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Boston is famous for this and this. People come to see streets like these. They sure don't come to see this or this but if asked about the image I guess people would say Oh, that's Boston. It's the buildings with the porches, the narrow, concentrated space; hills, odd angles.
But on the recognizability scale for vernacular domestic architecture, San Francisco is in a class by itself or, at least, as familiar as the brownstones of New York.
The first two images you should are identical to areas all up and down the east coast...the latter two are only in Boston. They’re literally the 1st or 2nd most distinguishable housing type in the country. And make you a much larger portion of Boston than the former. I’ll bow out of the conversation because I genuinely thought this thread was about lived experience and reality not tourism and media portrayals.
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The first two images you should are identical to areas all up and down the east coast...the latter two are only in Boston. They’re literally the 1st or 2nd most distinguishable housing type in the country. And make you a much larger portion of Boston than the former. I’ll bow out of the conversation because I genuinely thought they’d was about lived experience and reality not tourism and media portrayals.
I mean, you're not wrong.
I think we all just interpret this thread a bit different.
The most unique city at Street level has to be SF and one can even argue Los Angeles due to the freeways always being jam packed like the apocalypse...
I don't think no other city has a mountain and ocean in it's view like Los Angeles does,So in that sense it's the most unique in my opinion.
Also San Francisco has those steep hills that you for sure won't see anywhere else in the country.
Now I would've said NYC but Chicago and NYC can sometimes be confused for each other in the Downtown area.
All of coastal California has ocean and mountain in view
I feel like with any large city the go to answer would be New York.
You could show tall building streetscapes of Philadelphia, Chicago, San Fran, etc. and the average eye would say New York. Those who know about cities would be able to tell the difference.
Some of the mountains in the Bay Area get snow (Mt. Diablo, Mission Peak, Santa Cruz mountains etc)
Are you really gonna compare mountains that are all under 4,000ft to those over 10,000ft? The snow line rarely drops below 5,000ft, and if and when it does it won’t be around for too long.
I’ve been all up and down the coast and have surfed at many spots, including Santa Cruz and Ocean Beach SF. Admittedly I haven’t done too much up north during the winter due to the frigid waters so I can’t attest to if you see snow from the coast, but I can’t recall when I have? I surely would’ve remembered it like I have in SD, OC, and LA. There’s a reason why there’s tons of pictures of LA with snow in the background and none for San Francisco. Even San Diego has a slew of its skyline on the water with snow capped mountains in the background at 6,000ft.
Regardless, if there was 10,000ft+ mountains maybe 40 miles off the coast anywhere in the Bay Area they would be in every photo.
Are you really gonna compare mountains that are all under 4,000ft to those over 10,000ft? The snow line rarely drops below 5,000ft, and if and when it does it won’t be around for too long.
I’ve been all up and down the coast and have surfed at many spots, including Santa Cruz and Ocean Beach SF. Admittedly I haven’t done too much up north during the winter due to the frigid waters so I can’t attest to if you see snow from the coast, but I can’t recall when I have? I surely would’ve remembered it like I have in SD, OC, and LA. There’s a reason why there’s tons of pictures of LA with snow in the background and none for San Francisco. Even San Diego has a slew of its skyline on the water with snow capped mountains in the background at 6,000ft.
Regardless, if there was 10,000ft+ mountains maybe 40 miles off the coast anywhere in the Bay Area they would be in every photo.
Nonetheless they have tall mountains that get snow on it every year it just doesnt stick on as long because it's too warm at that height. SF area reaches 70 degrees at times in January. And all of california water is too cold for my taste unless you're inside the bay at Alameda beach or in SD
you can easily mistake Chicago for NY at street level, you will not confuse the Vegas strip for anywhere else in America
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