World's Friendliest Cities

[Ptolemy]

BBC News Service

"Rio is world's friendliest City"

"A study published in the New Scientiest magazine says the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro is the friendliest in the world."

"They (the researchers) carried out a study into the way locals treated strangers in 23 cities around the world."

"The team conducted their research through a series of "helpfulness" tests, such as dropping pens, feigning blindness or an injury and leaving stamped addressed envelopes in the street."

Some top rankings:

Friendliest Cities

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
San Jose, Costa Rica
Madrid, Spain

Least Friendliest Cities

Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia
Singapore, Singapore City State
Amsterdam, Netherlands

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3002308.stm

[One Humanity]

Interesting!

It's left to mention that New York is among the least friendliest too.

[Josh]

Ptolemy, do you have any idea where one can find the rankings of all 23 cities?

[Ptolemy]

Josh said:

Ptolemy, do you have any idea where one can find the rankings of all 23 cities?

New Science Magazine.

Of course a study like this is very subjective, but one does start to see a pattern emerge on which cities are friendliest.

[Vitor]

The less dense is the city the more friendly it will get...

any small village anywhere would be friendlier than any city.

Cities are not normal or good enviroments for Humans...

[One Humanity]

Hm, yesterday I had a spanner/peeping tom who I never met before, but he didn't care to peek into my window for some time watching me reading in front of my computer.

Stupid people are independent of borders or cities/villages.