What North American city most closely resembles Paris?

[mraza9]

The West Village of Manhattan is most like Paris.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS

Following that logic, being Francophone alone isn’t enough to link Montreal or Quebec City to Paris. The three are just too different in too many other ways.

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But the French-speaking Canadian population does have more than language in common with France, as I already explained. Most of us are of genetic/ethnological French origin. Many are almost exclusively so.


Montreal less so, but owing to higher degrees of historic immigration in France's cities, Quebec City might be one of the most "French" (maybe even THE most) cities of its size in the world in terms of ethnic origin.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS

Yes, Francophone culture is significant. Quebec City is surely more similar to Toulouse than it is to any American city. .

I don't think it's really possible to make pronouncements like that because places may be very similar to each other for some things, but not for others.


Australia feels British-esque in a number of ways but for other stuff it feels more like the U.S., especially California.


Quebec is much closer to France in terms of the nursery rhymes parents sing to their kids or the books students study in school, but on the other hand we wolf down chicken wings with pitchers of beer in sports bars when out with the boys. Then again we also drink more than half the wine sold in all of Canada in spite of being just 1/4 of the population, and we're quite fussy about fine cheeses, pâtés, terrines, breads, pastries, etc.


And in some ways due to our climate and geography, Quebec also has similarities with the Nordic countries - so neither typically French nor typically American.