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Old 01-19-2012, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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If I could change history, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, and Charleston would have been the Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami of the south.
NOLA will be the Amsterdam of the south when you guys start having Coffee Shops
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Old 01-19-2012, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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NOLA will be the Amsterdam of the south when you guys start having Coffee Shops
You can come visit me, I know thats all you want...
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Old 01-19-2012, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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again that is false.

Galveston city proper had more people than Houston proper (which was what 40 acres and a mule at the time?) In reality. the area around Houston DEFINITELY HAD!!!!! DEFINITELY had more people than Galveston. I am not saying that Galveston may not have continued growing, but it was inevitable that Houston would have annexed the cities around it and grown larger than Galveston.

I am tired of hearing crap like Houston would have been a suburb of Galveston. HOuston was surrounded by cities incorporated even before Houston was incorporated. Galveston was around water.

Storm or not it was inevitable that Houston would outpace

When Galveston was a large town of 40K
Houston was 8K with another 60K around it. If metro populations were in effect back then, Houston, DFW and SA would have been larger than Galveston.

please read some history instead of saying things like Houston would be a burb of Galveston. Shipping alone would not have carried Galveston.

You can see that Houston started growing BEFORE the storm. It is annexation and oil that rapidly increased Houston's population, the port helped.

THAT i probably would see.

Or maybe Galveston would have been Houston's Long Beach

Lol, is it that serious? Houstonians always flip out when I say that. Who cares, the storm happened and Houston is bigger.
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Old 01-19-2012, 11:33 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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Lol, is it that serious? Houstonians always flip out when I say that. Who cares, the storm happened and Houston is bigger.
I can understand the frustration. Even if the storm didn't happen Houston wold have been much bigger still.
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Old 01-19-2012, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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You can come visit me, I know thats all you want...
pfffft, I don't smoke
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Lol, is it that serious? Houstonians always flip out when I say that. Who cares, the storm happened and Houston is bigger.
Then if you have heard it before, are you just being daft repeating it over and over again?

You have been told that you were incorrect more than once, how many more times do you need correcting before you to stop repeating erroneous info?

And then he gets upset that he has been corrected while admitting he has been corrected before

how about this: STOP MAKING STUPID STATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE WRONG AND MAYBE PEOPLE WILL STOP CORRECTING YOU ON IT.
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Old 01-19-2012, 05:02 PM
 
Location: NOVA
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People in Savannah and Charleston tend to like slow to no progression. I'm not talking about those people, but they generally tend to be satisfied with what they have and the city itself. They do not want to be a Atlanta, DC, Miami, Houston, or Dallas.
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Old 01-19-2012, 05:42 PM
 
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People in Savannah and Charleston tend to like slow to no progression. I'm not talking about those people, but they generally tend to be satisfied with what they have and the city itself. They do not want to be a Atlanta, DC, Miami, Houston, or Dallas.
They just prefer more sustainable growth which won't drastically alter the character of their cities; even then, those metros are among the fastest-growing in their size categories. But that really has little to do with why they aren't major cities right now.
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Old 01-19-2012, 05:54 PM
 
Location: NOVA
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They just prefer more sustainable growth which won't drastically alter the character of their cities; even then, those metros are among the fastest-growing in their size categories. But that really has little to do with why they aren't major cities right now.

Actually it does considering that they are two of the oldest cities in the US. Sustainable growth is exactly the problem. New York and Boston are coastal cities and they did not take the same approach.
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Old 01-19-2012, 06:04 PM
 
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Actually it does considering that they are two of the oldest cities in the US. Sustainable growth is exactly the problem. New York and Boston are coastal cities and they did not take the same approach.
NYC and Boston were much more industrialized earlier in their histories and did not have their cities and economies devastated by the Civil War. Those are the main reasons why Charleston and Savannah are not major cities, which we've mentioned several times here. It has absolutely nothing to do with the mindsets of present-day citizens; it's all due to historical reasons.
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Old 01-19-2012, 09:02 PM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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Maybe it's a good thing Charleston and Savannah didn't become big cities. I like the small town charm they have.
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