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Old Posted Aug 28, 2019, 1:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Sun Belt View Post
Ok gang, I'm starting to understand the Detroit to L.A. comparison.

If you totally ignore the differences in:
Climate, history, population total, population density, the entertainment industry, flora, fauna, topography - mountains, hills, canyons, the Pacific Ocean, the river channels, congestion, racial demographics, growth rates, housing values, income...[need I say more?]

Then Los Angeles and Detroit are the most similar in nearly every respect because they have straight roads with some bungalows from the same era.
This discussion is pointless because the question was dysfunctional from the start with the "similar in almost every respect" part. Obviously no cities separated by such distance are going to be twins of each other. Talking only about the comparisons like Milwaukee-Chicago obviously gets old so the discussion shifts to cities that have more superficial similarities, of which Detroit and LA clearly do. There can be a productive discussion around that if we aren't going to get hung up on the narrow-framed question.
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