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How can Atlanta be anything like LA without the palm trees, diversity/culture, & skyline?
Heck the downtown skylines look nothing alike. Atlanta's skyline looks more like an East Coast city than anything with all of the spires on its buildings.
I'd like to hear them & I've got all night long. The weather is supposed to get kinda nasty here this weekend so I'll be cooped up inside with my PJ's on & coffee in hand.
Both are Sunbelt metros renowned for their sprawl (even more so than others), are the largest cities/metros in their respective states, have multiple skylines, have hosted the summer Olympics, and are centers for TV, music, and film (Atlanta much less so than LA obviously). Like I said, they only share a few similarities because they are quite distinct from each other.
Been to Houston many, many times and no Houston as not as much like LA as San Diego. Not to say they dont have things in common, but San Diego is much more a mini-LA than Houston.
Atlanta has its own unique character. Peachtree probably has an LA-flair but then that type of thing is common in many great cities. Atlanta screams "urban Dixie" to me, for some reason. Houston is more like a lean version of Los Angeles.
They do share a few similarities, but Atlanta's not a smaller version of any other city.
And Savannah is only about 250 miles from Atlanta. That's not exactly next door, but it surely isn't "several hundred miles" away either.
250 miles isn't several hundred miles.
1 hundred
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4 hour drive to the beach? Yeah that's called landlocked dude. pretty much same situation as Dallas.
Having lived here in Atlanta for a few years and spending a lot of time in LA, I can't exactly say that it's a "Mini-LA". We do have sprawl, bad traffic, multiple skylines, a (smaller) media & film presence, but besides that? The weather, terrain, climate, and culture are totally different from LA. Besides, we're not on the ocean either. There is a much more overt "Eastern" culture here.
However, we do have El Pollo Loco now, and I've noticed the trend of saying how it takes "20 minutes" to get from here to there has taken a hold here (that whole "20 minutes" thing started out in LA). Lots of California transplants here too - one time at my church, the pastor asked how many people were from Cali, and I swear about 200 hands shot up, LOL.
The only other cities that I could say are "mini" LA's would be Miami and/or Houston, and even then the cultures of each city makes them too different and distinctive. LA and Houston are both large port cities, and LA was once a huge manufacturing center and oil was a big factor in the development of LA as well.
Las Vegas and Phoenix could be contenders as well due to the heavy SoCal influence there, except that they're both landlocked in the desert (so the port culture of LA would not be there). I have heard of comparisons to the Inland Empire suburbs though.
Note to the guy that said that San Diego is a mini LA, as someone who used to live in San Diego, NEVER EVER EVER say that, LOL
When ATL gets a seaport & starts planting palm trees along its boulevards & freeways let me know.
H-town has had that covered for a long time.
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