What is the European equivalent of the following US cities?

Boston Chicago Dallas Detroit Miami Portland San Francisco St. Louis

• Dublin = Boston Cape Town = San Francisco Amsterdam = Portland, OR

• R1 = Mother of all fails

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• It's an impossible question, OP.

• OP, Everyone knows that Madrid is the Chicago of Europe.

• Boston=Hamburg Chicago=Frankfurt Dallas=Moscow Detroit=Liverpool Miami=Yalta Portland=Copenhagen San Francisco=Amsterdam St. Louis=Bucharest

• All American cites are one big, never ending Walmart store and fast food strip mall. European cities actually have personality, history and character.

• Next Question, which American car looks like a Mercedes?

• On a similar topic, I've always described the county of Devon England as our version of South Carolina - southern, rural, by the coast and conservative.

• Dallas = Moscow???? in what way? the weather LOL???

• There is no European city shitty enough to be the equivalent of Chicago.

• R6 is a moron.

• R9 Tacky rich people.

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• Boston is Dublin or Edinburgh Chicago is Madrid Dallas is Munich Detroit is Turin or Manchester Miami is Valencia or Odessa Portland is Amsterdam or Prague San Francisco is Stockholm St Louis is Belgrade or Kiev

• Madrid is a world class city. Chicago is nothing like Madrid.

• I stand behind Chicago = Madrid. Middle of the country, football obsessed, slightly fascist, with slutty gay men and envy toward the coastal city that gets more attention.

  R13

• What is this obsession americans have with equating everything foreign to something domestic? Nobody asks what the asian equivalent of Brazilian cities are. Or the South American equivalents of japanese cities. Didn't Oscar Wilde say that all comparisons are odious?

• Texas = Bavaria

• I like this thread. Please post you reasoning for equating the cities the way you do.

• Perhaps you might find such comparison threads in a Portuguese, Japanese or Spanish language forum, R16.

• Cleveland - the Paris of the rustbelt!

• Dallas equals Nazi Bavaria - and George Bush lives there what other proof do you need?

• "Didn't Oscar Wilde say that all comparisons are odious?" Well, he's never been to me.

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• try to cry out in the heat of the moment possessed by a fury that burns from inside

• San Francisco would be Calcutta, in August. Lots of fragrant odors.

• The thing of it is, American cities generally have been uglified by too much glass and steel skyscraper nonsense and foolishness as well as way too much dependence on cars and the attendant paving over with expressways (McDonald's, Burger King, K-Mart, the departure of great downtown department stores--note how Americans always head to Herrod's in London or KaDeWe in Berlin, it's because we have nothing equivalent here), etc., but, having said that, I will humor OP by saying that I thought Berlin had a vague similarity to Chicago, possibly partly due to the flatness of the topography and Boston bears a little resemblance to some sections of London. I like San Francisco well enough but can't think of a European equivalent offhand. Anyway, a question, does anyone think that the better parts of Washington, DC bear a vague resemblance to Paris if only because of the sort of broad avenues over a grid kind of layout? I know that the original planner, Pierre L'Enfant was of course French (George Washington eventually couldn't stand his drama so dismissed him) and I think there was a connection between his plans and how Napoleon eventually rebuilt Paris. Anyone care to elaborate?

• Basel = Pittsburgh

• [quote]Chicago is Madrid Chicago wishes

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• I picked Moscow as an equivalent for Dallas because both cities are ugly, sprawling, and exemplify the worst extremes of their respective country's philosophies.