Is NYC the only US city that offer the urban European lifestyle?

Nothing European about it.

NYC is probably the US city where you would find the most similarities to a large European city, but I agree with R1 - it's still not very European.

Miami Beach

I’ve been told it’s hard to distinguish between One Birmingham and the other.

Not in the US, but the two most European like cities in North America that I've been to are Montreal and Quebec City.

The most European city in America is San Francisco. Everyone knows this.

New York is not European at all. OP = moron.

Merida is the most European in South America.

"European Lifestyle "Yes, NY is the only city in America that it's a plus not to have a car.

You can survive in Boston, DC, Seattle, SF, Portland and Philly but that's about it. One great thing that happened from the pandemic is outdoor dining on nearly every block, drab sidewalks have become transformed. Citybikes and others are available all over the place. All the subways were steam cleaned multiple times. I was SHOCKED to see the polished, copper bannisters for the first time in my life.

Now that we're through it I can say it was the best year of my whole life in NY. I got to do things, go places I never would have the chance to see. NY is better than ever, now with legal weed.

Uh, R7? Mexico is in North America.

Savannah, Ga. is probably the most European like city in the US>

R6, are you insufferably smug in person, or just online?

Not if you include universal healthcare.

Washington DC. The NW quadrant.

R9 I know that! I'm so embarrassed...

R7, you should be, doll. :)

Boston does too.

[quote] he most European city in America is San Francisco.

Oh, do Paris, Rome, Zurich and London have hordes of homeless people, too?

Las Vegas of course!

New Orleans a little bit like Naples (Many Italians settled in run-down apartments in the lower French Quarter, which came to be known as “Little Palermo") or maybe some other southern European cities.

Montreal, Quebec City, Mexico City.

OP said in the U.S.

Miami?

Washington DC reminded me most of a European city.

[quote]The most European city in America is San Francisco. Everyone knows this. New York is not European at all. OP = moron.

Is that you, Diaper Don?! Same M.O.

R23, that's because it was purposefully designed after Paris. So it makes sense.

Boston. Has more Irish than Dublin.

Well, not quite, but still...

What about that tacky German town in Washington?

Santa Barbara feels European to me.

NYC for sure.

The West Village. Parts of the Upper West Side.

Indianapolis

[quote] Miami?

What parts of Europe does Miami remind you of?

San Francisco is the only one that comes to mind

Savannah does not have good public transportation, but its beautiful squares are modelled after British (for former British) cities with lovely Georgian squares, like London, Dublin, and Bristol (among many others).

Most European cities have avoided skyscrapers - sadly besides London of late.

Chicago is another city with density, good urban transportation, no need of a car, and even residential areas change to North-South commercial streets every few blocks, with restaurants, groceries, dry cleaners, bakeries, specialty shops within easy walking distance.

Aesthetically it's not very European, but then neither is NYC nor Boston nor San Francisco except for select blocks here and there.

Americans always say New Orleans is a very European city, but it's a Disney caricature of a European city, or maybe looking up the skirt of a Disney character to see a false limb and some very shabby panties. Despite some great architecture among the carnival atmosphere, it doesn't look very Spanish or French, more Colonial Haitian.

Why San Francisco is considered a European-esque city escapes me. It's hills and views, maybe? The architecture, the street grid, the treeless streets, the building uses...nothing very European.

Charleston is too small but has aesthetics on its side, and the mix of density and age and vegetation. Center City Philadelphia in parts is a bit European in the jumbled mix of building uses and reuses, restaurants, offices, florists, specialty shops, it has a sort of 1950s pedestrian friendly dense jumble that I like.

R18 cracked me up.

Solvang, California

R17

I don't know too many American cities that have hoardes of pickpockets either snatching everything not nailed down.

R35, for San Francisco, I'm guessing it's the fact that there no real skyscrapers (not by Chicag standards anyways) and it's dominated by mid-level architecture.

What about Kansas City, "Paris of the Plains"?!

R40, those hundres of parking spaces remind me of the River Seine

[R35], for San Francisco, I'm guessing it's the fact that there no real skyscrapers (not by Chicag standards anyways)

It feels different now that they've built the Salesforce Tower in 2018 (61 floors) and 181 Fremont in 2017 (56 floors). It used to be that the Transamerica Pyramid was the only really tall building, but now it's changed.

It's still not only the level of Chicago or NYC, but it just doesn;t feel as neighborly with several tall buildings instead of just the one.

[Quote]What parts of Europe does Miami remind you of?

Benidorm, Spain

[quote] Chicago is another city with density, good urban transportation, no need of a car, and even residential areas change to North-South commercial streets every few blocks, with restaurants, groceries, dry cleaners, bakeries, specialty shops within easy walking distance.

But its very dangerous to be walking around while eating a sandwich.

R34 come for beaches, stay for Sticky Vicky!

That was for R43 not R34

No US city is European-like. The history of this country, especially when it comes to race, has shaped many US cities in how they are built, where roads go, where "downtown" is located and more. I think it's a good thing most US cities aren't more European, it's what makes this country what it is.

Houston and San Diego

Manhattan seems pretty quintessentially American to me, parts of Brooklyn - Brighton Beach (obviously) and Canarsie, but also Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick could be somewhere in Russia.

Toronto just outside of the downtown - with its mix of Victorian row houses and grim circa 1960s apartment complexes and public buildings feels like it could be a secondary city somewhere in the UK.

I'm wondering if the majority of people commenting in this thread have even been to Europe.

LMAO. New Yorkers are the most delusional twits on the planet.

I don't think there's any city in the US that looks much like European cities, much less offers the European lifestyle. Having said that, when I was in Bari, Italy, parts of it reminded me a lot of the UES - but only for a few blocks.

Several times, R51, but thanks for your concern.

Washington is European as well with all those statues, etc. I haven't spent much time near the Mediterranean, but could New Orleans seem similar?

[quote] Washington is European as well with all those statues, etc

So, having statues is equivalent to "offering the urban European lifestyle" to you? Be honest. The extent of your European travels is watching a few Rick Steves shows on PBS.

OP doesn’t own a passport.

How NYC is like Europe: lots of nice little cafes, walkable, good public transportation, annoying tourists, flagship department stores.

How it’s NOT: We have an incredible array of cuisines, it’s filthy dirty, the natives are surprisingly helpful and want you to have a good time, our police have guns.

OP mentioned NYC's density, public transport and lack of suburban character. Most of the comments seem to be referring to architecture or society. I live in Manhattan, but have travelled extensively through Europe and Asia. New York, on the whole certainly doesn't look like a European city that I've been to, except perhaps London, except London seems more charming to me. There are parts of Greenwich Village and lower Manhattan that have a European character, and some of Brooklyn too. But mostly NYC reminds me more me of Hong Kong and Taipei, at least in density and frenetic energy. I agree that Charleson, New Orleans and San Francisco have areas that are a lot like Europe.

[quote] How it’s NOT: [...] our police have guns.

Have you never been to Rome or Paris?

WTF is the "urban European Lifestyle"?

^DENSE (!) central part, mostly public transport, hardly suburban.

R61 that describes many cities all over the world.

is this the lifestyle?