"Travel + Leisure readers didn't find Muscovites to be particularly helpful," the magazine said. The magazine ranked the world's cities according to their readers' ratings of friendliness in the destinations, Atlantic City in New Jersey was ranked the 2nd least friendly city in the world.
Russia's St. Petersburg came third on the list, with rude residents leaving travellers less than impressed. The top 5 least friendly cities were Moscow in Russia, Atlantic City in New Jersey, St. Petersburg in Russia, Marseille in France, and Los Angeles in California.
A significant number of the top ten unfriendliest cities are located in the US (including Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Las Vegas and the world's #2 unfriendliest city - Atlantic City).
See the top 15 least friendly cities below:
1) Moscow, Russia
2) Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
3) St Petersburg, Russia
4) Marseille, France
5) Los Angeles, California, USA
6) New York, New York, USA
7) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8) Baltimore, Maryland, USA
9) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
10) Cannes, France
11) Beijing, China
12) Miami, Florida, USA
13) Washington, DC, USA
14) Frankfurt, Germany
15) Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1) Galway, Ireland
2) Charleston, USA
3) Dublin, Ireland
4) Cork, Ireland
5) Siem Reap, Cambodia
6) Auckland, New Zealand
7) Melbourne, Australia
8) Sydney, Australia
9) Edinburgh, Scotland
10) Savannah, Georgia
11) Cape Town, South Africa
12) Austin, Texas
13) Kyoto, Japan
14) Nashville, USA
15) Asheville, USA
I don't have such experience in Moscow, I could even ride in the cars of random people. Moscovits have this strange fashion not to use taxis but to hail random cars and ask them to take you if they are going in the same direction (for a small sum). First I found it a bit peculiar but when I asked a policeman about it and he said: it is not dangerous, everybody is doing it, I started hailing. Of course if you don't speak the lingo you wouldn't know all that
In contrast I could say that Dubliners were not friendly at all - a bus driver didn't want to let us on unless we had exact money and this at the airport - how could you have exact money when you have just arrived in the country!