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I would have said practically any New England state and any of the maritime provinces.
I don't know about WA and BC--never been there.
I would agree with you there and I've been to both. New England seems more similar to its neighboring Canadian provinces than Washington is to BC. I'm not really sure why WA/BC is winning this poll. I imagine it's because both are in the broader "Pacific Northwest" but there are a ton of differences between the two places.
This one is pretty clear to me. Washington State and British Columbia. Basically both a continuation of each other in both directions. From the inland waterways to the coastal ranges to the Cascades to the dry eastern sections. Both have big international cities, both have similar weather, both are dependent on agriculture in their eastern regions.
Seattle-Vancouver
Interior BC--Palouse of Eastern Washington
Rural Alberta--Montana
Urban Alberta--Colorado
1. Thunder Bay--Duluth/Superior
2. Sault Ste. Marie--Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
3. London--Cleaveland?
4. Toronto--Chicago for sure, but throw in a LOT more Chinese people
5. Quebec--really its own thing
6. New Brunswick--interior Maine
7. Nova Scotia--Coastal Maine
8. Halifax--Portland, ME
1. Vancouver having tons more Chinese and vastly better Chinese food.
2. Vancouver having a far better rail transit system than Seattle.
3. Seattle having a much better job market than Vancouver. Much larger tech and aerospace industries in Seattle, basically nothing but real estate speculation and tourism in Vancouver. (Even Lionsgate film studio couldn't stay in Vancouver long).
4. No state income tax in Seattle. Taxation in Canada is higher than in Washington state across the board BECAUSE CANADA DOESN'T HAVE TRUMP TAX CUTS.
5. Gas prices in British Columbia are the highest in the U.S. and Canada--because British Columbia is an ultra-leftist treehugging mecca, even by Canadian standards (wait, that actually sounds like Washington state).
6. Seattle having more Hispanics and Blacks than Canada.
To be fair, all of these differences are basically just economic, ethnic, and political differences between the U.S. and Canada as a whole. Otherwise, Washington and BC are very, very similar. Not to mention that the MAIN REASON why Washington state has lower taxes and doesn't have universal healthcare is because of the federal government. Were Washington state or California or Massachusetts their own countries, they'd easily be as far to the left as Canada.
But yeah, the average white Seattle resident is virtually identical to the average white Vancouver resident when it comes to culture. Even the accents are identical, except maybe a couple of words. But I grew up in California and lived there my entire life, and I still say a few words like "leisure," "narrator," and "judiciary" differently from my friends. And I still don't consider myself as having an accent.
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