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New York is like radish. You know everything about it. No mystery. It's a radish, what it tastes like, looks like.
New York is way too big for this. Most visitors or tourists only visit the city's CBD (Manhattan below Central Park to Statue of Liberty) if you stay in NYC for a week or two. Its a very tiny portion of the city.
If you live for about a year, you can pretty much know your own borough, and in about a decade you can know the whole of NYC, assuming you travel a lot between boroughs and have made friends all over.
NYC is 5 boroughs, each a size of a big city, 59 community boards, each containing several neighborhoods each, and each of those neighborhoods usually have their own thing going on with shopping areas, food, nightlife, and other points of interest.
The more you live in NYC the more you know what you don't know.
I respect the fact that some of you can come up with a winner in a category that screams "tie" to me
I actually think it is a tie but I voted for LA because I feel a lot of what people attribute to NYCs 'identity' are also often what many people say about Boston and Philadelphia too.
LA otoh is nothing like SF in the minds of most people, even visually at street level, vastly different, far more so than the East Coast trio.
LA otoh is nothing like SF in the minds of most people, even visually at street level, vastly different, far more so than the East Coast trio.
Idk about this part.
New York, I think large apartment building
Boston, I think three-decker
Philly, I think rowhome.
While this is inaccurate I think palm trees and low rise housing for both SF and LA (albeit SF has special architecture and more ornate housing, but after going there it was surprisingly low-rise)
I voted NYC just because its so massive a presence and it has some more unique demographic features IMO and an accent... but it could go either way.
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