OC, CA vs Houston, TX

[Spade]

Originally Posted by killakoolaide

Houston is physically about the size of a county, and has urban and suburban sections. OC also has urban and suburban parts, and again are statistically similar. City and county are just words, numbers don't lie. Phillly and broward are statistically nothing alike. Pay attention to the numbers ppl. Not the symantics. Would jville florida be superior to hudson nj because one calls itself a city and the other calls itself a county. With words things are relative. With numbers they are not. From a functional standpoint however, i can see your point, seeing as houston contains the core of a metropolis while oc functions largely as a suburb.

And that's what matters the most and it is why it is an odd comparison. Honestly, outside of them having similar density numbers, how are they alike in numbers? Orange County has a million more people than Houston.

[westhou]

Originally Posted by killakoolaide

Houston is physically about the size of a county, and has urban and suburban sections. OC also has urban and suburban parts, and again are statistically similar. City and county are just words, numbers don't lie. Phillly and broward are statistically nothing alike. Pay attention to the numbers ppl. Not the symantics. Would jville florida be superior to hudson nj because one calls itself a city and the other calls itself a county. With words things are relative. With numbers they are not. From a functional standpoint however, i can see your point, seeing as houston contains the core of a metropolis while oc functions largely as a suburb.

It probably just would have made more sense to say Harris County (which is the county Houston is in) just so people would have understood the thread better. Houston makes up a large part of Harris County so the results of the poll/thread would have remained the same. It just would have left out a lot of people questioning the thread if they could have decided on Orange County vs Harris County. The explanation given is understandable because of how large Houston is but the comparison just looks weird written down. Like comparing a small European country to one of our states. Or comparing one of our smaller states to a very large county. The comparisons may be valid but it just looks weird.