Most European City of the Western Hemisphere? (England, lifestyle, beautiful)
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Unfortunately I haven't been to any of those cities but I'm going to say Buenos Aires. I think Quebec is very North American, aside from the french quarters in Montreal and Quebec City, how are they really that European? They have suburbia, high rises, strip malls, and poutine is very much a typical North American creation. I don't think Quebec is really any more European than New England.
That is interesting about Leicester, the midlands of England have a large non white population in places like Coventry, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Nottingham, Derby etc.
I am talking about cities that when you visit that you would easily think that you are in Europe.
I didn't put Boston, Philly, or DC because they feel very American to me. While their density and infrastructure are more European than your average American city, they have a more distinct American feel to them. Their culture, the type of people that live there, the food, music, there just isn't a European feel to it. DC is very American, a city that really only formed and came to exist after the union was informed, not really effected by any countries in Europe when it was built, except when the GB burned it down. While it's physical density is that of a European city, you don't feel like you are in Europe.
One might ask, why New Orleans? New Orleans has such a mish mash of Spanish, French and English culture in it's past put together with it's very own distinct culture. The food is even a mish mash of French and Spanish food in origin.
There is no point in including San Juan Puerto Rico, because almost any Latin American country has colonial European parts to them. Quito, Lima, Havana, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Bogota, Cartegena, the list can go on and on. They have colonial parts to them that have a European flavor, but the cities overall really aren't European. Old San Juan looks European but outside of that there is nothing European about San Juan AT ALL. IN that regard I would say Boston feels more European than San Juan.
With Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Quebec City and to a certain extent Montreal, have almost their entire city as being colonial or heavily European influenced.
This is true. No city in the U.S. actually feels like a European city culturally. Certain aspects are there. But of course, it's a different continent after all. :-) Even Montreal I'd say is Francophone rather than European.
Unfortunately I haven't been to any of those cities but I'm going to say Buenos Aires. I think Quebec is very North American, aside from the french quarters in Montreal and Quebec City, how are they really that European? They have suburbia, high rises, strip malls, and poutine is very much a typical North American creation. I don't think Quebec is really any more European than New England.
In layout, certainly Quebec is more North American, but in broad terms of mentality, Quebec is much more European than New England.
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I am talking about cities that when you visit that you would easily think that you are in Europe.
I didn't put Boston, Philly, or DC because they feel very American to me. While their density and infrastructure are more European than your average American city, they have a more distinct American feel to them. Their culture, the type of people that live there, the food, music, there just isn't a European feel to it. DC is very American, a city that really only formed and came to exist after the union was informed, not really effected by any countries in Europe when it was built, except when the GB burned it down. While it's physical density is that of a European city, you don't feel like you are in Europe.
One might ask, why New Orleans? New Orleans has such a mish mash of Spanish, French and English culture in it's past put together with it's very own distinct culture. The food is even a mish mash of French and Spanish food in origin.
There is no point in including San Juan Puerto Rico, because almost any Latin American country has colonial European parts to them. Quito, Lima, Havana, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Bogota, Cartegena, the list can go on and on. They have colonial parts to them that have a European flavor, but the cities overall really aren't European. Old San Juan looks European but outside of that there is nothing European about San Juan AT ALL. IN that regard I would say Boston feels more European than San Juan.
With Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Quebec City and to a certain extent Montreal, have almost their entire city as being colonial or heavily European influenced.
I agree Boston feels very American, with a hint of colonial 18th century British. DC is American through and through.
Quebec City looks the most Old World, but Buenos Aires is another candidate. St. John's, Newfoundland is a small city but resembles a town in Cornwall.
New Orleans really isn't French, and the French Quarter feels more like a Caribbean-style town than like Paris, and you don't get gumbo and jambalaya in France.
In terms of apperance and lifestyle, Washington, D.C. is sort of European, even Europeans have told me this. It was designed by a French person after all.
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New Orleans really isn't French, and the French Quarter feels more like a Caribbean-style town than like Paris, and you don't get gumbo and jambalaya in France.
In terms of apperance and lifestyle, Washington, D.C. is sort of European, even Europeans have told me this. It was designed by a French person after all.
No New Orleans isn't like France at all. It's a lot more French-Caribbean, probably like Port-au-Prince, and a little bit like the Spanish Caribbean, a little like Havana or San Juan but still alot more French.
In terms of apperance and lifestyle, Washington, D.C. is sort of European, even Europeans have told me this. It was designed by a French person after all.
Here's link with some samples of the kind of architecture in Washington, D.C.:
Note: some of the above pics are not in Washington, D.C. But the buildings with neo-classical/Greek revival, Romanesque, Gothic and other European architecture are. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers specifically wanted parts of the city to resemble ancient Greece and Rome.
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