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Old 10-06-2014, 08:45 PM
 
Location: San Leandro
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You can say the exact same thing about Boston, Dallas, DC, Houston, San Diego, Miami and other large/populous US cities. What point are you trying to make again?
No you can't. Chargers play in SD, and Texans play in Houston. Do you even really football, bro?
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Old 10-06-2014, 08:49 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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Mission Valley by the 15 is right in the suburbs, bro. I've been to plenty of Chargers games. Have you?

And NRG stadium is nowhere near downtown Houston with their God awful traffic.

Keep trying though. I'd really like to hear the point you're trying to make. Perhaps you should dust off your urban planning textbooks from Cal and look up the term suburban and get back to me.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:08 PM
 
Location: San Leandro
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Mission Valley by the 15 is right in the suburbs, bro. I've been to plenty of Chargers games. Have you?

And NRG stadium is nowhere near downtown Houston with their God awful traffic.

Keep trying though. I'd really like to hear the point you're trying to make. Perhaps you should dust off your urban planning textbooks from Cal and look up the term suburban and get back to me.
Mission valley is in the Sd limits, and Nrg is in Houston. Try again.

Who said anything about downtown?


Oh that's right, my team Da Bears do play in a downtown stadium.

And they beat the Santa Clara Niners, at their first home game!

My point was, as previously stated, was that one thing NYC and SF have in common is a suburban football team.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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And NRG stadium is nowhere near downtown Houston with their God awful traffic.
It's 8 miles from DT Houston. If you hop on the light rail it is 6.8 miles.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Down...07!2d29.684722
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:16 PM
 
Location: San Leandro
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It's 8 miles from DT Houston. If you hop on the light rail it is 6.8 miles.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Down...07!2d29.684722


Compare that to the SANTA CLARA niners being 3 hours from Sf. Most of that time being the parking lot, LoL!
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:18 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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It's 8 miles from DT Houston. If you hop on the light rail it is 6.8 miles.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Down...07!2d29.684722
Would you characterize the immediate area of NRG as "urban" or "suburban"? I'll defer to you since you seem to be the resident Texas expert.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:21 PM
 
Location: San Leandro
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Ohhhh and here comes the semantics debate to save face, rofl.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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Would you characterize the immediate area of NRG as "urban" or "suburban"? I'll defer to you since you seem to be the resident Texas expert.
Urban for sure. It's basically connected to the Texas Medical Center which is also a huge teaching and R & D center for the Health Professions and a lot of people ride bikes, take the light rail or walk in that area of Houston. Parking is a nightmare and very expensive in the TMC so many folks just park DT and hop in the Light Rail. That is what I did when I studied and worked in the TMC. There are a lot of lofts and apartments along the Light Rail and many folks who go to school or work in the TMC live along the light rail and it is used heavily all day long by these folks.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:23 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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Ohhhh and here comes the semantics debate to save face, rofl.
Listen man, I'm just using your own definitions. You claim that SF isn't a real city and that Oakland is a town, so I really just have to go based on whatever words you use. I know your two UC Berkeley degrees involved a critical thinking class a while back, but maybe you're rusty.

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Urban for sure. It's basically connected to the Texas Medical Center which is also a huge teaching and R & D center for the Health Professions and a lot of people ride bikes, take the light rail or walk in that area of Houston. Parking is a nightmare and very expensive in the TMC so many folks just park DT and hop in the Light Rail. That is what I did when I studied and worked in the TMC.
Interesting. I haven't spent that much time in Houston, but from I remember that places that felt "urban" in the traditional sense to me were downtown, Montrose, and midtown. The rest felt pretty sprawled out/suburban-ish.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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Listen man, I'm just using your own definitions. You claim that SF isn't a real city and that Oakland is a town, so I really just have to go based on whatever words you use. I know your two UC Berkeley degrees involved a critical thinking class a while back, but maybe you're rusty.
I never made those claims
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