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400,000 is considered to be mid-sized in a lot of countries (Germany, the U.S., China for example) by their governments. I'd have a hard time considering Raleigh to be small.
However, I don't really see what makes Raleigh particularly unique or "more" unique than most other cities. I'd be quick to agree that every city is unique in some ways, but there are few cities that really set themselves far apart or apart in many ways from others.
Okay, show me some photos from other cities that look like those...if they aren't unique, they must have a match somewhere else.
What city DOESN'T have large areas that are bland and suburban? They all do...even the most urban of urban cities.
Most older cities have that same style of architecture. Its nice and everything but lots of other places share it. Lots of cities don't have bland suburban areas. Places that were built up before WWII aren't suburban in nature. For a city of 400,000 people, lots of the areas inside the city limit are bland and suburban in nature.
About 100 or so years ago Mark Twain said that their are only 4 unique cities in the country. What do you think they are today?
Boston
New York City
Washington D.C.
Chicago
San Francisco
If you think unique in a sense "very different than other American cities" then obviously the choice is New York: the only American city with prevalent use of public transportation, the only American city that is truly walkable, almost devoid of shopping malls, where car ownership is below 50% and the only city with huge focus on culture (NYC gov spends on art more then National Endowment for the Arts in the entire US).
There are other cities that are unique in one way or another however New York clearly has an absolutely different way of life and atmosphere than other American cities. On the other side of the scale there is LA and most cities feel like some kind of mix between New York and LA.
more like mid-sized. It dosen't matter if you lived in NYC your whole life, that dosen't automatically mean your right. People coming from a real small city (50k-100k) could definitely feel the difference between the two.
Besides, your from NYC....anything you guys say is exaggerated.
anything under 5 million people in a metro feels like mayberry to me
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