American city and European counterpart. (earthquake, beaches, horse)

[pirate_lafitte]

Wilmington,DE - Frankfurt am Main, Germany(leading financial centers.)
Warm Springs,GA - Aachen, Germany(spa cities)
Salt Lake City, UT - Avignon, France(cities with major religious significance)
San Jose,CA - Dresden, Germany(major computer industry centers. Dresden is often called the Sillicon Valley of Germany. San Jose is in Sillicon Valley)

[erasure]

Originally Posted by CubsGiantsIndiansfan2008

Really?
San Francisco








Boston

New York City

Philly

Chicago

I can post many more cities if you want me to. Your clearly lying about your travels, or your too blinded by your ignorence and anti Americanism to see past your deluded statements. There are Starbucks on every street all over the world and the skylines are just part of the character.

Of course you can post "many more cities" if you want to, but you are so in love with your country, that you don't even notice that these pictures you've posted only prove my point about how similar to each other American cities are. ( Well, San-Fransisco is slightly different and I suppose that New Orleans too, precisely because of the French influence.)
And if someone is not as excited about big American cities (or may be about anything American) as you are, he or she just MUST be lying. How someone could not admire America for whatever reason, is beyond your understanding I suppose. Funny, really.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by erasure

Of course you can post "many more cities" if you want to, but you are so in love with your country, that you don't even notice that these pictures you've posted only prove my point about how similar to each other American cities are. ( Well, San-Fransisco is slightly different and I suppose that New Orleans too, precisely because of the French influence.)
And if someone is not as excited about big American cities (or may be about anything American) as you are, he or she just MUST be lying. How someone could not admire America for whatever reason, is beyond your understanding I suppose. Funny, really.

The US cities are similar to one another, but only superficially and they can have somewhat of some counterparts elsewhere. Why else would I compare Atlanta,GA to Bucharest,Romania? Both cities may not even look alike(well, I know they are nothing alike other than the fact that metro Atlanta is home to a sizeable Romanian population), but I can find some similarities. Atlanta and Bucharest have known some difficult times and have risen beyond them. Both cities were known for destroying alot of their old architecture in imfamous ways(Atlanta because of the Civil War and later times when it didn't save much of its older architecture, and Bucharest which during the 1960's and 70's during Ceausescu's days, parts were torn down for new Communist style buildings).
I make other comparisons that may not seem logical but have some similarites. I do agree that American cities are far different from European cities.

[erasure]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

The US cities are similar to one another, but only superficially and they can have somewhat of some counterparts elsewhere. Why else would I compare Atlanta,GA to Bucharest,Romania? Both cities may not even look alike(well, I know they are nothing alike other than the fact that metro Atlanta is home to a sizeable Romanian population), but I can find some similarities. Atlanta and Bucharest have known some difficult times and have risen beyond them. Both cities were known for destroying alot of their old architecture in imfamous ways(Atlanta because of the Civil War and later times when it didn't save much of its older architecture, and Bucharest which during the 1960's and 70's during Ceausescu's days, parts were torn down for new Communist style buildings).
I make other comparisons that may not seem logical but have some similarites. I do agree that American cities are far different from European cities.

Sure thing, as long as you know how different American cities are from European ones in reality - go ahead, find the similarities.
Who am I to argue...

[TomDot]

Originally Posted by erasure

Of course you can post "many more cities" if you want to, but you are so in love with your country, that you don't even notice that these pictures you've posted only prove my point about how similar to each other American cities are. ( Well, San-Fransisco is slightly different and I suppose that New Orleans too, precisely because of the French influence.)
And if someone is not as excited about big American cities (or may be about anything American) as you are, he or she just MUST be lying. How someone could not admire America for whatever reason, is beyond your understanding I suppose. Funny, really.

What's your problem Erasure?
If you do not like the thread, or America, you don't have to stay.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Washington, D.C. and Rome - architecture

[BereniceUK]

I haven't visited too many US cities - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Chicago, New York City, Madison, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Boston - but they all have their own characters imo, some better than others. And New York City is composed of its own widely different areas - how much different are Manhattan and Brooklyn?
Every time I visit a US city it's an exciting adventure of discovery.

Next year I'll be going to Denver and Sacramento, both for the first time, and I accept that I might find them not as diverse or interesting as those I've already been to. But I'll be very happy if I'm proved wrong.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by BereniceUK

I haven't visited too many US cities - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Chicago, New York City, Madison, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Boston - but they all have their own characters imo, some better than others. And New York City is composed of its own widely different areas - how much different are Manhattan and Brooklyn?
Every time I visit a US city it's an exciting adventure of discovery.

Next year I'll be going to Denver and Sacramento, both for the first time, and I accept that I might find them not as diverse or interesting as those I've already been to. But I'll be very happy if I'm proved wrong.

What comparisons could you make of the cities you have just listed?

[pirate_lafitte]

Some new ones:

Detroit,MI - Kragujevac,Serbia(cities that were known for producing automobiles and ammunitions. Today unemployment and hard times ave been rampant in these places.)

Nashville,TN - Athens, Greece(Nashville is often called "The Athens of America)

Raleigh,NC - Nis, Serbia(cities known for their tobacco industry and textiles)

[Kracer]

Bergen, Hoboken in Belgium - Hoboken, Bergen, NJ