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Dont know if this comparison has been done before but I could not find a similar thread. Anyways here goes my list:
1)DFW-Minneapolis (no explanation needed)
2)Miami-New York (lots of New Yorkers in Miami plus they're both confined to small portions of land giving them their building up pattern)
3)San Francisco-Boston (I found these 2 similar in that they both hold their own against much larger cities nearby and they both have similar wooden row houses, plus they both have similar populations in their metros)
4)LA-Chicago (similar demographics when it comes to latinos and they're both huge cities and somewhat similar metro populations)
5)New Orleans-Detroit (both have heavily influenced the music scene and they have both suffered population losses in the past decade and have now begun to recover as of lately)
This is all I could think of as of now do any of you agree/disagree, I was going to add ATL-DC but from DANNY's frostbelt map DC did not fall in it, also could have swapped LA with Houston since H-Town and Chi have similar city populations and the latino influence; can any of you think of others?
Location: Metro Atlanta (Sandy Springs), by way of Macon, GA
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I'm confused about #4.
The % of hispanics in L.A. is much higher than in Chicago. And though they are both large cities L.A.'s metro is much larger and L.A. is a more suburban city.
Can see 1 and 5 but not the rest. I wouldn't consider SF a sunbelt city, it is much different than LA and SD. And also yeah LA is pretty different than Chicago...hispanic is much more prevalent there, I think its 50% now and more part of the culture/fabric/what have you.
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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I def can see with Detroit-NO. Even though I haven't been to NO yet (always wanted to go) I can see it. Plus don't forget both have French influence (NO more than here though)
Columbus Ohio reminds me of some western cities Ive been to or through, due to the mostly modern skyline, huge and red-hot suburban development, and fairly white-collar/service economy. There are some in-town things, too, that have a sort of sunbelt feel, with low density industrial/commercial area near downtown being redeveloped and re-used as a sort of hipste/gentrifier hangout...low one story commecial buildings becoming bars, restaurants, theater and arts things...
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