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What are some cities that are very similar but you wouldn't expect to be because they are far apart, in different regions, etc?
Some I can think of would be:
San Jose, CA and Columbus, OH. Both very very suburban, flat, big malls, All-American, lots of the 1960s left over in the design of things.
Spokane, WA and Regina, SK. The setting along the river and the nearby environment nearby give an odd sense of deja vu.
Salem, OR and Des Moines, IA. The downtown of Salem seems very Midwestern with the mall skywalk and the abundance of brick and marble. The culture is also similar to the Midwest.
Santa Cruz, CA and Olympia, WA. Similar college/hippie towns, both along coastal waters, similar size.
Seattle, WA and Buffalo, NY. Both are gateways to Canada and have similar looking downtowns.
Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON. As loath as the people in Vancouver would be to admit it, the two cities look and feel incredibly similar in so many ways.
Victoria, BC and Halifax, NS.
St. Louis and Cincinnati. Both older river cities, more of an eastern vibe than you'd expect.
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Seattle, WA and Buffalo, NY. Both are gateways to Canada and have similar looking downtowns.
I don't see any parallels at all between Buffalo and Seattle other than they both straddle I-90 and frequent cloudy skies they have very little if anything in common. Seattle is an economically vibrant city and Buffalo is a forgotten old rust belt city. Seattle is growing, Buffalo is losing. They have very different architecture, topography, character, and layouts. Seattle has a vibrant downtown full of activity, while Buffalo's downtown though not completely dead pales in comparison. Seattle is the future, Buffalo is the past.
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Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON. As loath as the people in Vancouver would be to admit it, the two cities look and feel incredibly similar in so many ways.
Some of the modern residential high rise architecture is similar, and bth of a very high Asian population, but very different in most every other aspect.
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Victoria, BC and Halifax, NS.
This one I can agree with. Both are relatively the same size Canadian coastal cities very British in feeling though Halifax more Scotish, and Victoria more English. Even some of the nautical landmarks like the lighthouses in both areas look similar.
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Maybe it's just me, but I disagree with your complete list.
That may be because in most reasonably large cities there are areas or sides of town which don't resemble each other within the same city, much less parts of different cities, however some in different cities do seem to have a parallel. For instance from callmemaybe's list there is St. Louis / Cincy. You could add Memphis in there because of them all developing on a large river, but you could also put Memphis with Charleston and Nashville because of a slightly different set of similarities yet Charleston doesn't resemble St. Louis and neither does Nashville.
You lost me at Buffalo and Seattle. They are so oppossite that I don't see it at all. Seattle is hilly, whereas Buffalo is flat. Buffalo is by a lake. Seattle isn't. Seattle is much bigger in every regard. Not even close. Awful comparison.
Baltimore and St. Louis
-Both are independent cities
-Similar metro area size
-Both straddle the north and south
-Both suffer from a somewhat negative image, yet are beloved nonetheless
-Similar demographics
Fayetteville, NC and Columbus, GA - both are adjacent to two huge, sprawling Army posts and have whole areas that would seem identical.
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