Which American city is the most dissmilar/unlike the rest of its state/region. (houses, to live in)

[texdav]

Definitely New Orleans. In fact it is like no other city in the country almost foreign really.Other than that most big cities here are much the same as other big cities across the country with just regional differnece.

[Chicago60614]

I think Detroit and Chicago are very very different from their respective states

[JMT]

Tallahassee. It's "Florida with a Southern accent" while the rest of Florida is nothing more than New Jersey or Ontario in the tropics.

[Chicago60614]

I think Detroit and Chicago are very very different from their respective states.

Not to mention that Chicago is smashed up in the very corner of the state, about as far from the middle of any state you could get, considering the way Illinois is shaped. With the lake blocking land access to the focal point of the city, it's somewhat isolated from the rest of Illinois and tends to be extremely different than the rest of the region.

[beeneverywheretwice]

Originally Posted by ainulinale

I think Minneapolis is probably more similar to Chicago than Philly.

Minneapolis is nothing like Chi. Philly and Chi have too many things in common to list.

[beeneverywheretwice]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Haha, true. Davis and Woodland are worlds apart. Winters and Dixon aren't too similar either.

We're talking about cities. Not towns, no one has ever heard of outside their county!

[TylerJAX]

Originally Posted by JMT

Tallahassee. It's "Florida with a Southern accent" while the rest of Florida is nothing more than New Jersey or Ontario in the tropics.

What about Jacksonville? There are a small number of northern transplants there, but for the most part it's rednecks, hoodrats, fundamentalists, and old plantation types who probably yearn for the ante-bellum days.

[westhou]

I think Austin, Tx is very different from the other big cities in the state of Texas. The city tries so hard not to be like Houston and Dallas. In some ways it's a positive and in other ways it's a negative.

[john_starks]

miami vs florida

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by AreYouSure

Tallahassee.....might as well be in Alabama or in Georgia...too many
rednecks compared to the rest of the state


Jacksonville ??? yep, it's like Memphis, TN "on the water"


and Memphis TN....nothing like even Nashville, a nice and sopishticated place in parts......and nothing like even Knoxville.....Memphis TN migh as well be in MISSISSIPPI....in fact Nashvillians call it "the biggest city in the state of Mississippi".....even they don't want anything to do with it

It's also said that Jacksonville is south GA's largest city