Houston vs. Dallas (Paris, Portland, Roma: treasure, low income, homes)

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

It's called zoning. Every major city has it except Houston.

Not true.

Asian cities don't have traditional zoning & neither do most of the other major cosmopolitan cities in the world outside of the US.

Houston has other forms of zoning called deed restrictions. Look it up.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Not true.

Asian cities don't have traditional zoning & neither do most of the other major cosmopolitan cities in the world outside of the US.

Houston has other forms of zoning called deed restrictions. Look it up.

I'm talking about the USA.

[Trae713]

Smackdown is back.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Trae713

Smackdown is back.

You got that right.

[Dallaz]

ProfessionalSury, You said Dallas is too spread out but Houston covers more area than Dallas covers. (it covers 247.45 sq mi more than Dallas)

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

I'm talking about the USA.

Then yes, you are correct.

Do you honestly think cities like Dubai or Hong Kong have zoning?

Zoning is an American thing coined up by our government & city planners who think they know what a model city is supposed to look like. Needless to say it doesn't always work accordingly.

Not having zoning is what gives Houston its quirky vibe & also makes it free from more government.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by stoneclaw

Well that's my perception after my countless visits to the metroplex.
It seems that the upbeat areas in Dallas are more geared toward young, white professionals. Most of the metroplex is composed of large suburbs abeit nice ones, but suburb in nature. Dallas and Fort Worth are merely the bookends to the metroplex.

If Dallas and Houston were schools, Dallas would be the prep school where the environment is more controlled and sterile. Pretty much where everybody is cut from the same mold. Houston would be the school that is more wild and loose where everybody from different places are mixed together. The good, bad and the ugly!

Not trying to cap, its just the way it is.... at least to me!


stoneclaw

I know youre not trying to hate, but again DFW is not one thing. Its too big and diverse to be thrown into one category. Its not the biggest or most diverse, but its way too much so to be one thing.

[ClarenceBodiker]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Then yes, you are correct.

Do you honestly think cities like Dubai or Hong Kong have zoning?

Zoning is an American thing coined up by our government & city planners who think they know what a model city is supposed to look like. Needless to say it doesn't always work accordingly.

Not having zoning is what gives Houston its quirky vibe & also makes it free from more government.

Zoning is a U.S. thing?

Europe, Canada, South America, South Africa, Australia, Tokyo, Japan -- these places all employ zoning. You can argue some places have much stricter zoning than others, but most incorporated cities in the industrialized world zone their land. This is hardly an exclusively American concept.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by ProfessionalSury

I lived in Frisco at first but I moved closer to my job into a very nice apartment home near valley view mall which is north dallas. It is dead in all of Dallas except South Dallas which is pretty hood to me.

One thing is for sure, Dallas is not dead. It may not have large quantities of the clubs you prefer, but it certainly is not dead or boring. If Uptown is "too white" for you. Try Lower Greenville or Deep Ellum. Hell even Koreatown. We went there last weekend to Karaoke and there were lots of white, black, Asian, and Hispanic.

If you simply dont like Dallas, thats fine. No one is keeping you here but you. But what you describe isnt the Dallas I know (and no Im not white or black).

[JJG]

Originally Posted by ProfessionalSury

My thoughts exactly. Dallas is very orderly. Like it was planned and created by stale, old white people. Houston is far more lively.

..... I don't even know how the hell I can even respond to this.