Poll of US Cities Says NYC is Average-Looking

Travel & Leisure Magazine released its 2008 lists of "America's Favorite Cities" conducted after polling 600,000 readers and the Big Apple came in ninth in the Most Attractive category, right in between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Denver. We wonder just how skin-deep Travel readers are in their assessment of just what makes a city's residents attractive since they voted New York #1 as being both "Most Stylish" and "Most Diverse." Maybe those polled had Monday morning regrets and were spurning New York after ranking us near the top as a place to spend a "Wild Weekend." Miami took the top spot as "Most Attractive" and New York also placed ninth behind top-rated Austin when it came to "Overall People."

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By Billy Parker in News on September 15, 2008 2:11 PM

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pixel8

jorkie is right. been in sf for the past 3 years and i can't get over how unattractive the boys and girls are here.

blablanyc

There is no way San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Charleston or Austin has better looking people than NYC. People in those places look so dumpy.

jorkie

Umm...sorry but SF sucks. Really bad...I know, I live here for the time being. At least there is good eye candy in NY, LA, Miami no matter how slutty, fake, rude, etc they are. SF is full of neofreak drones vomiting all over the place.

NannyState

NYC girls are like demure, self-absorbed slutty librarians. Miami girls are just slutty. There's a kind of honesty to that, albeit an aggressive, competitive, and tempestuous honesty.

Shinobi Shaw

The hot people in NY also tend to be more sophisticated and stylish, where as in LA and MIAMI they are hot but in that "Blow up doll" Tackyness.

babyhitler

you guys aren't looking at the hotspots. Manhattan is the model capital of the world. All the hot chicks work at 32nd street for modeling, all the wannabe models work at coffeeshops in union square and the village and williamsburg. The thing is that Hot Chicks are more secluded in NY. They know they are hot so they don't go out as much unless it's to clubs. In LA and miami you see hot chicks working at starbucks and mcdonalds. you don't see that here

Kojak

Miami does have hot ladies, no matter how fake they are.

spiritross

I think NYC can take a hit to the ego now and then

We are tough enough

rbeattie:

That Bracket is awesome!

shredder

This is a pretty subjective ranking. Have you guys been to Miami? If your idea of "attractive" is gold lame tube dresses, day-glo tank tops, fake boobs, orange tans and gold chains, then yeah Miami #1.

esquared

We are! We are (average that, is). We just pretend that we're not, and at times delusional that we actually are attractive.

rbeattie

travelandleisure.com also has an interactive bracket game where you can vote for the best city overall--this week nyc is up against minneapolis...

www.travelandleisure.com/afc/2...

Steven

These polls are a waste of time. What really makes a city better than the other? Everyone has different views on what a good city is.

neckbeard

these things are voted on by people who live in cities that allow them time to vote on things like this.

they're about as meaningful as your kid sister's blog.

mrguy

NYC has nine million people, give or take. with that many people, you're more likely to be on par with the average, so a middling ranking doesn't surprise me.

then again, the whole enterprise of choosing which city's residents are the most/ least attractive seems to me an incredibly shallow proposition.

matty

"That said, I'd rather live here than most anywhere else in the U.S. SF is probably a close second, though."

Please, tell us more.

Anna_Merkin

Natural attractiveness? Yeah, I'd agree with a lower ranking for NYC. Take away the stylishness and artful hiding of imperfections, and you're left with a lot of very, very average-looking people. That said, I'd rather live here than most anywhere else in the U.S. SF is probably a close second, though.