Urban Comparison Quotes

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Not really anything wrong with Memphis. New York is just more where I wanted to be.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don't have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them.

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Youngstown and Toledo have a lot in common.

New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.

Broadway's a little different from Houston, but it's not a big difference.