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St. Louis always felt and looked like Cleveland to me.
I see little similarities aesthetically besides obvious industrial heritage (smokestacks and large warehouses). Cleveland has way more frame housing, St. Louis is a brick city. I will agree that culturally the cities are pretty similar (large Afro-American population, white ethnic neighborhoods, chip on the shoulder mentality of people, kind of insular). Both are underrated in terms of cultural offerings and quality of life in larger metropolitan area.
Baltimore is also a deindustrialized city with a touristy waterfront that belies the urban decay and violent crime that is prevalent in most of the other neighborhoods. Both metro areas saw major rioting (downtown Baltimore and Ferguson) and issues with BLM and the police. Baltimore also has a blue collar element and lots of migrants who went from rural Appalachia and the Deep South to work in the industries that have since been shut down. Baltimore is also a very blue collar city its in culture, mixed with a very decayed ghetto. Both Baltimore and St. Louis are among the most dangerous cities in America with a large black underclass.
Cincinnati is a lot like St. Louis. I do not any other similar cities. I don't see how St. Louis is anything like Memphis, STL is better than Memphis is almost every metric.
Most American cities are better than Memphis, maybe with the exception of Detroit and Birmingham.
Memphis (while it has very little in common with St Louis in most respects) is, like St Louis, funky, weird and wonderful in ways most American cities that are "better" than it are not.
Baltimore is also a deindustrialized city with a touristy waterfront that belies the urban decay and violent crime that is prevalent in most of the other neighborhoods. Both metro areas saw major rioting (downtown Baltimore and Ferguson) and issues with BLM and the police. Baltimore also has a blue collar element and lots of migrants who went from rural Appalachia and the Deep South to work in the industries that have since been shut down. Baltimore is also a very blue collar city its in culture, mixed with a very decayed ghetto. Both Baltimore and St. Louis are among the most dangerous cities in America with a large black underclass.
And they both have the same relationship with the county of the same name. Baltimore City, and Baltimore County are separate and non overlapping, just like St Louis City, and St Louis County.
I remember St. Louis Magazine once described the city as "a cross between New Orleans and Boston", although it seems like most people here are comparing it to Cincinnati and Baltimore, which makes sense. I find it especially similar to Cincy.
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