What city in Canada is similar to Los Angeles? (neighborhoods, beaches)
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What city in Canada is similar to Los Angeles, California? since Los Angeles is really big we can narrow the options to specific areas in Los Angeles, like Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Glendale, Pasadena, etc.
For cultural diversity and sprawling metro area, probably Toronto.
For West Coast city with beaches and mountains, film indistry and connections to Asia, Vancouver is the closest you'll get. Victoria might be coastal California ca. 1960 given West coast feel, architecture, climate.
Montreal - aside from the presnece of Latin langauges, I can't see particular similarities.
That's all of the big metro areas in Canada, plus Vic ...
*Sigh* Within a few hundered years, someone's gonna try to match a Martian city to an 'equivalent' American city...
We get these questions a lot in the Canada forums.. Which or what Canadian this or that is like American this or that.. Than, when we start discussing it in good faith it becomes a - all you guys do is talk about and think about the U.S, you have an inferiority complex and you are a copycat culture
Oh yeah and why do you guys say aboot - what's wrong with you.
Vancouver is the Los Angeles and the San Francisco of Canada, though it's really nothing like Los Angeles and not really that much like San Francisco. But, it's the only large city on the West Coast and the only large Canadian city with anything close to the culture of California in terms of lifestyle, though even that is a stretch. But it's like saying Kyoto is the Boston of Japan or Milan is the Toronto of Italy.
LA and Vancouver are both unique in their own way. There's not really another US city that is really that much like Vancouver(Seattle is the closest one obviously, but bring it up in a regional forum and you'll hear non-stop about the differences)--though there's not even another Canadian city that much like Vancouver. On the other hand while there's US Sunbelt cities like Los Angeles in some ways--none of them compare to LA in terms of the range of neighborhoods. Phoenix or Houston doesn't have places like downtown Hollywood or the mid-Wilshire/Koreatown areas.
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