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You have to use the cities that are part of ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV, DC, VA, NC, SC, GA and FL for the East Coast and WA, OR, CA and NV for the West Coast. You can also use Baja California, British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii and Sonora for the West Coast and Ohio, Alabama, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Greenland, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico and eastern parts of Ontario, Kentucky and Tennessee for the East Coast
For me:
New York-Los Angeles (both are the largest cities in the US, are large media/entertainment centers and NY pretty much acts as the capital of the east coast, while LA is the capital of the west coast)
Hampton Roads (Norfolk/Virginia Beach)-San Diego (both border bays, have military as their main industries and are tourist destinations)
Baltimore/Washington-San Francisco Bay Area (Both are liberal and have lots of tech companies and home to some of the richest people in the US)
Richmond-Bakersfield (both are midsize towns that are midway between some of the largest metros, for Richmond, Baltimore/Washington and Hampton Roads and for Bakersfield, San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles)
Florida-Baja California (both are peninsulas of North America and border both the ocean and the gulf (Baja California-Gulf of California, Florida-Gulf of Mexico).
San Juan-Honolulu (both have year round tropical climate and attract tourists from around the world)
Atlanta-Phoenix (both sprawl center and have strip malls street after street)
Atlantic City-Las Vegas (both have lots of casinos and stores)
I can't think for Philadelphia, Raleigh, Charlotte, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, Boston, Nassau, Halifax, Montreal, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Portland (OR), Seattle, Vancouver, St. John's and Anchorage
San Francisco without a doubt. LA is not that much like an east coast city - most cities on the west coast aren't if you're talking about built environment. Built environment wise, SF is more like NYC than LA is.
San Francisco without a doubt. LA is not that much like an east coast city - most cities on the west coast aren't if you're talking about built environment. Built environment wise, SF is more like NYC than LA is.
Yes...But everything East of La Brea in Los Angeles is built more like NYC than to other sunbelt cities. West LA & The Valley are suburban (Except Santa Monica, Westwood, Venice, North Hollywood & Warner Center). That tends to throw off people's perceptions of how dense and how built up the rest of Los Angeles really is.
You take everything East of La Brea, Historic South Central, NorthEast LA & East LA your talking about a huge area which forms LA's core. Most Visitors and Transplants live on the Westside and Valley's so that is the LA they experience.
And BTW, if we're talking just the West coast, that would only include cities in California, Oregon and Washington. Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, etc. aren't West coast states.
NY and SF are similar in their built environments and in terms of having a dominant financial sector.
NY and LA are similar in that they are media capitals, both fashion cities, and are both the alpha cities on their respective coasts. Both NY and LA also seem to have this 'sink or swim', 'hustle or be hustled' entrepreneurial spirit. I find the energy in both cities to be similar: creative, exciting, fast paced, albeit a bit slower in LA than in NY.
^^^I think SF is also very very much this way (you said creative, exciting, fast-paced, hustle or be hustled, entrepreneurial spirit, sink or swim).
LA and NYC share fashion, media, and Jewish culture. Beyond that, not much. SF and NYC share idioms, everything else about their economies, built environment, local political issues, priority on education and "what you do", work culture to a degree, bridges and tunnels and all that that implies, hipster haven across the bridge (i.e. Oakland and Brookyn no matter how much people want to say they share no similarities), etc etc.
Also, I would say San Diego is more like a far superior Jacksonville than extremely similar to Norfolk/Hampton Roads. Jacksonville is also a navy town, but is also a haven for golf, beaches, conservative politics relative to its respective state, etc etc etc.
I can't really conjure up any more similarities. I find a lot of similarities between LA and Atlanta (on the surface, and I'm not necessarily talking "sprawl" or "highway traffic"). I find a lot of similarities between SF and Philly. I also find a lot of similarities between SF and Boston, but not a lot of similarities between SF and DC.
^^^I think SF is also very very much this way (you said creative, exciting, fast-paced, hustle or be hustled, entrepreneurial spirit, sink or swim).
LA and NYC share fashion, media, and Jewish culture. Beyond that, not much. SF and NYC share idioms, everything else about their economies, built environment, local political issues, priority on education and "what you do", work culture to a degree, bridges and tunnels and all that that implies, hipster haven across the bridge (i.e. Oakland and Brookyn no matter how much people want to say they share no similarities), etc etc.
Also, I would say San Diego is more like a far superior Jacksonville than extremely similar to Norfolk/Hampton Roads. Jacksonville is also a navy town, but is also a haven for golf, beaches, conservative politics relative to its respective state, etc etc etc.
I can't really conjure up any more similarities. I find a lot of similarities between LA and Atlanta (on the surface, and I'm not necessarily talking "sprawl" or "highway traffic"). I find a lot of similarities between SF and Philly. I also find a lot of similarities between SF and Boston, but not a lot of similarities between SF and DC.
I see few similarities between Philadelphia and San Francisco, besides rowhouse neighborhoods. Demographically and culturally they are as different as two cities could be. Boston is a little bit more believable.
SF and Boston share economic and demographic traits. But SF and Philly share some important subjective and cultural traits. Also, the look and feel of SF is entirely different from the two, being that SF (like Philly and Boston) is very unique, however, it can probably be argued relatively effectively that the look and feel of SF and Philly are pretty similar once you get past fauna and building material. Both cities are a lot dirtier and grittier than Boston and have microcosmic layouts/neighborhoods that are pretty damn similar.
Still, I think SF shares more traits with NYC than it shares with any other city in this country (and don't read that incorrectly - I'm not saying that I think SF is more similar to NYC than any other city in this country is similar to NYC).
San Francisco is the most similar to any East Coast City. Portland, Seattle, LA, San Diego, etc. are all very very different but there are parts of LA that seemed east coastish in vibe.
Philly is like Brooklyn, Boston and San Francisco had a baby.
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