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You're trippin' if you think DC trumps San Francisco. San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, distinctive neighborhoods, amazing scenery, world class dining, museums, attractions, and schools. SF is so ethnically diverse and better weather too. San Francisco can hold its own against the East Coast cities except for NYC. San Francisco really is an East Coast city on the West Coast.
DC and SF are close to the same level, but DC still trumps SF.
DC has a larger MSA population and CSA population than SF. DC's GDP is larger on the MSA and CSA levels. DC's downtown office space is larger. DC's public transportation (metro system) is more extensive. The DC area is also very diverse and international and has many other qualities too (top museums in the country, top attractions, lots of restaurants and hotels, lots of green space, mountains to the west, beaches to the east, sailing, boating, rock-climbing, etc.).
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If you had to pick cities on the 2 coasts that correspond to each other what would they be?
NY-LA?
NY-SF?
Boston-SF?
how about Philly?
Seattle?
Portland?
DC?
I'm really curious what people would say. Sure, it's not going to be exact. Just opinions for fun. Feel free to include midwest cities if you feel like it
NYC and LA are nothing alike and I much prefer NYC even if it's freakin' humid and dirty as heck.
Pend Oreille County, WA is somewhat equivalent to Franklin County, ME. Both are woodsy northern tier locales with a rural populace and both have had extensive logging histories. Both counties border Canada. Franklin County has a univesity while Pend Oreille does not.
These are rural equivalencies, though.
Having lived in both the City that DOES Sleep and the City by the Gay, the NYC/SF comparison is not only valid, but both are obnoxious and have earned my disdain for their bougie, overrated reputations. I'd move back to LA any day over either. Shoot, I'd even live in Utah with a bunch of do-gooder Mormons before moving back to either NYC or Frisco; yeah, I said it. Deal.
Los Angeles/New York
San Diego/Miami
San Francisco/Boston?
Portland/Pittsburgh
Phoenix/Atlanta
Seattle/Minneapolis
Sacramento/Orlando
I couldn't agree more with the Sacramento/Orlando comparisons because sometimes Sacramento reminds me very much of Orlando, FL because both of them are mid-sized cities, both are flat, both are not on the coast, both are diverse, both are only and hour in a half from the beach, both are only 5 to 6 hours from the bigger cities in the southern parts of both states, and finally both have a lot of retirees from other regions of the states. The only difference is that Sacramento doesn't have Disney World like Orlando does
I couldn't agree more with the Sacramento/Orlando comparisons because sometimes Sacramento reminds me very much of Orlando, FL because both of them are mid-sized cities, both are flat, both are not on the coast, both are diverse, both are only and hour in a half from the beach, both are only 5 to 6 hours from the bigger cities in the southern parts of both states, and finally both have a lot of retirees from other regions of the states. The only difference is that Sacramento doesn't have Disney World like Orlando does
Sac has a far better DT than Orlando.
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