Non-Natives Find Delhi & Mumbai Unfriendly Destinations

Delhi and Mumbai may be among the most visited cities for Indians, but they score way below on friendliness among non-natives. 

 A recent study by Preply, an online tutoring and language lessons platform has revealed that both these mega cities remain unfriendly to outsiders and rank among the top 10 least friendly cities in the world.

 When it comes to friendly cities, none of the Indian cities figures in this list has  20 cities with Canada in Toronto topping the chart.  

The list was prepared taking six metrics into account such as visitors' return rate, friendly staff, community respect, acceptance for diversity, happiness and ease of communicating through a common language.

The acceptance of diversity metrics reflects the LGBTQ+ equality score in each city.

While Toronto in Canada topped the list of friendly cities with a score of 8.74 per cent, Sydney in Australia came at the second place and Edinburgh in England took the third place. Most of the cities in this list were from Europe and the USA. 

On the other hand, Accra in Ghana was declared as the most unfriendly city with a score of just 1.52 per cent. The Marrakech in Morocco was placed at the second position and Kuala Lampur in Malaysia at the third place. Mumbai was placed in the fourth place. Rio De Janeiro in Brazil was fifth and Delhi in sixth place. Mumbai scored 3.78 on the Happiness index and Delhi scored 4.01.