Which international city reminds you the most of yours?

Barcelona —> L.A.

Lisbon —> S.F.

Dublin = Philly

Toronto and Chicago feel very similar in a lot of ways.

[quote]The city that reminds me the most of LA is Lima. The ritzy parts are right by the Pacific Ocean with ocean bluffs.

Don't be stupid. Even I know that Ohio is nowhere near the Pacific Ocean.

R4 - Who knew Ohio had such an international influence on names? Lima, Toledo, Dublin, Athens.

And nobody really even talks about it!

If you squint very hard on a sunny day, Seattle looks like Sydney.

Mine, which is Baltimore, is like Lagos.

Boston and Melbourne

Sister cities, too.

I always thought Toronto and Melbourne were more like sister cities - greyish Victorian colonial outposts that mushroomed into sprawling and multicultural megacities in the last 40 years.

For all its issues, Chicago feels like it has a very coherent urban form, whereas Toronto has this almost uncanny SimCity quality to it?

Seattle and Vancouver

Of course Vancouver is better in every way.

New Orleans ---> Marseille.

r3 true, but Chicago has a much better lakefront and much better architecture.

That said, Chicago doesn't really have anything like Yonge St, which feels more like New York than Chicago to me. I love Chicago, but it's more provincial than Toronto.

Boston and Toronto are like Melbourne? I've been to all three, I don't see it.

I think somewhat similar weather has to be one consideration point.

And these sister-city designations are just weird political associations.

Boston is also sister-cities with Barcelona and Kyoto and Hangzhou. That does not make them similar culturally.

Australian cities are enviable gems - there's a reason they are all on the top 10 lists every single year. I didn't know why until I visited them. I think any comparison is going to fall short for the Australian cities and booster the ones being associated with it.

Luxembourg reminded me of D.C.

R11 - isn't Yonge Street the longest city in the world? It's a main artery, I understand, but seems like a weird thing to use to compare cities.

I think you need to define provincial. Toronto has one of the largest percentages of foreign-born residents in the world. There is absolutely a lot of international and foreign-born residents of Chicago and enclaves of almost every ethnic group you can think of.

I don't think of Chicagoans as being narrow-minded and unsophisticated - at all. But Toronto is the largest city in Canada, so it's more of a singular national powerhouse for finance, press, TV/film, fashion, etc. So in those aspects, yes - Chicago does not lead the country in most things, but it still has a huge global economy nonetheless.

Fucking hell. These two queens are going to nitpick back and forth now and kill the thread. Great job assholes.

Montreal and Pittsburgh

R6 - actually I thought Seattle and Auckland were a LOT alike.

Very rainy and overcast, space needles, on a bay with lots of ferries, lots of wooded areas and greenery, inlet bays, art scene, at the very northern part of the country, etc.

Sydney? not really

R17, I can see it.

Buenos Aires and NYC, at least 20 years ago.

R17 - here's another pic - see the ferry and the port cranes (which you see all over on the south side of downtown Seattle) and the mountains?

I can't think of which city reminds me most of SF.

Lisbon

Cape Town

Sydney

[quote] I can't think of which city reminds me most of SF.

I was just in Brighton in the UK and it reminds me of a much smaller version of what San Francisco was like physically in the 70s. Very hilly and pretty and green, with great old Victorian buildings, and pretty parks, and yo're always aware you're right by the sea.

It's no wonder that it's the most popular city for gay men to live in in the UK.

When I think of Des Moines, I just think of Geneva or Paris.