Dallas Skyline(WOW)Yes another Dallas to Houston comparison thread! (Austin: child, party)

[soletaire]

I have never seen a barren area of Houston anywhere at all in the same sense that I see sparse, brown, barren areas all over DFW...except maybe just past Sealy, if anyone considers that the Houston area.

But in Dallas you can travel through parts of the Metroplex that look completely desolate for as far as the eye can see. The areas of Houston that Ive seen without tall lush tree coverage, are still very, very green albeit with a lower treeline. I even had a coworker, who is a very ethnic immigrant from Lebanon, comment on how sterile/barren, and "so bland" (in her words) DFW is after a coworker talked about moving there. Now, people might not be chomping at the bits to move to Houston for its greenery either, but people on here (CD) arent the only ones who've noticed this difference.

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by soletaire

I have never seen a barren area of Houston anywhere at all in the same sense that I see sparse, brown, barren areas all over DFW...except maybe just past Sealy, if anyone considers that the Houston area.

But in Dallas you can travel through parts of the Metroplex that look completely desolate for as far as the eye can see. The areas of Houston that Ive seen without tall lush tree coverage, are still very, very green albeit with a lower treeline. I even had a coworker, who is a very ethnic immigrant from Lebanon, comment on how sterile/barren, and "so bland" (in her words) DFW is after a coworker talked about moving there. Now, people might not be chomping at the bits to move to Houston for its greenery either, but people on here (CD) arent the only ones who've noticed this difference.

Well If Dallas is the definition of barren then I can find alot of spots that resemble Dallas in Houston.

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by savanite

As I've mentioned before, Houston's fixation on the size of its trees is explained by Freud's work on the Libido Theory. It's quite common among a suppressed, downtrodden population that wants to compensate.

Another example is Houston's fixation on the height of its office buildings. I can't think of a better illustration of Freudian abnormal psychology.

Huh? New Yorkers boast about their amenities, so do Californians. A lot. Austinites boast all the time about what we supposedly do better. Does that mean we all have complexes too?

[JJG]

In the spirit of the The Amazing Spider-man movie that just came out, I think we should mention Houston's own Scarlet Spider....

[savanite]

Originally Posted by sxrckr

Huh? New Yorkers boast about their amenities, so do Californians. A lot. Austinites boast all the time about what we supposedly do better. Does that mean we all have complexes Yes, yu all have obsessions and compuksions th dramatize. ?

Yes, yo do.

If you did not, you would just accept things as the way they are.

[savanite]

Originally Posted by soletaire

But in Dallas you can travel through parts of the Metroplex that look completely desolate for as far as the eye can see.

You're locked in an exaggerated world of Houston Braggadocio and delusion.

[savanite]

The reason people brag or rag on about their home towns...

They feel the inferiority, and it restimulates a desire to fight back.

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by savanite

Yes, yo do.

If you did not, you would just accept things as the way they are.

That makes no sense. Nor does your strange sentence with mispellings that was added to my quote.

I think this is just another case of pulling the inferiority/jealousy card that is done all too often by those who think they know it all. There's nothing wrong with someone sharing their opinion on what they like about where they live.

[Lakewooder]

Another view of the Dallas skyline from the "barren" Great Trinity Forest:

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by stoneclaw

I'm from Colorado bro.

That might explain why the hills in DFW don't really impress me.

stoneclaw

They impress the hell out of this Houston native. I feel like I'm going into the Rockies when i get close to Cedar Hill, and those big hills look like mountain tops from South Arlington/Mansfield.