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Dallas has a similar problem. While downtown Dallas is improving, most of it is still abandoned at night. Uptown is busy at night but I kinda hate it - every stereotype proves true: 30 K millionaires, bad but expensive restaurants, but you can walk up McKinney and feel like you are in a place, but people in Dallas don't walk unless they have to. Deep Ellum should be the Soho of Texas, it has great urban bones, but right now it is a lamer and tamer version of dirty 6th in Austin. Bishop Arts south of the Trinity is quaint and charming but tiny and is pretty much dead after midnight on a weekend. Ditto for lower Greenville. Oaklawn offers the best gay nightlife in the state, but overall nightlife in Dallas is discontinuous.
To those who haven't been to Texas reading this thread -- when someone from Austin attempts to describe life in the other Texas cities, it's usually in a negative way. They feel they are the best of the best and everywhere else sucks. Bashing Dallas, bashing Uptown. What else is new? There's a few bars/clubs there that fit the stereotype, but you must be naive if you believe Austin is exempt from a fratty/douchey feel.
Homeinatx, I disagree with you about Deep Ellum 100%. I would've agreed with you in 2012-2015... But definitely not as of 2017. Elm St. is PACKED. I never could've imagined lines into Elm St. bars when I first moved here in 2012, but now it's an occurrence every single weekend. Main St. & Commerce are experiencing similar revivals. Check out Dots on Commerce St. next time. Always packed. In fact, Deep Ellum is trending to become the most vibrant nightlife area in Dallas. I'm honestly not sure about Uptown's future.
To those who haven't been to Texas reading this thread -- when someone from Austin attempts to describe life in the other Texas cities, it's usually in a negative way. They feel they are the best of the best and everywhere else sucks. Bashing Dallas, bashing Uptown. What else is new? There's a few bars/clubs there that fit the stereotype, but you must be naive if you believe Austin is exempt from a fratty/douchey feel.
Homeinatx, I disagree with you about Deep Ellum 100%. I would've agreed with you in 2012-2015... But definitely not as of 2017. Elm St. is PACKED. I never could've imagined lines into Elm St. bars when I first moved here in 2012, but now it's an occurrence every single weekend. Main St. & Commerce are experiencing similar revivals. Check out Dots on Commerce St. next time. Always packed.
Read homeinatx's post. Most of this thread was pretty good though ..... and then came the Austitude -- "premier hipster this, longest that, most vibrant this, Bourbon St. of the Southwest, etc." How is that not pretentious?
Everyone I know that was in the city for the Super Bowl had a good time. The events were all pretty centralized as well. Maybe you're thinking of the Arlington SB a few years back where some events were in Arlington and others were in Dallas?
To answer the thread, I rate the nightlife:
Houston
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Just my opinion.
So just looking at this poll are we missing all the action in Lubbock? I have never been there but it's holding it's own in this poll.
To be honest, Texas has some good looking Hispanic women in general, but from my experience the most gorgeous and open-minded Hispanic women are from Houston.
And a walkable nightlife experience in Texas, is pretty must nonexistant.
I don't know, but I felt Sundance Square was more family oriented...either way it's way more packed than Downtown Houston and Downtown Dallas. The line for starbucks was LONG...
Are you kidding me?! Texas has lots of walkable nightlife and is improving and expanding year by year. Dallas has uptown, oak lawn ,downtown, deep ellum , Greenville, and knox Henderson mainly. You have to also remember the dallas side of the metroplex is also HEAVILY UNDER CONSTRUCTION SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO COME IN THE NEXT 3-5 YEARS AND BEYOND.
FORT WORTH has west 7th , magnolia, and downtown mainly ,but Sundance and 7th are REALLY LIVE AT NIGHT.
Houston is not so much concentrated but you can find pretty big crowds market square area downtown, main street ,midtown, Washington ave. However the best nightlife experiences I've had in Houston were at random strip centers !
AUSTIN has some of the MOST PACKED NIGHTLIFE IN THE US i guarantee you it's in the top10. You have west campus , South Congress, all of 6th street, red river , Rainey, Lamar, the domain and more !
Texas has lots of good nightlife the main thing that sucks are the liquor laws !
Are you kidding me?! Texas has lots of walkable nightlife and is improving and expanding year by year. Dallas has uptown, oak lawn ,downtown, deep ellum , Greenville, and knox Henderson mainly. You have to also remember the dallas side of the metroplex is also HEAVILY UNDER CONSTRUCTION SO THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO COME IN THE NEXT 3-5 YEARS AND BEYOND.
FORT WORTH has west 7th , magnolia, and downtown mainly ,but Sundance and 7th are REALLY LIVE AT NIGHT.
Houston is not so much concentrated but you can find pretty big crowds market square area downtown, main street ,midtown, Washington ave. However the best nightlife experiences I've had in Houston were at random strip centers !
AUSTIN has some of the MOST PACKED NIGHTLIFE IN THE US i guarantee you it's in the top10. You have west campus , South Congress, all of 6th street, red river , Rainey, Lamar, the domain and more !
Texas has lots of good nightlife the main thing that sucks are the liquor laws !
Texas has great nightlife, but it still lacks in the whole Urban nightlife experience. Most of those areas you've name have decent walkability, but only Deep Ellum and Uptown has vibrancy, even still, those neighborhoods lack in the whole experience, same goes for Houston, and Austin. I think the one glaring problem with Texas nightlife is that it's too inconsistent between areas; it's all sprawled. If you've ever experienced nightlife in an Urban setting, you'd understand...
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