{"id":97335,"date":"2015-09-02T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=97335"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:28:47","slug":"the-friendliest-and-unfriendliest-cities-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/97335\/the-friendliest-and-unfriendliest-cities-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The friendliest (and unfriendliest) cities in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel+Leisure magazine has listed the world’s friendliest and unfriendliest cities, as voted for by close to 200,000 readers.<\/p>\n

Only one South African city made an appearance out of the 60 cities listed – and fortunately it featured in the friendly column.<\/p>\n

Cape Town was ranked by the publication as the 11th friendliest city in the world, with an overall score of 89.02.<\/p>\n

According to T+L, the city’s sights, sounds and lifestyle – as well as the “warm, welcoming people” – earned the Mother City a proverbial gold star.<\/p>\n

Leading all cities is Galway, in Ireland, which earned the top score of 92.03. T+L readers described the city as hospitable, and full of humour, home to “the friendliest people [they had] ever met”.<\/p>\n

Irish cities featured in three of the top five spots on the list.<\/p>\n

\"Galway,<\/a>

Galway, Ireland<\/p><\/div>\n

The 15 friendliest cities in the world<\/h3>\n
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#<\/th>\nCity<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nGalway<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n92.025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nCharleston<\/td>\nSouth Carolina, USA<\/td>\n91.633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDublin<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n91.342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nCork<\/td>\nIreland<\/td>\n90.840<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSiem Reap<\/td>\nCambodia<\/td>\n90.667<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAuckland<\/td>\nNew Zealand<\/td>\n90.517<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nMelbourne<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n90.229<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nSydney<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n89.910<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nEdinburgh<\/td>\nScotland<\/td>\n89.422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nSavannah<\/td>\nGeorgia<\/td>\n89.167<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nCape Town<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n89.023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nAustin<\/td>\nTexas, USA<\/td>\n88.456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nKyoto<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n88.293<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nNashville<\/td>\nTennessee, USA<\/td>\n87.609<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nAsheville<\/td>\nNorth Carolina, USA<\/td>\n87.490<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

No South African cities featured on the unfriendliest list, though a 2014 survey conducted by Conde Nast gave Johannesburg the dubious honour of being titled the world’s unfriendliest city.<\/p>\n

According to Travel + Leisure’s rankings, the dishonour in 2015 goes to Moscow, Russia, with a score of 60.25.<\/p>\n

T+L readers described the city’s citizens as unhelpful and “aloof”, while the city itself was not tourist friendly, with bad traffic and a poor culinary scene.<\/p>\n

Atlantic City in New Jersey, USA, was ranked second worst, with rude, “fast-paced” people.<\/p>\n

\"Moscow,<\/a>

Moscow, Russia<\/p><\/div>\n

The 15 unfriendliest cities in the world<\/h3>\n
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#<\/th>\nCity<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMoscow<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n60.250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAtlantic City<\/td>\nNew Jersey, USA<\/td>\n61.361<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSt Petersburg<\/td>\nRussia<\/td>\n65.419<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMarseille<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n66.316<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nLos Angeles<\/td>\nCalifornia, USA<\/td>\n68.090<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNew York City<\/td>\nNew York, USA<\/td>\n63.129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nPhiladelphia<\/td>\nPennsylvania, USA<\/td>\n69.292<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nBaltimore<\/td>\nMaryland, USA<\/td>\n69.380<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nLas Vegas<\/td>\nNevada, USA<\/td>\n69.462<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nCannes<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n69.910<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nBeijing<\/td>\nChina<\/td>\n70.497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nMiami<\/td>\nFlorida<\/td>\n70.681<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nWashington D.C.<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n71.411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nFrankfurt<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n71.528<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nBoston<\/td>\nMassachusetts<\/td>\n72.925<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The real reason why South Africa is partnering with China<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel+Leisure magazine has listed the world’s friendliest and unfriendliest cities, as voted for by close to 200,000 readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[10411,26,6288],"class_list":["post-97335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-friendly","tag-headline","tag-travel-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97369,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97335\/revisions\/97369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}