Washington

...to one based on apartment/condo high-rises everywhere. Each time I visit Vancouver, I get a claustrophobic feeling, much the same as in Manhattan. And Seattle's neighborhoods are not all that far from downtown -- we aren't talking L.A.-style urban sprawl here.

Personally, part of what I like about Seattle is that its density and neighborhood orientation reminds me a lot of San Francisco. Can you imagine someone arguing that "New York City owns San Francisco" because the latter hasn't "pushed growth vertically" for the last sixty years?