State with the most friendly people!??
 

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New York! ( I am originally from there!)

Wyoming...but I may be a little biased
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I'm betting Matthew Sheperd's family would disagree with Wyoming being the friendliest state.

I must say Tennessee!
My MIL (mother in law) lives there and we always feel relaxed and are treated very kindly.

I'm sure there are a lot of awesome states out there too!

I know this is just for fun,but it is way too subjective to answer with any validity.Now,I would debate just how friendly New Yorkers are(sorry sunnydelite),because every flight in or out of NY is full of A**holes. But the question poised this way has no answer.

Agree with Tennessee

How about the state of confusion :) You'll think everyone is wonderful, friendly, beautiful, charming, smart, etc.

Just a little silliness on a Thursday afternoon.

Isn't Tennessee where the dog was shot by the cops? What ever happened to those cops?

ahnold, why the hatred of New York? Most people who are there originally lived in other states and moved there because of careers, jobs. So in essence you are knocking other states.

Cigalechanta...Do you mean the majority of NY's population is not from NY? I don't think I could disagree more. And,I'm sure I could get more"Hello,how are you?'s" from people in Iowa than I would on NYC.

After all " you talkin' to me?" is New York's motto. Sounds real friendly.

After migrating NY to MA, what happened to their respective ratings? Just curious given your friendly, accommodating replies to posters.

Gee, Ahhnold, I live in NYC and know MANY, MANY friendly people. I, myself, am very friendly!! Hi, how are you?? Better? What state are you from?

I'm sure there are MILLIONS of friendly people in NY. All I'm saying is it is way too subjective to say ONE state is the friendliest state. I guess
I am playing devils advocate with Sunnydelite.

<font color=red> Michelle, Hi!! from the other friendly person in NYC :D</font>

Im with Cigalachanta!
why so bitter about NY?
I lived there 33 yrs of my life. I am now in MA...people aren't super friendly here either,isn't that where you are from??lol..
I love the city! It is soo beautiful at xmas time.! I have encountered many friendly people. ( I lived a bit more upstate)I will go back to the city again and again!
And BTW aaahhnoldddddddddddd??what state are YOU in!so we could pick on you! hehe j/k..And BTW NY is a very big state! Don't A-S-S-ume everyone lives in the city:D
aaaahnoldddddddddddd!!!(your name cracks me up!LOL)

This is easy. Oklahoma. No where will you find people more friendly, compassionate, and genuine. As one ABC News correspondent said during her tour around the country recently, if she had to identify where &quot;real&quot; America is, it's Oklahoma.

Definitely New York.

Think about it: if you put 8 million people from anywhere else on a rock this small, they'd kill each other in a week.

sunnydelite..funny, I live in MA and everyone I know is the friendiest person in the state.

The Kennedy compound may not be the friendliest place to vacation,but I can make do with my liberal relatives;-)

Hay ahhnold (and others).....New York is actually a state with many cities and communities. It doesn't just consist of NYC. If you have every been outside of NYC, you'd see that there are many friendly people all across the state. Hmmm...maybe Buffalo is really in Canada and they just tell us we're in New York State!!!

Will the person who has met everyone in every state please come forward and give us the results of the test. You would figure with the high population in NY,there is more A**holes from there than the whole population of Iowa. Go figure.

I know many posters think this is a dumb question, but I disagree strongly. Some cities and states do have friendlier people. I am talking about picking a thousand people at random and then seeing if they are: smiling, helpful, kind, open to conversation, etc. Regions have cultures where people are taught certin behaviors as they are brought up. More example you will find people with better manners in the south, people are more open to their neighbors in the midwest and tend to be more or less socially conservative in certain states.

My vote for the State with the most friendly people: North Dakota.

Hi
I am English and would have to say that I have found Maine folk to be incredibly friendly. My daughter did a school exchange with a school near Portland and her exchange family have shown us such amazing kindness! We have spent the last 2 summers over there and just love the place and people.
I have to mention New York too. We have stood on busy street corners scratching our heads over maps and ALWAYS someone comes over to offer us assistance. Even the taxi drivers would smile and chat with us if we made the effort to smile and chat to them. Maybe we were lucky - but we have never found NY cold and unfriendly. But give us Maine any day!

I think that every state has both friendly and unfriendly people---and that you get what you expect.

I love NY, but I think many people go there with their defenses up, expecting the worst. And then, that's what they get.

I will put in a vote for Alaska. I think the only thing bigger than their smiles are the size of the mosquitos(the state bird).

First of all-- troll post! (A successful one, but still a troll post.)

Second of all-- abram has got it exactly right. Wherever you go, your expectations vis-&agrave;-vis the friendliness of the locals will be met. Go to NYC thinking they're all muggers, mooches or jerks, that's what you'll find. Go there thinking they're just like everywhere else, and you'll find that they're wonderful people (if maybe a bit pressed for time and hence unable to engage in moronic chit-chat-- GET TO THE POINT!!!). Same thing in California. Same in Montana. Same in the South.

I had the pleasure of visiting a little town called Ithaca, Michigan last January and while it was painfully cold, the people were extremely nice. Being from the South, I was impressed. I knew I was out of my element when I ordered &quot;unsweeted tea&quot; and they all looked at me like I was crazy and said, &quot;uh yeah, that's the only way it comes here.&quot; @-)

No expert, but I've lived in MI, IA, CA, OR, AZ and FL, and by a wide margin the area just south of Sarasota, FL is the friendliest place I've ever lived.

Buffalo girl! yay! I am frm a town outside Buffalo........near Amherst/williamsville!
Loved it there for most of my life!
lol good one...buffalo is just melded into canada! dual citizenship too ehLOL
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rj! have a heart!!!! It was a very generalized! post..but it is a successful one! Hey... I like the answers.Most of em!!We can agree to disagree on this rj!!!
Ahhhhnold........come on get over NY!
the people are great there!
I love trekking into the city too..especially around the holidays..Puts me in a festive mood.
Ive lived in NY, NV, and now MA!
I rank the friendliness in chronological order!:)

Hello! I have lived or visited all New England states, NYC, Missourri, DC, and California. By far, CA and DC were the friendliest. I thought I was in the twilight zone, that's how friendly they were. In contrast, RI, Boston, and NYC have the most rude people. Of course not all the people in these states are rude and I saw some great kindness after 9/11. However, I have encountered rudeness on a regular basis and in greatly out-of-proportion amounts in these states the most, with NYC being the worst. Unfortunately, NYC is where I live now but am definately looking into moving to the south or CA for the long term.

Without a doubt, Wisconsin. I'm not from there and have never even been there, but I've met a whole lot of people from Wisconsin over the last 40 years and they've all been super friendly.

Down home wisconsin. Nothing better.

Yes, GoTravel, unfortunately Tennessee is the state where the dog was shot by the trooper who thought an excited dog meant an attacking dog. What a tragedy. Tennesseans statewide were horrified by the indicent, as we love our dogs here, big time. Even those who prefer cats (don't really understand that concept) showed sympathy. That trooper wasn't officially punished, but he did get a lot of hate mail and phone calls. Nonetheless this is a friendly state, a place I'm glad to have relocated to from colder climes. Come visit. Bring your dog.

I don't think anyone has mentioned my state, North Carolina. I have lived in NY, Illinois and Florida, and NC is the friendliest I have found. In my profession I deal with a lot of out-of towners, and they often comment on how friendly people are here. We are a mix of southerners and transplants,so it is not just the locals who are friendly.

Of course------southern Indiana and Louisville, KY. You couldn't get any friendlier than that!!!! Come and visit some day you'll see.

Vermont.

We were married there and we met the nicest people--from the couple who loaned us their antique car (and wouldn't accept any money for it) to the woman who asked me if I wanted to clip any lilacs from her garden to the people we had just met who gave us a gift of maple syrup from their own trees. And then there was the musician who contacted us after the wedding and said he thought he accidentally overcharged us and wanted to send us a refund! We told him to donate it to his favorite charity.

Then again, many of these friendly Vermonters were probably originally from New York!

Why, it is TEXAS, of course, honey...

Maine.
My car broke down on route 26 late one night. Within seconds, two cars stopped to offer help. Would this have happened in your state?

Just curious...Where on 26 were you?

I've lived in California, with a few breaks for military and corporate assignments, for almost 60 years. In those assignments, I've travelled to every state except 3 (ND, RI, CT)and to a wide variety of foreign locations.

It's been my experience that most people are pretty much the same, wherever you are. There are, as one of the other posters so artfully put it, a fair proportion of a**holes everywhere. There are also a fair proportion of really outgoing jovial people. Most everyone else turns out to be friendly as you get to know them better.

If one assumes that to be true, which I do, the obvious answer to which state has the most friendly people is California. Not because a greater share of them are friendly but because we have the by far most people of any state and if you assume the same proportion of personality types, California has the most of each type.

Another vote for Tennessee. But I have visited 30 of the 50 states, including New York, and feel that the vast majority of people are friendly wherever you go in the U.S.

Most of the time (and I know there are exceptions!) you get back back what you project.