US equivalents to european cities

[Alcibiades]

My city is twinned with Rotterdam, which is a decent surface-level comparison but lacking something. Until someone with intimate knowledge of the region proves me spectacularly wrong I'll cling to my conjecture that Baltimore is the Belfast of America.

Belfast is a … very unique place that, in my opinion, it doesn’t make much sense to compare to anywhere else really, and certainly not anywhere in the United States.