Most overrated or overhyped city: Dallas, Austin, or Houston? (Rice: crime, home)

[ZeroTX]

Houston is under-hyped, as major U.S. cities go. Most people in the world if you ask the name of a big city in Texas, they say Dallas. Most news reports talking about major U.S. cities list Dallas and don't mention Houston. That's if Texas is mentioned at all. They'll list NYC, L.A., Chicago and then start listing other East/West Coast cities, again ignoring Texas entirely despite the fact that Texas has 3 of the top 10 largest cities in the United States. We're 30% of the top 10 list, folks! And also of note, Dallas is now the THIRD largest city in Texas. So I have no idea why it gets all the attention.

[raymondm]

Dallas I the most overrated city just like the football team, how ironic there both are a whole a lot of nothing. Austin is just austin, so keep it weird and houston I think is underrated. Watch out for houston in the nxt 10-20 years, its expected to pass chicago up in population

[tstone]

Originally Posted by ZeroTX

...And also of note, Dallas is now the THIRD largest city in Texas. So I have no idea why it gets all the attention.

Because San Antonio's metro = San Antonio and not much else.

DFW metro has 500k+ more people than the Houston metro.

[needsomeinfo]

dallas has jr ewing and the cowboys... enough said. that is all many people outside of texas know about texas, period.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by tstone

Because San Antonio's metro = San Antonio and not much else.

DFW metro has 500k+ more people than the Houston metro.

More than 800,000 people outside the city limits of San Antonio, it does have a metro of 2.1 million, and is the main component of a six county corridor of nearly 4 million people.

[raymondm]

tstone! we are talking about overrrated CITIES! not metros! let face it dallas is the most overrated city in texas.

[tstone]

Originally Posted by raymondm

tstone! we are talking about overrrated CITIES! not metros! let face it dallas is the most overrated city in texas.

Ah - good point.

And I agree.

[Spade]

First off, I don't think any city in Texas is overrated unless you start placing the cities at tiers and levels with other cities knowing that it doesn't quite matchup to those them. Such as Houston is on the level of New York or Austin is on the level of .....Houston. But I do think some people overhype Texas cities.

Originally Posted by raymondm

Dallas I the most overrated city just like the football team, how ironic there both are a whole a lot of nothing. Austin is just austin, so keep it weird and houston I think is underrated. Watch out for houston in the nxt 10-20 years, its expected to pass chicago up in population

Yes because Houston's football team is whole lot of .....anything.

If Austin is considered a piece of crap by everyone then it guess its not that over hyped...

I agree with you 95%. The reason I slightly disagree with you is because Austin receives the media positive spotlight over all Texas cities. They think it's the best thing in Texas since slice bread. From 2004-2008, we all lived with people saying Austin is an oasis of blue surrounded by a red sea only because Travis County went blue in 2004. When in reality, the city of Dallas and the city of Houston went blue but the suburban population is bigger in Dallas and Harris county compared with Travis thus the reason why that data is skewed a bit.

But Houston (especially inside the loop) and Dallas (inside loop 12) is just as liberal if not more than Austin. The results showed in 2008 that Austin indeed was no different than Houston and Dallas as Harris and Dallas counties are now becoming more urban and more diverse as each year passes.

Austin does have it's advantages (the hills, lakes, vibrancy, culture), but so does the other Texas cities and it does not deserve the type of flack it gets from the rest of the state. However, Houston and Dallas does not deserve the negativity it usually gets from people in Austin either.

[Topaz]

Originally Posted by needsomeinfo

dallas has jr ewing and the cowboys... enough said. that is all many people outside of texas know about texas, period.

Dallas has been off the air since 1991. I don't think the younger generation even knows who J.R. Ewing is.

[texdav]

I really don't think any of them is over hyped ;they are three unique urban areas in Texas. More so than any other areas.That is why they are so popular for urban areas of texas.