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Jersey City vs. Newark. The mayors don't like each other after Jersey City mayor claimed his city would overtake Newark within the next few years. And he's probably right... Jersey City is transforming fast
Ever since their founding, both have played a never-ending game of one-upmanship. Despite being one urban center, that's why we have two of everything when most metropolitan areas have only one, e.g. two major cathedrals, two regional post offices, two regional newspapers, two convention centers, and the list goes on and on.
The Houston and Dallas thing is so silly. I'm not even sure how or why it started, but as much as those two cities would hate to admit it, they are MUCH more alike than they are different. That H vs D thread in the Texas forum is now something like 1100 pages long, and it just keeps going and going. It's quite entertaining, as a spectator, but it's always the same 4 or 5 people posting there, and it's usually concerning new construction projects. In reality, I think that rivalry is kind of dying out.
I never realized there was a rivalry between Longview and Tyler. Interesting. Also of note in Texas is the Midland and Odessa rivalry.
Waterloo-Cedar Rapids-Dubuque-Iowa City share a media market and none of them really compete or compare each other in too noticeable of a sense. The other "metro area" in this region is the Davenport-Moline (Quad Cities) area ... most of these places I think are just seen as small regional hubs, admittedly inferior to nearby areas like Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee. I think most people who stay in this area, or move back, like that close to home feeling with friendly people, but still enough to do for the average person.
Des Moines does tend to be in some sort of comparison battle with the Omaha area - though I'm not sure why. I would probably say that tends to be the bigger Rivalry of our state "area." I feel that they both tend to assimilate to KC in many ways - however Des Moines seems to have secondary connection with Minneapolis, while Omaha seems to have a secondary connection with Denver - albeit distant.
The other MSA not mentioned is Sioux City, those poor people have been beaten to a pulp with an inferiority complex - although in reality, it's still a really nice place to live if you aren't judging an area off of superficial "main artery cosmetics." For those who pay attention, there is a constant reminder that their neighbor Sioux Falls is ultimately greater, and the Twin Cities seems to be the greater cultural lure for the people moving out of this region.
Waterloo-Cedar Rapids-Dubuque-Iowa City share a media market and none of them really compete or compare each other in reality. The other "metro area" in this region is the Davenport-Moline (Quad Cities) area ... most of these places I think are just seen as small regional hubs, admittedly inferior to nearby areas like Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee. I think most people who stay in this area, or move back, like that close to home feeling with friendly people, but still enough to do for the average person.
Des Moines does tend to be in some sort of comparison battle with the Omaha area - though I'm not sure why. I would probably say that tends to be the bigger Rivalry of our state "area." I feel that they both tend to assimilate to KC in many ways - however Des Moines seems to have secondary connection with Minneapolis, while Denver seems to have a secondary connection with Denver - albeit distant.
The other MSA not mentioned is Sioux City, those poor people have been beaten to a pulp with an inferiority complex - although in reality, it's still a really nice place to live if you aren't judging an area off of superficial "main artery cosmetics." For those who pay attention, there is a constant reminder that their neighbor Sioux Falls is ultimately greater, and the Twin Cities seems to be the greater cultural lure for the people moving out in this region.
Accident in putting Denver twice but I'm not sure who you meant to put.
The closest thing we have to a rivalry would be St. Louis vs Kansas City. I don't think there's much of an active rivalry though, more like a passive one.
The closest thing we have to a rivalry would be St. Louis vs Kansas City. I don't think there's much of an active rivalry though, more like a passive one.
I know it's probably not true, but I have ALWAYS felt that St. Louis had more in common with Chicago, culturally.
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