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Old 07-29-2010, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Tell her things have improved since the 1800s We had a black mayor and everything just like Dallas.
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:06 PM
 
Location: South Tampa, Florida
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Experian National Score Index - Free Experian Credit Score & Credit Report - See How Your Credit Score Compares

Texans have the lowest credit scores in the nation and Houston is only behind Dallas as the worst U.S. Metro for bad credit scores - Actually Worse than the Deep South, Let's hope these "Young Adults" moving to Houston will change that trend both above and below.


America's Smartest Cities—From First to Worst - The Daily Beast (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-04/americas-smartest-cities---from-first-to-worst/ - broken link)

Houston Ranked 46th out of the 56 Metro Markets as "Americas Smartest Cities".
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:09 PM
 
Location: southern california
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i read the list looks ok to me?
did you feel houston was neglected.
???
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Tell her things have improved since the 1800s We had a black mayor and everything just like Dallas.
I think the last time she went to Houston was in early 2000.
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Old 07-29-2010, 10:28 PM
 
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A lot of smart people live in Houston. Give part of the thanks to some of the Nigerians.
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Old 07-29-2010, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Bellevue, WA
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Haha, those lists mean nothing. They hardly have any hard data.

I guess it's still cool that it made the list though.
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Old 07-29-2010, 11:38 PM
 
Location: ✶✶✶✶
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Haha, those lists mean nothing. They hardly have any hard data.
They're also put together by people in an office somewhere else who probably haven't even been to all these places they put into these lists, and certainly did not obtain any actual information from them.

What's sad is when you see somebody come around a forum like this who can't seem to form a point outside of posting links to these sorts of rankings and filling in the remaining blanks with sweeping generalizations and stereotypes. Not that I'm singling anyone out or anything.
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Old 07-30-2010, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Texans have the lowest credit scores in the nation and Houston is only behind Dallas as the worst U.S. Metro for bad credit scores - Actually Worse than the Deep South, Let's hope these "Young Adults" moving to Houston will change that trend both above and below.
They won't do anything to reverse that trend and I'll put money on it.
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Old 07-30-2010, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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A lot of smart people live in Houston. Give part of the thanks to some of the Nigerians.
yep, part of the thanks to the koreans, too and the Indians and the Caribbean folk, the europeans too
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Old 07-30-2010, 09:11 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Florida
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Here's another list sure to fire up the Houston Boosters.

Health: Houston among least healthy of largest U.S. metro areas | MedBlog | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Poverty:Brookings: ‘job sprawl’ contributes to Houston’s suburban poverty - Houston Tomorrow

Family: The 10 Worst Cities to Raise a Family

uninsured: Uninsured rate in Houston among highest in the nation » peoplesworld
87 percent of Texas communities exceed US poverty rate in new survey « Texas housers

Air Quality: Ozone, Lung Disease, and Houston’s Air Quality Ranking

Harris - American Lung Association
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