Whose friendliest New Yorkers or Londoners?

[metagirl]

So who are the friendliest of the mega city dwellers? New Yorkers or Londoners?

[limeysoccer]

having lived close to both cities for 25 for London 34 in NY I would have to say NYorkers are and Im english.

[maggie01]

I have only visited New York but found them very friendly. I lived in London for 26yrs and I don't find them that friendly.

[snapdarlich]

Go to Glasgow, Glaswegians nicer than both

[karabulut]

I've lived in London for most of my life..(I'm 48)..and yet I also reckon New Yorkers are the friendliest by far.

Years ago I wouldn't have said that was the case,but I've found that sadly nowadays it certainly is.

[metagirl]

is it because Americans are nicer?

[funnywebsite]

ye, they like talking

[nedflanders]

I agree with snappy. Glasgow'Smiles better.

[puzzled54]

New Yorkers - mind you, don't find many Londoners in London these days

[jno]

agree, NYers

[johnlambert]

Yep, Glasgow, or any Scottish town, (im from Edinburgh, try it).

[Narolines]

New Yorkers by a country mile.

[gary baldy]

They are both ignorant, arrogant and rude (but in a nice way!)

[luckystrike]

I have to agree with the majority - New Yorkers are nuch more friendly. There's no comparison to Londoners, who I have found to be fairly consistently unpleasant.

[bongerman]

Bl00dy hell, looks like I'm the only one stickin' up for us Londoners.

NY "friendliness" is sickeningly artificial; you honestly think they mean it when they wish someone a nice day. First impressions probably mean NYers are perceived as friendlier but if we're rating how welcoming the citizens of each city are, once you scratch beneath the surface of a NYer quite often you will find a warped xenophobic mind.

Londoners on the other hand have a much more cosmopolitan city with a lot more mixing of communities than in NY and there really exists a sense of, at worst tolerance, but at best encouraged acceptance, of people whoever they are and whatever they stand for.

If however the friendliness is to be compared in a kind of jingoistic "we're hard done to but look at us all bond together through these hard times" measure, post 9-11 and the London bombings, in a way that a lot of media drums up, then I'll accept NYers probably fly their flag with more vigour.

Give me Greenwich, Soho, Brixton, Brick Lane, Richmond, Peckham, South Bank, the Parks, Paddington, Hackney and the people of London any time!

[Andy008]

I could use many, many words to describe Brixton and Hackney, "friendly" isn't one of them.

[Narolines]

Sorry, bongerman, but the general run of New Yorkers - I'm not talking hotel, restaurant, bar & shop staff who might well be working to the "Have a nice day" script, but just ordinary people you meet in a bar, on the subway, on a bus, in the street - are FAR friendlier and more open-minded, and less parochial, than the vast majority of Londoners. Maybe as a Londoner you're not best placed to see it from the inside; take it from me, as a (British) visitor to both cities, NY is a friendlier place. GIven a free choice, I'd go for San Fransisco, but that's another story.....

[Narolines]

Or San Francisco, even........

[cockneyexile]

i dont know about londoners but genuine cockneys like myself who were born within the sound of bow bells are extremely friendly and proud of they,re cockney roots

[loudickson71]

snapdarlich, that's a myth. They appear friendly on the surface for effect, but there is often little substance to it and they do try to make themselves ugly as enemies. Londoners appear brusque on the surface but under it often have hearts of gold and show less hypocrisy. I can't comment on New Yorkers.

[loudickson71]

notice that it's always Glaswegians and Edinburgers saying that they're the friendliest, seldom long term visitors to either of those places.