Are San Francisco people rude?

are you serious? The few people i've met from San Fran have been really friendly! Which parts of San Fran did this happen, in?

Hey Gemmal, No way, I've been to SF many times and i have found that people in San Francisco have been nothing but very nice and accomodating. What nationality are you? I am Australian and i find that perhaps Americans in general are actually a little nicer to me because of it! I love SF!!

totally depends on what sort of person you and what areas of SF you are visiting. Sounds to me like you are judging everyone based on asshole guys in nightclubs. DONT! most people in SF are fantastic people. @AJ great to hear you the locals like the aussies!

I would say that overall, this is the friendliest U.S. city I have been to. However, there are a lot of transplants from all over the world (as well as the rest of the country), so the friendly attitude may not have permeated EVERY San Franciscan yet. I actually don't even mind traffic as much out here, because drivers are SO polite and will let you merge anywhere...

I haven't been to a lot of different cities in the US or anywhere else. Seattle has pretty nice people too. I would say probably as nice as people in the Bay Area. Montreal is probably the place where I felt most welcome of any place I have ever been but I was only there for a few weeks. I've mets lots of mid-Westerners who moved here and they seem really nice. A met a bunch Virginians (or were they West Virginians) who had all studied architecture together and they were really, really nice--but maybe architects are really nice--they're the only ones I've met outside of the Brady Bunch reruns.

Rudeness is an art that we haven't really learned here in the Bay Area--LA definitely has us beat there. But the true masters of rudeness are on the East Coast where it is a long proud tradition. I am reminded of the old joke: How does a New Yorker perform CPR? He leans over the sufferer and says, "Yo, wake up. Ya gonna die!" And walks on. On the other hand, I have never had so much of a sense of community as I did when I used to live in an apartment building on 17th and First in Manhattan as a kid. There was a feeling that everyont in the building was looking out for eachother. (Partly because many of the people in the building were doctors and nurses who worked together at the hospital.) If I had a problem I felt like I could go to the building supervisor (big burly Mr. Brown) or knock on one of the neighbor's doors that we knew. I guess when you are living in a big scary city you get this sense of us against them that helps build lines of communication.

I agree that East Coasters are more rude than West Coasters (which I can say, because I'm from the East Coast). New York City, in particular, has its fair share of rude people in addition to the friendly locals who are willing to help anyone out. Here is my biggest problem with New York: people are not intentionally rude, the city is just so chaotic that everyone clams up into their own little worlds. As a result, they are more disengaged from one another, and little subtleties like saying "excuse me" when you bump into someone, or holding a door for a stranger, are lost in the shuffle (although highly appreciated when they actually do happen!) Rudeness isn't prevalent in a traditional sense, but exists more in a cold, isolating way. Yet another reason why San Francisco is the greatest city (culture without disengagement from the world around you). Don't get me wrong - I do love New York, and know plenty of kindhearted people who live there. I am simply observing the overall vibe of the city.

Here's the thing. Most people that live in SF are transplants from somewhere else. There are local people that have lived here all of their lives but they are far and few between. When I first moved here I felt like @gemmal did because on my first day at work a woman said after learning I was from the East Coast, "What? They can't find talent in the Bay Area?" - Nice. "Apparently not" is what I replied. But I think that it does depend on where you go and who you bump into. In terms of rudeness, I think SF is minor in comparison to other places. The mid-west and the southern people are perhaps the nicest. Everyone I've ever met from Colorado is super nice. Must be all that sunshine!

I'm from the Midwest and perhaps it's the Midwesterner in me but I find a minority of San Franciscan's incredibly rude but not in the way that Gemmal did. I'm 4'9", if I had a $1 for every time a San Franciscan cut in front of me in line or conveniently didn't see me, I would be quite wealthy by now. I live in the Marina where I have occasionally had some bad experiences with people who found the fact that I was not perfectly fit so dismaying that they let me know subtly that I did not deserve to live here. You could say that's a Marina problem but I think there is a disturbing attitude that some (all be it a small minority) some San Franciscan's have. I also think they have this attitude: "I am the center of the universe and the world must revolve around me." I sometimes wonder how they can all live in the city together when so many of them really believe they are special and rules of all kinds do not apply to them. There are really nice people who live in San Francisco too, not all people are like this. If they were all like this I would have left a long time ago but it is a frequently witnessed theme around here.