angriest cities

[novelist_wannabe]

Sorry if this is a d_b, but I stumbled across this this morning and thought the results were a little surprising.

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=metrogrades&conitem=9ca8a9f3340dc010VgnVCM10000013281eac____
1. Orlando, FL

2. St. Petersburg, FL

3. Detroit, MI

4. Baltimore, MD

5. Nashville, TN

6. Wilmington, DE

7. Miami, FL

8. Memphis, TN

9. Jacksonville, FL

10. St. Louis, MO

 

[outofplace]

How can they leave New York out of the top 10! **** them!

 

[Bubbler]

I can hear Philadelphia booing from here.

 

[cranberry]

Orlando always makes me angry. I think it has something to do with all of that manufactured happiness they try to peddle at the theme parks. Usually, I'm just trying to get some work done but I'm assaulted by all things Disney every second I'm there. Screaming, sunburned kids on sugar binges. Worn out moms threatening them. Dads vowing never again to stand on such long lines for over-priced rides. I always avoid flying out of Florida from Orlando, too. Planes are filled with the same screaming families fighting over over-head storage space to fit their giant, stuffed Little Mermaid dolls. The golf courses at the Grand Cypress are nice, though.

 

[The Big Ragu]

New York isn't an angry city. Whenever **** happens here--like the blackout a few years ago--people turn incredibly decent. I had to walk about 7 miles to get home. The streets were filled with people walking. It was really hot outside. And storekeepers were handing out free ice cream to anyone who wanted it, figuring it was going to melt anyhow. That struck me as very nice.

I've lived in Chicago and New York. I always said the main difference was that people will stab you in the back in either place. In Chicago, they'll smile to your face and give you the shiv when you are not looking. In New York, they have the decency to show you the knife first. Which is worse?

 

[Trey Beamon]

I can hear Philadelphia booing from here.

Philly booed Santa Claus, for christ sakes, and they're not in the top 10?

 

[slappy4428]

The angriest city is anyone i happen to be in at the time... deal with it

 

[Gold]

I can hear Philadelphia booing from here.

Philly booed Santa Claus, for christ sakes, and they're not in the top 10?

Hey, that was 40 years ago, it was cold, and the Eagles were losing.

And didn't they throw snowballs at Santa Claus?

 

[Lugnuts]

New York isn't an angry city. Whenever **** happens here--like the blackout a few years ago--people turn incredibly decent. I had to walk about 7 miles to get home. The streets were filled with people walking. It was really hot outside. And storekeepers were handing out free ice cream to anyone who wanted it, figuring it was going to melt anyhow. That struck me as very nice.

I was at Laguardia when the blackout happened and encountered the same thing. Folks were naturally concerned about terrorism, and cellphones weren't working, so the NYC cabbies were opening their doors and blasting their radios, relaying info to people who were in turn, relaying it to everyone in the baggage area and upstairs in ticketing. Very cooperative, non-angry atmosphere.

 

[leo1]

strange list. i can see a list of rudest cities but angriest? i don't really buy it.

 

[Bob Cook]

NYC is definitely friendlier than most cities. New Yorkers seem gruff because they move at a fast pace, and because they're all on top of each other. But, yeah, in a crisis great or small they respond. I always remember, from my time there, when there would be community bonding over someone as small as a subway being excrutiatingly late. Suddenly, the walls would come down, and people would start talking to each other about what was going on.

I can understand why St. Petersburg is up there. It's because it's full of old people and the Devil Rays.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Lotta cranky old people in Florida.

But Philly has to be on this list.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

It's that ****ing heat. You want to investigate who is the angriest cities, roll the dice and take your chances. Some of those states have people eating breakfast 90 miles from 4 million Cubans who are trained to kill them, so don't think for one second that you can come down there, flash a survey, and make them courteous.

 

[outofplace]

NYC is definitely friendlier than most cities. New Yorkers seem gruff because they move at a fast pace, and because they're all on top of each other. But, yeah, in a crisis great or small they respond. I always remember, from my time there, when there would be community bonding over someone as small as a subway being excrutiatingly late. Suddenly, the walls would come down, and people would start talking to each other about what was going on.

I can understand why St. Petersburg is up there. It's because it's full of old people and the Devil Rays.

In a crisis, yeah, i'd want to be surrounded by New Yorkers, too. They know how to respond and look out for one another.

Day-to-day, however, is a different story. The fast pace leads to a level of rudeness you find in few other places and patience on the same level as my 3-year-old.

 

[cougargirl]

Agreed on Baltimore. Angry, angry place.

New York, as stated before, is not an angry place. I visited when I moved back east and I remember thinking that in spite of the busy pace and the heat and the priciness, the people there were some of the coolest I'd encountered. Ditto for Boston, which when I was growing up got the rude rap, as well.

 

[shockey]

based upon dawg-pounders, how could cleveland not be on the list? ;D ;D ;D

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Agreed on Baltimore. Angry, angry place.

New York, as stated before, is not an angry place. I visited when I moved back east and I remember thinking that in spite of the busy pace and the heat and the priciness, the people there were some of the coolest I'd encountered. Ditto for Boston, which when I was growing up got the rude rap, as well.

If we're gonna' put Baltimore on this list Pittsburgh can't be too far behind. It's littered with bitchy old people and is ranked one of the worst for single people. How that can't **** people off is beyond me.

 

[BYH]

Wilmington ****ing Delaware is in the top 10? What the **** do you have to be mad about in Delaware?

"Hey! No one stops here on their way to Maryland! Man, **** those guys!"

 

[cougargirl]

You would think the good folks in Delaware would at least be pleased with the fact that they don't have to pay sales tax.

 

[sportsfiend]

The omission of Boston blows me away...

I was crossing the street in front of Boston Medical Center the other day and nearly got run over by some middle-aged prick in a BMW. I had a walk signal, but as the guy cut right off my heels he made sure to honk and give me the oh-so-friendly one finger wave.

Boston is a God-forsaken hell hole of anger...especially when it comes to sports.