Nice Planet 14: You People Make Me Sick

[Kepler]

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I felt like I was in worlds most beautiful old folks home in Vienna. Everything looked so pristine and beautiful and nearly everyone seemed old.

From everything I've read about 19th century Vienna it was like that then, too. They've been coasting since about 1660. It feels like you're seeing a lithographed stamp of a place, not the real place.

[aparch]

I had no issue with Parisians, and is the NE really worse than Chicago? Chicago is at the top of my rudest people in the US list, well beyond NY City and Philly, but haven't been to the rest of the NE.

Wait, Loop Chicagoans and immediate neighborhoods are different from the outlying neighborhood Chicagoans. And both are different from the wannabe Chicagoans who are living in the Suburbs. The suburban ones are most likely to be a**holeish. Followed by Loop Chicagoans sick of the Suburbanites wandering into their path downtown. Then the outlying neighborhoods are fairly easy going.

[burd]

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Wait, Loop Chicagoans and immediate neighborhoods are different from the outlying neighborhood Chicagoans. And both are different from the wannabe Chicagoans who are living in the Suburbs. The suburban ones are most likely to be a**holeish. Followed by Loop Chicagoans sick of the Suburbanites wandering into their path downtown. Then the outlying neighborhoods are fairly easy going.

From my recent experience the people in the Andersonville area are very pleasant.

[jerphisch]

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Wait, Loop Chicagoans and immediate neighborhoods are different from the outlying neighborhood Chicagoans. And both are different from the wannabe Chicagoans who are living in the Suburbs. The suburban ones are most likely to be a**holeish. Followed by Loop Chicagoans sick of the Suburbanites wandering into their path downtown. Then the outlying neighborhoods are fairly easy going.

I guess my comparison would include the people a tourist is likely to run into, and in that category Chicago was full of a**holes

[The Sicatoka]

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The French get a bad rap. Parisians are as-holes. Everybody else in France is super nice (and is attracted by your se-xytime American moneys).

When I was there their economy was bad and even Parisians wanted American dollars and were disinterested (which is a step above their normal "you're beneath my contempt" demeanor I'd been warned about).

[Kepler]

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And both are different from the wannabe Chicagoans who are living in the Suburbs. The suburban ones are most likely to be a**holeish.

Naperville. If Five Towns ever needs a sixth town...

[dxmnkd316]

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The French get a bad rap. Parisians are as-holes. Everybody else in France is super nice (and is attracted by your se-xytime American moneys).

Paris : France :: the northeast : the US

My rank ordering of the friendliness of Europeans based on my limited travel:

1. Italians (including Rome)

big gap

2. French (non-Parisians)
3. Irish girls
4. English (except London)

big gap

5. Londoners
6. American tourists
7. Germans
8. Irish men
9. Parisians
10. Chinese tourists
11. Austrians
99. Russian tourists

You have Germans far too low. I can only think of maybe one or two places in the world where I've been treated better.

[aparch]

Naperville. If Five Towns ever needs a sixth town...

Hey now, that's my (transplanted to) neighborhood (-ish).

[Slap Shot]

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Not sure which Americans Kep runs into overseas, but I'd put Italian and German tourists at the top of my list for worst followed by SE Asians and Middle Easterners not from Kuwait, Thailand and Japan. South Koreans are pleasant but super ice cold. Brits in England are wonderful, but those living and working in Bahrain for whatever reason were surly as hell.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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If we're talking the US - put San Jose near the top of the list.

You've heard of the SoCal "Valley Girl" stereotype? Well, in NorCal there is a "Valley Bro" stereotype, and it fits far too many dudes there like a glove. So many passive-aggressive *********s, with their Beemers and Audis, who act like they're the Next Big Thing in tech.

[mookie1995]

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Not sure which Americans Kep runs into overseas, but I'd put Italian and German tourists at the top of my list for worst followed by SE Asians and Middle Easterners not from Kuwait, Thailand and Japan. South Koreans are pleasant but super ice cold. Brits in England are wonderful, but those living and working in Bahrain for whatever reason were surly as hell.

can't get any of the sk to golf with mookie. tried both days this past weekend and they had excuse after excuse as to why they needed mookie to go off on his own in front of them. have grouped up with Lebanese, Kuwaitis, and a jap couple who asked that we play again real soon

there are nk here for construction that mookie waves to and they seem pleasant enough. wonder if they would golf with mookie is given the option?

[mookie1995]

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If we're talking the US - put San Jose near the top of the list.

You've heard of the SoCal "Valley Girl" stereotype? Well, in NorCal there is a "Valley Bro" stereotype, and it fits far too many dudes there like a glove. So many passive-aggressive *********s, with their Beemers and Audis, who act like they're the Next Big Thing in tech.

ok, fine. for sure, for sure.

[burd]

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All this cave recognition and classification. We get out more, but we're still relying on the same evolutionary skills.

We in the burd cave don't go very far, but the hair on our necks stands up when we cross the Red from the West or the St. Croix from the east. Stop only for gas or to pee and don't look em in the eye.

[Kepler]

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can't get any of the sk to golf with mookie. tried both days this past weekend and they had excuse after excuse as to why they needed mookie to go off on his own in front of them. have grouped up with Lebanese, Kuwaitis, and a jap couple who asked that we play again real soon

there are nk here for construction that mookie waves to and they seem pleasant enough. wonder if they would golf with mookie is given the option?

I am so hoping "golf" isn't a euphemism.

[joecct]

can't get any of the sk to golf with mookie. tried both days this past weekend and they had excuse after excuse as to why they needed mookie to go off on his own in front of them. have grouped up with Lebanese, Kuwaitis, and a jap couple who asked that we play again real soon

there are nk here for construction that mookie waves to and they seem pleasant enough. wonder if they would golf with mookie is given the option?

Mookie

Same thing happens over here. The orientals want to play with orientals. Everyone else mixes in.