- The rudest city in America is New York City, according to a new Insider survey of 2,092 US adults.
- Just over a third of respondents said NYC was the rudest, followed by Los Angeles at 19.7%.
- The rankings are based on two online polls conducted in October and November 2019 — American adults were asked to choose the five rudest cities from a list of the 50 largest metro areas in the country.
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Americans have a lot of opinions on where they think their rudest residents hail from.
Stereotypes — or sports rivalries — often color these assumptions.
In October and November, Insider conducted a survey of more than 2,000 American adults, asking them to choose the five rudest cities in the US from a list of the 50 biggest cities.
The rudest city in America, according to the survey, is New York City. It was rated rude by 34.3% of respondents, which was almost twice as much as the next highest city on the list.
As a Smithsonian essay pointed out, New Yorkers might not be rude, so much as overly familiar. With no space for privacy, what would be people’s private lives in the city of nearly 9 million are viscerally public.
Here are the 50 rudest cities in America, ranked from least to most rude.
