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View Poll Results: I prefer the natural scenery in:
Texas 24 20.00%
Northeastern U.S. 96 80.00%
Voters: 120. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-19-2012, 12:21 AM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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Northeast.
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Mountains
El Paso

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forests
The East Texas Piney Woods

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beaches
Galveston, Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and South Padre Island (one of the biggest Spring Break stops in the country)

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lakes
.... seriously?

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rolling hills
Central Texas

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cold weather
Did you NOT see the coverage of Super Bowl XLV?

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warm weather.
.....again, SERIOUSLY?

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Everything else too.
Yeah, it's not like Texas has ANY of that....
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Old 06-19-2012, 02:05 AM
 
Location: Glendale, CA
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Having had the misfortune of driving I-10 and I-20 between El Paso and Dallas/San Antonio many times (and having driven a lot of other places in TX as well), I can quite confidently say the NE wins this in a landslide.
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Old 06-19-2012, 02:21 AM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Northeast but not by a landslide. In TX, the gulf beaches are very pretty, aswell as the hills west of Austin, mountains in West Texas and the Red River
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Old 06-19-2012, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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That's arguable. Texas has deserts and forests and everything inbetween. New England doesn't have such an extreme.

Texas benefits from being a humongous place located in seperate geographical regions of the country, and New England benefits from being a much smaller area largely concentrated around part of a major mountain range.
Allow me to try and explain this:

I think the Northeast has a greater variety of scenery and elevation than Texas. The Northeast also has a greater variety in climate and cultures.

While Texas has less variety, the variety it does have is far more drastic in appearance than the Northeast.

Does that make sense?

(And yes I know Texas quite well)
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Old 06-19-2012, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Boston Metrowest (via the Philly area)
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You've just proved that you don't know much or possibly anything about Texas.

It's a shame that in 2012 people still think of Texas as nothing but desert and flat land.
I never claimed that the entire state of Texas is simply desert, that forests are non-existent or the entire state is flat. It's pretty obvious, however, that Texas generally doesn't get as much precipitation, nor does it have as much forest cover as the Northeast.

I wasn't trying to be ignorant or insulting, and there's nothing nonfactual about that statement:

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Old 06-19-2012, 07:07 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Texas only has snow capped mountains when it has actually just snowed lol.

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Texas just went up in my book! Are those mountains by chance covered in Ponderosa or other evergreen? Or are they simply barren of all trees?
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Old 06-19-2012, 07:36 AM
 
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I'm surprised this is being debated.

Texas, especially for its huge size, does not have particularly impressive scenery.

The Northeast is one of the nicer parts of the country, in terms of natural amenities. The Adirondacks, Niagara, the Gunks, Acadia, the Hamptons, Thousand Islands, Vermont, Hudson Valley, Champlain, Finger Lakes, etc.
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Old 06-19-2012, 07:49 AM
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While I do think the Northeast does have better natural scenery, I don't think it's by that much.

I don't know where the hell you people are saying "by a country mile" and "by a landslide". There's way too much land and change in scenery here than what some of you are apparently thinking.
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Old 06-19-2012, 08:12 AM
 
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While I do think the Northeast does have better natural scenery, I don't think it's by that much.

I don't know where the hell you people are saying "by a country mile" and "by a landslide". There's way too much land and change in scenery here than what some of you are apparently thinking.
To me, Texas is like four times the size of the Northeast, so should, in theory, at least, have far more interesting scenery.

In reality, most of Texas has pretty boring scenery. 80% of Texas is arid, and most of that is fairly flat and often treeless. You don't have iconic places like Niagara, Adirondacks, Hamptons, Acadia, Nantucket, etc.

I guess there's Big Bend, and Hill Country is nice, but I wouldn't compare it to places like the Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes, High Peaks, Vermont, etc.
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Old 06-19-2012, 08:12 AM
 
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I'm surprised this is being debated.

Texas, especially for its huge size, does not have particularly impressive scenery.

The Northeast is one of the nicer parts of the country, in terms of natural amenities. The Adirondacks, Niagara, the Gunks, Acadia, the Hamptons, Thousand Islands, Vermont, Hudson Valley, Champlain, Finger Lakes, etc.
I know it's been said before, but Texas overall is more dramatic in it's georaphical extremes. All those natural wonders you listed in the NE, while nice, they all seem very regional and similar. Same climate, same everything. They don't feel like you're in another region all together. The North east all together, hell, add the midwest doesn't have the geographical extremes of Texas and most Western states. Even if you took away West Texas the diffirence between East Texas and Central/South Texas stands-out more the the Northeast.
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