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Conde Nast Traveler has named the friendliest and unfriendliest cities in the world.

Friendliest cities:

1. Florianopolis, Brazil
2. Hobart, Tasmania
3. Thimpu, Bhutan
4. Queenstown, New Zealand
5. Charleston, South Carolina
6. Paro, Bhutan
6 (tie). Margaret River, Australia
8. Mandalay, Burma
9. Kilkenny, Ireland
9 (tie). Ubud, Bali
10. Chiang Mai, Thailand

Unfriendliest cities:

1. Newark, New Jersey
2. Islamabad, Pakistan
3. Oakland, California
4. Luanda, Angola
5. Kuwait City, Kuwait
6. Lome, Togo
7. New Haven, Connecticut
8. Detroit, Michigan
9. Atlantic City, New Jersey
10. Tangier, Morocco

Woot! My city is #2 in the friendly list and we made their top ten of the best places to visit [8D]

Somehow we've been beaten by some Brazilian hell-hole where you'll almost certainly be robbed or shot...or both. I smell corruption [:'(]

Anyway, anyone live in Newark? [:D]

Cheers, Neilster

Here's Hobart, Tasmania. You can almost see me. I live just to the left [:'(]

Let's hear it for us Americans! one town in the friendliest, but 5 in the unfriendly category.[&o] I hope you tourists take the hint.[:D]

Everyone knows New Jersey is worst than Islamabad. Always has been! [:D]

US centric. I note Falluja isn't on the list[;)]

I still remember some of those places in the back end of Russia and China too, when I did the Peking to Paris run.

Newark must be a hell of a place. What does it have that beats Islamists on the attack, Drunken Siberians with death stares and kalashnikovs and PRC 'officials' ready to shoot you if you so much as step off the planned route?

ORIGINAL: SapperAstro
What does it have that beats Islamists on the attack, Drunken Siberians with death stares and kalashnikovs and PRC 'officials' ready to shoot you if you so much as step off the planned route?

It takes a periodical publication with a distorted sense of reality is what.

I've talked to a number of my colleagues who have witnessed the descent into near anarchy that is Venezuela, some barrios in and around Sao Paulo and have travelled recently in Nicaragua and Guatemala-both rife with drug gangs, street thugs and corruption. Get real. And that's just the Western hemisphere. Nothing in CONUS compares.

To have 5 of the top 10 "least friendly" as American cities is laughable.

Oh, by the way, where's Minneapolis on the 'most friendly' list? Several respected American periodicals recognize this city as an excellent one for visitors and residents alike.

ORIGINAL: SapperAstro

US centric. I note Falluja isn't on the list[;)]

I still remember some of those places in the back end of Russia and China too, when I did the Peking to Paris run.

Newark must be a hell of a place. What does it have that beats Islamists on the attack, Drunken Siberians with death stares and kalashnikovs and PRC 'officials' ready to shoot you if you so much as step off the planned route?

Was that the one that was on the ABC with the cars from 1908?

Cheers, Neilster

Houston, Texas[:-](Unfriendly Drivers[:-][:o])

ORIGINAL: SapperAstro




Newark must be a hell of a place. What does it have that beats Islamists on the attack,

The trouble with Newark, is that it's full of New Jersyans.

It takes a periodical publication with a distorted sense of reality is what.

It's voted on by their readers.

Cheers, Neilster

Double post

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: SapperAstro

US centric. I note Falluja isn't on the list[;)]

I still remember some of those places in the back end of Russia and China too, when I did the Peking to Paris run.

Newark must be a hell of a place. What does it have that beats Islamists on the attack, Drunken Siberians with death stares and kalashnikovs and PRC 'officials' ready to shoot you if you so much as step off the planned route?

Was that the one that was on the ABC with the cars from 1908?

Cheers, Neilster

Thats the one, though I wasn't in that one, but one of the follow ups afterwards. They do it most years, along with a few different routes now and again.

http://www.endurorally.com/pages/5th-pe ... rally-2013

A lot of fun let me tell you, and worth the effort.

ORIGINAL: Neilster

It takes a periodical publication with a distorted sense of reality is what.

It's voted on by their readers.

Cheers, Neilster

Ah. In that case it takes a periodical publication with readers with a distorted sense of reality is what. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Neilster


Somehow we've been beaten by some Brazilian hell-hole where you'll almost certainly be robbed or shot...or both. I smell corruption [:'(]

After reading about that hell hole on wiki I almost want to take a vacation to that place.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%C3%B3polis

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Woot! My city is #2 in the friendly list and we made their top ten of the best places to visit [8D]

And now I really want to visit Tasmania and Hobart. [:)]

What happened to North Korea? Pyongyang is very unfriendly, I hear.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

What happened to North Korea? Pyongyang is very unfriendly, I hear.

I suspect that this list reflects what the tourists think about different places they have visited. Not much tourism in North Korea therefore they do not get any votes.

Most unfair! It's like the Academy Awards!

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Most unfair! It's like the Academy Awards!

Indeed. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Neilster

Woot! My city is #2 in the friendly list and we made their top ten of the best places to visit [8D]

And now I really want to visit Tasmania and Hobart. [:)]

I checked out Hobart on the net. Looks like a nice place.

Uttoxeter, England gets my vote for friendliest city in the world. The fact that warspite1 is mayor there helps.