Houston vs. Nashville...

[Oildog]

Originally Posted by NY2Katy

Never been to Nashville, but I can't imagine another place more 'churchy' than Houston. Coming from New York a couple years ago that was culture shock! I would meet people; they would ask me my name, where I was from, where do I live and oh BTW what church do you go to?

I got that more often in Beaumont when I first moved to Texas. In Houston, not so much. I was also asked by a number of single women if I was hourly or had benefits.

[300zxtwinturbo]

Originally Posted by tstone

Aside from the rap scene in Houston (which is mostly a laughingstock), Nashville has a much better musical scene.

Ditto to the above on scenery in Tennessee.

Actually we have a good jazz scene as well. And A houston rapper just dropped a rap CD that got 5 michs in the source I don't know if you know what that means but thats a good thing. Its a real good album actually and talk about our hip hop scene, uhhh beyonce? Bun B, slim thug,
Z-RO. And for jazz, the red cat jazz cafe, houston international jazz festival? We actually have lots of tejano music as well. Now for country or bluegrass I have no idea lol.

[a_fl_vol]

Originally Posted by houston-nomad

IMO Nashville has better weather and nice hills. But it's very churchy and a little "small town" in attitude. Houston is more cosmopolitan, has much more to do, and a wider variety of people and attitudes.

Right on, Houston-nomad! I lived in both places.

[Malvie]

I have lived in both places, and you couldn't pay me enough to move back to Nashville. Hick-vegas is a small town with aggressively pushy church people (for NY2Katy above who thinks Houston is "churchy"---oh, no, oh no, sir/ma'am, you've not seen ANYTHING like Nashville. They're not just going to ask you, they're going to CONVERT your a**; they're going to SAVE you.). Nashville's idea of "diversity" is, "Are you Southern Baptist or American Baptist?"

Frankly, (true statement), Jackson, MS; Birmingham; Little Rock; Baton Rouge; the Mississippi Gulf Coast are much more "worldly" than Nashville. Nashville is "rural hick chic".

Given the choice between Nashville and Houston, I'd run screaming to Houston (and for those who say, "Oh, the scenery is so much better in Nashville!", yeah, but they don't have a beach---or palm trees---or that big south Texas sky---and it snows in the winter, and in the winter it's full-blown dark at 4:00 pm---). But just because I hated it doesn't mean you would.

The music scene is very strong in Nashville. (I don't know much about Houston's, and like Oildog, I'm a middle-aged white male). Just be aware that there is also tremendous competition there---everybody who has ever sung or plays any instrument heads there thinking they're going to be the next big star. And occasionally one of them makes it. More likely, they wind up working as a waiter, at the bank, the post office, or the insurance company.

As someone above pointed out, Houston is one of the world's gigantic mega-cities. So much going on; so much to do; so much to see. If you're bored in Houston, it's your own fault. At the same time, it has all the urban problems of an enormous city. So there's that.

Oh, and housing is much, much cheaper across the board in Houston than it is in Nashville.

Good luck on whatever you decide.

[300zxtwinturbo]

As far as the urbanness goes if thats a word the comparison between H-town and nashville is about like the comparison between houston and somewhere like N.Y or Hong Kong. There isn't really one.

[SouthernBoy205]

Houston. Do I have to say anything else?

[SouthernBoy205]

Nashville's no sloucher, but it's just smaller than Houston.