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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
For anyone else, this comparison has been done to ad nauseam and the commonalities typically centre on commonplace superficialities like ocean harbour, similar population and tourism.
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My reasons for not putting much stock in this comparison are that many cities can look similar in faraway skyline shots, and if you dig in to what the buildings are like (go to diagrams on SSP) the two cities are not very similar in terms of building era, style, number, or size. Victoria doesn't really have comparable office towers for example which is the bulk of the downtown skyline in Halifax. The residential buildings also don't look very similar. Fenwick looks to be around 2-3x the size of Hudson Place and was built 50 years earlier. And we're not yet talking about the Citadel or harbour bridges or other things.
I would argue the difference at street level in the urban core is even larger. You don't see people mention comparable neighbourhoods, streets, or buildings much, and it would be hard to come up with a correspondence like that.