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Usually what you hear people complain about northern cities is that they are too cold in the winter, and with sunbelt cities that they are too new and spread out. Imagine if you could take a city like Philadelphia exactly as is (and adjust the vegetation for palm trees) and plop them down in a tropical location, combined with some cool attribute what would you pick?
New York-San Diego combo:
Plop down New York City as it is but right in the location of San Diego. This means a hyperurban, dense, international city, in a Mediterranean climate, with mountains. Imagine seeing the Manhattan skyline with mountains in the background and the Pacific in front. LA is also within a days drive, talk about a crazy megapolis that could be combined. Laid back surf culture meets big city living.
Chicago-Miami Combo:
Lake Michigan already looks like a tropical Caribbean waterfront in the summer, why not make it official? Take Chicago as is and put it right where Miami is located. One of the best urban cities in the country with a tropical flair. Keep Miami Beach of the coast of Chicago and keep Miami's Latin American population and flair. A truly tropical urban city. Midwest meets the exotic tropics.
DC-New Orleans:
Both are already hell in the summer, so why not keep DC warm all year long. Both are big on historical architecture. This would be different where you aren't replacing them, but combining them together. Imagine DC on the Mississippi, with that warm weather year round, and the combo of DC and NOLA architecture, specifically the French Quarter. The NOLA soul would alleviate the sterile feeling of DC. White collar meets easy living.
Replace areas in Eastern Washington with core New Orleans. It would work because core New Orleans is already culturally, architecturally, functionally, socially distinct from the rest of New Orleans proper and the suburbs. So it can remain a self-contained and distinct cultural bubble even incepted inside of Eastern Washington. The meshing wouldn't ruin either city's respective vibe and culture.
New York and San Diego, on the surface it looks good, all that city and urbanity with that location, climate, and topography but then factor in the issues that come with an urban center that big and it begins weighing on the natural environment. At that point you don't even have a New York or San Diego, you have a sum of parts that weirdly fits. San Diego's best features are the ample elbow room, space, and lower densities which make the coastal living better because you can purchase and have more space and more environment to yourself. Building it out to New York intensity would ruin that.
Same thing with Chicago and Miami. Not the same reasons as above but their meshing would be weird from a cultural point of view. Hard to imagine an area like Miami with the Americana culture that persists in Chicago. That is just too weird of a thought.
Last edited by Trafalgar Law; 04-08-2016 at 04:20 PM..
I guess I would have to say DC-New Orleans by default. I would hate if Chicago had a Miami location and vice versa. San Diego-NY is enticing but wouldn't do much for me.
Still, its not a bad place to be as is. And actually, most game days/nights by the late Spring and Summer downtown pretty well rocks like this.
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