Readers: Is Boston really one of the rudest cities in America?
A new study found Boston to be the fifth rudest city in the country. You wanna make something out of it?
It’s easy to write off criticisms about Bostonians from outsiders, but this time the call is coming from inside the house.
A new study conducted by Preply surveyed over 1,500 residents of the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., asking them about the rudeness level in their particular city — and Boston was ranked by its own residents as the fifth rudest city in America, behind only Philadelphia, Memphis, New York City, and Las Vegas.
We’re also the only city to appear twice on the list of most common rude behaviors: drivers not slowing down for pedestrians, and people generally ignoring others around them. Boston is apparently guilty of both.
And we can’t blame it on the newcomers either. According to the respondents, Boston also has some of the rudest native residents in the country. (Second only to Philadelphia.)
Do you agree with your fellow Bostonians? Is Boston really that rude of a city, or has this study been infiltrated by transplants trying to tarnish our good name?
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