If you’re ranking snobbiness on intelligence, fancy coffee and tech savviness, it’s clear that Seattle should be on the list. In fact, we’re kind of bummed we’re only ranked No. 5.
Travel + Leisure magazine surveyed its readers on a variety of criteria to compile its 2013 “snobbiest” city list. The criteria included food trucks, aloofness and intelligence, “highbrow” culture, a buzzing tech industry, fancy coffee, eco-friendliness and giving strangers the cold shoulder. It’s like the list was made for us: If you don’t make our coffee right, we’ll let you know. We’ll line up for hours for the food trucks that feed the techies in South Lake Union. We even have a name for our lack of friendliness: the “Seattle Freeze.” Alas, Seattle was bested for the top title by San Francisco (No. 1), New York City (No. 2), Boston (No. 3), Minneapolis/St. Paul (No. 4). We tied with Santa Fe for fifth place.
So do Seattleites acknowledge that we’re snobby? “Yes, we’re snobby,” said 69 percent of voters of a Seattle Times poll. In true Seattle style, we’re not apologetic about it.
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