Ouch! Separate Lists Rap Unsexy, Unfriendly Detroit

Detroit, you sexy thing.

Not.

At least not according to Playboy Magazine, which called Detroit – get this – the “limp D” in its list of the “America’s 25 Sexiest Cities.”

The magazine’s cold indictment:

“Not to kick Motown when it’s down, but our survey voted Detroit the unsexiest city in America. It has all the attributes respondents rate as their biggest turnoffs: crime, grime, lousy weather and supersize locals (it’s the fourth-fattest city in the country, according to a 2014 Men’s Fitness survey).”

Didn’t that feel like a sharp kick to your well-padded, ahem, assets?

Don’t bother picking your shattered self-esteem off the floor, because there’s another jolt coming:

Condé Nast Traveler just named Detroit the nation’s fourth-unfriendliest city in its Reader’s Choice Awards – although, given the Playboy ranking, it’s probably fair to wonder what visitors to The D expected from unsexy, grimy and probably fat criminals. Car jackings with a smile?

The Motor City continues to “get a bad rap” and and “is clearly having a hard time,” according to Condé Nast, whose surveys revealed some of the following comments and observations about The D:

“ ‘Although the city is still in a depressed state, the culture is very much alive.’ The general feeling is of a ‘fascinating place, if you know your way around,” are into sports (‘Red Wings, Tigers, and Lions!’), or have the gumption to ‘follow the young people leading the way’ who are opening’”new restaurants and businesses almost every other month.’ “

Not sexy. Not friendly. You’re a hot mess, Detroit.

Playboy’s 10 Sexiest Cities

1. New York
2. Los Angeles
3. Chicago
4. Miami
5. San Francisco
6. Boston
7. Seattle
8. Las Vegas
9. San Diego
10. Portland, OR

Playboy conducted two online polls, one a general-population survey ranking cities from one to 25. The second poll drilled down deeper into attitudes of people living in the top five cities.

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The magazine partnered with NerdWallet, a San ­Francisco–based personal finance start-up, to crunch numbers on bars, restaurants and other entertainment outlets per 1,000 residents to come up with a nightlife factor that was then combined with a walkability index.

Pretty darned sexy, huh?

Condé Nast Traveler’s Least-Friendly Cities

1. Newark, NJ
2. Oakland, CA
3. Atlantic, NJ
4. Detroit
5. Hartford, CT
6. New Haven, CT
7. The Hamptons, NY
8. Reno, NV
9. Los Angeles
10. Baltimore

The Motor City is apparently less friendly by a couple of notches than it was last year, when it came in as the sixth-unfriendliest U.S. city in the ranking, which measures whether people felt welcome or not.

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