Which American states or cities could double for other countries’ cities or regions?

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  3. Well a lot of Northern states could probably be Canadian provinces: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine look pretty similar to Atlantic Canada and have a similar feel, Washington to BC, New York to Ontario etc…

    As for cities, again Canadian cities and American cities are pretty similar w regards to architecture, layout etc… besides a few outliers such as Boston, Quebec City etc.. a lot American cities also don’t look terribly far off from Australian cities either.

    Everything I’ve said is pretty obvious, for a unique take, I’d say a lot of Northern New England is vaguely similar to Scandinavia: pine forests everywhere, lakes, mountains, cold, wooden houses everywhere, Volvos, moose, very quiet, etc…

  4. So this is like opinion-based comparative geography?

    What useful information are you expecting to get out of peoples’ answers?

  5. Any number of large American cities could double as Toronto and vice versa… hence the reason why so many movies set in the US are filmed there (and Vancouver too, although this one looks significantly more distinct when you’re actually there).

    Parts of St. Augustine look like the Carribean.

    I often read that Boston looks like England… to which I disagree. It looks like Boston. Portland, Maine looks more like England to me, but the resemblance isn’t that strong.

    Coastal Maine, in places, resembles parts of coastal Norway, although not the more famous Fjordlands, which look more like southeast Alaska.

    I was going to point out how much the Maritime Provinces resemble New England, but then again, the border regions of the US and Canada all look very similar.

  6. Place near either border are pretty much like the places on the other side. Other than that, nowhere really.

  8. Appearance or culture?

    I’d say New England is a bit like Scandinavia. Maine is probably a bit like Finland.

  9. From a physical geography standpoint, Andalucia seems pretty similar to coastal southern California.

  10. Portland, Maine – and Reykjavik are very similar. They could double for each other, no problem.

  13. There’s a lot of Aussie suburbs (don’t know where) that look like they could be neighborhoods here in California.

  15. Texas could effectively become it’s own Nation and has before in the past. Most Texans will tell you they are a “Texan first”

    Joke: what’s the same between a Texan and a Californian? They will always tell you where they are from in the first 3 minutes of conversation 🤣

  22. Australia and California have a lot of similarities.

    Sydney and Los Angeles, Brisbane and San Diego, Melbourne and San Francisco.

  25. Maine and the Scottish highlands. The land and geography are so similar. You just have to cut down all the trees in Maine.

  26. There’s a reason so many Germans settled in Pennsylvania. Climate and Geographically speaking, obviously this extends to surrounding states.

    When I (52) was a kid in the 70s and 80s we’d have military jet flyovers all the time because of the similarities in the event things kicked off in Germany.

    City wise, I don’t think any get more European feeling than Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston (maybe Savannah).

  28. I would posit New England as the most European-esque region in terms of architecture, nomenclature, and the use of rotaries.

  29. There’s a little city in the Phoenix metro area called Guadalupe. If you drove through there without knowing better you’d swear you were in Mexico.

  30. The only real answer to this is Canada.

    We have little bits and pieces of other countries but they’re so small and they’re always next to giant American stuff like freeways or Walmarts, that it really doesn’t count.

    Parts of America can look reminiscent of other nations. The Ballard neighborhood of Seattle does look a bit like Copenhagen or Northern Europe.

    During a very warm day in Chicago the beach and waterfront does kind of feel like Barcelona.

    And Miami can give off a Caribbean feel.

    The opposite part is true, for example in the island of Grenada there is a American University at the very south. The area around the American University looks just like it’s in Florida.

    There are also giant American military bases in Europe that have things like Taco bells.

  31. There’s a fascinating book and documentary called After Coal that does comparisons between Wales and Appalachia, specifically their experiences with the decline of mining jobs.

  32. Texas is a lot like Australia, a few big cities where most people live and then a lot of dry empty space in the middle.

  33. The countryside of Pennsylvania looks a lot like Alabama. Except in Pennsylvania the houses tend to be multistory white farmhouses and in Alabama they are low brick buildings and mobile homes. Things spread out a lot more in Alabama.

  34. Philadelphia and London are very similar in a way lol.

    Los Angeles, and Miami both have a similar feel to the more developed parts of Accra Ghana, and Lagos Nigeria.

    The housing architecture, Palm trees are very similar to each other.

    Miami has more of a similar weather to Accra and Lagos.

    Los Angeles can double for Barcelona and Lisbon as well.

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