Keep it Texan....

[3shipguy]

Barcelonafan,

How's downtown la progressing? I hear they're doing some major renovations there and grand park is pretty impressive. Is it like Houston where progress takes a very long time (e.g. Katy fwy)?

[jerbear30]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

With all the growth and expansion Houston is going through I really hope that Houston and other TX cities stay grounded and not give in to the outer culture. I don't mean remain religiously unabashedly conservative politically, but in terms of the culture and the arts, I do hope it stays....how do you say? Trill.

I've been to NYC, LA, Boston, San Fran and even Miami. No city seems to have it's own unique character and own set of rules than Houston...and to a small extent Austin. Heck the whole State, from country music, to film to rap to electronic. The way parties are thrown there I have to really look for stuff like that here in LA. The way the social life is so lively, friendly and unexpected. You reall have no idea where you're going to end up, I mean it's a mix of New Orleans, Vegas and Austin mixed together in H-Town.

NYC is a Disneyland yuppie fest, Boston is a conservative traditional hellhole that closes at 1am, and LA is a commercialized sanitized mess that is not the trendsetting city I thought it was going to be but instead an extremely trendy place straight out of a bad network TV show.

I know it sounds cliche but Houston really is a city that keeps it "real".

Radiolibre, you are a perplexing poster. You just posted what I thought was the most articulate critique of Houston I'd ever read. This was what, maybe a couple of weeks ago. Now you're back talking trash about other cities than Houston, and saying that Houston is unpretentious and filled with character. What gives? BTW, I think you are a way better writer when you critique Houston than when you embrace it.

[radiolibre99]

Houston is amazing but it does lack a lot of the stuff I mentioned in that last thread.

But I did mention that what makes Houston great is the social and work life. It's a complex city

[Chicago3rd]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Wow such responses. Are the transplants really getting all riled up because I had the audacity to "diss" other cities? .

Once again more ignorance....TEXAN BRED AND BORN. The rest of your contribution....who cares...you are really hating on Houston.....you really need to start posting what you like/love about the city.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Chicago3rd

Once again more ignorance....TEXAN BRED AND BORN. The rest of your contribution....who cares...you are really hating on Houston.....you really need to start posting what you like/love about the city.

Good lord what do you think I was doing but listing what I like about this city and cimparinh it to others.

How is that hating in Houston? Chicago stop enough is enough.

[Dopo]

This threads are getting old
stop whining about what you think other people think which most of the time is not even true.

[cheryjohns]

Just finished a book, a couple of weeks ago, that was set, in part, in Houston.

The person was coming from New Orleans to their ratty apartment in a building with over ten floors, into the heavy hazy smog in the Inner Loop, in a climate with zero humidity - unlike the humid New Orleans they had just come from.

What?

This is typical - that author has never set foot in Houston. Tenement buildings with over ten floors? Are they thinking Good Times slums from New York? That building describes our high-rises, not our slums. I guarantee they are not ratty nor cheap.

Zero humidity? Sometimes, I wish. Maybe she was thinking Phoenix.

She had the audacity to place her book in Houston, without having the slightest idea about Houston. Can you blame the rest of the US for being misinformed?

[FutureCityBoii]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

With all the growth and expansion Houston is going through I really hope that Houston and other TX cities stay grounded and not give in to the outer culture. I don't mean remain religiously unabashedly conservative politically, but in terms of the culture and the arts, I do hope it stays....how do you say? Trill.

I've been to NYC, LA, Boston, San Fran and even Miami. No city seems to have it's own unique character and own set of rules than Houston...and to a small extent Austin. Heck the whole State, from country music, to film to rap to electronic. The way parties are thrown there I have to really look for stuff like that here in LA. The way the social life is so lively, friendly and unexpected. You reall have no idea where you're going to end up, I mean it's a mix of New Orleans, Vegas and Austin mixed together in H-Town.

NYC is a Disneyland yuppie fest, Boston is a conservative traditional hellhole that closes at 1am, and LA is a commercialized sanitized mess that is not the trendsetting city I thought it was going to be but instead an extremely trendy place straight out of a bad network TV show.

I know it sounds cliche but Houston really is a city that keeps it "real".

All those cities you listed have their own culture and trends especially San Francisco, LA, NYC and Miami.

[Spade]

I've been to NYC, LA, Boston, San Fran and even Miami. No city seems to have it's own unique character and own set of rules than Houston...and to a small extent Austin.

Huh? I don't get this part. Are you saying that NYC or LA or Boston is not unique from each other? Because if so, that is 1000% wrong.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Spade

Huh? I don't get this part. Are you saying that NYC or LA or Boston is not unique from each other? Because if so, that is 1000% wrong.

I didn't mean so much the aesthetic qualities of each city, even though I did find Manhattan to be overly gentrified and West LA twice as much, or even the locals, but more so the same type of people that form its young professional base. The work culture, social life, the image driven status conscious, etc. I just didn't find these cities at all like I had imagined and surprisingly never thought I would prefer the environment in Houston as far as all that goes. It's much less down to Earth.

That's just my opinion though and I was harped on here for doing so. I mean I really do not know what other people assume those cities to be like but after living for some time in each and spending ample time in all I really became appreciative of Houston.