Study ranks Miami as the rudest city in the U.S.
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Miami is the rudest city in the country, according to language-learning platform Preply.
Why it matters: It doesn't. How's that for rude, Preply?
What they did: The study (if you can call it that) surveyed an undisclosed number of Americans across the country about "rude behaviors" such as lack of self-awareness, talking on speakerphone in a shared space and not acknowledging strangers.
- They applied scores to responses and adjusted them on a scale of 0 to 10.
What they found: Tampa took the No. 3 spot, so Florida was well represented in the top five that also included Philadelphia (2), Louisville, Kentucky (4) and Oakland, California (5).
Yes, but: Let us recall what's happened to Florida's population in the last few years.
- The Census Bureau named Florida the fastest-growing state in the country in 2021.
- Nearly 200,000 people from New York, New Jersey or California moved to the Sunshine State in 2022.
So, maybe it's not an us problem. Just look at Preply's 2022 report, which ranked New York City as No. 3.
- Neither Miami nor Tampa was considered for that year's roundup, but we have a feeling we may have fared better pre-COVID migration.
Or maybe we're just a bunch of jerks, so worn down by the heat, animal infestations and political divisions that we don't have the energy to wave hello on our evening sanity walks.
The bottom line: Rudeness is subjective — unless you're on speakerphone in public. Stop that.