Progress Race:Dallas,Houston,Austin,San Antonio (Highland Village, Richmond: new construction, dangerous)

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by orlando-calrissian

Houston is not in the Southwest. The only true Southwestern city in Texas is El Paso. The Southwest US is a small part of Texas, a small part of California, Arizona, and New Mexico.


Are you going to tell me that Houston has more in common with Phoenix than Atlanta?

IKR.


And folks are calling me outta my name.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by orlando-calrissian

Houston is not in the Southwest. The only true Southwestern city in Texas is El Paso. The Southwest US is a small part of Texas, a small part of California, Arizona, and New Mexico.


Are you going to tell me that Houston has more in common with Phoenix than Atlanta?

I get what Kdogg was saying though. Houston doesn't have more in common with Phoenix than Atlanta. But it does have more in common with Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas than it does with Atlanta and Birmingham.

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by Spade

I get what Kdogg was saying though. Houston doesn't have more in common with Phoenix than Atlanta. But it does have more in common with Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas than it does with Atlanta and Birmingham.

So than you are saying it is Texan...

[SouthernBoy205]

I haven't been to S.A. yet.


I've gone to Houston, Austin, and DFW.
- Houston feels like Louisiana and the rest of the South. The northern areas are very Piedmont like. In other parts, Houston feels like Baton Rouge, Orlando, New Orleans, Mobile, and other Gulf Coast cities. I think Houston's diversity makes it seem less similar to other major southern cities like Atlanta and Birmingham. (Most major southern cities are still black and white for the most part). I don't get the Texan and southwest vibes you guys talk about.
- Austin looks like Seattle, but it strangely feels a little similar to Nashville. It seems very liberal and free-spirited. I definitely don't get this vibe in Houston or DFW.
- DFW looks like Middle America. Leaving DFW and entering Houston felt like I was leaving another and entering into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other southern states. I didn't even find Houston and DFW similar at all. To me, Austin and DFW favor more than they favor Houston.


I do see why people have a hard time classifying whether Texas is southern or not, but at the end of the day, Houston feels the most southern to me.

[stoneclaw]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

- DFW looks like Middle America. Leaving DFW and entering Houston felt like I was leaving another and entering into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other southern states. I didn't even find Houston and DFW similar at all. To me, Austin and DFW favor more than they favor Houston.


I do see why people have a hard time classifying whether Texas is southern or not, but at the end of the day, Houston feels the most southern to me.

So are you saying that Dallas feels like a regular modern American city and entering Houston from DFW, you feel like you're entering the swampy backwaters?


Is that what you're trying to say?

[Spade]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

So than you are saying it is Texan...

IMO, yep. What else is it?

[detachable arm]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I haven't been to S.A. yet.


I've gone to Houston, Austin, and DFW.
- Houston feels like Louisiana and the rest of the South. The northern areas are very Piedmont like. In other parts, Houston feels like Baton Rouge, Orlando, New Orleans, Mobile, and other Gulf Coast cities. I think Houston's diversity makes it seem less similar to other major southern cities like Atlanta and Birmingham. (Most major southern cities are still black and white for the most part). I don't get the Texan and southwest vibes you guys talk about.
- Austin looks like Seattle, but it strangely feels a little similar to Nashville. It seems very liberal and free-spirited. I definitely don't get this vibe in Houston or DFW.
- DFW looks like Middle America. Leaving DFW and entering Houston felt like I was leaving another and entering into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other southern states. I didn't even find Houston and DFW similar at all. To me, Austin and DFW favor more than they favor Houston.


I do see why people have a hard time classifying whether Texas is southern or not, but at the end of the day, Houston feels the most southern to me.

Austin looks nothing like Seattle, dawg.

So you're saying Houston feels the most southern, yet not similar to other major southern cities. Gotcha.

That diversity thing has been here for ages. So has the Mexican population. If you were born here you'd already know that. And You really think we went from zero to 2 million Hispanics in 30 years? LOL you know the census never had Hispanic as a category until 1980 right?

You can trace Tex Mex history here over the past 120 years. Or technically 180 years, after the battle of San Jacinto in modern day east Houston. Diversity and millions of Mexicans is one of many reasons Houston and Dallas stand apart from the old south.

How about architecture? Where besides Galveston can you find old South style buildings? The difference between Houston and Louisiana here is striking. Houston has much more in common with the rest of Texas here.

As far as scenery and weather goes, Houston is where Corpus Christi and Louisiana collide. So I'll give you that. Corpus is a little drier but NOLA is like Houston's heat + humidity on steroids.

People, architecture, terrain and weather. .. .What other comparisons am I missing here?

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by detachable arm

Austin looks nothing like Seattle, dawg.

So you're saying Houston feels the most southern, yet not similar to other major southern cities. Gotcha.

That diversity thing has been here for ages. So has the Mexican population. If you were born here you'd already know that. And You really think we went from zero to 2 million Hispanics in 30 years? LOL you know the census never had Hispanic as a category until 1980 right?

You can trace Tex Mex history here over the past 120 years. Or technically 180 years, after the battle of San Jacinto in modern day east Houston. Diversity and millions of Mexicans is one of many reasons Houston and Dallas stand apart from the old south.

How about architecture? Where besides Galveston can you find old South style buildings? The difference between Houston and Louisiana here is striking. Houston has much more in common with the rest of Texas here.

As far as scenery and weather goes, Houston is where Corpus Christi and Louisiana collide. So I'll give you that. Corpus is a little drier but NOLA is like Houston's heat + humidity on steroids.

People, architecture, terrain and weather. .. .What other comparisons am I missing here?

I am allowed to have opinions.

[BCB]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I haven't been to S.A. yet.

Yet you act like you're a world traveler.

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Houston feels like Louisiana and the rest of the South. The northern areas are very Piedmont like. In other parts, Houston feels like Baton Rouge, Orlando, New Orleans, Mobile, and other Gulf Coast cities.

Orlando is not on the Gulf Coast.

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I don't get the Texan and southwest vibes you guys talk about.

Is not Tex-Mex and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo not Texas enough?

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Austin looks like Seattle

No it doesn't.

[detachable arm]

Is there a part of Houston where 1 in 10 families speak Cajun French at home? In South Louisiana this is commonplace. I've lived in Houston all my life and haven't found such an area yet. Southboy, do you know of such an area here?