRY!!111!!!" posts flies in my general direction.

[hedgehog]

16. The data actually indicates that Buffalo is the most honest city!

[hedgehog]

18. It's all my fault - five of my children are in residence there!

[SidDithers]

19. I disagree...

Buffalo is a very friendly city. We were in Amherst a few weeks ago and didn't run into any rudeness. People went out of their way to be polite and helpful.

Even the DUers from Buffalo, with a few exceptions, are awesome.

Sid

[AnotherMcIntosh]

59. Buffalo is a very friendly city? You probably ran into Canadian tourists.

[Yavin4]

20. Well, If Your CIty Lost 4 Superbowls In A Row

you wouldn't be so nice and friendly either.

[hedgehog]

22. Buffalo: City of No Illusions

[CabCurious]

51. That's just mean

[blueamy66]

66. Okay, that just hurts!

[TrogL]

24. I've been to both cities

I found NYers to be idiosyncratic but overall nice to deal with. Can't say the same for Buffalo.

[CabCurious]

25. Buffalonians aren't rude. They are just cold, deprived of sunlight, and lonely.

[hedgehog]

33. Once, it was completely overcast every day from November to February,

and I didn't notice until there was a photo in the paper proving that the sun indeed still existed!

I also read once, but can't find it now, that Buffalo has the fastest talkers and the fastest walkers in the nation. That only makes sense; who wants to stand around talking in the wind and cold!

Seriously- Buffalo has pretty good weather 9 months of the year, and the wind keeps the mosquitoes away!









and if you like Winter, four

[CabCurious]

35. The fact that you have to post photographic proof of sunlight existing in Buffalo...

[hedgehog]

39. Well, Buffalo occasionally does get some spectacular weather

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=3742

but then we celebrate by staying home and drinking beer!


“Stay inside, grab a six-pack and watch a good football game,” The Mayor during the Blizzard of 1985.



Buffalo's Blizzard Mayor at his home in South Buffalo

Buffalo Mayor Jimmy Griffin — feisty, independent and at times irascible. He fought his way through the Korean War, some nasty city politics and perhaps a couple of street brawls. The 56th and longest-serving Buffalo mayor, James D. Griffin was as familiar a figure as the city has ever known. Griffin was elected to four terms as mayor and was given credit for a resurgence in downtown Buffalo and its waterfront, especially in the early years of his administration. Buffalo’s Griffin era began Jan. 1, 1978.

[CabCurious]

48. :)

[liberal N proud]

27. If you had to live through the winters they do...

You might be grouchy too.

But I have not experienced any rudeness from Buffalo, no more than you receive in Cleveland or New York or any other easter city. But that is my midwest upbringing that makes me think people in the east are ruder than they are in the middle of the country.

Just how it feels to this transplanted Iowa boy.

[fishwax]

28. lol -- that sounds like very sound methodology

[phylny]

37. Having worked in NYC and lived in the midwest, my experience was

that New Yorkers are fantastic, funny, and friendly, while the people in Northwest Indiana were a cold, bigoted bunch. Just my experience, though

[mmonk]

40. Well Carolina Hurricanes fans think so.

[1-Old-Man]

41. Some of the rudest people I've ever met were in the townships in SW PA

All those little towns, they call them "townships" surrounding Pittsburgh, I have to go up there a couple of times a year, some of the rudest people I've ever run across in my life. And its not like running into rude people only happens now and then, its every single time I have to go up that way.

[MadrasT]

47. Absolutely agree.

Basically, Pennsylvania west of the Susquehanna River is full of nasty.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

42. I never really thought of Buffalo as rude so much as suffering from hubris

I grew up and lived most of my life 1/2 hour away in Canada, and when I think of Buffalo I tend to think of a dumpy, dingy place with a lots of loud annoying used car salesmen and Buffalo Bills and Sabres fans. Buffalo tv and radio stations are unbearable.

[KurtNYC]

54. WKBW, Major Tom and Flo Sweetley, Bowling for Dollars

cheap beer and hot wings, beef on 'wick, red hots and white hots, Genessee Cream Ale, and OJ Simpson.

Some of the funniest people I have ever met are from Buffalo. If they tweet'd "F--k You" it was probably in a fun and teasing sense. I grew up 30 miles east of Buffalo and people in that area love to tease each other. Some of my best friends and I would endulge in faux insult wars on the school bus: "That is one ugly shirt." "I got it from YOUR closet." etc.

[blueamy66]

67. thanks for the memories....reallly....

We went back every Summer and stayed with my Grandmother for 2 weeks. Slept on the floor in front of the tv.

Major Tom

Bowling for Dollars

Wings, beef on weck, Ted's hot dogs, Cream Ale and OJ

What was the name of the lemon ice and beef fast food place???

Gotta copy your post and send to my cousins, who are still there.

[KurtNYC]

70. Oops - "Commander Tom" -- Major Tom was a Bowie lyric from the same period

They had no budget so they would just go to a close up of the puppet when he was speaking for it.

I can still do the Buffalo accent when the mood strikes -- "Fer krice sake, don't cry over spelt melk."

"Tell" for 'ask' and dropping "to" -- "Hey, tell your Mahm if you kud come over my house fer dinner."

[blueamy66]

71. You're right....I didn't catch it!

I can still talk "Buffalo" as well.....

[jumptheshadow]

68. Ted's charcoal hots...

...boating on the Niagara River (and you're MIDDLE CLASS), visiting Niagara Falls on a day trip, growing up close to Canada, Friday fish fries, trips to the cider orchards in fall, being able to hang with people who still listen to good rock music, tail-gating at Bills stadium at one of the few parks that is affordable and amenable to non-corporate types.

[Romulox]

62. You know that 99.9999% of people in the world aren't on TV? I just read a long article about

regional dialects. I couldn't believe the "evidence", such as it was, was largely drawn from watching local tv news.

Here's a hint: TV newscasters aren't likely from the town where they read the news!

[lunatica]

53. I always thought Joliet, Illinois was the unfriendliest

Especially in the miserable bone chilling Winter. But of course, I haven't been to every city or town.

[MarianJack]

55. My father had a standing joke for whichever city he was in.

He ask a person "you know what's really great about (insert city name here)?"

When the person asked "What?", he'd say "It's not Buffalo!"

PEACE!

[valerief]

56. The Capitol in DC is the rudest place in America. They kill Americans. That's rude. nt

[Inkfreak]

58. Anchor Bar wings. Suicidal.

So hot they make a lot of people say "fuck you!".

[dembotoz]

61. be an active and open pro choice democrat in a very republican area

you will find out what rude is


and i kind of like provoking them

[jumptheshadow]

64. Rule Number One:

Visit a place before you criticize it. Buffalo is actually a very friendly town and very down-to-earth.

[blueamy66]

65. Buffalo's response: "F-U Daily Mail!

nuf said

[mysuzuki2]

72. The rudest place in the world is my front porch.

If you ring my bell and wake me up on saturday morning to tell me about your religion