Via DCist comes this tool from Homethinking designed to tell a user what neighborhood in a new city is comparable to places in a more familiar locale. Looking at the two cities I’m most familiar with (DC and Pittsburgh), the tool seems to be rather hit-and-miss. Off the top of my head, here are a few parallels I would draw between the two cities… I’d offer explanations, but by the time I wrote those, it would probably be next month:

• Georgetown = Shadyside
• Columbia Heights = East Liberty
• Friendship = Mount Pleasant
• Adams Morgan = Strip District
• U Street = South Side Flats
• SW Waterfront = North Shore
• Tenleytown = Oakland
• Cleveland Park = North Oakland
• Capitol Hill = Highland Park
• Logan Park = Central Lawrenceville
• Shaw = Upper Lawrenceville
• Glover Park = Regent Square
• Burlieth = Point Breeze
• West End = Squirrel Hill North
• Dupont Circle = Squirrel Hill South
• Chinatown = Lower Hill District

I have a few other ideas, but they’re for neighborhoods I don’t know quite as well… anyone care to offer additional suggestions?