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Kinda why I said "best aspects". London is very modern feeling and clean, but it has a decent mix of the European charm of Paris and the diversity of offerings of New York. The city's snooty exclusiveness may not be everyone's cup of tea though.
Starting from West to East, this are my comparisons:
Anchorage (cold, distant, isolated) = Reykjavik
Seattle (green, rainy, lakes) = Stockholm
Portland (expensive though provincial, kinda overrated) = Zurich
San Francisco (historically liberal, gays etc.) = Amsterdam
Los Angeles (tans, gym, bodies, beach, sun, funky art) = Barcelona
San Diego (sunny, slow paced, beach oriented) = Valencia
Las Vegas (hookers, drugs) = Benidorm
Denver (mountains, clean, green, not the most exciting place in the universe) = Vienna?
Houston (big, sprawling, messy, hot, kinda crazy) = Athens
San Antonio (historical, personality, charm, hot) = Seville
New Orleans (dangerous, seedy, fun, colorful) = Marseilles or Naples
Saint Louis (meh, next to a big river) = Bratislava
Minneapolis (cold, not the most fun city on the planet but is ok) = Oslo
Milwaukee (lake, green, cold, not that crazy fun) = Helsinki
Chicago (industrial, sort of ran down but still fun) = Berlin
Detroit: ran down, economically not in the best shape, but tons of personality, technicolor, fun) = Belgrade
Miami (beach, warm, sunny, party, fake) = Alicante
Atlanta (boring, religious, booming economically) = Warsaw
Washington DC = (politics, bureaucracy, suits and ties) = Brussels
Baltimore (Ran down and suffering economically, potential to turn into a fun city) = Sofia
Philadelphia (a bit seedy, technicolor, a lot of fun, not expensive, could turn into hipster paradise) = Budapest
New York city (fast, pretentious, think its the center of the planet, money money money) = London
Boston (sort of provincial, a bit traditional, laid back, could be fun) = Dublin
I don't think the US has a city that could be compared to Paris
I think in the Americas Buenos Aires Argentina could be comparable to Paris....
Chicago is WAAAYY too north American with too many skyscrapers, suburbias and highways to be anything like Paris.... While NYC is too fast, too diverse, too london like to be anything like Paris, as for LA... LA is too vain if anything LA is the Barcelona of the US!
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Do not underestimate the diversity of Paris. Paris is often very different of how it is pictured in media.
I tend to think of London being like a mix of the best aspects of New York and Paris.
I agree, London is like a mix of NYC and Paris, and yet also very unique. But your comment suggests that London is a better city than NYC or Paris which I do not agree with, Paris has more soul and identity than London, London feels too bland at times, it's lost its local culture and feels like a big internationnal city but not quite British anymore, Paris and NYC have more character IMO and didn't lose their local culture despite tourists, foreigners etc.
London is cleaner but too clean maybe if you know what I mean.
Do not underestimate the diversity of Paris. Paris is often very different of how it is pictured in media.
I am aware paris is very diverse, but Paris is still despite all the diversity quintessentially French!!! NYC also has the NYC charm, the accent and that blue collar feeling in boroughs like queens or Brooklyn that take you to another era!
London feels like a washed up sterile no-identity city... I really didnt enjoy it, it just lacks identity, it feels like yeah here it is, big multicultural london!! now get shocked!! (sort of like Dubai)
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