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- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back the world according to Briggs,
and a followup video to the rudest states video.
That's right, we're doing the rudest cities.
When I posted the rudest state video,
people right away started asking for the city version.
Your wish is my command.
Actually, it's not my command.
Your wish is like a strong suggestion to me.
Really, we're in this together.
Without all my subscribers, I'm just, I don't know,
I guess another one of those channels
that's trying to copy what me and Nick Johnson
are doing.
Today, we look at the rudest cities in the United States.
A survey was done where they asked 3,400 US residents,
what city has the rudest people and why?
This is just their opinion.
There's no real stat to try and gauge how rude someone is.
Like, how many middle fingers do they brandish
in a 45-minute commute?
Or what's the average F-bombs they use
while fixing a garbage disposal?
It's just their opinion.
I also put the same question up on my community tab
and see what you guys thought.
And you guys were very close to what the survey found.
What I really did find strange
that it kind of seems like people are proud
of how rude the residents of their city or state are.
All right, let's take a look
and see what city has the rudest residents.
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Number 10, San Francisco, California.
Now, this one kind of shocked me.
I've never known San Francisco to be rude.
I mean, it's got a truck load of problems.
I didn't think people were rude
any of the times I've ever been there,
and I've been going there for decades.
I mean, what happened?
After the hippies left in the late sixties,
did they just turn rude?
Nowadays, the majority of their problem
has to do with homelessness and all the homeless people
I've run into there are either kind of struggling
with some mental issues
or they're just minding their own business
and trying to get by.
10.1% of respondents had San Francisco
in their three rudest cities.
My favorite reason to why they're rude,
they're stuck-up.
Someone actually said that.
Actually a few people said that.
I didn't know people said stuck-up anymore.
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Number nine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia's known as the City of Brotherly Love.
Sadly, they don't live up to that nickname.
And I can tell you, I've seen some rudeness there.
People are kind of rude.
10.4% of the respondents
had Philadelphia in their top three rudest.
The words most often associated with Philadelphia rudeness,
they are aggressive bullies.
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Number eight, Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore, Maryland is another city that can get rude.
They're kind of known for it.
One blogger said that it gets so bad in Baltimore,
that the standard every day problems you run into
like parking disputes, people not letting you merge,
well in normal cities, people just yell at each other,
maybe the occasional finger.
In Baltimore, you get the finger, you get yelled at,
and it's not uncommon to get a death threat or two.
Baltimore has almost 600,000 residents
with about 3 million in the whole Metro area.
And by most accounts, about 1/5 of those residents
are considered extremely rude.
11% of the respondents had Baltimore
as one of their three rudest cities.
The most common way to describe a Baltimore rude person,
aggressive bully.
That's what everyone said, they're aggressive bullies.
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Number seven, Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo is cold and one of the snowiest cities
the United States has,
and a lot of people think that's why they're so rude.
I guess cold weather brings out the rudeness in people.
I'm the exact opposite.
If I get too hot, I'm a little irritated,
and then I get a little rude.
So if you see me in Arizona in like August or July,
just don't talk to me.
Maybe just hand me a Popsicle and move on.
So a couple of years ago,
I read this whole thing on New York rudeness
and New Jersey rudeness and this big study they had.
One thing that stood out about Buffalo, New York,
it just wasn't all about New York City,
it also included Buffalo and Rochester,
a couple other places, but they talked about in Buffalo,
there's this thing where they talk over each other.
Like, if you're trying to have a conversation with someone
and they're irritated,
they just talk over you and they're louder
and it just keeps building until it's a screaming fest
and someone just walks away.
And the person that usually walks away
is the one that's not rude.
The person from Buffalo,
who's still standing there yelling like an idiot,
they feel they've won, but have they?
11.1% of the respondents had Buffalo
as one of their top three rudest cities.
The most common way to describe their rudeness was loud.
And my favorite one person says,
they're really too dumb to be nice.
But the guy who said that's from Canada so I don't know.
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Number six, Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit is a strange one.
I mean, besides the fact that the city
is down to about 1/3 of the population
of what it was in the eighties.
There's hardly anyone there anymore.
So I don't know where all this rudeness is coming from.
Maybe the people that are left behind are just irritated.
Now, I say that, and if you ever go to Detroit
and you go to downtown,
you're going to think everything I said is BS.
If you go outside of downtown, which I don't advise,
you'll see that the city's falling apart.
Now, hopefully they're building out
and it'll become a great city again.
I really do hope that.
It is one of our best cities we had.
It's not anymore, but maybe someday.
But they are rude in Detroit.
Again, another cold place.
Maybe there is something
to that whole cold brings out the rudeness in people.
Who knows?
11.6% of the respondents had Detroit
as one of their top three rudest cities.
And the most common description of their rudeness,
they're just mean.
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Number five, Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston's another one of these cities
that's kind of known for being rude.
This city has been cultivating rudeness
since before the Revolutionary War.
Think about it, England tried to tax their tea,
and the people of Boston
got all their colonial homies together
and a bunch of Indians,
and they basically chased the United Kingdom or Britain
off the continent.
Boston's another place that's big into yelling at each other
in traffic.
Like New Jersey and New York,
they're just big into dropping F-bombs
in normal conversation, which to outsiders,
this seems kind of rude.
14.9% of the respondents had Boston
as one of their three rudest cities in the United States.
And again, their most common way to describe them,
aggressive bullies.
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Number four, Chicago.
You know, at first I was kind of surprised by this one.
Every time I've gone to Chicago, the people have been great.
The people I know from Chicago are great.
They're just nothing but nice.
Then you think how dangerous the south side of Chicago is.
And you know, I mean, when it's dangerous,
those people are kind of rude.
But then I also start thinking about people
I just randomly met in Chicago too
and some of them were kind of rude,
like they got no time for you.
And I guess they're pretty rude.
They jumped up 4% points on this.
18.6% of the respondents had Chicago
in their top three rudest cities.
Now, the most common reason for their rudeness
was they only care about themselves
or they're self-centered, the few things along those lines.
I think that's just going to be in Chicago.
The rest of the state's kind of decent, people-wise.
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Number three, Washington, DC.
Now we get to the kind of predictable ones.
The last three are very predictable.
There'll be no surprises the rest of the way through.
Washington DC has rude people,
and not just the politicians.
The average Joe that live in Washington, DC,
they're just straight up rude most of the time.
I'm sure a lot of that reputation though
does come from the traffic.
Traffic in Washington DC is horrible.
The percentage of respondents that had Washington DC
in their top three rudest cities, 19.3%.
And the most common reason given why they're rude,
people are too busy.
No time to be nice to each other, I guess.
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Number two, Los Angeles, California.
Like I had said, the last few are very predictable,
and Los Angeles is rude.
I grew up there and I can tell you firsthand,
most people you run into are very fake,
superficial and rude.
I just said in a recent video that,
that stereotypical beach, just mellow California lifestyle,
that's a sham.
That's really, there's a few people like that,
but I'm talking like 2% of Los Angeles's population
actually has that whole beach vibe and mellow.
A good portion of Los Angeles is very self-centered
and really just concerned with themselves and nobody else.
21.7% of the respondents had Los Angeles in their top three.
Now, they had a bunch of different reasons,
but people are fake was the most common one.
One that I did see often was superiority complex
was the reason for their rudeness.
Thought that was kind of funny.
All right, before we get to number one,
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All right, on to number one.
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And number one, New York, New York.
Is anyone surprised at this one?
The only thing that I found surprising about this one
is New Jersey wasn't at number one.
New Jersey didn't even have a city
in the top 15 rudest cities.
The entire state's rude
and they win a lot of prizes for, you know,
being a rude state,
but I guess none of the cities are overly rude.
They're just kind of across-the-board rude.
But New York City is so rude,
many people believe that this is where the F-bomb
and middle finger originated.
But New York City rudeness is legendary
and they've got quite the reputation for this.
So much so that on this survey,
34.3% of the respondents had New York City
as one of their three rudest cities.
The reasons they give the most often, they're loud,
they're aggressive, and they stand too close.
That one, I've noticed.
A lot of people from New York City, Buffalo actually too,
they just stand too close when they talk to you,
it's kind of weird.
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All right, that's today's video.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you got some information out of it.
Now, go out, have a great day.
Don't be rude to each other.
Be nice to each other.