What State, have you found the most unfriendly people?

In my experience, it’s a three way tie between Idaho, Wyoming, and Alaska.

I don’t know about rudeness, but I don’t really like a lot of people from the bible-belt states. They’re so much different from coastal states, not as intellectual, not very concerned about over-consumption or polluting—and very obsessed with Walmart. :(

I’ve lived in the midwest for about 3 years now and whenever I go back to California everyone is much friendlier and more aware of how their actions affect others. I’m sure it’s just my experience though.

I don’t run into that often.
One of the friendliest places I have ever been,and hope to eventually live, is North Carolina :)

Haha, I have to go with Alaska.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities sorry, forgot to tell you. Alaska has the mind set, of “I don’t know you, so fuck off!” lol

Parts of Michigan.

The state of confusion.

Mississippi.

New York.

I have a thick southern drawl and I always say “yes sir” and “no sir” and “thank you ma’am” and so on.

I was in NYC and I told a waitress “thank you ma’am” when she gave me my food. She went absolutely apeshit. Started saying that I’m being condescending and asking where a little “hickfuck” like me “gets off.” I left.

I also got a really weird look for asking “may I please have some ketchup?” in a McDonalds there. The woman gave me a really weird look and said “whadda fuck ya think this is goddamn green acres or somethin’?”

I was unaware that vinegar is the condiment of choice there.

Now I’m positive that these were extraordinary examples of bitchitude, and not all New Yorkers could possibly be like this, but I’ve never experienced any kind of bigotry like that anywhere else and it did leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Southern Illinois….I went down there, was called a Yankee, spit at and told to get the hell out of town. Last time I ever go visit my sister….sheesh!

I don’t like Massachusetts at all. The people in Boston suck.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Welcome to my world. New Yorkers suck.

@Adirondackwannabe, I’m sorry :-/

Nothing for you to be sorry about. They suck. It’s the way it is.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I have found some of the friendliest people I know in Alaska. They are a little abrupt, but when you have 3months of dark, you have to get things done in a hurry when the sun is out.

Most unfriendly place in the US I have ever been is Philadelphia.

State of mind.

I have found good and bad everywhere. End of the day 50/50.

New York… pretentious, condescending, fuck you for being from somewhere else

Some of the finest people I know live in New York. Sweethearts.

It’s a numbers game.

You guys should go to Oregon, we’re super-friendly there :) Just look at me.

The most unfriendly country I ever visited was France. The next most unfriendly place was Corsica…a French possession.

@ChazMaz is right as usual. It’s a numbers game. But my answers are New Jersey and D.C. I have NEVER been castigated by a restaurant employee in my Life until I went to a scaggy NJ buffet.
Which was not as bad as the raving B at the Smithsonian. I asked her a question on the steps and she said something like, “how the heck would I know?” Or worse. I was Stunned.

I’ve always Heard that New Yorkers and Bostonians are very rude but I don’t know from personal experience. Anyway, maybe niceness is overrated? A daughter told me New Yorkers are brash and crude until they get to know you better. Like they don’t trust people at first.

Just so you know, NYers are only condescending because we have every right to be; we’re better than everyone else.~

Since I’ve lived in NY for my whole life (except for the two months I spent living on the west coast until I had to make a choice between killing myself or coming back home), that’s where I’ve found the most unfriendly people. But it’s also where I’ve found the nicest people. So I don’t think that counts.

Of the places I’ve just visited, though, the cranky old people in Florida top my list of douchebags. On the other hand, I don’t think I’ve ever run into a less than pleasant person in Nebraska, Ohio or Maine.

Utah

Ok, will play along. I found California to contain the rudest and most degenerative of people.

But, I also have some good friends that live there.

@MacBean Regarding Floridians: I have a good friend, a woman who is Hispanic. She lived in Florida for a few years and said the people treated her like Dirt. She included a racist remark I won’t repeat but she hated Florida.

@Aster, im not at all surprised about the racism. My whole father’s side of the family is from the South, mostly from FLA. They’re all very bigoted, especially towards hispanics. :(

I think it’s funny how what state you find rude depends on where you’re from yourself. :) People all have different cultures, different paced live, different state mannerisms, parents’ behaviors, and what they were taught growing up. (This is all my opinion, by the way, an opinion affected by where I was born. ^_~)

States even differ extremely from town to town. I live about 20 minutes away from the Six Flags in St. Louis, and I feel ashamed by America everytime I go there. People are rude, profanity is huge, hygiene isn’t on some people “to-do” lists, and the new generation of teenagers drive me insane (even though I’m still a teenager myself.) I’ve never met 13 year olds so rude and narcissistic before.

I think it really just depends on the people you meet and when you go. Tourist states are different, too, as I can’t blame the locals for treating everyone else as a tourist (I would do the same.)

I’ve met incredibly nice people and shockingly rude people in all of the states I’ve been to. :] (And wow! Not pulling over for an ambulance?!?! That’s unheard of…so sad. Do they know they could be costing someone their life? :/ Ugh. )

People are people no matter where they live. Some are nice, some are rude, and some are a.. holes.

People are people, no matter where you go. Some will be rude, some will be nice. I have traveled all over the United States & I have found both sorts in all places. Sometimes it can make a difference in how you are perceived by your own actions – smiles & friendly responses generally create the same (& if not, then just maybe the other person is having a really bad day due to circumstances that are entirely beyond their control).

I’ve never had the impression that a whole state was unfriendly. I have been in areas where the drivers seemed to be rude. Surprisingly that’s been in areas with a high number of retirees. I’m retired and it didn’t make me cranky, so I don’t really get it.

Judging from the way my daughter was given harsh and cold stares in Montana just because she has a lot of tattoos and peircings I will have to say Montana. A lot of folks, especially young woman were giving her hostile looking staredowns. We also met some really awesome people there (most of the nicees seemed to be originally from out of town.) This was my experience. Also while in California checking into a Hotel for the night, the clerk asked how we liked California. I told her that it felt homey, reminded me of N.J. and she got offended and said NJersians aren’t very nice people from what I can see on t.v. and this was after I had already told her that we were from Jersey. I was sorry that I did not report her to the management for the in person insult. Truth be told I am sure there are good and bad everywhere.

I live in Michigan, and I find this state very unfriendly. It’s odd, churches are every where, it seems like there’s a church in every corner, but most people are just religious and unfriendly, it’s just unbelievable! My family and I feel as we’re the only one making effort to make friends here. We’ve been planning to buy a house, but we’ve changed our mind. We will not lose hope we will keep looking for a state whose people are friendly before we would finally buy a house. This is a great question, and hopefully you could add a Facebook link where we can share this question to everyone.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI!!!!

The reason the religious people in Michigan are unfriendly is because there are a lot of Calvinists there. They believe they were predestined to heaven and everyone else who is not a calvinist are predestined to hell. This is false doctrine. Jesus died for all the sins of mankind so that anyone who trusts in the goodness of God and His gift of salvation can have eternal life through Jesus Christ. I believe that includes people who have never heard of Jesus, but have realized they are sinners and need the true God of heaven to be their Saviour. As the Bible says, even creation bears witness of God.
As far as friendly states I have found the intermountain west states of Wyoming, and Idaho to be the most friendly, at least in the past. People from the east have been the rudest in my travels.

Minnesota!

I have lived in Minnesota for three years. Moved here because my wife grew up here and all of her family lives here. If you did not grow up in Minnesota you will never have friends here, unless they are people who have also moved here from out of state. People in Minnesota do not know common courtesies such as thank you, excuse me or holding the door open for the person walking in behind them. When I am in a grocery store and have to get past somebody and say excuse me, 49 out of 50 times they either look at me dumbfounded like they didn’t understand what I said or completely ignore me.

You can’t drive anywhere in Minnesota without somebody tailgating you, even if there is an open lane for them to pass. I drive back and fourth from Washington State where my family lives to Minnesota A few times a year, every other state I drive through the drivers are so polite but when I get probably an hour from Minnesota I will see some idiot on I 90 driving in the left lane and blocking traffic. Yes it is always a car with a Minnesota license plate. And everybody here drives like that.

I lived in Hawaii for a round 10 years, most of the people there are Filipinos and do not care for white people, I am white. I figured I would not find more rude people then the people in Hawaii because of their prejudice against white people especially among mostly white people here in Minnesota.

I don’t know why the people are like they are here, perhaps it’s because the weather is always so bad that they do not get much chance to get out and interact with other human beings. Winter is most of the year and summer is 6 weeks of high humidity, perfect for so many mosquitoes that you do not want to go outside.

I hate to admit this, since I went to high school and university there, but – Washington State. I’ve lived in the Midwest (seriously good honest people in general), the South (pleasant surprise) and many states in north, western, southwest…. and for some reason, Northwest Washingtonians are weirdly hypocritical. Rant and rave about being open minded, accepting, but are ironically judgmental, and unwelcoming to outsiders. Very cold and backstabbing. Lots of pseudo hippies, spending fortunes on themselves, drugs, vanity items, but pretending to be au natural. Disingenuous. Thin skinned. Not worldly but imagine they are. Imagine Seattle or Bellingham are utopias when they’re horrific cesspools of child molesters, rapists, homeless thieves and… endless hypocrites.
Sad because it really is such a beautiful state. I had to leave because people were so mean to other people that wanted to move there, to escape poverty or oppression where they lived. Not immigrants, but U.S. citizens looking for a better life. Washingtonian eternal-teen hippy people can’t walk the talk. And that’s all they do is talk. Talk talk talk about how warm and wonderful they are, but they’re empty headed and drab. And hateful.
So… oh yes, out of everywhere I’ve lived – the place I went to school and grew up half my life is unfortunately full of hypocritical MEAN people =
WASHINGTON STATE – in particular – the Northwest part.

Maine by far.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with hoodoo’s answer of Washington State. The only thing I would add is that I lived in Walla Walla, and it was as bad if not worse than the northern part of the state. It’s not uncommon for people to insult you upon first meeting you In WA. It’s never happened to me anywhere else, but I’ve lost track of how many times it’s happened here. Thievery is also common. I’ve been stolen from by movers, landlord’s kids, and various other guests in my home. Tact and politeness are simply not practiced or taught to children at home or school, which is very sad. Believe it or not, this just scratches the surface. It has redeeming qualities like nice forests and legal cannabis, but I learned living there that the quality of the people is what makes or breaks a place.