Which cities in your state are the complete opposite of each other?

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1. Really the only state I’ve lived where I felt like two places were on opposite ends of the spectrum – Boulder, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

2. Asheville and Wilmington. 1 is in the mountains and 1 in on the coast.

3. The central valley of California and San Francisco

4. Camden NJ

   Hoboken NJ

   Both across a river from a major city. Both completely different.

5. Cullman and Birmingham.

6. Norman and Broken Arrow

7. Asheville and any other city in the state.

8. Memphis and Knoxville. Old South decay vs New South regeneration.

9. Las Vegas and every other city in Nevada, basically.

10. Norton and Alexandria

11. Houston and Austin (don’t even live in Texas but this is the answer)

12. Houston and Amarillo? I can’t think of anything they have in common besides being in TX and some oil companies.

13. Santa Monica and Barstow

14. Sioux falls and rapid city.

    Opposite ends of the state.

15. Los Angeles and Bakersfield.

16. [Eugene, Oregon](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eugene,+OR/@44.0606358,-123.2049514,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54c119b0ac501919:0x57ec61894a43894d!8m2!3d44.0520691!4d-123.0867536!16zL20vMDJtZjc?entry=ttu) is home to a liberal university, and has a strong “hippie” culture and history. It has a very ‘tolerant, environmental, granola-crunchy’ vibe.

    Literally right next to it is [Springfield, OR](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Springfield,+OR/@44.0613219,-123.0477138,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54c0de472e7002bf:0x536dbe99c4a3fd6!8m2!3d44.0462362!4d-123.0220289!16zL20vMHpkdjE?entry=ttu), a culturally-conservative, more blue collar community.

17. Y’all have cities??

18. Chicago and every small town (under 10,000) in the rest of the state.

19. As far as its possible for them to be ‘opposite’ probably Salt Lake and Provo.

20. Ann Arbor vs Escanaba?

    Grand Rapids vs Ironwood?

    Detroit vs Calumet?

21. Jackson and everywhere else

22. Chicago and Cairo.

    Chicago is the 4th largest city in North America (13th in the western hemisphere). It’s a major center for culture, cuisine, arts, sports, business, and transportation. It has one of the busiest airports in the world, is instantly recognized by name, skyline, and other features.

    Cairo is literally opposite because it is the southernmost city in the state while the Chicago metro area actually extends north of the border. While Chicago is a quintessential norther city, Cairo has more in common climatically and socially with towns in Alabama and Tennessee. It’s also quite small at less than 1800 people (and declining). Apart from being in the same state, the only thing they have in common is being majority non-white (which is rare in the Midwest).

23. Miami and Ocala.

24. Salt Lake City and Provo?

25. Tulsa and OKC.

    Not for any particular reason. It’s just because they’re the only ones.

26. When I lived in Pennsylvania: Philly and Pittsburgh.

    When I lived in NJ: South Jersey vs North Jersey

27. We barely even have cities in Vermont, so the comparison would be Burlingto and everywhere else.

28. Cleveland and Cincy feel very different. Cleveland feels like a big northern city while cincy feels like it’s the south

29. Edina vs every other city. iykyk

    Edit: and they are lying if they say they don’t know what they did

30. Alexandria and Lynchburg

31. Miami – Jacksonville

32. Asheville & Lumberton

33. You don’t live in raised huts in the middle of the swamp?

34. Tucson and Phoenix. Tucson is a medium sized liberal city with a lot of focus on arts and music. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country, fairly conservative and more corporate.

    Edit: I should probably change my tag but I talk more about Alaska than Arizona.

35. Milwaukee and Waukesha.

36. Ironically, Minneapolis and St. Paul, despite the fact that they’re the Twin Cities.

    Minneapolis is very modern and has a lot happening at night. St. Paul has a very traditional architectural feel to it, and after 5pm, it’s basically a ghost town.

37. I’m from Washington. At first I was going to say Seattle and Spokane, but after a little more thought, I’m going to say Seattle and the Tri-Cities; pick any one of them: Kennewick, Richland, or Pasco.

    Seattle is wet, green, politically liberal, higher population density. The Tri-Cities are in a desert, you could drive miles without seeing a single tree, politically conservative, and very low population density. It’s all sprawl. Like a big suburb, except there’s no urban core.

38. Miami and Jacksonville

39. We have two small cities called Newark and Granville that are literally right next to each other and are different in just about every way

40. Not same state, but same metro area. The difference between Washington DC proper and Northern Virginia is insane considering they’re separated only by a river and a couple Metro stops. Violent crime is exponentially higher in the District than Alexandria or Arlington, even though both have comparably urban neighborhoods. And literally like 20x the homeless population in the District.

41. Quite literally any city in the UP vs literally any city in the LP lol. It always feels like you’re entering a completely different state when you cross the bridge.