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View Poll Results: Which are more alike
LA and Houston 139 45.28%
LA and Miami 168 54.72%
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:00 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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LOL you wish bro, explaining Houston is quite simple, take DFW minus the amusement parks and set in southeastern Texas, BAM! You have Houston
Uh no.

D/FW is multi-polar while Houston is the center of its metro with everything orbiting around it. Houston doesn't piggy back off of another major city (Fort Worth). They are set up quite differently.

Setting D/FW in Southeast Texas would get you a a whole different topography & culture.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:12 PM
 
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Houston is a dump, it's better than Dallas though.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:23 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Houston is a dump, it's better than Dallas though.
A dump that hundreds of thousands of people relocate to each year to make a better life for themselves.

A dump that keeps plopping up skyscrapers out the wazoo like its nothing.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:24 PM
 
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A dump that hundreds of thousands of people relocate to each year to make a better life for themselves.

A dump that keeps plopping up skyscrapers out the wazoo like its nothing.
Yes, you must remember the world is filled with morons.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Yes, you must remember the world is filled with morons.
No, they're smart to get away from LA's 11% unemployment & Comifornia. Its a bunch of welfare moochers out there.

Miami not much better at 10%.

Houston is enjoying a very low 6% unemployment rate. Its economy is booming right now.

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Old 08-22-2013, 08:32 PM
 
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No they're smart to get away from LA's 11% unemployment & Comifornia.
If you say so. There are few places I would rather not go to than Houston.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:37 PM
 
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Uh no.

D/FW is multi-polar while Houston is the center of its metro with everything orbiting around it. Houston doesn't piggy back off of another major city (Fort Worth). They are set up quite differently.

Setting D/FW in Southeast Texas would get you a a whole different topography & culture.
Yes but what about the feeder roads? Downtowns that resemble office parks? Same retail architecture and same chains/restaurants? Same high five freeways with similar decorations? Flatness? Same types of homes for the most part including architecture and spacing? Nearly identical suburbs? There's no other metro Houston resembles more than DFW and vice versa, there's no getting around it Matt, I know you would love to convince people Houston is a mini LA but that's only a fantasy you and worldlyman share.
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Old 08-22-2013, 08:41 PM
 
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No, they're smart to get away from LA's 11% unemployment & Comifornia. Its a bunch of welfare moochers out there.

Miami not much better at 10%.

Houston is enjoying a very low 6% unemployment rate. Its economy is booming right now.
Houston is still a dump.
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Old 08-22-2013, 09:03 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Houston is still a dump.
Houston is the kinda city where it doesn't care what anyone thinks of it. Sure parts of it are dirty, but its still way cleaner than most major cities, LA included.
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Old 08-22-2013, 09:10 PM
 
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Houston is the kinda city where it doesn't care what anyone thinks of it. Sure parts of it are dirty, but its still way cleaner than most major cities, LA included.
Ok, I'm glad Houston thinks highly of itself.
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