Hmm… these are all really good ideas. The Chicago and San Francisco ideas do make sense, and so does the Carolinas theory, to a certain extent.
The reason why I stick with NYC is because of a certain part where WALL•E passes by that is full of billboards, and it seems to resemble Times Square. That, and the fact that in the game and the comic, there’s locales resembling the main part of Times Square with the Coca-Cola ad. I even assume that the BnL Ultrastore he passed may have once been the giant Macy’s in New York.
Agreed! We’ll never probably know where it’s set, so there’s no point arguing, but it is fun to speculate!
One thing I like about movies that have vague parts (like the setting of WALL-E and Andy’s birthday year) is that the fans in a sense get to choose based on their reasonings.
I’m still putting my heart on Nashville, Tennessee. Even my fan fiction correlates to it, somewhat, seeing that a town is right next to the heart of the Axiom ‘cradle’, that is what i call it.