Which parts of the UK correspond to which parts of America?

[Whitehorsewaves]

This is just a light heart random thought that occasionally pops into my head for some reason. I try to work out which bits of the UK could be mapped across to the states. Obvious the climate is very different but hopefully you get the idea.

I think about characteristics/ terrain or just whatever tenuous link I can think of!

So for me:

London = New York
Manchester = Chicago
Cornwall = Florida
Devon = Louisiana
Edinburgh = Seattle
Wales = Montana

Any more ideas or better suggestions?

Just for fun

Jersey - The Hamptons
Kent - Maine

@SeasonallySnowyPeasant

Utah: Shropshire Las Vegas: Blackpool

Having never been to either, I totally agree that Blackpool= Las Vegas.

Some of these are hilarious. I think there may be some British delusions of grandeur...
Blackpool (pop 193,300, size 34.8km2) = Florida (pop 21.5 million, size 170,300 km2)

and Utah = Shropshire is hilarious

Going more micro, since I've lived in NYC and London, I'd say UES = Chelsa and Kensington, UWS = Camden, Prospect Park = Hampstead, Harlem = Hackney, LES = Stepney/Mile End

Having lived for a time in both i would say that Boston and Edinburgh have some similarities.
Bitterly cold in winter, though Boston in on another level, and both have an strong "look down your nose at people" culture that influences lots about living in the city. There is a old money, British style upper class old guard in Boston, much like there is in parts of Edinburgh.
Shopping isn't very good in either city either!

Up down
You read my mind! My very uptown Bostonian friend thought she had died and gone to heaven when she first went to Edinburgh

LA - Little'Ampton

Yes local people really do call it LA

In my head I'm pairing Chester and Beverly Hills - rich, glammed up, with a lot of tourist gawkers

Which leads to a sort of Liverpool Los Angeles connection - obviously not on the weather front - more big hair and heels, with a gritty underbelly

Am I also picturing the hoo ha created by a bunch of Texans declaring Texas, "God's own Country"

Los Angeles is obviously Birmingham (UK). Sheesh.
(multi ethnic, sprawl, spaghetti motorways, nation's 2nd city grudges)

Florida => Great Yarmouth/Hemsby/Walton on Naze/Clacton (rt wing, tatty, sprawl, flat, old people)

San Francisco => Brighton (woo, thinks they are very clever, stupid house prices)

Boston => Newcastle on Tyne (edgy, cold, clever)

Detroit -> Leicester?

Chicago -> Glasgow (multi ethnic, take no crap, bit scary)

Agree Montana/Idaho/Wyoming -> Lake District or Kansas -> LINCS.

Portland OR is weird, Oregonians are very very strange. Can't think of anywhere in UK as quirky. Somewhere in Yorkshire, maybe?

Seattle may match to Cambridge for high tech sectors, prosperity, political island in the region

Birmingham likes to think it's Chicago, but really it's Detroit.

Nottingham=Baltimore

Cambridge= Palo Alto

Kent = Connecticut. near the big city, a coastline, quite white and wealthy.

Glastonbury = Santa Fe
Pendle - Salem

‘Portland OR is weird, Oregonians are very very strange. Can't think of anywhere in UK as quirky. Somewhere in Yorkshire, maybe?‘

Hebden Bridge?

I think the Lake District would be New Hampshire.

This is a great thread!

Portland OR = Hebden Bridge, W Yorks

Ha- I nearly did Santa Fe- Glastonbury is a good call!

I was also going to suggest Hebden Bridge for Portland after lljkk's post about it, but I thought Hebdonian's wouldn't want to be called weird Quirky is fine, quirky's good.

Definitely Essex = New Jersey. Stereotype of both is a working class commuter area, both have lots of negative stereotypes associated with them! So also means London = New York.

Brighton = Portland. Right on, overly woke, abundance of vegan cafes...

@KrakowDawn

Birmingham likes to think it's Chicago, but really it's Detroit.

Nottingham=Baltimore

Brilliant

Anyone care to take a stab at Stoke-on-Trent?

[disclaimer- not literally of course. The OP is in no way inciting violence of any kind towards the people of SOT ]

@Whitehorsewaves

Anyone care to take a stab at Stoke-on-Trent?

[disclaimer- not literally of course. The OP is in no way inciting violence of any kind towards the people of SOT ]

Hartford, CT.

Peoppe know it exists but they don't really care

Stoke = Gary, Indiana

S-o-T is Flint, Michigan.

@KrakowDawn

Birmingham likes to think it's Chicago, but really it's Detroit.

Nottingham=Baltimore

Ooh a joke about Birmingham being a shit hole. Original.

I've lived here more than 25 years, I'm allowed to make them!