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Originally Posted by fflint
Disagreed. A city's "anthem" can't be a song with zero obvious connection to that city, by a band from a faraway city.
And I've got nothing against Asheville, which is certainly a nice place, but it's not meaningfullly comparable with any West Coast metropolis. There is just no way it "functions" like a city that has higher daily light rail ridership than Asheville's entire population, and then some. Portland is 650% more populous than Asheville, with all the urban amenities of metros many times its own size, and it functions accordingly.
When it comes to the West Coast, Asheville is probably most analogous to Eugene--the two are similar in population size, both are green, liberal, funky, youthful, surrounded by mountains.
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Then call it the Eugene of the South or the Eugene of the East. I honestly don't give a shit either way, but it's not like I made it up myself:
Portland Business Journal
(If it makes you feel better, they don't see the connection either aside from fun, inconsequential ways, which are the same connections I see.)
By saying the cities function similarly, I'm not talking about size or transit ridership or anything else. I'm talking about reputation as a place where young people go to retire, basically. You will note that the song I chose applies to any hipster haven. Hell, aside from the fact that no one in New York drives, it could even apply to Brooklyn, but for the line about the car. Perhaps I chose the improper word, but I'm talking about the feel and reputation, nothing concrete.
And with that, that's that. It's not important enough to argue about.
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Originally Posted by hudkina
I always thought the Portland of the East was in Maine.
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Nonsense. It's in
Tennessee.