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Florida's unemployment rate is 7.1%, Texas is 6.5%, and California is 8.7%... Texas also does have a really high birth rate. Compared to more educated states... lol
The difference is Houston & LA have iconic skylines/architecture & they're both among the top 4 largest US cities.
Nobody pays no mind to Cleveland or Charlotte when the topic of big city skylines are brought up. They're not even on the radar. Why, because its just not a subject worth talking about unless you live there.
Hell I was at the top of Rockafellar Center in NYC one time when I over heard a random conversation between two complete strangers about how Houston has one of the most impressive US skylines. You wouldn't hear Cleveland or Charlotte mentioned because they're not on that level.
Houston has the 3rd tallest US skyline only to Chicago.
The difference is Houston & LA have iconic skylines/architecture & they're both among the top 4 largest US cities.
Nobody pays no mind to Cleveland or Charlotte when the topic of big city skylines are brought up. They're not even on the radar. Why, because its just not a subject worth talking about unless you live there.
Hell I was at the top of Rockafellar Center in NYC one time when I over heard a random conversation between two complete strangers about how Houston has one of the most impressive US skylines. You wouldn't hear Cleveland or Charlotte mentioned because they're not on that level.
Houston has the 3rd tallest US skyline only to Chicago.
What is your source for that opinion?
An anecdote made by two tourists?
I regularly check both SkyscraperCity - Powered by vBulletin and SkyscraperPage.com and no where does Houston's skyline rank that high. In fact Miami usually beats out Houston. Even San Francisco, Atlanta, and Philly sometimes rank higher than Houston, although Houston can boast one "supertall" (over 1000 foot skyscraper.)
The difference is Houston & LA have iconic skylines/architecture & they're both among the top 4 largest US cities.
There's nothing iconic about Houston's skyline; it's just big as hell. The only respect in which LA's might be called iconic is because it's in so many movies, but other than that? Not really.
And then there is density. Miami is the most dense of the 3, but LA has over 2x as many people per square mile as Houston. Even in the most dense part of Houston, inside the loop the population density in 2010 was only 4,743/sq mile (per COH Loop 610 - Population ). The least dense region of LA after the Santa Monica Mountains is probably the San Fernando Valley. The population density in the SFV in 2000 was 6,405/sq mile. I couldn't find more recent data, but the population of the city grew so it is likely a little higher. In the ~58 square miles of Central LA (Central L.A. - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times), the 2000 population density was 14,458/sq mile, on par with Miami's population density of 12,140/sq mile in 55 square miles. I guess you could compare Houston to the San Fernando Valley, but even that's probably not a good fit.
I don't often post on this site, but when I do it's to clarify density figures. Just wanted to clarify that Los Angeles, by any measure is denser than Miami.
Miami (the municipality) is actually only 35 square miles (20 of the square miles counted are water). If you remove the sparsely populated Hollywood Hills from Central L.A. (using Mapping LA), you get a 40 square mile chunk--more comparable in area to Miami--with roughly 800,000 people. Which is 20,000 people per square mile.
Even if you include Griffith Park, one of the nation's largest urban parks, this central area still has 17,500 ppl/sq mi.
In other words, LA and Miami aren't that comparable when it comes to density.
the difference is houston & la have iconic skylines/architecture & they're both among the top 4 largest us cities.
Nobody pays no mind to cleveland or charlotte when the topic of big city skylines are brought up. They're not even on the radar. Why, because its just not a subject worth talking about unless you live there.
hell i was at the top of rockafellar center in nyc one time when i over heard a random conversation between two complete strangers about how houston has one of the most impressive us skylines. you wouldn't hear cleveland or charlotte mentioned because they're not on that level.
Houston has the 3rd tallest us skyline only to chicago.
I don't often post on this site, but when I do it's to clarify density figures. Just wanted to clarify that Los Angeles, by any measure is denser than Miami.
Miami (the municipality) is actually only 35 square miles (20 of the square miles counted are water). If you remove the sparsely populated Hollywood Hills from Central L.A. (using Mapping LA), you get a 40 square mile chunk--more comparable in area to Miami--with roughly 800,000 people. Which is 20,000 people per square mile.
Even if you include Griffith Park, one of the nation's largest urban parks, this central area still has 17,500 ppl/sq mi.
In other words, LA and Miami aren't that comparable when it comes to density.
You're right. I forgot that a lot of the area in Miami city limits is actually water. But it doesn't change my argument that Miami and Los Angeles are much more densely populated cities than Houston, and therefore have more in common. And yes, Central LA is more densely populated than Miami city limits, but if you carve out some of the less dense neighborhoods you can drive up the population density from 14,000 to 20,000/sq mile.
There's nothing iconic about Houston's skyline; it's just big as hell. The only respect in which LA's might be called iconic is because it's in so many movies, but other than that? Not really.
Miami & LA for sure. The stars live in LA and party in MIA. I feel like the only thing Houston's known for is oil and Animal Cops.
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