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I’m noticing many topics on which city is similar to another or which city is the least popular in the county. How about we try something a little different? Can you name the most unique and distinct city in the country!
There's nothing like Honolulu in the continental USA. You can find Anchorage in Washington State or SLC, although it wouldn't be 1:1, you'll still have options.
Anchorage has some unique traits, but there are a lot of parallels between other cities (particularly in the West and NW). I don't know any place that really compares to HNL.
Honolulu is a very ho hum generic city that you can find all over this country. A resort city with beaches. Nothing wildly unique about it. Now if you want to extend it and talk about the island of Oahu then yeah it's definitely unique. But the city itself, meh.
I would go with New Orleans as the most unique. It's like the Amsterdam of the US to me. A very distinct culture unto itself.
Honolulu for sure. It's the one city that feels more like it's in Japan than the US. Anchorage looks and feels more culturally American, like one of the Mountain West cities only by coast. It's not quite like a Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver but maybe like a larger Billings, Montana.
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Originally Posted by BigCity76
Honolulu is a very ho hum generic city that you can find all over this country. A resort city with beaches. Nothing wildly unique about it. Now if you want to extend it and talk about the island of Oahu then yeah it's definitely unique. But the city itself, meh.
I would go with New Orleans as the most unique. It's like the Amsterdam of the US to me. A very distinct culture unto itself.
NOLA is unique but it still is culturally American and particularly Southern in many ways. It's like a larger Savannah or Charleston.
Honolulu for the flora, fauna, climate, location and demographics is unique, and it's also quite rare in being a rather densely developed and very walkable, by US standards, city which probably comes from its odd geography.
Anchorage basically reminds me of a PNW town. If it were to suddenly teleport into the state of Washington, it wouldn't really look or feel much different.
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