US cities and their UK equivalents? (house prices, wages, live)
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Aside from that, there's not a single city in Britain that is anything like any city in America.
I kind of agree. Apart from the English language, America and the UK are very different countries. One is a huge continent, a world superpower, with a population of hundreds of millions, founded on immigration. The other is a a medium sized power, an ancient European nation, and encompassing a small island archipelago on the edge of a continent only.
A comparison between cities in France would be a lot easier - as Britain and France are a much more similar type of nation than Britain and America.
Not sure if it's easier to be honest - only Paris and London are very similar.
Saying that, I've been to Lille and found it to be very similar to Leeds (they're sister cities, too).
Personally I think Lille is more Newcastle: it's a relatively small city at the centre of a large conurbation, with a history of coal mining and a strong and very distinctive local dialect (called Ch'ti). Prosperous, redeveloped centre; but some suburbs still post-industrial wastelands. The only big difference is that the Lille metro area is very diverse, whereas Newcastle/Tyneside is the whitest big conurbation in Britian.
Other parallels you could make: Brest = Cardiff; Strasbourg = Norwich; Bordeaux = Bristol. Bastia would be Belfast, with its history of seperatism and terrorist bombings.
I think the closest thing you'd get to Scotland would be the French-speaking area of Belgium - they're the butt of all the Frenchman's jokes.
Personally I think Lille is more Newcastle: it's a relatively small city at the centre of a large conurbation, with a history of coal mining and a strong and very distinctive local dialect (called Ch'ti). Prosperous, redeveloped centre; but some suburbs still post-industrial wastelands. The only big difference is that the Lille metro area is very diverse, whereas Newcastle/Tyneside is the whitest big conurbation in Britian.
Other parallels you could make: Brest = Cardiff; Strasbourg = Norwich; Bordeaux = Bristol. Bastia would be Belfast, with its history of seperatism and terrorist bombings.
I think the closest thing you'd get to Scotland would be the French-speaking area of Belgium - they're the butt of all the Frenchman's jokes.
I love the way you judge Belfast as a city that loves to bomb. Sorry but we average citizens of Northern Ireland do not have a care in the world for bombs, our cities are far safer than any city in England and the USA.
Maybe you should've looked for a comparable city that has a history with the shipping and flax industry in the USA.
I don't think he is saying Belfast 'loves' to bomb things, nor its people.. how bizarre, lol
Anyway, your statement about Belfast being safer than English cities is incorrect, it has the highest homicide rate in the UK (or second highest after Glasgow!)
Personally I think Lille is more Newcastle: it's a relatively small city at the centre of a large conurbation, with a history of coal mining and a strong and very distinctive local dialect (called Ch'ti). Prosperous, redeveloped centre; but some suburbs still post-industrial wastelands. The only big difference is that the Lille metro area is very diverse, whereas Newcastle/Tyneside is the whitest big conurbation in Britian.
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Yeah I just thought they look similar in architectural terms.
I don't think he is saying Belfast 'loves' to bomb things, nor its people.. how bizarre, lol
Anyway, your statement about Belfast being safer than English cities is incorrect, it has the highest homicide rate in the UK (or second highest after Glasgow!)
I like Belfast anyway, it's underrated.
And is this homicide rate measured by population density by any chance because if it is it cannot be compared with english cities.
I love the way you judge Belfast as a city that loves to bomb. Sorry but we average citizens of Northern Ireland do not have a care in the world for bombs, our cities are far safer than any city in England and the USA.
Maybe you should've looked for a comparable city that has a history with the shipping and flax industry in the USA.
I happen to agree with you owenc, and I am aware that Belfast is one of the safest cities in the UK (and indeed the western world) with very little of the day to day petty crime that bedevils the mainland. Personally when I visited I found it to be one of the most friendly, engaging and fun cities I've been to.
However my parallels are how both cities are viewed in the national conscience. Sadly, despite over a decade of peace, Belfast, for most mainland British people still initially brings to mind the Troubles of 1969-2002. A casual visit there still now (steel seperation barriers, armourded police stations, militaristic murals) sets it apart from other cities and would seem to reaffirm this. I'm afraid the flax industry is not well known, and the shipbuilding history (Titanic?) is far more distant.
Corsica also had a long period from the 70s to the 90s of terrorist activity, although, admittedly not on the scale of NI, that is still how to some extent it is viewed in the French national conversation, despite it being totally peaceful now for over a decade.
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