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Which city do you think is the most quintessentially 'East Coast' city in terms of people's attitudes, personality.etc? Is one more strongly 'East coast' or Northeastern than the other? I mean while NYC is better known, I kind of feel Philly is the most typically Northeastern city in the nation, it's a big city but pretty parochial (since I see Manhattan as becoming less and less like the blue-collar, pretty ethnically segregated traditional inner city neighbourhoods of NYC and Philly). Of course people in the outer boroughs of NYC are still quite traditional, and Nassau, Suffolk, North Jersey (but they're technically not NYC), but I feel the greater recent immigration and transience to NYC makes Philly the most old school East Coast city there is. Or would you say pretty much equal? DC and Boston have become too white-collar, I think, to be in contention, while Philly seems to retain it's roots the most.
Which city do you think is the most quintessentially 'East Coast' city in terms of people's attitudes, personality.etc? Is one more strongly 'East coast' or Northeastern than the other? I mean while NYC is better known, I kind of feel Philly is the most typically Northeastern city in the nation, it's a big city but pretty parochial (since I see Manhattan as becoming less and less like the blue-collar, pretty ethnically segregated traditional inner city neighbourhoods of NYC and Philly). Of course people in the outer boroughs of NYC are still quite traditional, and Nassau, Suffolk, North Jersey (but they're technically not NYC), but I feel the greater recent immigration and transience to NYC makes Philly the most old school East Coast city there is. Or would you say pretty much equal? DC and Boston have become too white-collar, I think, to be in contention, while Philly seems to retain it's roots the most.
Remember that 6+million people live in NYC in places other than Manhattan
Not sure there is a quintessential NE city, these two along with Boston feel northestern (if that is a thing) but none are moreso as northeastern is not monolythic
DC to me is more an outlier with many similarities to being northeastern. Baltimore or Providence would probably also have that feel in many ways too.
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Remember that 6+million people live in NYC in places other than Manhattan
Not sure there is a quintessential NE city, these two along with Boston feel northestern (if that is a thing) but none are moreso as northeastern is not monolythic
DC to me is more an outlier with many similarities to being northeastern. Baltimore or Providence would probably also have that feel in many ways too.
Yes but Queens seems diluted with a lot of recent immigrants from elsewhere. Brooklyn is becoming yuppie/hipster. Statten is probably the most 'pure NY' of the boroughs.
It has counties in its metro that are in the South, it is mixed mid-Atlantic/Northeastern, moreso than New York.
What constitutes the Northeast? To me the northeast is the combined Mid Atlantic (NYC/Philly) and New England (Boston)
They dont seem mutually exclusive (Mid Atlantic and Northeastern as one is part of the other)
Southern county, is that Cecil MD and all the what 2% of the metro population? BTW Cecil doesnt really have a strong association with Philly, Mercer would moreso than does Cecil which except for CD geeks would have no idea it is even affiliated, most would probably think it is in Baltimore territory. The Census puts Cecil in because it meets a commuter threshold into New Castle county DE (which in absolutes is actually about 11K people that make the commuter connection) More people ride the Trenton Septa line everyday than commute from Cecil County MD into a suburban office park in Newark DE
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Boston is almost Canadian-y more than Northeastern.
I can see that. Especially the younger college educated population and the rich professionals that live in areas like Back Bay, Beacon Hill. Cambridge kind of is what new Boston is all about. These new Bostonians make the place seem really reserved.
That is New Castle, New Castle is above the Mason Dixon line though (as is all of DE). DE is not historically nor today considered a Southern sate though
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