Miami Hits Top 20 In "World's Rudest Cities"
MIAMI (CBS4) - Been flipped off on the Palmetto lately? Screamed at by the nameless voice at the drive-thru? No 'thank you' when your buy your burrito at the gas station? Does it surprise you that Miami has been named one of the rudest cities in the world? But, believe it or not, it's not the rudest city in Florida.
According to Foursquare, the social networking service that keeps track of where you and your friends are, the rudest city in Florida is Boca Raton, and that has earned it the rank of the 12th rudest cities in the world, based on the amount of curse words in posts from that city.
Miami made the top 20, but apparently we're a little less rude here. We squeaked in at 18.
It appears we're in rude company. While the city judged the rudest in the (English speaking) world was Manchester, England, other than Melbourne, Australia, all of the cities in the top 20 were in the US.
Rudest in America, and #2 in the world? El Paso, Texas. Rounding out the list of top potty-mouth places were Pittsburgh, Bloomington, Indiana, and Riverside California.
The Golden State had the largest number of rude cities -- 7, including Riverside, but Florida was no slouch. In addition to Boca Raton and Miami, Jacksonville also cursed it's way into the top 20.
So how did Foursquare quantify our lack of manners?
The service operates by allowing users to share tips with their friends. Foursquare engineers uses a sophisticated suite of software to analyze the curse words in those tips, and since the service is all about locating people and places, they tied the curses to the locations they were made.
But even though might apparently could clean up our posts a bit, it appears it doesn't take much to get on the list.
Foursquare said in Manchester, the rudest city, just .016 percent of the users cursed when leaving a tip. You can get better results at any Miami traffic jam.
