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Which of these cities has the best housing stock in terms of architecture, beauty, construction quality, space, features, location, diverse types of housing, costs or anything else you can think of.
Housing stock includes single family homes, apartments, rowhomes, mobile homes, duplexes, etc. etc. etc.
From what I've seen Houston has poor construction quality. They seem to take a lot of shortcuts and care mostly about size and how good it looks brand new. A lot of homes in that area are not built to last although there are some good neighborhoods with good quality homes that were built in the 70's and 80's in Austin, Houston, and Dallas.
I love the newer sfh in the inner loop in Houston. Love The different variations in Chicago. But I love Philly's rowhomes. Should be a good thread. It's hard but I pick Philly.
I like Chicago because it has such an eclectic housing mix, and you can find pretty much everything you'd generally be looking for. The craftsman-style homes in LA do it more for me than the row homes in Philly, but both are beautiful. From what I've seen, Houston housing stock appeals to me the least.
I like Chicago because it has such an eclectic housing mix, and you can find pretty much everything you'd generally be looking for. The craftsman-style homes in LA do it more for me than the row homes in Philly, but both are beautiful. From what I've seen, Houston housing stock appeals to me the least.
Agreed with this 100%. I like the housing stock in every city except for Houston for the most part. I'm going to say that both LA and Chicago offer a really big mix of housing types.
Don't sleep on Houston. Contrary to popular belief, the Sunbelt is not all cheap McMansions and tract homes. In Houston you have everything from shotgun homes to classy brick and mortar. Charming bungalows and lofts down to the Caribbean style stilt homes near the bay.
I think where Houston messes up is when it tries to duplicate styles from other regions of the country on a grand scale like that tacky Florida stucco.
My least favorite would probably be LA. Not enough brick.
I doubt Houston has more brick buildings than LA though.
And why do you doubt it? Los angeles probably has a larger amount of brick being that it"s a larger urban area but if we're speaking in terms of percentage...
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