The Maritimes/Halifax seems like Portland Oregon (living in, legal)
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I talked with someone who talked up Halifax to me, and is a proud native of the place, but I happened to tell her that I was depressed in Portland also. I am shocked no one made this comparison as both cities seem alike. She told me that Portland looked like the wannabe of Halifax and how Halifax is what a place like Portland wants to be. But I did hear how the Maritimes had a depressed job economy as well. Toronto and Seattle seem similar, Halifax and Portland do also. Montreal seems like the Miami of Canada. Calgary seems like Dallas. Winnipeg is like I dont know. Vancouver might be its own animal. I know some people from BC seem like in the Boston area, it might be the British connection.
I've never been able to understand why so many people want to compare cities in one country with cities in other countries. It's as if they think the cities are all goal oriented living individuals with minds and personalities that are in some kind of competition with each other all attempting to be best top dog or "just like" this city or that city or the other city. What is the point of comparison and competition?
No cities are like other cities and none of them have minds of their own so it's not possible for one city to be an envious wannabe that strives to be like some other city. It's only the living, breathing humans who live in them that do any thinking and decision making and who make the cities the structures that they are. The cities are not responsible for how humans perceive the cities and whether or not the humans are happy or depressed with the cities. If humans in cities are happy or depressed with their cities it's the humans who made themselves that way, the cities didn't do it to them.
I don’t think those associations necessarily work that well. By common reputation Vancouver is more like the LA/Miami, Toronto is the New York and Montreal is the Boston or New Orleans, Calgary is Denver, Winnipeg is the Chicago (lol) and all of those seem silly even as I type them out.
Not really seeing the association between Portland Oregon and Halifax, I thought you meant Portland ME which might work in terms of close proximal geography but I see OP is from Portland OR so... that’s definitely a first I’ve heard, aside from them being Anglo cities that are kind of second third tier within their respective countries and not in a continental climate zone.
Oregon just voted to decriminalize stuff like heroin and cocaine.
We have our fair share of idiots, and they seem to be concentrated in pockets like that.
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