'No One Likes Us, We Don't Care:' Philly Rudest US City In New Survey

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is often called a kind but not nice city.

For example, you might ask someone for directions and be met with a native who gives you said directions, but with a tinge of attitude and rudeness.

Which makes sense, as website Preply recently surveyed hundreds of residents in the nation's largest metropolitan areas to determine which cities are the rudest and found Philadelphia to be the rudest of them all.

According to the survey, Philadelphia has an average rudeness score of 6.43 on a scale of 1-10.

The behavior Philadelphia residents were most bothered by in public was residents not acknowledging strangers in public, per the survey.

Philadelphia also ranked first for residents most likely to talk on their speakerphone in a shared space.

Philadelphians were also asked to rank who is ruder in their experience, natives or transplants.

By a wide-margin, Philadelphia residents said natives were ruder than transplants, 78 percent versus 22 percent.

From June 15 to June 20, Preply surveyed 1,577 American residents of the 30 largest cities in the country.

To calculate the rudest and least rude cities, respondents were asked to rate the rudeness of the average resident of their city on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely polite and ten is extremely rude.

Preply used this data to calculate the average "rudeness score" in each city.

Cities that scored above average were ranked as the most polite, and cities that scored below average were ranked as the rudest.

The top 10 rudest cities according to the survey are:

1. Philadelphia, PA
2. Memphis, TN
3. New York City, NY
4. Las Vegas, NV
5. Boston, MA
6. Detroit, MI
7. San Francisco, CA
8. Washington, DC
9. Los Angeles, CA
10. Houston, TX

The top 10 most polite cities are:

1. Austin, TX
2. San Diego, CA
3. Fort Worth, TX
4. Nashville, TN
5. Indianapolis, IN
6. Chicago, IL
7. Columbus, OH
8. Oklahoma City, OK
9. Milwaukee, MI
10. Denver, CO

See the full list of rudest and most polite cities here.