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I’ve been to St Louis maybe 4 times, Baltimore a dozen or so. Absolutely nothing alike, in any way.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm pretty sure you're in the minority to think they are "nothing alike, in any way." On paper alone they have many commonalities, and there are plenty of other tangible and intangible similarities between them as well.
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Harrisburg, PA and Chattanooga, TN.
Appalachian. River cities. Both cities are located at the transition between the ridge-and-valley Appalachians and the Great Appalachian Valley, both of which are part of the larger Appalachian Mountains.
Similar sized metro areas (500k). Both have a bunch of important railways running through them and serve as logistical rail hubs. Both metros are politically balanced / moderate.
Both cities sit in the Rust Belt region of the USA. Harrisburg has a smaller city proper (Hbg has 50k, vs. Nooga which has 180k).
Both cities fly under the national radar, but both are important in their given states.
Worcester, MA and Knoxville, TN (to me anyway), hills and all.
There are a lot of hilly cities in the interior eastern US. I'd probably match Worcester with a different Southern city - maybe Winston-Salem, NC, which has more of a colonial background and is a bit less sprawling.
One of Knoxville's prominent features is the Tennessee River, which doesn't have much of an equivalent in Worcester. Knoxville is also dominated by a large public university rather than multiple small private schools like what Worcester has.
San Diego and El Paso for gateways to Mexico, used to be part of said country, also located in a state in which these cities are overshadowed by multiple behemoth cities
Both are cities that were once plagued by drug, and gang related violence from the 1970s into the late 2000s/early 2010s, unsurprisingly both cities abolished their police departments and now both respective counties sheriff's departments are their police departments. Also overshadowed by the much larger city nearby (L.A), and (Philly)
And demographically used to be mostly African American but in the former it is nowadays 70% Hispanic, while in the latter it is now a mostly Hispanic/African American Mix
Oklahoma City and Phoenix. They are different culturally, topographically, and climactically, but in terms of the built environment, layout, and skyline, they have a lot in common.
Both are cities that were once plagued by drug, and gang related violence from the 1970s into the late 2000s/early 2010s, unsurprisingly both cities abolished their police departments and now both respective counties sheriff's departments are their police departments. Also overshadowed by the much larger city nearby (L.A), and (Philly)
And demographically used to be mostly African American but in the former it is nowadays 70% Hispanic, while in the latter it is now a mostly Hispanic/African American Mix
110% agree. Glad these two were brought up because I always thought they were oddly similar. To the point where both their names sound oddly similar.
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