Photo by Joshua Yospyn.

By now you’ve probably heard the unsettling news: D.C. was ranked the 9th snobbiest city in the U.S. by the salt-of-the-earth readers of Travel and Leisure magazine. That’s right, America’s capital city isn’t even in the top five. Somehow Santa Fe and Minneapolis (that’s in the Midwest!) both placed higher than Washington.

The abomination of a list was created using the magazine’s America’s Favorite City survey from 2012. D.C.’s ranking owes in part to the city coming in dead last in the friendliness category.

Is that all we’re good for? Being unfriendly jerks? Surely our snobby food and drink scene, which features a $3,000 dinner for six and $40 cocktail, should be ranked higher than 31 out of 35? Doesn’t the city’s failure in the “charming local accent” category count for anything? Did you even see how low we ranked in affordability?

Take heart, dear readers, because the real people know just how snobby D.C. is. Indeed, two users of the very democratic Yahoo! Answers — Ron Paul 2012 and Nubian Resistance — both agree that D.C. is the most pretentious place in the U.S.

As Nubian Resistance explained, “Almost everybody that I have met from there had a superiority complex; like if you were to get into a fight with one of them, you would expect one to say, ‘you would hit somebody that has a Masters Degree!??'”

Yes, we would.