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Sacramento is a poor man's Portland
Fresno is a poor man's Sacramento
The problem with these comparisons is there are certain amenities/features that are simply not available in the poor mans city.
I think Metro Portland and Metro Sacramento are more alike in income/salaries, educational attainment, sports and cultural amenities; whereas, Fresno simply doesn't even come close to Portland and Sacramento in income/salaries and educational attainment.
I think pre 2020, you could say Portland's center city had a larger bourgie/hipster culture than Sacramento's, but lately both have been greatly diminished.
Salt Lake City is a poor man's Denver although a really like Salt Lake better than Denver. Salt Lake City has by far superior ski accessibility than Denver.
Charlotte is a poor man's Atlanta although Charlotte is much friendlier city than Atlanta.
If Texas were a microcosm of the whole country, I see it as:
Dallas = NYC
Austin = San Francisco
Houston = Los Angeles
Galveston = New Orleans/Savannah/Charleston
Corpus Christi = San Diego
El Paso = Phoenix
RGV = South Florida
San Antonio is the one city I don't consider to be the poor man's version of anything. It really is its own unique place.
If Texas were a microcosm of the whole country, I see it as:
Dallas = NYC
Austin = San Francisco
Houston = Los Angeles
Galveston = New Orleans/Savannah/Charleston
Corpus Christi = San Diego
El Paso = Phoenix
RGV = South Florida
San Antonio is the one city I don't consider to be the poor man's version of anything. It really is its own unique place.
If Texas were a microcosm of the whole country, I see it as:
Dallas = NYC
Austin = San Francisco
Houston = Los Angeles
Galveston = New Orleans/Savannah/Charleston
Corpus Christi = San Diego
El Paso = Phoenix
RGV = South Florida
San Antonio is the one city I don't consider to be the poor man's version of anything. It really is its own unique place.
If Texas were a microcosm of the whole country, I see it as:
Dallas = NYC
Austin = San Francisco
Houston = Los Angeles
Galveston = New Orleans/Savannah/Charleston
Corpus Christi = San Diego
El Paso = Phoenix
RGV = South Florida
San Antonio is the one city I don't consider to be the poor man's version of anything. It really is its own unique place.
I've said to friends that "Houston is Texas' answer to LA, right down to the palm trees, freeways full of Mario Andretti wannabes doing 70 in bumper-to-bumper traffic and a suburb named Pasadena."
Duluth, MN comes off as a poor man's Anchorage to me.
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