What is your state's twin? (compare, Los Angeles, Chicago, difference)

[polo89]

Originally Posted by JimmyJohnWilson

yea but northern california isnt next to alabama, so the similarities kind of end there

When I say Florida and California, I'm not talking about the climate necessarily. I mean as far as urban set up. SoCal and SoFla have a VERY similar urban setup, that is UNSEEN in many other states. The way the houses are built(Spanish, Mediterranean style) the HIGH density both have, even in suburban areas, the beach cities, and beach culture, the high Hispanic population, the way the highways run through the cities and how they use highway sound walls to block out the car noises for the residents that live adjacent to the highway(kinda long, I know). The urban setup between the 2 are virtually unseen outside the these 2 respective regions. You can Google map alot of places within the LA basin and Google map alot of places in in the SoFla tri-county area and see the similarities.

[Lifeshadower]

California doesn't have a twin, but has plenty of relatives. It seems like its an amalgamation of 3 US regions in one.

Northern California has a whole lot in common with the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon), in terms of topography (coastal forests, hills, agricultural valleys, mountains, etc.) and culture.

Southern California has a whole lot in common with the Desert Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico) in terms of culture (both HEAVILY Mexican influenced, libertarian and somewhat conservative) and topography (except the coast, of course, but both have high mountains and dry deserts)

The Sierra Nevada region and much of Eastern California has a whole lot in common with the Intermountain West (Utah and Colorado), since there are not only high mountains but also an arid region to the east of those mountains.

Nevada is pretty much an extension of California, especially considering that 90% of its population lives within an hour of the California border.

I can see why people would think Texas and California would be twins, since they are both mega states with 4 relatively prominent metro areas (LA, SF Bay, San Diego, and Sacramento in CA/Houston, DFW, San Antonio, and Austin in TX), but I wouldn't consider them twins but rather separated brothers.

Coastal SoCal COULD have a lot of commonalities with SoFla/Florida since they are both heavily Hispanic and geographically restricted in terms of where people could live, but SoCal doesn't have the Caribbean influences nor the 'tropical wonders' that SoFla is known for.

Just IMO.

[SFdeliveryguy]

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[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by polo89

When I say Florida and California, I'm not talking about the climate necessarily. I mean as far as urban set up. SoCal and SoFla have a VERY similar urban setup, that is UNSEEN in many other states. The way the houses are built(Spanish, Mediterranean style) the HIGH density both have, even in suburban areas, the beach cities, and beach culture, the high Hispanic population, the way the highways run through the cities and how they use highway sound walls to block out the car noises for the residents that live adjacent to the highway(kinda long, I know).

Not just a Florida thing...that is very common here in Texas too, to build sound isolating walls along roads & freeways.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Lifeshadower

California doesn't have a twin, but has plenty of relatives. It seems like its an amalgamation of 3 US regions in one.

Northern California has a whole lot in common with the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon), in terms of topography (coastal forests, hills, agricultural valleys, mountains, etc.) and culture.

Southern California has a whole lot in common with the Desert Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico) in terms of culture (both HEAVILY Mexican influenced, libertarian and somewhat conservative) and topography (except the coast, of course, but both have high mountains and dry deserts)

The Sierra Nevada region and much of Eastern California has a whole lot in common with the Intermountain West (Utah and Colorado), since there are not only high mountains but also an arid region to the east of those mountains.

Nevada is pretty much an extension of California, especially considering that 90% of its population lives within an hour of the California border.

I can see why people would think Texas and California would be twins, since they are both mega states with 4 relatively prominent metro areas (LA, SF Bay, San Diego, and Sacramento in CA/Houston, DFW, San Antonio, and Austin in TX), but I wouldn't consider them twins but rather separated brothers.

Coastal SoCal COULD have a lot of commonalities with SoFla/Florida since they are both heavily Hispanic and geographically restricted in terms of where people could live, but SoCal doesn't have the Caribbean influences nor the 'tropical wonders' that SoFla is known for.

Just IMO.

That's basically the jist of what I was trying to say. I should've worded it like that. LA County with the unpopulated desert region, and South Florida with the unpopulated Everglades.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Not just a Florida thing...that is very common here in Texas too, to build sound isolating walls along roads & freeways.

True, I have seen that in Houston.

[polo89]

Yeah, I ALWAYS said TX and CA were similar, but when I said it here on C-D(about a year ago) people were like "What the heck are you talking about, you're crazy!!" All of a sudden when other people say THE SAME THING THAT I SAID A YEAR AGO, everyone seems to like that ideal and embrace it. That's not fair!!!lol

[polo89]

I'm just saying, when you look at South FL from above, on Google maps, and you look at SoCal from above, the juxtaposition of the all the smaller cities and larger cities to form one big conglomerate of densely populated counties and urban area, they look similar.

[ladarron]

Originally Posted by polo89

True, I have seen that in Houston.

They are in Dallas too!

[Jeromeville]

Upstate New York and parts of Michigan have eerily similar place names. (Probably due to settlers coming from NY and taking the place names with them when they went to michigan.) Except, the sizes of the places are different, so it's kind of like Bizarro World version.

For example, in NY, Lansing is a small town, while in Michigan it's a city (and the capital). Other shared place names: Waverly, Oneida, Dewitt, Bath, Locke, Leroy, Aurelius, Onondaga, Brookfield, Eaton, Clarence... the list goes on and on. It's kind of creepy.