US cities and their UK equivalents? (apartment, home, neighbourhood)

[Perfect Stranger]

Originally Posted by portlanderinOC

Essex = Jersey Shore
Trashy area next to the country's largest city

Buckinghamshire = Westchester County, NY
Home to all the posh people who prefer to live away from the city.

Oxford = Princeton
Quite self-explanatory

Good post.

[Perfect Stranger]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Essex = New Jersey
Bordering their respective country's largest city. Both have acquired an unfair reputation for numerous reasons - Jersey Shore, The Only Way is Essex being the obvious ones, making the women of each look slutty and stupid and orange. Despite this, both are very affluent - among the most affluent in each country.

Surrey = Connecticut
Affluent areas where big city commuters reside to escape the city issues and to find cheaper housing (despite both having very expensive house prices). Both are seriously loaded with money, large houses and big cars.

Scotland = Washington
Both are famed for their mountainous scenery and wet weather. Seattle is similar to Edinburgh in the fact that they are both educated cities with high wages and are bounded by mountains and water. Seattle's strengths are in technology, Edinburgh's in finance.

Brighton = San Francisco
Cities both have reputations for having a lot of gay people, and both do! Both are very liberal and affluent with ridiculously expensive house prices and rents. Brighton is on the sea but is bounded by hills to the north, similar to how San Francisco is located next to the sea, but is very hilly.

Aberdeen = Anchorage
Similar size, similar wealth, similar scenery nearby, and both are located in areas that thrive on the oil industry, and these areas prosper because of it. Both easily dominate their immediate area.

Since we're doing countries I suppose for historical reasons Scotland could be comapred to the American South.

[Ameriscot]

Originally Posted by Geography Freak

Since we're doing countries I suppose for historical reasons Scotland could be comapred to the American South.

In what way are they at all similar?

[Perfect Stranger]

In both cases they were (re)united with the rest of the nation and some people are still not very happy about it and/or feel like the poor relatives. You could say they both have a chip on their shoulder/righteous grievances depending on your position.

Both are also subjected to a fair deal of snobbery/spite from the rest of the country.

[BBC11]

Defiantly NY and London... London is the New York of Europe.

[P London]

Any city west of Chicago can't be compard with any Uk city. I really can't see how any city comparison can go outside London and New york city.

[P London]

Originally Posted by Geography Freak

Since we're doing countries I suppose for historical reasons Scotland could be comapred to the American South.

I always thought Scotland to be similar to Nova scotia, newfoundland and maybe parts of new england

[Glucorious]

Originally Posted by BBC11

Defiantly NY and London... London is the New York of Europe.

It surely is the New York of England. No doubt about that.

[paull805]

No it is the London of England. London is to great and historic of a city to be compared to anywhere, even the great New York.

[dunno what to put here]

London is the England of New York.

Makes no sense at all, does it? London is London, New York is New York.