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Hialeah_Rules .... this is a community near Dallas .. not Houston ... note these two cities are almost three hundred miles apart . Houston is much greener than Dallas and much more "Florida " like .... but the video is pretty common of what you would see in a typical middle or upper middle class planned community in the Houston area ... yes homes are nice and in fact much larger than a comparable home in So Fla .... but "cookie cutter" they most certainly are ... just as much as in So Fla . In all fairness to Houston the typical planned community in Houston is much greener and has more trees than in Dallas ... in fact Houston has some very nice burbs and master planned communities and these are almost all deed restricted communities .... its the rest of the city including the highways and urban core that looks like a tacky bill board and strip mall nightmare .. much like a Texas sized Kissimee near Orlando ... LOL
Hialeah_Rules .... this is a community near Dallas .. not Houston ... note these two cities are almost three hundred miles apart . Houston is much greener than Dallas and much more "Florida " like .... but the video is pretty common of what you would see in a typical middle or upper middle class planned community in the Houston area ... yes homes are nice and in fact much larger than a comparable home in So Fla .... but "cookie cutter" they most certainly are ... just as much as in So Fla . In all fairness to Houston the typical planned community in Houston is much greener and has more trees than in Dallas ... in fact Houston has some very nice burbs and master planned communities and these are almost all deed restricted communities .... its the rest of the city including the highways and urban core that looks like a tacky bill board and strip mall nightmare .. much like a Texas sized Kissimee near Orlando ... LOL
I lived in Dallas for a short while. That place is the flattest, driest place I have ever been. It was very unattractive physically. The people were ultra friendly though and as you said, the homes are huge and you can get nice space (rent wise) for a far lower rate than you would in S. Florida.
I lived in Dallas for a short while. That place is the flattest, driest place I have ever been. It was very unattractive physically. The people were ultra friendly though and as you said, the homes are huge and you can get nice space (rent wise) for a far lower rate than you would in S. Florida.
Agree ... yes Dallas is very brown much of the year .. people are generally nice ... but Houston is more down to earth .
Other than some areas such as West University , River Oaks , Memorial , Rice U , The Woodlands and Sugarland ( which technically is not Houston ) .. much of Houston can be depressingly tacky and downright ugly ... again due to no zoning .
You know, I hadn't really noticed it until you pointed it out but you are right. A lot of areas feel very urbanized in a bad way. Driving to the airport (IAH) on the very north part of Houston last weekend it felt very dense and dirty. If you ever saw the movie "Brazil" ( Brazil (1985) - IMDb ) it felt kind of like that. For the most part though its not something you notice as you are driving on the freeways because you need to spend 100% of your attention focused on the traffic.
I think the assessment is correct though: Miami has good and bad neighborhoods but Houston has much more of an average feel to the neighborhoods (with some exceptions like Katy, Sugarland, and other outlying areas).
I was in Miami over the Christmas holiday and I can see how someone visiting would come away with a wonderful view of the city. For example, there was almost no traffic at all on Christmas Day. lol.
Agree ... yes Dallas is very brown much of the year .. people are generally nice ... but Houston is more down to earth .
There is no denying. Dallas sits on the middle of the prarie so it is indeed brown for about 4 months a year. But the Dallas area does have a lot more hills than Houston or Miami (which are both flat). There are actually some large ones to the Southwest of the city. Dallas may be flat compared to California or the Western US, but compared to Houston and Miami, its very hilly. The flip side of the coin is that its no where near as green as Houston.
WTF this a Houston/Miami thread and somehow it turns into a Dallas is ugly theme. You people are more dense than your Uber/Global/Mega/Gamma/ cities......
There is no denying. Dallas sits on the middle of the prarie so it is indeed brown for about 4 months a year. But the Dallas area does have a lot more hills than Houston or Miami (which are both flat). There are actually some large ones to the Southwest of the city. Dallas may be flat compared to California or the Western US, but compared to Houston and Miami, its very hilly. The flip side of the coin is that its no where near as green as Houston.
Yep. Don't know how anyone can honestly say DFW is flat. DFW has a pretty good mix of hilly and flat areas. Better than say Atlanta, which can get too hilly, IMO.
Houston is actually quite a nice place to live. The city is changing dramatically too.
Here is what they proposed just a few months ago for shopping/hotel/extra office space:
The city has projects coming in like wildfire... it's changing really fast.
As for the beaches of Galveston, they're no where near as nice as Florida at all. But they're decent. They're not bad either- and it's still in the metropolitan area.
Galveston actually has some of the most historic architecture in the country.
Cool, the old Six Flags Astroworld site, I've heard of development in that spot.
I have lived in the Galleria area of Houston and now on an island in Biscayne Bay next to South Beach. There is no doubt in my mind that I prefer Miami to Houston. I couldn't wait to get out of Houston.
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