New York can be a brash town, and politics an increasingly boorish game, but in both there tends to be a presumption — or a façade, at least — of common courtesy.
From Beirut I'd head north, stopping first at Byblos, a serene fishing village with a glinting harbour and incredible fossil collection hidden in its atmospheric souk, before hopping on the cable car from the brash town of Jounieh, for vertiginous views of the Med.
It helps that Ryan has led the Jets out of the shadow cast by their historically more successful city rivals, the Giants – and arguably made them better representatives of their brash home town, where everyone has an opinion.
There is Tulsa itself, a brash young town full of oil money and oil field roustabouts, a place where post-World War I nativism was second nature and Ku Klux Klan recruiters found a happy hunting ground.
Chicago was Graham's kind of town: brash, handsome, outspoken.
As a young man, he had fled a murderous dynastic feud in his homeland for Russia, a land reliably reported to be the haunt of giants and men with mouths between their nipples, but also of booming Viking trading-posts such as Novgorod and Kiev, towns brash with frontier spirit.
Uber may have the brashest brand in town but it's not the only way to get from A to B. Never has been, and — god help us — hopefully never will be.
Mansell, who was born and raised in Coventry, has lived and worked in Hollywood for 12 years now, but he hasn't been swallowed up by the town's brash self-confidence.
Mutare, on the border with Mozambique, has taken on the air of a frontier town filled with brash young men touting US dollars and an air of menace.
Close by, across a deep wadi, is Gilo, a kind of Basildon New Town, homes made of brash new concrete on the top of the hill.
Southern hospitality shines on that front -- in the Top 10, all but three of the cities are in the South -- while a total of five towns in the stereotypically brash Northeast earned spots on the mean-city list.
