Having grown up between Raleigh and Durham, the two never really considered each other to be twins but rather cousins down the road, though they do now immediately abut in places. Durham and Chapel Hill are more intertwined, Raleigh cares more about Charlotte. Research Triangle Park and RDU airport were state-arranged marriages of convenience.
Similarly, Washington and Baltimore do share some facilities and commute sheds, but the codependency and rivalry isn't really there yet. They just kind of operate on separate planes.
What qualities makes cities "twins," rather than just nearby rivals?
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The Ohio City neighborhood in Cleveland, right across the river from downtown, used to be an independent city. It merged with Cleveland in 1854.
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Many western cities were
amalgamated from multiple smaller settlements, often facing one another across a river. Oftentimes, the annexed town's downtown would suffer economically and eventually fall to redevelopment. Such was the fate of, say, Kilbourn WI, East Portland OR, Allegheny PA, St Anthony MN (Minneapolis' real twin), and Auraria CO.
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when I saw an entire family - mom, dad and two teenage kids, wasted in front of a bar in Superior smoking cigarettes
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Yeah, I could totally see that happening in Superior.