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Move over, New York. Miami has officially stolen your crown as America’s rudest city.
The city of sunshine, palm trees and ocean breezes topped a new ranking of 70 US cities based on online complaints, social media gripes and internet searches about boorish behavior — while the Big Apple landed in fifth place in the nationwide ranking.
The study, conducted by Manhattan Mental Health Counseling, examined Yelp reviews, Reddit discussions and internet searches related to rude behavior, then crunched the findings into composite scores ranging from zero to 100.
Miami scored 94.11 out of 100, beating Las Vegas, which earned 91.84 points.
Memphis, Tenn., grabbed third place with 88.38 points, followed by Oakland, Calif., in fourth with 87.10.
NYC rounded out the top five with 83.58, suggesting New Yorkers haven’t exactly lost their edge — even if their reputation for bad behavior has migrated south.
But New Yorkers can still claim one dubious distinction: They complain about bad manners more than residents of any other city.
Gotham had the nation’s highest percentage of Yelp reviews mentioning rude behavior, with 3.34% of reviews referencing unpleasant encounters.
That’s even higher than Miami’s 3.21% and Las Vegas’ 3.18%.
Miami, meanwhile, dominated another category: internet searches related to rude behavior. The sun-soaked hotspot recorded 28.41 rude-related searches per 10,000 residents, the highest rate of all 70 cities examined.
The Northeast wasn’t exactly a model of politeness.
Newark landed sixth nationwide with a score of 82.09, finishing just behind neighbor NYC.
Detroit was No. 7 with 81.41 points, followed by while Orlando (81.17), Philadelphia (78.48) and Los Angeles (77.97).
Other major cities managed to keep their elbows and mouths to themselves.
Chicago came in 16th, Boston ranked 34th and Seattle landed 42nd.
At the other end of the spectrum, Irvine, Calif., was named the nation’s politest city — finishing dead last in the rudeness rankings at No. 70 with a score of just 1.91.
Anchorage, Alaska, ranked 69th with 4.66 points, while Lincoln, Neb. placed 68th with 9.50.
Madison, Wisc., came in 67th with a score of 11.81 and Boise, Idaho, rounded out the five least-rude cities at 66, with 13.27.
“These figures capture patterns in online reviews, discussions and searches, rather than measuring how every person in a city treats others,” Natalie Buchwald, spokesperson from Manhattan Mental Health Counseling.
“Rudeness is also shaped by context and expectations, so it’s best to read a citywide ranking as a snapshot of online signals, not a label for its residents.”
