Would you say there is a city that best captures the feel of a decade in terms of culture and atmosphere? Here is my estimation:

20's = Chicago
30's = New Orleans
40's = Berlin
50's = Las Vegas
60's = San Francisco/London (tie)
70's = New York City
80's = Miami
90's = Seattle
00's = Can't Tell
10's = Los Angeles

1920s = New Orleans
1930s = anywhere rural
1940s = London
1950s = Suburban Chicago
1960s = San Francisco
1970s = London again
1980s = Los Angeles
1990s = Hong Kong
2000s = Houston
2010s = Portland

That's roughly what first comes to mind. ;D

1920s - New York
1930s - Rural Oklahoma
1940s - Honolulu, HI
1950s - Los Angeles
1960s - San Francisco
1970s - Washington DC
1980s - Los Angeles
1990s - New York
2000s - Houston
2010s - Portland

Japan is very early 90's to me.  8)

Japan is very early 90's to me.  8)


Yeah, I would say late '80s early '90s.  During the era the original NES was popular, it seemed like Japanese tech was everywhere and geek culture was heavily associated with Japan.

1920s - Chicago
1930s - Bakersfield
1940s - Naha, Okinawa
1950s - Memphis
1960s - San Francisco
1970s - New York City
1980s - Los Angeles
1990s - Las Vegas
2000s - Atlanta
2010s - San Jose

Yeah, I would say late '80s early '90s.  During the era the original NES was popular, it seemed like Japanese tech was everywhere and geek culture was heavily associated with Japan.


Thank God. I thought I was the only one.  :D

1950s - Los Angeles
1960s - Washington, D.C.
1970s - Detroit
1980s - Miami
1990s - Seattle
2000s - New Orleans
2010s - New York City

1960's = Liverpool or San Francisco
1970's = New York City
1980's = Sunset Strip
1990's = Seattle, Los Angeles
2000's = Unknown
2010's = Portland, San Diego

1960's = Liverpool or San Francisco
1970's = New York City
1980's = Sunset Strip
1990's = Seattle, Los Angeles
2000's = Unknown
2010's = Portland, San Diego


I think London would be a better pick, because in the 60's you had the whole "Swinging London" phase and that was where Carnaby street was, which was where the mod fashion was based.

So, why are most of you saying Portland for the 2010's? Just curious how it represents our present decade. 😛

So, why are most of you saying Portland for the 2010's? Just curious how it represents our present decade. 😛


Because it's known for its hipster culture. There's also the show Portlandia.

20's = Brooklyn: This was a big time for gangsters like Al Capone
30's = All over the US: The Great Depression; San Francisco: Alcatraz
40's = Hawaii: Pearl Harbor disaster; Various Cities: World War II; Holocaust: Berlin and other areas of Germany
50's = Vietnam: The war
60's = NYC: Go-Go Dancing; Liverpool: The Beetles; San Francisco: Hippies
70's = Philidelphia/NYC: Disco
80's = Miami: The clothing, the music, Scarface; NYC: MTV's start; Tokyo: Nintendo
90's = Seattle: Grunge; NYC: MTV continued it's Glory days; Daytona Beach: MTV's early Spring Break years; Los Angeles: The LA Riots
00's = NYC: World Trade Centers collapse; Iraq: The war
10's = Anywhere where there are hipsters lol

20's = Brooklyn: This was a big time for gangsters like Al Capone
30's = All over the US: The Great Depression; San Francisco: Alcatraz
40's = Hawaii: Pearl Harbor disaster; Various Cities: World War II; Holocaust: Berlin and other areas of Germany
50's = Vietnam: The war
60's = NYC: Go-Go Dancing; Liverpool: The Beetles; San Francisco: Hippies
70's = Philidelphia/NYC: Disco
80's = Miami: The clothing, the music, Scarface; NYC: MTV's start; Tokyo: Nintendo
90's = Seattle: Grunge; NYC: MTV continued it's Glory days; Daytona Beach: MTV's early Spring Break years; Los Angeles: The LA Riots
00's = NYC: World Trade Centers collapse; Iraq: The war
10's = Anywhere where there are hipsters lol


Nintendo is actually based in Kyoto, not Tokyo.

20's = Brooklyn: This was a big time for gangsters like Al Capone

Al Capone was from Brooklyn but he is famous for being a Chicago mobster. Chicagoland was Capone's terrain not BK.

1920's: New York; the city that exploded in prosperity during the 20's

1930's: San Fransisco; Alcatraz jail

1940's: Detroit; the peak in America's manufacturing golden age was most visible here with the Ford automobile becoming more common in the American landscape, represented America's strength during the post depression/WWII era 1940's

1950's: Levittown, NY; a suburb in Long Island that marked the end of America's urban residential presence

1960's: San Fransisco; was the core of the Counter-Cultural Movement of the 60's

1970's: Can't tell its hard to ponder, but choices I'd consider would be Washington D.C, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas

1980's: Chicago; a bustling city that represented the essence of the 80's to a tea, the hometown of 1980's President Ronald Reagan, the spot for many of John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Home Alone

1990's: Seattle; the major cultural force for 90's counter culture especially Grunge with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, also the birthplace of Starbucks and the spot for the classic 90's sitcom Frasier

2000's: New York; the spot for many turbulent 2000's events, 9/11 in 2001 and The Stock Market Crash of 2008, also was the center of the continued technological revolution from the 90's

2010's: Hard to tell so far but choices I'd consider; Portland, Seattle, Houston, Charlotte, Boston

1920's: New York; the city that exploded in prosperity during the 20's

1930's: San Fransisco; Alcatraz jail

1940's: Detroit; the peak in America's manufacturing golden age was most visible here with the Ford automobile becoming more common in the American landscape, represented America's strength during the post depression/WWII era 1940's

1950's: Levittown, NY; a suburb in Long Island that marked the end of America's urban residential presence

1960's: San Fransisco; was the core of the Counter-Cultural Movement of the 60's

1970's: Can't tell its hard to ponder, but choices I'd consider would be Washington D.C, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas

1980's: Chicago; a bustling city that represented the essence of the 80's to a tea, the hometown of 1980's President Ronald Reagan, the spot for many of John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Home Alone

1990's: Seattle; the major cultural force for 90's counter culture especially Grunge with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, also the birthplace of Starbucks and the spot for the classic 90's sitcom Frasier

2000's: New York; the spot for many turbulent 2000's events, 9/11 in 2001 and The Stock Market Crash of 2008, also was the center of the continued technological revolution from the 90's

2010's: Hard to tell so far but choices I'd consider; Portland, Seattle, Houston, Charlotte, Boston

Ronald Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois not Chicago.

Here's my take *revisted* (an all-USA perspective):

1920s: New York, NY (The Harlem Renaissance, Speakeasys, Mafia, Broadway, NY Yankees dominating)
1930s: Boise City, OK (The center of the Dust Bowl and The Great Depression)
1940s: Honolulu, HI (The nearest major American city to Pearl Harbor, the production during the WWII Allied war effort)
1950s: Los Angeles, CA (That '50s suburban vibe around it and Old Hollywood, Disneyland (though it's in Anaheim), surfing becomes huge) *Detroit, MI is also a good choice
1960s: San Francisco, CA (The center of the Counterculture Movement...Summer of Love '67)
1970s: New York, NY (Disco, near bankruptcy, long gas lines, President Ford telling NYC to "drop dead", sexual revolution, blackout, high crime, ineffective leadership)
1980s: Miami, FL (Miami Vice 8), The War on Drugs, high homicide rate, Dan Marino and those '80s Miami Dolphins, Miami Hurricanes football team win the national championship in 1983, 1987, 1989, The Golden Girls)
1990s: New York, NY (Knicks and Rangers being successful contenders, Wall Street booming, Rudy Giuliani revitalizing the city, decreasing crime, site of the 1992 DNC, The Real World, Friends, Living Single, The Wayans Bros, Nas, Jay Z, The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, Mariah Carey, Tommy Hilfiger fashion, Calvin Klein, DKNY, house scene, grunge fashion, Independence Day, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Men in Black)
2000s: Atlanta, GA (Crunk rap (T.I., Lil' Jon, Outkast, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri), The "New South", a bunch of 2000s movie set in and around Atlanta, big cars, 21st century urbanization, Gov. Sonny Perdue and Georgia changing it's state flag in 2003)
2010s: San Jose, CA (The Capital of Silicon Valley (not San Fran) & home to lots of hipsters)

Now that I think of it, I think Compton would be the city that best represents the 90s.

Now that I think of it, I think Compton would be the city that best represents the 90s.


It was more like that during the late 80s and early 90s, when NWA (especially Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E) wrote "Straight Outta Compton" after the city obviously. I don't know about the rest of the 90s though.

80's-Miami, New York, Los Angeles.
90's-Seattle, New York, Los Angeles.
00's Atlanta
10's: Not Sure