Uhm...
"Berlin feels like a European Portland or an Austin or a Boulder"
Austin: 785'000 people. Portland: 570'000 people. Boulder: 94'000 people.
Berlin: 3.4 million people.
We must be doing something wrong here in Europe.
"Berlin feels like a European Portland or an Austin or a Boulder"
Austin: 785'000 people. Portland: 570'000 people. Boulder: 94'000 people.
Berlin: 3.4 million people.
We must be doing something wrong here in Europe.
But there were places in America that reminded me of Berlin: places right on the line between "large town" and "small city." Not exactly like Berlin, but a very similar feel.
Of course, all of this was from the perspective of an eleven/twelve-year-old, so I could have been missing a lot of stuff that an adult would have noticed. Also, for almost the entire time I lived there, the wall was up and I would imagine that things have changed significantly since then. We left after the wall came down but not long enough after for things to have changed significantly yet--the summer before official re-unification, IIRC.