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

Lake District - Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes

@Chutneymaura

This is a great thread!

Portland OR = Hebden Bridge, W Yorks

I was just about to say that!

What about Liverpool? I'm really stuck!

Seattle is much more like Bristol - I've lived in both!

@movingonup20

Seattle is much more like Bristol - I've lived in both!

Me too - I lived in Capitol Hill and on Cotham Hill :-)

Liverpool = Portland, ME?

Both old ports, both recently rejuvenated, both quite cool.

Portland didn't produce anything like the Beatles though.

@brokendownbysexandage

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

Murray Hill = Clapham? FiDi = Canary Wharf/Docklands Coney Island = Blackpool

Lower parts of UES are right. But further north I see more as maybe Putney.

Colorado = the Highlands

Expanding to the British Isles, New Orleans = Dublin.

Surely Norfolk = Kentucky

Both are associated with webbed feet and marrying attractive cousins.

Seattle is like Edinburgh. Every weekend you go to your farmers market for your artisan cheese and then off to hike up a mountain. Ballard = Stockbridge!

Oregon = Northumberland

Charlton, Manchester = Portland

Chorlton, not Charlton!

Glasgow = Pittsburgh
Rough as fuck, bit trendy.

(I love both cities)

Glastonbury = Vermont

What about Liverpool? I'm really stuck!
There are similarities to Chicago there. It's a clannish city with two baseball teams and associated tribes, lots of brick.

I stand by my previous comment on Chicago - Edinburgh, but I have to agree with Chicago -> Glasgow (multi ethnic, take no crap, bit scary)

Reading = Newark
Manchester = Providence
Cheshire = Fairfield County (more precisely Alderley Edge = Greenwich)
Cheshire = Orange County
Cardiff = Indianapolis (it has no real reason for being, it just exists)
London = Dallas (everyone there thinks it's the most important city in the country and it goes on forever)
Edinburgh = Chicago (everyone's friendly until they're not, both cool, both on the water, both a bit rough but also a bit fancy)

(DH grew up across US and UK and is loving this)

Liverpool = Cleveland (rock n roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, both are a bit miserable, everyone loves and hates it at the same time)

Suffolk - when last I vsited, it was fulll of rich faintly arty Londoners pretending to be rural. Yes, there are some real old local families, but can their children afford a house....?

I'm sorry, but I don't think the Highands = Alaska works (except in the sense that both are being woryingly affected by climate change). Alaska is Republican right wing. Tea-Party etc etc. Historically, the Highlands were live and let live and keen on education centre-left Liberals (for years and years and years). Now they are SNP.

Glastonbury = Sedona
Bristol = Seattle

What would be a good match for Washington DC?

I'd say Scotland = Texas. Very strong sense of its own identity and history, distinctive landscape, some impenetrable accents to outsiders, sees itself as an entirely separate country and resents any interference from the capital.

Cardiff = Indianapolis (it has no real reason for being, it just exists)
YY.

South Wales in general - NW Indiana.

Boston = Cambridge
Completely oblivious of the surrounding area, inward focused, tech focussed, crazy expensive.

Liverpool is Boston
Sheffield is Pittsburgh
Bristol is San Francisco
Plymouth is Baltimore
Leeds is Austin or maybe Houston
Manchester is Chicago
Brighton is Portland
Glasgow is MUCH more like New York than London
London is Washington DC
Bath is Charleston
Sunderland is Detroit

I'm think Liverpool is Boston because of the Irish connection, and the strong distinctive accent and all the history

Surrey Connecticut
I was coming on to say New Jersey and Essex/Hertfordshire : proper bridge and tunnel