Is Washington DC USA's most European like city?

What do you think? Its a really really beautiful city and it reminded me of the pictures of the European cities that I have seen. The architecture was amazing and the planning and everything, truly one of my favorite US cities. Your opinions?>

How big is religion in your city?

Honolulu is one of the rare cities in the world that religion isn't wildly spread among its citizens. New statistic shows that only 33% of the people in Hawaii's main city is religious. I thought this was quite shocking and there are numerous sites about Honolulu's strong atheism. "33.32% of the people in Honolulu, HI are religious, meaning they affiliate with a religion. 17.55% are Catholic; 7.35% are Protestant; 3.36% are LDS; 4.26% are another Christian faith; 0.73% in Honolulu, HI are Jewish; 0.00% are an eastern faith; 0.07% affilite with Islam." So is religion big in your city? (No religious debates or battle, this is a clean thread, no prejudice).>

Metro areas in more than one state

Do metro areas in more than one state operate differently than those in just one state? Do the state boundaries make a difference in how the parts interelate? on perceptions. Is there a fundamental difference between places like Miami, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Cleveland, etc. -and- New York (NY, NJ, CT), Philadelphia (PA, NJ, DE), Chicago (IL, IN, WI), Boston (MA, NH), St. Louis (MO, IL), Kansas City (MO, KS), Cincinnati (OH, KY, IN), Washington (DC, MD, VA), etc. ...or do they tend to function the same way?????? (special note: obviously San Diego's relationship with Mexico and Detroit's with Canada is a HUGE difference when compared to other metro areas....my interest here was more about the subtler influence of being in more than one state)>

The Chicago Flag

As a native Chicagoan, I've always had a warm feeling towards our city's flag. At college, I even had one on my walls. All of my friends from other parts of the country/world thought this was rather odd. Question is, is Chicago alone in this way, ie having a flag that virtually all of its citizens are aware of? >

Post WWII Years: Bad for the US?

How negative was the effect of the post-World War II years in the United States? America emerged from the war as the only major economic power. Its industries, supplying the war effort for the US and her allies, is what drew our economy out of the Depression...far more than the *** Deal did. The devastation of the war crippled the industrial power of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, etc. US factories went into overdrive in peace as they did during war. The war woke up a pent up need for consumer goods...and every major appliance seemed to have developed in time for that huge shhift to suburbia. Although in their waning days, the 1950's were still a time of colonialism and the US benefitted from the raw materials of these colonies as did their European "owners". The US population was still relatively low due to immigration laws from the beginning of the 20th century that kept their numbers under strict control and with a quota system to determine which countries sent us immigrants. In addtion to that relatively low population density was a land loaded with resources, one of the most favorable pieces of land for any nation...and remarkably for one so large. Add to this all the largest-by-far generation in the history of the United States, the Baby Boomers, who grew up in the only world they k***: safe, afluent, spoiled to a degree by parents who had been through depression and war and wanted to give all they could to their children in this *** age of affluence. Thus "life was good" (for many) in the 1950's and into the 1960's before the decaying of our industries and the social ills and inequalities of society finally being addressed during the civil rights movement. But the salient point here is this: the huge group of baby boomers, a group that seemed to be "empowered" from birth, grew up in the only world that they k***: A WORLD OF UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS THAT IT WOULD LAST. Lasting or not, it became the mind set that we could have it all, all that we wanted, that supply and demand did not have to exist, that affluence was open for all, that the world outside our shores could be held at bay. How ultimately did that mind set that the world would always remain our oyster, that we could always have what we wanted color the way the US sees economic issues today? How much did living in fantasyland make us ill-prepared for what happens when fantasyland closes down?>

FORBES BEST CITIES FOR BUSINESS AND JOBS

Best Places For Business And Careers 04.05.07, 6:00 PM ET For a state with just over 8 million, NC seems to blow the competition away with 5 metros in the top 25 and 2 in the top 10. Amazing. Is it something in the water? Rank Metro/Cost Of Doing Business/Job Growth Educational Attainment/Population (thou) 1 Raleigh NC 27 35 12 978 2 Provo UT 67 17 30 465 3 Boise ID 19 19 84 560 4 Des Moines IA 49 64 50 531 5 Knoxville TN 14 49 88 662 6 Albuquerque NM 34 56 53 813 7 Durham NC 33 124 6 462 8 Fayetteville AR 11 8 140 417 9 Nashville TN 42 47 82 1,438 10 Olympia WA 113 21 40 233 11 Ogden UT 58 33 96 499 12 Gainesville FL 52 67 13 243 13 Naples FL 79 3 46 317 14 Richmond VA 26 72 64 1,193 15 Lincoln NE 15 114 24 284 16 Edison NJ 174 93 25 2,323 17 Tallahassee FL 81 68 16 339 18 Mercer County NJ 156 46 20 368 19 Omaha NE 69 113 60 821 20 Spokane WA 47 60 97 447 21 Charlotte NC 44 91 54 1,563 22 Tampa-St. Petersburg FL 104 26 129 2,691 23 Asheville NC 10 70 127 398 24 Winston-Salem NC 7 121 110 455 25 Atlanta GA 119 100 36 5,064>

Feeling Doomed.

Is it wrong that I dont want to live in the same state my family resides in? Have any of you guys moved away from your home state and family? I live in New York and while New York City is great, when I finish highschool I want to go to college and live in a diffrent state/city.>