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Originally Posted by hipster duck
If our categorizations were broad, like Latin America vs. English-speaking North America, then, sure, Toronto can be lumped in with Erie, PA. But if we're making distinctions between "Eastern Great Lakes", "Western Great Lakes", "Northeast", and "Appalachia", then I think the cities of a totally different country probably merit their own category for obvious reasons.
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I'd posit that Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, etc. fit a hell of a lot better into a regional categorization bucket with upstate NY than they fit into a bucket with say, anything in Ontario north of Sudbury (i.e., the vast majority of Ontario).
There's obviously significant differences within the large geographical region, but there is absolutely zero argument to be had that Hamilton and Toronto are somehow not Eastern Great Lakes cities. Buffalo, Erie, and Rochester, etc. are too. And speaking of Rochester (of the Northeast US)... it's way more regionally akin to Toronto than it is to Pittsburgh (also of the Northeast US)... yet we can confidently still group them in the same greater US region (Northeast) with each other.
I'm just talking geography here, not political lines on a map, so no, I do not think that cities of different countries need to have their own distinct category given that the category is quite broad to begin with. I don't see any major glaring need to break up 'Eastern Great Lakes' into 'Eastern Great Lakes - Canada" & 'Eastern Great Lakes - US", but have at it if need be.
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