Nestled on the northeastern coastline is the city of Sunderland, home to more than 270,000 people with a rich shipbuilding history behind it. Perhaps you know it for its seaside or for its football team which had its own Netflix documentary ‘Sunderland Til I Die’. For me, it’s the place I lovingly call home. However, according to a recent study by Preply, the city was dubbed one of the “least polite cities in the UK” along with London and Manchester. To conduct the study, the company compared TripAdvisor reviews and statistics from Numbeo to give each location a score out of 30. The lower the score, the less polite the city was deemed. TripAdvisor reviews were scanned for keywords such as “friendly”, “fantastic”, “polite”, and “friendly” while Numbeo’s data included information such as a city’s safety index and a cleanliness score. According to their research, Sunderland scored just 8.6, only slightly higher than Manchester and London. But having lived in the city for the majority of my life, and now returning to visit family, I …