Massachusetts Has the 12th Most Expensive Groceries in the US – How Much a Week?

A new study has confirmed the worst kept secret in the Bay State: groceries are expensive in Massachusetts!! I remember not too long ago when I'd complain about how I couldn't get in and out of the grocery store for under a hundred bucks. Today - double that!

The new study from Help Advisor ranked US cities on their average grocery price and Boston made the Top 20 Most Expensive in America, finishing up in 12th place. The average household in Boston spends a whopping $265.25 a week on groceries. Ouch!

As far as states go, if you want to live where the groceries are cheapest you might look at real estate in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is the state with the most reasonable groceries. There the average household spends $221.46 a week on their grocery bill. Versus Boston's numbers, Wisconsin residents pays around $176 less per month on groceries than us.

The most expensive groceries in America are in Miami, Florida. The average household in Miami is dropping about $328 on groceries per week - that's about $224 more expensive per month than Massachusetts and just about $426 per month more expensive than Wisconsin. Houston, Riverside, San Francisco, and Los Angeles rounded out the Top 5 cities with the most expensive groceries in the country.

Bottom line: no matter what city or state you live in and no matter how much you spend on your weekly groceries, if you're a parent, when you get home and everything is put away you're bound to hear, "there's nothing to eat in the house." Fun times.

So that's how we stack up with our grocery prices. Now how do we stack up with our politeness. While it's pretty well known that Mass has expensive groceries, we're also pretty well known for our saltiness from time to time, huh? Another new city says YES we're rude... but... not the rudest (yesssssss!!). Check out where we land below:

How RUDE? Bostonians are rude, this we know. I mean, we almost use the title as a badge of honor. Many of us take pride in the fact that we can be rude at times. But when you look nationally, we are certainly up there as far as rude cities. Before we count down the top 10 rudest cities in America, let's take a look at what makes a city and its people rude.

The survey that released this data and its findings is Survey Monkey. According to their site, "the two polls for this survey had a total of 2,092 respondents with a margin of error of 2%: 1,075 respondents were collected 10/25/19 - 10/26/19, and 1,017 respondents were collected 11/22/19 - 11/23/19." And what constitutes a rude person? How about anyone not friendly? Maybe people who swear at you or people who don't let you merge in traffic. Or how about people with road roage. All of these things occur on a daily basis here in Boston so it's no surprise that we are considered some of the rudest people nationwide. However, when you look at other studies about rudest cities in the WORLD, Bostonians didn't make the top 30 which seems like a shock.

So what happened here was, Americans who responded to this survey were asked to name the top 5 rudest cities from a list of the 50 largest metro areas in the country. Cities that placed outside of the top 10 include: Birmingham, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Las Vegas, Nevada, Dallas, Texas and Miami, Florida. They placed 11-15 respectively. So let's take a look at which cities are the top 10 rudest in the country.

9.8% of respondents thought San Francisco had the rudest people. A good chunk of those rude people include cyclists. According to witnesses and respondents, cyclists will curse at pedestrians like it's no one's business.

Us Bostonians would agree with this. Those Eagles fans are just plain rude.  9.9% of respondents thought Philadelphia had the rudest people. And yes, Eagles fans are citied in the survey. 

 11.2% of respondents thought Baltimore had the rudest people. The study cites one man who was trying to prank people by roasting them on camera. He would eventually get arrested for it. 

 11.3% of respondents thought Buffalo had the rudest people. I mean, it is a part of New York. Have you ever seen those Bills fans? 

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11.6% of respondents thought Detroit had the rudest people. A specific incident was cited by a woman who worked at a local McDonald's who was tasered by a customer who said her order was taking too long. 

14.9% of respondents thought Boston had the rudest people. Personally, I believe this is a tad low for us. We should definitely be in the top 3. We cut lines, get massive road rage and are very proud of our sports teams to the point where we will get belligerent. 

 18.6% of respondents thought Chicago had the rudest people. Even Chicago's hometown newspaper says their city has been rude for decades. 

18.9% of respondents thought Washington had the rudest people. A lot of this has to do with the political climate with the survey saying some political outbursts can take place on the floor of congress. 

 19.7% of respondents thought Los Angeles had the rudest people. How can this be? One respondent said "We can't even keep crossing guards at our school anymore. They quit because parents are so rude and yell at them every day."

WOW look at the percentage!  34.3% of respondents thought New York had the rudest people. At least this is something we can all agree upon. Even back in the 1700s, the perception of New Yorkers was just plain rude. According to President John Adams, "I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another."