Americans - the planet's most unfriendly people?

I'd suggest that "Not Following" be Dayton's custom user title, but he'd think it was a compliment.

And you know this... how?

Some guy.

The United States is not a generally friendly country...and I've lived here all my life. Many Americans aren't even friendly toward each other! By the way, if you don't speak decent English when you come here, you'll be treated as sub-human (at best).

Frankly, in my travels, the two countries with the warmest people are the UK and Austria.

Often by people who, despite it being their first and only language, have a relatively poor grasp of English themselves...

Or at least not an indecent grasp of how to use it decently. But like less for fewer, that's a common one.

Well, damn....you're saying that if I say something stupid it makes more sense than the comments you think are intelligent and well reasoned? Well, I find that a very humble admission from you Mr. Kitchens. Thank you.

Reminds me of the urban legend of the guy who got annoyed at the woman who was speaking her native tongue on her cell phone and told her if she wanted to speak Mexican to go back to Mexico, so she told him she was speaking Navajo and if that's how he felt he should return to England

She could've said she was speaking Arabic just to mess with his mind.

Why would a Navajo woman claim that?

Please remind me of your superior intellect (I can't believe you're forcing me to quote Star Trek).

Ahh, but don't you see! Dayton is saying he is as dumb as the guy in the story!

Can mine be "Gets under Dayton's skin"?

The overwhelming majority of those places (with the possible exception of Vegas, Miami, and Frankfurt) are populated largely by socialists.

Speaking of, when are you moving from Portland?

I found the people in Paris to he quite friendly. Some of that might be what Paladin suggests -- they appreciated my efforts to at least start the conversation in French. But I think there is more to it than just that. I live in one of the cities that made Chup's list, and have been to most of the others. I really never thought any of them have seemed rude, which makes me think that maybe people who live in global cities just have a different mode of interaction that can seem rude to somebody who finds it unfamiliar. I tend to see rudeness, for example, in artificial politeness. But others might find it rude when such mannerisms aren't present.

As I said up thread, in reality it's all bullshit. There are good and bad in all cities.

That said, I've got to say that, hands down, the friendliest I experienced was Tehran....and I'm not just saying that because "reasons". It genuinely was.

Moscow, Russia at number 1, eh? Color me shocked.

I've been to 12 of the 15, that being one of them. And yeah, they probably do deserve that spot, but even there, it was only certain Muscovites that were an issue, far from all.

I imagine places where you have very little personal space lead to people putting up some extra walls...

Russians are rude as fuck, in my experience.

@gul



Not metropolitan here, but I got along with those in both Paris, Nice, and Munich.



If you approach respectful of the area you earn respect. I can saythe same of everywhere I've traveled in the US.

Yet another list that Detroit didn't make.

What do you mean?

I'm going to remember that one

@Beck: Austria is full of very friendly people, the most friendly country in German-speaking Europe by far IMO. Except for Vienna. These guys can be extremely rude to tourists, damn... Like they are a different breed compared to other Austrians. Really weird.

Canadians are very nice in general in my experience. However, when I crossed the border from British Columbia to the Seattle area, it was like landing on a different planet. Full of rude people. Especially Seattle itself, the surrounding area was ok. I am speaking from a tourist perspective, of course.

Zurich is horrible. A total shithole full of arrogant cunts. Except when you look rich by wearing suit and tie, then they will treat you like a god. I studied there for a few years.