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Portland, Oregon
Las Vegas
Miami
Dallas
Austin
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
What poor man version of these cities ?
I posted it up thread, but Des Moines is a poor man's KC. Has a little Minneapolis to it as well. It literally sits between the two, so it's a pretty obvious connection.
I posted it up thread, but Des Moines is a poor man's KC. Has a little Minneapolis to it as well. It literally sits between the two, so it's a pretty obvious connection.
Good point.
Some would cast Omaha - which, after all, is home to the Kansas City Royals' Triple-A farm team - in that role. But it's not as much of a poor man's Minneapolis - for some strange reason, it's never been a center of grain production and handling, for starters; being grain shipment and milling centers is something else Minneapolis and Kansas City share along with distance from Des Moines.
I would cast Jacksonville as the poor man's Miami and Reno as the poor man's Las Vegas.
I'm tempted to call Fort Worth the poor man's Dallas, but can you really call the second core city of the same metropolitan area that?
Depending on what aspect of Pittsburgh you wish to focus on, the role of "poor man's Pittsburgh" goes to either Birmingham (Ala.) or Youngstown, Ohio.
I'm not sure there is a poor man's Austin. That Texas city is sui generis in a state that is the same.
Ditto Portland. The cities in the eastern part of both Oregon and Washington state are radically different from those on the other side of the Cascades. Maybe Boise, but that's stretching it.
Las Vegas-----Reno
Miami-----Tampa?
Dallas-----KC
Austin-----Madison
Kansas City -----Omaha
Minneapolis-----?
Milwaukee-----?
Pittsburgh------Bowling Green
Las Vegas-----Reno
Miami-----Tampa?
Dallas-----KC
Austin-----Madison
Kansas City -----Omaha
Minneapolis-----?
Milwaukee-----?
Pittsburgh------Bowling Green
Some would cast Omaha - which, after all, is home to the Kansas City Royals' Triple-A farm team - in that role. But it's not as much of a poor man's Minneapolis - for some strange reason, it's never been a center of grain production and handling, for starters; being grain shipment and milling centers is something else Minneapolis and Kansas City share along with distance from Des Moines.
I would cast Jacksonville as the poor man's Miami and Reno as the poor man's Las Vegas.
I'm tempted to call Fort Worth the poor man's Dallas, but can you really call the second core city of the same metropolitan area that?
Depending on what aspect of Pittsburgh you wish to focus on, the role of "poor man's Pittsburgh" goes to either Birmingham (Ala.) or Youngstown, Ohio.
I'm not sure there is a poor man's Austin. That Texas city is sui generis in a state that is the same.
Ditto Portland. The cities in the eastern part of both Oregon and Washington state are radically different from those on the other side of the Cascades. Maybe Boise, but that's stretching it.
I think Omaha and Des Moines are some of the most similar cities in the country, FWIW. But I agree that Omaha doesn't feel like a smaller version of Minneapolis. Des Moines really doesn't either - it's layout, look, and culture is closer to Kansas City, but I think there's just more of an influence from Minneapolis there. The Wild's farm squad is in Des Moines (for example), and there seems to be some other overlaps with music and art.
I don't know that any city feels really like a poor man's version of Minneapolis. It sits at the meeting of the Plains and the North Woods, and has influences of both. It's a Mississippi River town. It's really liberal. The next closest metro areas in Minnesota are drastically smaller.
Madison, WI might be the closest thing to a poor man's Minneapolis, I guess.
If Milwaukee is a Buick, Appleton is a Chevy while Green Bay is a Pontiac. In away, this creates extra layers of being hidden in the background. Other examples:
DETROIT: Buick, TOLEDO: Chevrolet, FLINT: Geo (lower than Chevy when it existed), ANN ARBOR: Pontiac
BOSTON: Cadillac, PROVIDENCE: Buick, PORTLAND, ME: Chevrolet
SEATTLE: Cadillac, PORTLAND: Buick, BELLINGHAM: Chevrolet
DALLAS: Cadillac, FORT WORTH: Lincoln, OKLAHOMA CITY: Buick, WACO: Chevrolet, AUSTIN: Pontiac Trans Am (top trim)
ATLANTA: Cadillac, CHARTLOTTE: Buick, GREENVILLE: Chevrolet, ATHENS, GA: Pontiac, SAVANNAH: Oldsmobile
NEW ORLEANS: Cadillac, BATON ROUGE: Buick, MOBILE: Chevrolet
WASHINGTON DC: Cadillac, BALTIMORE: Buick, FREDERICKSBURG: Chevrolet, RICHMOND: Oldsmobile, CHARLOTTSVILLE: Pontiac
HONOLULU: Cadillac, HILO: Buick, KONA: Pontiac, Rest of the Big Island of Hawaii: Chevrolet
LOS ANGELES: Cadillac, SAN DIEGO: Buick, SAN BERNANDIDO: Chevrolet, BEVERLY HILLS: Rolls-Royce
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: Cadillac, SACRAMENTO: Buick, FRESNO: Chevrolet
DENVER: Cadillac, COLORADO SPRINGS: Buick, PUEBLO: Chevrolet, BOULDER: Pontiac
MINNEAPOLIS: Cadillac, ST. PAUL: Lincoln, ROCHESTER, MN: Buick, FARGO: Chevrolet
KANSAS CITY: Cadillac, OMAHA: Buick, WICHITA: Chevrolet
CINCINNATI: Oldsmobile, COLUMBUS: Pontiac, CLEVELAND: Buick, YOUNGSTOWN: Chevrolet
NYC: Rolls-Royce, PHILLY: Cadillac, ALLENTOWN: Chevrolet
Absolutely brilliant!
We should start a "What kind of car is your city?" discussion.
I'd also open the characterizations to foreign brands (especially since the biggies - Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Mercedes - build cars in the US). At least one, and maybe two, cities on this list should really be Toyota Priuses.
Edited to add: You did leave a few large cities out of this taxonomy, so I'm going to take a stab at those:
CLEVELAND: Cadillac; PITTSBURGH: Lincoln; COLUMBUS: Buick; ERIE: Chevrolet; YOUNGSTOWN: Edsel (there, that should date me)
BUFFALO: Buick; ROCHESTER: Ford; SYRACUSE: Saturn; ITHACA: VW Bus
NASHVILLE: Cadillac (with extra bling); MEMPHIS: Buick; BIRMINGHAM: Pontiac; MOBILE: Chevrolet; MONTGOMERY: Geo; KNOXVILLE: Toyota Prius
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