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Yeah, there are very few new and consistently dense areas of the US. Maybe Seattle comes the closest cause of Amazon's presence, but I feel like it's still too small to really be cyberpunk. We'd need something like a 21st-century NYC for that to work.
Seattle feels modern, not cyberpunk.
There are no cities in America with a true cyberpunk feel to them.
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that shows a dystopian city with high end technology and wealth inequality, an impoverished underclass and wealthy elite, experiencing societal decay. A futuristic city with bright neon colored buildings reflecting off the rain soaked pavement, filled with crime and degeneracy. Given this description, which US cities do you think are the most Cyberpunk like?
So very similar to the planet of Nar Shadaa in the Star Wars universe.
If they started throwing up random neon/billboards in some low flung areas of historic/warehouse areas of NYC, Boston, Philly or Baltimore I guess you could make comparisons, but you're simply not finding that type of vernacular in anything outside of east Asian mega cities.
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that shows a dystopian city with high end technology and wealth inequality, an impoverished underclass and wealthy elite, experiencing societal decay. A futuristic city with bright neon colored buildings reflecting off the rain soaked pavement, filled with crime and degeneracy. Given this description, which US cities do you think are the most Cyberpunk like?
The US has many cities that have the criminal/degenerate/wealth gap aspect going, but without the visual aesthetic of a cyberpunk city. The closest to this would be Portland, if I had to choose based on all the given criteria. Modern and reasonably dense/urban, very tech-savvy, homelessness and civil unrest plague the city, alternative lifestyle mecca, degenerate hedonistic types galore, heavy drug usage of all kinds, crime surge among the highest in the country. Even the "rain soaked pavement" bit suits it.
The US has many cities that have the criminal/degenerate/wealth gap aspect going, but without the visual aesthetic of a cyberpunk city. The closest to this would be Portland, if I had to choose based on all the given criteria. Modern and reasonably dense/urban, very tech-savvy, homelessness and civil unrest plague the city, alternative lifestyle mecca, degenerate hedonistic types galore, heavy drug usage of all kinds, crime surge among the highest in the country. Even the "rain soaked pavement" bit suits it.
Even Portland and Seattle I would say are huge stretches.
The US has many cities that have the criminal/degenerate/wealth gap aspect going, but without the visual aesthetic of a cyberpunk city. The closest to this would be Portland, if I had to choose based on all the given criteria. Modern and reasonably dense/urban, very tech-savvy, homelessness and civil unrest plague the city, alternative lifestyle mecca, degenerate hedonistic types galore, heavy drug usage of all kinds, crime surge among the highest in the country. Even the "rain soaked pavement" bit suits it.
You might actually be onto something there.
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