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View Poll Results: Which Skyline is Better LA or Dallas
Downtown Los Angeles 26 68.42%
Downtown Dallas 15 39.47%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-02-2009, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Irvine,Oc,Ca
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Which City Has the better Skyline or Downtown?They both look similar to me what do you think Is Better? Los Angeles or Dallas? You are allowed to vote for both if you can't decide.
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Old 01-02-2009, 07:52 PM
 
Location: Houston
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my vote goes to both downtowns. I like the mountain backdrop of the los angeles skyline and I like how dallas lights up the skyscrapers in their downtown
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Old 01-02-2009, 07:57 PM
 
Location: NE Atlanta Metro
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WTF? Is Dallas becoming the new Houston on this message board?
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Old 01-03-2009, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Earth at the moment
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Dallas hardly has a downtown... Maybe you think it has because what you on CD call downtown Dallas has.
But what you call downtown is the same thing as Parking lots, office buildings, parking garage's and other empty buildings or apartment buildings with nothing else in the bottom of the apartment buildings.
But that's not downtown is all about.
Los Angeles has got some real downtown on Broadway and little bit on other streets close to Broadway.
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Old 01-03-2009, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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WTF? Is Dallas becoming the new Houston on this message board?
Yeah, those were my thoughts exactly...
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Old 01-03-2009, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Dallas hardly has a downtown... Maybe you think it has because what you on CD call downtown Dallas has.
But what you call downtown is the same thing as Parking lots, office buildings, parking garage's and other empty buildings or apartment buildings with nothing else in the bottom of the apartment buildings.
But that's not downtown is all about.
Los Angeles has got some real downtown on Broadway and little bit on other streets close to Broadway.
Uhh, yeah...
I'll be the first to say that DT Dallas isn't that great.
But what I hear neither is DT Los Angeles.
So When I saw this I though it was like comparing a rotton apple to a rotton Green apple... HAHA
But DT has improved and while it has it's share of parking garages, they're efforts to revitalize downtown.
and what some other members have told me that Downtown Dallas is not that bad compared to DT Houston or Los Angeles (not intending to bash...I wouldn't know because I don't head for Downtown when I visit a city unless its where everything is at)
But I wouldn't say Los Angeles beats out Dallas, if at all, by that much... or at least off of what I've heard.
Now we ARE talking of Downtown here, not anything else in the city.
Here some pictures, and off of this it looks both downtowns look similar:



That was Los Angeles, This is Dallas
http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/11820/57522/f/330462-Downtown-Dallas-0.jpg (broken link)


Its hard to find down to ground pictures so I took the first ones I could find.
I'm sure if you were to look through the Dallas or Los Angeles thread it might give you a bigger picture.

Edit:
I took the time to dig up some threads...
Dallas:
I LOVE Dallas Photos
Downtown Dallas Pictures

Los Angeles:
Los Angeles pics

some of those LA ones do look more lively I have to admit... but make your own decision, the LA one i massive so I put 2 Dallas ones to do justice...

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Old 01-03-2009, 11:33 AM
 
Location: moving again
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Ive only been to DT Dallas so ill have to go with that! I really liked downtown too! Exceeded my expectations


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Originally Posted by Julian/SWE View Post
Dallas hardly has a downtown... Maybe you think it has because what you on CD call downtown Dallas has.
But what you call downtown is the same thing as Parking lots, office buildings, parking garage's and other empty buildings or apartment buildings with nothing else in the bottom of the apartment buildings.
But that's not downtown is all about.
Los Angeles has got some real downtown on Broadway and little bit on other streets close to Broadway.
Just wow
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Old 01-03-2009, 12:43 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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I like D-town L.A. but Dallas is cool too. I like Dallas's architechture, but I got to go with L.A. on this.
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Old 01-03-2009, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Downtown Dallas seemed nicer to me. The downtown area of L.A. was full of bums, a lot of graffitti and an overdominance of Hispanic stores and not much else. Not my style.
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Old 01-03-2009, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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Downtown Los Angeles.
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