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Yeah Houston does have Haitians. I am Haitian myself, and knew PLENTY of Haitians that moved to Houston from Florida and New York. Heck, knew 6 Haitian families that lived in my neighborhood in Round Rock(a suburb of Austin). I knew some of them previously from back in Florida.
Yeah I knew a few Haitians in the Killeen-Ft. Hood area. I believe Houston has one of the fastest growing Cuban and Colombian (especially once again) communities in the nation.
Texans do not wish to be like anyone else but Texans. To think otherwise is delusional and laughable at best.
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And what exctly would make texans better than people from new york city
The same question can be asked vice versa. It's best that this does not go any further. It's going to be back and forth of "we're better and than you." "NO, we're better than you." You wish you was us." "No, you wish you was us." Blah blah blah blah.
This is going to sound bad but until I started dating a Hispanic woman I thought all of them here were from Mexico. I've been finding out through her that I have a very sizable Salvadoran population just a few streets over from my neighborhood. Their food is anything but Mexican as I would have previously believed and is very good. Down the street a little further is littered with Jamaican, Cuban, and Venezuelan food places. So my point is that New York has us beat hands down in population size but the amount of diversity is relative. Just because you have more of one ethnicity than we do does not mean that you are more diverse given that you have a larger overall population.
Why would that surprise you??? Are all northeners as misinformed as most of you ny posters?? Not trying to be mean, but you guys seem to underestimate TX.
We must be informed with NY have some the best schools in the country. No were not underestimating texas well i cant speak for everyone. But theres the LA'ers that I feel will do any thing to vote against NY. Anyway NY has more to offer in Small area it being the 27th largest state, 3rd largest population, and 7th most dense state. Now people say NY doesnt have any other city over population of 1miilion, well of course the second largest city in the country is 4 million and NYC is nearly 9 million thats basically 7-8 cities on its own. so when 43% of the states 20 million ppl live in 304sq mi of land other cities wont grow. And 63% of the state living in the NYC metropolitan area. The second largest city by population in NY is only 40 sq mi.
The ten largest cities are:
New York City (8,274,527) 304 sq mi.
Buffalo (279,745) 40 sq mi.
Rochester (211,091) 35.8 sq mi
Yonkers (196,425) 18.1 sq mi
Syracuse (141,683) 25 sq mi
Albany (93,523) 21.4 sq mi
New Rochelle (72,967) 10.4 sq mi
Mount Vernon (67,924) 4.4 sq mi
Schenectady (61,280) 10.9 sq mi
Utica (59,336) 16.3 sq mi
Now compare that to the largest cities of Texas
Houston (2,208,180)601.7 sq mi (Brooklyn(2,465,326)70.61 sq mi)
San Antonio (1,336,040) 407.6 sq mi (Queens(2,293,007)109.24 sq mi) (Manhattan(1,634,795) 22.96 sq mi) (Bronx(1,391,903)42.03 sq mi)
Dallas (1,306,350) 342.5 sq mi
Austin (743,074) 251.5 sq mi
Fort Worth (720,250) 292.5 sq mi
El Paso (606,913) 249.08 sq mi
Arlington (367,197) 95.8 sq mi (Staten Island(487,407)58.48 sq mi)
Corpus Christi (285,507) 154.6 sq mi
Plano (260,796) 71.6 sq mi
Garland (215,768) 57.1 sq mi
Now as you see NYC is like cities within cities. Notice how the major cities of Texas are the size of NYC while the top cities of NY are below 50 sq mi. So when people say its just NYC look at the statistics.
We must be informed with NY have some the best schools in the country. No were not underestimating texas well i cant speak for everyone. But theres the LA'ers that I feel will do any thing to vote against NY. Anyway NY has more to offer in Small area it being the 27th largest state, 3rd largest population, and 7th most dense state. Now people say NY doesnt have any other city over population of 1miilion, well of course the second largest city in the country is 4 million and NYC is nearly 9 million thats basically 7-8 cities on its own. so when 43% of the states 20 million ppl live in 304sq mi of land other cities wont grow. And 63% of the state living in the NYC metropolitan area. The second largest city by population in NY is only 40 sq mi.
The ten largest cities are:
New York City (8,274,527) 304 sq mi.
Buffalo (279,745) 40 sq mi.
Rochester (211,091) 35.8 sq mi
Yonkers (196,425) 18.1 sq mi
Syracuse (141,683) 25 sq mi
Albany (93,523) 21.4 sq mi
New Rochelle (72,967) 10.4 sq mi
Mount Vernon (67,924) 4.4 sq mi
Schenectady (61,280) 10.9 sq mi
Utica (59,336) 16.3 sq mi
Now compare that to the largest cities of Texas
Houston (2,208,180)601.7 sq mi (Brooklyn(2,465,326)70.61 sq mi)
San Antonio (1,336,040) 407.6 sq mi (Queens(2,293,007)109.24 sq mi) (Manhattan(1,634,795) 22.96 sq mi) (Bronx(1,391,903)42.03 sq mi)
Dallas (1,306,350) 342.5 sq mi
Austin (743,074) 251.5 sq mi
Fort Worth (720,250) 292.5 sq mi
El Paso (606,913) 249.08 sq mi
Arlington (367,197) 95.8 sq mi (Staten Island(487,407)58.48 sq mi)
Corpus Christi (285,507) 154.6 sq mi
Plano (260,796) 71.6 sq mi
Garland (215,768) 57.1 sq mi
Now as you see NYC is like cities within cities. Notice how the major cities of Texas are the size of NYC while the top cities of NY are below 50 sq mi. So when people say its just NYC look at the statistics.
I'm a La'er (whatever the hell that is)and voted for Ny.
You don't have the faintest clue as to the available foods here in Texas if you think it's just about BBQ.
Correct. Here in the DFW area you can get every ethnic food available in NYC. There are so many transplants here from around the US and around the world the redundancy of fantastic restaurants is amazing.
Recently, while working for a company that had transplants from New York City, they couldn't believe the amazing variety of QUALITY ethnic food available in the area. This specifically was in Irving/Las Colinas but great food abounds all over the metroplex.
In fact, they quoted that the Mediterranean restaurant that they fell in love with was BETTER than any such thing in NYC. Italian, Mexican, Thai, Japanese, Lebanese, Mediterranean, Vietnamese, Pakistani, German, etc. You can find it all here, and it is authentic.
About the only food I have been unable to find here in DFW is British food and French, but I'm sure it's to be found as well if you look hard enough.
There are a lot of texans people here in VA Beach. Also there are a lot of NYers here as well. They think they (Texans) are all that but they aren't. No city can be compared to NYC.
Your point? To those Texans, you don't register anything at all to them and they probably don't think your city is all that. They could care less what NYC has to offer. Get over NYC. It is not for everyone nor does everyone even care about it.
Dang, I always thought you guys were called "People of the waste."
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No were not underestimating texas well i cant speak for everyone. But theres the LA'ers that I feel will do any thing to vote against NY. 
Anyway NY has more to offer in Small area it being the 27th largest state, 3rd largest population, and 7th most dense state. Now people say NY doesnt have any other city over population of 1miilion, well of course the second largest city in the country is 4 million and NYC is nearly 9 million thats basically 7-8 cities on its own. so when 43% of the states 20 million ppl live in 304sq mi of land other cities wont grow. And 63% of the state living in the NYC metropolitan area. The second largest city by population in NY is only 40 sq mi. 
