Why all of the disgusting looking traffic signals here?

[LizzySWW]

He certainly earns a spot in our forums wall of fame.....somewhere in the mix with Wyswig & the gang. Lol!

Gone, but never forgotten. :-)

[RCH99]

I got the impression from the very first post that "he" was a she....

[rb4browns]

Originally Posted by Blawp

Calfornia has a higher GDP per capita than Texas, and has the best university system in the nation. I loved it there. The only reason I live here is because my grandmother, who lives in Fort Worth, has cancer and is at MD Anderson receiving treatment, and I am currently taking care of her.

I work for an engineering company here right now, and the perks are terrible (our office doesn't even have drinking fountains). When I lived in California I worked for Chevron in San Ramon, had a great salary, great benefits, and lived a very nice, less stressful life. Now I fight traffic in both directions, see the most horrific urban blight on the way to work, and all there is to stare at are burned out buildings, power lines, billboards, and traffic signals dangling by strings.

I never saw such blight where I lived in The Bay Area, but in Houston it's just pervasive. I can't get away from it. It's tough to find a relaxing area here.

LOL. The Bay Area is filled with blight. I lived there for 4 years when I was in school at Berkeley. Whether it's in SF (Hunter's point, the Mission, etc.) or the East Bay (most of Oakland except for the Hills or around the Lake) or North Bay (Richmond) there is plenty of nastiness to go around.

I suppose maybe if you are a white person living in North Berkeley, the Oakland Hills or Danville/San Ramon you wouldn't see it. The difference between here and SF is that the Bay Area is much more segregated. The white people there like to pat themselves on the back for being so compassionate and caring about the "poor people of color" but they wouldn't be caught dead near working class neighborhoods (or let working class people in to their neighborhood).

[predatorprey]

Be nice people. Southerners are known for their niceness.

[jfre81]

Disgusting? This should be on a postcard.

[rigas]

Originally Posted by Blawp

Why? Too few auto parts stores, power lines and Whataburgers for your liking?

Spring, TX is a wasteland; a cultural void. People there medicate themselves with Fox News and the smell of benzene emitted from their F-250s.

OHHHH this one got me right in the heart.

i mean spring is so small it could hardly be classified as a wasteland, i LOVE my fox news but then i guess he likes all of the tax and spend nonsense going around these days (hell how else did cali go bankrupt), as for benzene, that is a product added to gasoline and so the "chemical engineer" he/she claims to be should know better because 95% of all the f-250's are diesel and do not have benzene emissions as much as his/her 2000 toyota camry does.

he is more then likely aspiring to upgrade to a prius in the next couple of years with all the money he is saving by living here in texas as opposed to taxafornia.

[chad.roper]

I bet Blawp also love apple products. I don't see the point in spending more money to have an attractive traffic light when the ones on wires work just as well. As far as wind goes Houston has fewer severe wind storms than Dallas or Oklahoma City. I don't think a hurricane once every 15 years taking out some of the lights justifies spending the money on the ones you want.

[Sampaguita]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Disgusting? This should be on a postcard.

Pretty 3rd world if you ask me.

(sarcasm)

Well, I guess we (including me) should stop feeding the newest troll to Houston.