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I definitely see the comparisons to the DMV, but in my opinion no part of the Atlanta area doesn't feel like Atlanta to me.
I honestly feel like it's one of the few major metros in the country where everything kind of blends together and looks the same; especially considering its vast size. I actually like this as I feel like uniformity is one of the most attractive qualities an urban area can have. I don't too much like the random, disjointed look of places like LA and Houston.
Yea I wasn't able to find any good ones for Atlanta. The closest thing are some of the older suburbs at the right time of year you see a little glimpse of upscale New England. It's only glimpses though the vast majority of Decatur looks nothing like NE
The very tip of the Philadelphia metro around New Castle, Delaware is a whole different world. Rt. 13 was the original coastal highway that connected Philadelphia to Fayetteville, NC. It basically looks like the coastal south. Demographically, it's also probably the furthest place north were the African American communities are more "rural" than "urban". These communities date back hundreds of years and have a more similar story to more southern communities than pretty much anywhere around Philadelphia.
Parts of Salem and Cumberland counties in New Jersey also have (or had) this feel.
Continue the Mason-Dixon Line due east across New Jersey and you will find that this part of the state lies below it.
But I will allow that, while it doesn't feel like the rest of South Jersey or the Shore, it doesn't quite feel like lower or central Delaware either.
Even though all of New Castle County lies in the Philadelphia MSA, I understood the C&D Canal to be the dividing line between "urban" or "metropolitan" New Castle County and "rural" New Castle County.
I definitely see the comparisons to the DMV, but in my opinion no part of the Atlanta area doesn't feel like Atlanta to me.
I honestly feel like it's one of the few major metros in the country where everything kind of blends together and looks the same; especially considering its vast size. I actually like this as I feel like uniformity is one of the most attractive qualities an urban area can have. I don't too much like the random, disjointed look of places like LA and Houston.
If any part of the Atlanta area feels different it would be the Doraville/Norcross area due to the demographics and diversity. The Latino and Asian populations are larger than the Caucasian and African-American populations.
Collierville definitely more than anything feels like DFW area. Especially around Carrington Crossing and Houston Levee.
Okay what part of DFW does it feel like because to me those Memphis suburbs feels more like the nice Jackson suburbs like, Richland and Madison, than it does DFW. Those northern DFW suburbs and KCMO-Johnson County KS suburbs feel similar, but I didnt get that same vibe from Collierville or DeSoto County MS.
I can see this. They remind me a bit of the Grosse Pointes in Detroit as well.
Absolutely agreed.
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