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The St. Louis metro area is like a smaller San Francisco Bay Area relatively speaking.
St. Louis City/County=San Francisco. The cultural hub of the region. Most liberal and most affluent area of the region.
Metro-East=Oakland/East Bay. The metro-east area of the region in Illinois is the somewhat independent and loosely defined blue-collar cousin of St. Louis that is looked down upon by the rest of the region.
St. Charles/Chesterfield=San Jose. The newer suburban counterpart that is still growing in size and influence. Still have a strong cultural attachment to St. Louis.
Columbia/Jefferson City=Sacramento. The region that is about 1 1/2-2 hours away from the immediate St. Louis area. But still somewhat of a connection (cuisine, sports allegiances) to St. Louis due to proximity.
Hermann/Missouri Rhineland=Napa Valley. A world class selection of wineries exists just outside the metro areas.
Obviously population/politics/history/cultures vary widely but just similar loose geographic/cultural set ups.
I think its a stretch but not too much of a stretch. We are by far the most liberal city in the lower midwest. We are the "best city for LGBT" people that is not on the east or west coast. We have a tech/startup scene that is exploding in the last few years (lots of businesses founded in St. Louis were bought out recently so local investors are literally rolling in money and funding lots of startups). We are a major IT center (they have such a desire for talent right now that they're training people from the ground up in programming to get hires. A thousand people recently showed up at one of the training sessions to begin learn how to program.). We have a very good wine country (largest producer of wine before California was completely settled). We also have some things that are pretty different like we have a major engineering focus (Boeing Defense is focused here) as well as probably the world's greatest focus of plant biotechnology (Monsanto). We're still working on fixing some of the grittiness but I'd say in 10-20 years, this city will be as attractive as places like Boston and Seattle are today.
Metro-East=Oakland/East Bay. The metro-east area of the region in Illinois is the somewhat independent and loosely defined blue-collar cousin of St. Louis that is looked down upon by the rest of the region.
Well, what people think is one thing, but in reality the East Bay has one of the largest clusters of elite households in the country and is actually quite an affluent region of 2.6 million people.
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Largest Clusters of Elite Zip Codes in the US
ranked by the number of households
1 Washington DC
2 East Manhattan
3 San Jose
4 Boston 5 OAKLAND
6 Bridgeport
7 Newark
8 Chicago
9 North of Los Angeles
10 Long Island
11 West Manhattan
12 Trenton
13 Philadelphia
14 San Diego
15 South of Los Angeles
St. Louis is nothing like San Francisco. San Francisco's worst neighborhood could be St. Louis's best/middle class neighborhood.
Denver would be a better comparison to St. Louis.
I would say that. San Francisco has some rough areas as well just not in such abundance as St. Louis. All major cities do. I actually felt more in danger in San Francisco at night then Oakland.
St. Louis is nothing like San Francisco. San Francisco's worst neighborhood could be St. Louis's best/middle class neighborhood.
Denver would be a better comparison to St. Louis.
Really? Talk about arrogant and mind numbingly ignorant, someone has never been to St. Louis...
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