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It's the jackasses that live there that give it a bad rap. Chicago still has a lot of organized crime problems, corrupt politicians, etc, but it doesn't have the stigma of being filled with assholes. Sure, it has it's share of douchebags but so does every city, and it isn't bad enough to make you change your mind when you visit. New York is known for being pretentious, narcissistic, pompous and rude, and visits there do enough to confirm that stereotype that it doesn't matter how it really is.
Personally in the time I've spend in New York people were about as nice as anywhere else. Same with Boston (I actually have a cousin who was a courier in Boston through his college years and he tells me that downtown most people are hockey fans and don't care for the Patriots, Red Sox, or Celtics- those fags are the typical New England assholes who live outside the city) and most other cities.
Maybe it's just that way for me, though, because I myself am an asshole and hate tourists as much as any of the natives. People tend to ask me for directions no matter where I am and I usually just point them in a random direction, but if it happened on a daily basis I can definitely see how that sort of thing would piss you off. Still, New Yorkers would have to be almost sickeningly nice to overturn the negative preconceived notions about them.
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