What two cities do you find most similar in nearly every respect?
This is not intended to be a city vs. city, but rather a discussion of finding pairs of cities that share a ton in common such as:
- Layout - Architecturally - Climatically - Aesthetically - Population size So I'll start! I'll admit, I haven't been to Calgary and haven't spent a ton of time in Denver, but having been on these forums for 18 years I've seen a ton of threads on them. I find that they have a near identical landscape/climate (with Calgary certainly getting much colder of course), very similar skyline, population, and I hear culturally they're pretty aligned (libertarian-friendly population). https://denver.cbslocal.com/wp-conte...2/denver-2.jpg https://denver.cbslocal.com/wp-conte...2/denver-2.jpg https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/wp...ry-skyline.jpg https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/wp...ry-skyline.jpg |
Tampa & Phoenix are water/desert analogs of each other.
Also the main cities in North Carolina have a suburban DC county analog: Charlotte::Fairfax Raleigh::Montgomery Greensboro:: Prince George's |
Sacramento and Richmond. They are both mid-size state capitals. They are both 2 - 2 1/2 hours from larger metropolitan areas and both about two hours from appealing geographic amenities (beaches with Richmond, Napa wine country and the Sierras with Sacramento). They also both have rivers through the respective cities.
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I can see that.
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This isn't following your exact design for this thread(sorry) but I've always thought Boston was a smaller version of London...Americanized.
Within America, I feel like Austin and Columbus have a lot in common. |
Calgary --- Denver
Chicago --- Toronto Los Angeles --- Mexico City Just to name a few |
I've always found Chicago - Toronto a somewhat lazy comparison just based on being two large cities on a lake. In terms of urban layout, transportation, and architecture I find them pretty distinct. Apart from certain areas of the financial cores which could be reasonably interchanged (even then the rivers give Chicago a different feel), I don't think there are many places you could drop a person who was decently familiar with the two and they wouldn't be able to quickly discern which city it was.
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I think it's more "well they're both big Great Lakes cities with big skylines". |
It's even worse (and much more of a stretch) when people on here act like Miami is just like Chicago...
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South Bay and Orange County are exactly the same. Sunnyvale is basically an Indian-American dominated version of Irvine.
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A few others: Birmingham - Pittsburgh (forested hills and steel/industrial heritage) Tulsa - Omaha (river cities with downtown on one side of the city and the majority of the suburban growth on the opposite side) Oklahoma City - Fort Worth (sprawling plains cities with a central walkable and rapidly redeveloping downtown core) |
So it's okay for you to say this:
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Cincinnati-Pittsburgh
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There's a huge difference between "POPULAR" and "ACCURATE" |
It's not really that Asheville is the Portland of the east so much as it is that Portland is the Asheville of the west.
Crunchy hippie granola? Check Very liberal? Check Almost entirely white? Check Mountainous terrain covered from top to bottom with trees? Check Were-possums? Check |
These comparisons are dumb. They’re based on people’s limited knowledge and of two cities they perceive kind of look similar or have some commonalities. Some of these cities are quite different in character if you get beyond the superficial similarities.
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I always love the Pittsburgh-Birmingham forced comparison as well.
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Bergenfield & Teaneck
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