Canadian cities American counterparts

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by PhilippeMtl

A french culture? big deal.

oooooohhhh. The Irony.

[PoscStudent]

Originally Posted by PhilippeMtl

Comparing Montreal to New Orleans and Halifax to Boston IS trolling...

If Montreal don't want New Orleans it may not be a bad one for St. John's. Both are offshore oil cities, people from both places talk funny, both have rich histories and unique cultures.

[yyzer]

no offence to the OP, but this is a real stupid & pointless thread...there are no direct correlations between any U.S. and Canadian cities - all are unique..

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by PoscStudent

If Montreal don't want New Orleans it may not be a bad one for St. John's. Both are offshore oil cities, people from both places talk funny, both have rich histories and unique cultures.

Both are also big party towns.

I like the comparison of Boston to Halifax. Besides being old New England-style college towns on the sea, both cities had a historically high level of travel and commerce between them. Lots of Red Sox fans in Halifax.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Considering you draw upon such important characteristics of cities such as the colour of their football teams to compare them, surely the city's status as the country's biggest city and economic centre, cultural centre, most diverse, having the most skyscrapers, etc, etc. would be enough to make it the equivalent of "Canada's New York"? If you want to compare any country's collection of cities to America's, the biggest will pretty much always be the NYC-equivalent. Similarly, if you were to ever compare a country's cities to Canada's, their largest would be..."_____'s Toronto". Frankly the whole exercise is tiring and pointless (always seems to come up here every few months...), but that part at least should be pretty clear.

And Atlanta, really? Aside from neither being close to their countries equivalent, the built form, architecture, demographics, culture, history, topography, infrastructure, and climate are about as far from each other as possible.

I'll otherwise just ignore the "blah blah Toronto is bland" stuff. Seem too deep rooted a Canadianism to ever bother attempting to change (despite its inherent irony).

New Yorkers would never spend this much time responding

[caltrane74]

Yes, this thread is pure crap, but its fun crap. And I am all for fun.

Toronto is the New York of Canada.
Toronto is the Sydney of Canada.
Toronto is the Paris of Canada.
Toronto is the Milan of Canada.
Toronto is the Frankfurt of Canada.
Toronto is the Moscow of Canada.
Toronto is the Stockholm oF Canada.
Toronto is the Sao Paulo of Canada.
Toronto is the Johannesburg of Canada.
Toronto is the Shanghai of Canada.
Toronto is the Tokyo of Canada.

[yyzer]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Yes, this thread is pure crap, but its fun crap. And I am all for fun.

Toronto is the New York of Canada.
Toronto is the Sydney of Canada.
Toronto is the Paris of Canada.
Toronto is the Milan of Canada.
Toronto is the Frankfurt of Canada.
Toronto is the Moscow of Canada.
Toronto is the Stockholm oF Canada.
Toronto is the Sao Paulo of Canada.
Toronto is the Johannesburg of Canada.
Toronto is the Shanghai of Canada.
Toronto is the Tokyo of Canada.

LOL....

[Gerrard]

Hrmph. I don't know why we play this game.

I understand the OP was trolling but seriously, the cities really don't need to be compared at all.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by dleung

New Yorkers would never spend this much time responding

Oh please. I knew someone would make a comment along these lines, that responding to some ignorant claims and intellectual dishonesty would "prove" that Torontonians are insecure, and as such, occupy some bland/small/unimportant burg, unlike the Worldly People of New York who of course, who don't care what anyone says. Oldest trolling technique/cheap response in the book.

Though if you would like to test that theory, here you go: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105

Make a thread calling NYC a bland corporate city and call it America's Thunder Bay, wait for the responses.

[caltrane74]

dleung, admitted that he is a troll. You can't use logic with him. You have to play his troll games, to get the most use outta him.

[dleung]

I wouldn't hv picked on you if you didn't substitute someone else's idiocy with your own:

Originally Posted by Monkeyronin

Similarly, if you were to ever compare a country's cities to Canada's, their largest would be..."_____'s Toronto".

lol, who does this... is Sydney Australia's Toronto? Is Yellowknife the New York of the Northwest Territories?

[caltrane74]

Yes, Sydney is the Toronto or New York of Austraila. Although, Melborne is a pretty big city too.

[Winnipegger]

Guys want to know something cool? Toronto is Canada's Toronto. Neat hey?

[floobie]

I can think of exactly ONE semi-ok comparison, and that's Vancouver and Seattle. It sort of helps that they're basically right next to each other on the West coast. The rest... no point, really. All one can really do is compare a few factors between two cities, and then proclaim them to be similar, even though loads of other factors don't line up at all.

There are similarities, but really, Canadian cities are distinctly Canadian... they have their own identity, they don't need to be compared to US cities to be relevant.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by dleung

I wouldn't hv picked on you if you didn't substitute someone else's idiocy with your own:

lol, who does this... is Sydney Australia's Toronto?

Absolutely. The analogy easily holds in that example. Problem?

Is Yellowknife the New York of the Northwest Territories?

You could make the claim if you really wanted to, though, being a mere 0.1% the size of New York and the centre of a territory rather than country, its rather silly. This is what we call intellectual dishonesty.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Absolutely. The analogy easily holds in that example. Problem?

It's misleading because it implies Sydney is anything like Toronto, when it's simply Australia's largest city... especially considering that Melbourne is more like Toronto than Sydney

And Sydneysiders would be offended

[caltrane74]

but they are both the largest cities in their respective countrys.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by dleung

It's misleading because it implies Sydney is anything like Toronto, when it's simply Australia's largest city... especially considering that Melbourne is more like Toronto than Sydney

Yes, in actuality, Melbourne is probably the more similar city, but Sydney is the equivalent of Toronto in Australia - the biggest city, economic centre, immigration centre (?), skyscraper centre, etc. Seems to take a backseat to Melbourne as the Australian cultural centre though.

Of course, all the cities are different, and their relationships within their countries are different (Sydney and Melbourne seem to have a lot more in common than Toronto and Montreal do, for example), hence the comparisons are rather vain and serve absolutely no purpose, but, when raised as a topic of discussion, these comparisons would seem the most accurate.

And Sydneysiders would be offended

Nice one.

[caltrane74]

You see, I told you he admitted that he was one a while back.

He takes pride in it.

Dont fall into his game.

[MolsonExport]

North Bottlefart is the Milwaukee of North Western Saskatchewan.