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Houston 9 10.23%
Dallas 4 4.55%
Austin 57 64.77%
San Antonio 6 6.82%
El Paso 12 13.64%
Voters: 88. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-21-2010, 09:28 AM
 
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I put houston because of demographics and cosmopolitaness(idk if thats a word) It LEAST resembles texas and is similar to a californian city being Los Angeles..... although AUSTIN has the mose californians in it...but I don't want texas to become california...

 
Old 06-21-2010, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Oh, no. Please, God, no.

And, no, Austin doesn't want to be the most California city in Texas. It's all those people moving here under the delusion that we do that are the problem.
Oh really?

*cough* *cough*
 
Old 06-21-2010, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Houston has similarities to LA no doubt, but they are cultually not anything alike. Thats why I voted for Austin with El Paso as my back up. Culturally Austin is the most like California. El Paso is just overwhelmingly Mexican like the Eastern half of LA is.
Just a few posts up you said the opposite...

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Austin. After Austin, El Paso (because it reminds me of East LA). San Antonio maybe. Dallas and Houston are not Californian in the slightest.
 
Old 06-21-2010, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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Just a few posts up you said the opposite...
I was talking about culturally. They have some similarities in design and they are both diverse.
 
Old 06-21-2010, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Just as other posters have said in this thread & just as I have said in the past, Houston is like a "mini LA" in many ways.
 
Old 06-21-2010, 10:58 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I was talking about culturally. They have some similarities in design and they are both diverse.
Thanks for clarifying that.

If you took Los Angeles, New Orleans, & Atlanta then rolled them up into one package you would have Houston.
 
Old 10-18-2016, 10:16 AM
 
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Old 10-18-2016, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Orange County, CA to San Antonio, TX
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Being from California myself, Texas cities could not be any more different than California. Austin may be the closest thing to a "Californian city" in Texas, but even then, Austin and CA are apples and oranges.
 
Old 10-18-2016, 12:17 PM
 
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The most coastal of the large cities (Houston) has the nearness to the coast, a bit more wind, "weather", and humidity, and also a lot of diversity (from south of the border) that CA has, along with above average cultural diversity (that Austin really doesn't have).

I'm looking beyond the whole liberal/conservative stuff, because CA and Austin have their share of conservatism as well as liberalism, and other cultural and environmental factors are more significant than people are considering.

Like others have said, no place in Texas will feel like CA on any sizable scale; only in small pockets here and there at best.
 
Old 10-18-2016, 12:30 PM
 
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If you took away the mountains, and the hills Houston as a city only would resemble a mini LA in terms of demographics and sunbelt sprawl but they're still different. Moving from Houston to LA wasn't totally culture shock since I had already been around a huge set of international people and businesses.

Other than that Austin reminds me of a mix between San Jose and Sacramento. San Antonio reminds of certain inland towns a bit and El Paso looks like it could fit on the border of CA and AZ.
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