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

Baking for pre-oil crisis Aberdeen, perhaps. And to a certain extent some high-tech bits of Central Belt.

But for the rest, no. My neighbours are either rich and often pension-dependent incomers ( plus a few business-shrewd locals and a few with ancestral land and money) or people whose families have lived here for generations and who are really, really polite and helpful to tourists but where is that getting them now?

YY to Liverpool/Boston with Ireland as the common denominator.

Also NY/Ireland in general (yes I know Ireland isn't in the UK). NY is an Irish city.

Mt Desert Island in Maine is like Pembrokeshire, but sunnier in summer and without the castles.

(Burt has the same 'the roads get smaller and smaller until finally you are there' feel)

Do not agree with the Liverpool / Boston comparison at all

Liverpool = Portland

West Virginia = Rural Norfolk

Complete with Deliverance sound track

Coney Island = Blackpool

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Mt Desert Island in Maine is like Pembrokeshire, but sunnier in summer and without the castles.

I like this. Mt Desert Island almost has castles, by US standards. The 'summer cottages' in Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor owned by the outrageously rich are ridiculously ostentatious. And there are the carriage roads built by the Rockefellers making the place look a bit historical.

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(Burt has the same 'the roads get smaller and smaller until finally you are there' feel)

A lot of the Maine peninsulas feel like Cornwall to me. The roads get smaller and windier, and the houses close in, and eventually they peter out in the sea, and they are full of tourists.

Gloucester = Nebraska

Isn't the A66 the equivalent of Route 66?

Florida (America's wang) = Argyll (Scotland's wang)

Sandbanks = Newport, RI

Yes, I see Glasgow = New York

backed up by the multiple film making that goes on.

Silicon Valley = M4 corridor

London = Dallas (everyone there thinks it's the most important city in the country and it goes on forever

This is not comparable at all. London is the capital of England and the U.K, home of the British Parliament and a major global financial centre. So it kind of is important.

DC is a tough one. It’s all politics and museums, but of history. It’s not comparable to London at all which has so much mire variety to it.

I'm seeing Washington DC = Oxford

Hidden poverty, enormous social divide
Lots of history
ridiculous technocratic wealth
surrounded by wealthy satellite communities
Very self-important

I didn't think poverty was hidden in Washington DC - the sheer numbers of homeless people around the metro stations was quite an eye opener.

Washington DC is incredibly segregated by race and income level. Certain quadrants are highly desirable addresses and certain others are the complete opposite.

I agree with YeOldeTrout.

The poverty is hidden because wealthier people simply do not venture out of their own sections of town.