When someone moves from where they usually live and travels to another city, or moves for any reason, they usually do notice the differences in the character of people who is there, and also in their kindness or lack thereof. What usually costs more is judging ourselves as neighbors and appreciating how rude we have in our daily lives.
This is what the Preply platform has done, Find out which is the rudest area in Spain by asking residents of 19 regions, through interviews with 1,500 residents. They were asked how often they encounter rude behavior or who they consider to be the rudest, their neighbors or strangers.
The question is how rudeness is measured, this doesn’t necessarily have to do with insults, but with disrespectful behavior such as talking on the phone in public, skipping lines, not saying hello, making a lot of noise or not yield to other vehicles when there is traffic. So, up to twelve parameters. While the study isn’t very scientific, it does offer some conclusions and draws up some positive and negative rankings.
The ranking that no one wants to lead
So, the one for rudest cities, with a score between 0 and 10 (10 being the rudest score), leads Holy Cross of Tenerife, with 6.06, in front of Granada, with 5.95 and Alicante-Elche, with 5.81. San Sebastián-Donostia (5.77) and Bilbao (5.73) close the top 5. In the case of the Gipuzkoan capital, what its neighbors value most about themselves is that they don’t greet strangers or leave tips; Bilbaoans chide themselves for being loud in public, even in the face of their lack of generosity with tips.
In the opposite ranking, the most educated city is Vigo, with a 5.17 in rudeness, ahead of A Coruña-Oleiros-Arteixo (5.18), Valencia (5.28), Murcia-Orihuela (5.30) and Gijón-Oviedo-Avilés (5.31).
