Non-Western City Most Like Seattle (farmers, area, cities)

[Dawn.Davenport]

What city, outside the West, is most like Seattle and why. Minneapolis? Boston? Atlanta? DC?

[fwsavemoney]

Minneapolis (except for topography) is a lot like Seattle. High population of educated people that are not materialistic and embrace nature.

[spicymeatball]

Minneapolis is the obvious choice.

[steel03]

Minneapolis for size, culture, education, COL, recreation... honestly everything except literally what the scenery looks like and what category of "bad" most people would call the weather patterns (too cold/humid for Minneapolis, too dark/rainy for Seattle). They are two of the best-matched cities in the country in many ways.

[jennifat]

Definitely Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Most people may not realize this, but the Twin Cities and Seattle are linked in a lot of ways due to their shared history on the Great Northern Railway. Both cities rose to prominence together as termini at either end of the railroad, and thus they exchanged/shared similar economics, development patterns, and cultural/social features.

[Iconographer]

Another vote for Minneapolis.

[Zachj7]

I agree, Minneapolis is the first to come to mind.

[Rail-to-Rail]

I moved to western Washington from Minneapolis and I learned something when I got here, there are a lot of people with Scandinavian roots out here on the NW coast and in Seattle.

It was explained to me that when the Norwegians and others arrived, the ones who had been farmers in the Olde Country settled in the Upper Midwest, and the ones who had been fisherman kept going and settled on the NW coast.

So yeah, there is a similarity in the population that I noticed right away.

Thanks for the information about the railroad history being a factor.

[spicymeatball]

Originally Posted by Rail-to-Rail

I moved to western Washington from Minneapolis and I learned something when I got here, there are a lot of people with Scandinavian roots out here on the NW coast and in Seattle.

It was explained to me that when the Norwegians and others arrived, the ones who had been farmers in the Olde Country settled in the Upper Midwest, and the ones who had been fisherman kept going and settled on the NW coast.

So yeah, there is a similarity in the population that I noticed right away.

Thanks for the information about the railroad history being a factor.

I've always called the area between Lake Michigan and the Pacific "New Scandinavia".

[Jason_show]

Minneapolis = Seattle