Do you ever feel like you’re surrounded by jerks? Well, depending on where you live, you might be.
Lifestyle magazine Best Life released a list of all 50 states ranked from the nicest to the rudest, taking into account indicators from other surveys on rudest cities, drivers, unfriendliness and impolite behavior with customer service employees.
We also checked out forums like Quora and Reddit to see what states people are dishing about so you know where all the Karens are hiding.
From the friendliest to the most miserable, here’s how every state fares on the rudeness scale.
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