Why Newport Is So Unfriendly: Our Scapegoats

15. Boston, Massachusetts

“The attitude is awful,” said one respondent about Beantown.  “Random strangers will comment on [you]—Mind your own business, Boston!”

To be fair to Boston, they were minding their own business…then this tourist showed up. That said, if people think people from Boston are a whole lot ruder than people in Newport…and there are a whole lot of tourists from Boston who come to Newport, isn’t it possible that the crowds of jerks that hurt these Travel & Leisure readers feelings are a just a bunch of Massholes venting about the Sox season?

A bit further up in the rankings is a city and a state that most people in Newport are very familiar with.

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