Ranked: The Unfriendliest States In America

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Lifestyle magazine Best Life released a list of all 50 states ranked from the nicest to the rudest in late 2020. It looked at indicators from other surveys, such as those for rudest cities and drivers, unfriendliness and impolite behaviour with customer service employees.


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I'm surprised to see some of the Mountain and Midwestern states make the list. Not really surprised about Nevada and Arizona because states that have lots of transplants seem to be unfriendly from my experience. I'm really surprised Florida didn't make the list because I lived in South Florida (again, lots of transplants) for 18 years and felt it was one of the most unfriendly places I've ever experienced. Not so with Northern and Central Florida, so maybe that is what kept them off the list.

I've also found New Yorkers get a bad rap. Some of the friendliest and most helpful people I've met have been in NYC, once you engage them, and the people in Upstate New York seem to be hard-working, down-to-earth people.
 

Capt Lightning said:
Of the states that I've been in, I think that Florida was the least friendly.
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I was born there, you stinker!🦨
haha...I'm totally joking :giggle:
...but I really was born there, moved when I was 4
Now that I think of it, my cousin wasn't friendly at all :unsure:
But my Uncle took us out on his Sail Boat many times visiting over the years👍
 
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dseag2 said:
I'm surprised to see some of the Mountain and Midwestern states make the list. Not really surprised about Nevada and Arizona because states that have lots of transplants seem to be unfriendly from my experience. I'm really surprised Florida didn't make the list because I lived in South Florida (again, lots of transplants) for 18 years and felt it was one of the most unfriendly places I've ever experienced. Not so with Northern and Central Florida, so maybe that is what kept them off the list.

I've also found New Yorkers get a bad rap. Some of the friendliest and most helpful people I've met have been in NYC, once you engage them, and the people in Upstate New York seem to be hard-working, down-to-earth people.
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I agree...I moved to Florida a few years ago. I live in central Florida and from the beginning was always impressed with how friendly everyone is...In fact, I just recently ran into a couple of females who were actually rude and I thought to myself how unusual that was. :D
 
I think any State and especially any larger city within that State can have times where unfriendliness occurs. Colorado was not on the list, but I expect there has been many of experiences where people have encountered unfriendly people in Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and any other city in Colorado.
 
Snow74 said:
Tip Toe through the Tulips…I live in Canada…( totally irrelevant) so many serious topics today…😁😁😁
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I live in Canada too and I am going to put in my "2 cents" from Canada. From traveling around the world and traveling to all 10 provinces and having lived for years in 3 of those provinces I would say, from my experience:

Most friendly province - Saskatchewan (people have invited me into their homes for coffee)
Most Unfriendly province - BC; closely followed by the Toronto area of Ontario.

Sorry BC folks; a lot of nasty stand offish types in that province. However, I have family in the Okanagan and they are real nice. Not so for those "survivalists" living in the bush. They are mean and nasty with big bad dogs.
 
I don't think you can label an entire state as friendly or unfriendly. Generally, small town folks tend to be more friendly than big city folks in my view and that could be in any state.
 
I've lived in different areas of Canada, traveled a small part of the U.S. and lived in Australia. In general, I found people friendly, with the odd rude/ignorant person thrown in here and there. Overall, I think that what you emanate, comes back to you.
 
Signe The Survivor said:
I think any State and especially any larger city within that State can have times where unfriendliness occurs. Colorado was not on the list, but I expect there has been many of experiences where people have encountered unfriendly people in Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and any other city in Colorado.
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I totally agree with you.
Many a large city may be filled with some rude... but to list whole state seems a bit ridiculous.
Many on the list i found very nice smaller cities but the larger ones some are just to be avoided.
 
For heaven's sake! Like I said, the article is simply click bait, not some scientific study. Friendliest, unfriendliest, most overweight, most underweight. What's next, cities with the most psycopaths? People are people. It's a crapshoot. The day you're wherever might just be the day a person who's having a bad day is in the same place. Or a person having a great day might be there. Or all the people you see are overweight, underweight, blue-eyed, tall, short, educated, fill-in-the-blank. Give it a rest.
 
Signe The Survivor said:
...Colorado was not on the list, but I expect there has been many of experiences where people have encountered unfriendly people in Denver,...
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Well truth be known, I love Denver and their people BUT I got ticked off on a visit to Denver when I had to go to the hospital and parked between 8am and 9am on a Tuesday...which happened to be Street Cleaning Day.

I went to the judge and explained that I never saw the sign until I found the ticket on my car. The sign had way too much information to read, printed in tiny type, especially when I was visiting my daughter with a lot on my mind in an unfamiliar area.
She ignored me and said "that'll be $50". No smile. No "welcome to Denver but be more careful". Just a deadpan look.
 
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Lara said:
Well truth be known, I love Denver and their people BUT I got ticked off on a visit to Denver when I had to go to the hospital and parked between 8am and 9am on a Tuesday...which happened to be Street Cleaning Day.

I went to the judge and explained that the sign had way too much information to read, printed in tiny type, especially when I was visiting my daughter with a lot on my mind in an unfamiliar area. She ignored me and said "that'll be $50". No smile. No "welcome to Denver but be careful". Just a deadpan look.
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I bet you that judge was having a bad day. I am not saying you would have not had to pay the $50 fine, but to just say that and that is it is not the way of an official. Most officials in Denver are pleased to have visitors to the city and State because it means revenue and they go out of the way to be friendly. Even judges but it seems like your case may have come after a few testy cases she must of had. I am sorry this happened to you and especially in the situation you were in. In my opinion hospitals should have free parking even for visitors. You are going through enough stress having to be there in the first place.
 
Thank you @Signe The Survivor . You are sweet. I did find everyone else to be very friendly in Denver. You can always find an odd sort anywhere. In fact, a Denver Bronco, Demarcus Ware, who was a complete stranger to me (he was friends with my daughter), paid for a week for me to stay in a really nice hotel with all sorts of perks from the staff there because they knew Demarcus. He gave me a free ticket to his football game too. The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. Generous to many.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Of the states that I've been in, I think that Florida was the least friendly
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dseag2 said:
I lived in South Florida (again, lots of transplants) for 18 years and felt it was one of the most unfriendly places I've ever experienced.
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Serenity4321 said:
I moved to Florida a few years ago. I live in central Florida and from the beginning was always impressed with how friendly everyone is...In fact, I just recently ran into a couple of females who were actually rude and I thought to myself how unusual that was.
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I think that depends on what part of Florida you are talking about, Florida is a large and diverse place. If its the southern part of the state I would agree, but I find that as you go north the more friendly people get. The area I last lived in, a rural north Florida area near Tallahassee the people are quite friendly. But most places tourists go are not so good.

When people used to ask us how far we were from Disney World my standard answer was "not far enough". We were actually a 5 hour drive, maybe a safe distance.
 
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Chet said:
I don't think you can label an entire state as friendly or unfriendly. Generally, small town folks tend to be more friendly than big city folks in my view and that could be in any state.
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But Chet, you are labeling small towns and big cities. They have as much diversity as whole states do (well, the big cities do, anyway).
 
Lara said:
My state isn't on the list but these types of lists
are more about getting you to scroll through all the ads.
Not sure how accurate they are...but they were right about mine 😊

In fact, I don't recall seeing any from the south.
Must be our southern charm ;)
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I agree. You have to scroll through ad after ad to see if your state is listed. This is more a marketing ploy than a scientific study. And reall,y how can you accurately judge how everybody in a region is friendly or unfriendly?
But I think a true scientific study would be cool.
 

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