Dallas vs. Houston (San Antonio, Fort Worth, Howe: relocate, work, assessment)

[SpeedyAZ]

Hey mpope- Go to wikipedia right now(!!) and type in "Houston" and see what comes up. Did you do that.

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by SpeedyAZ

Hey mpope- Go to wikipedia right now(!!) and type in "Houston" and see what comes up. Did you do that.

Okay. What about it?

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by mpope409

Oops! , my bad...

Its okay to use kilometers! Metric is the American way. You have just proved that Houston is truly an international city.

BTW everyone: Please stop using the monarchist system. WE ARE NOT ENGLISH/BRITISH! WE ARE AMERICAN! Metric is better and more democratic/egalitarian. Please support the efforts of the United States Metric Association at http://www.metric.org and support the fulfillment of "fix the standard of weights and measures" in Article 1, Section 8 of our constitution by making metric the official measure of the land by contacting your congressman, senators, and the president. Its time to declare INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain!!!

[metroplex2003]

Originally Posted by mpope409

Where are you getting these numbers from? Houston's square mileage is about 600, New York's is about 470, and Dallas' is 385.

I mean the entire city, not just central Dallas.


I've said time and time again on this site that dense does not equal cosmo and urban. If that were the case, Los Angeles would be nothing. Which we all know is not true. And no, Boston and D.C. are not more cosmopolitan than Houston. Houston is (and I hate this word) "hipper." It's younger and bigger business. More international and with more to do.

And Houston isn't trying to become more dense just in order to fit in with the older cities. They're doing it to become accessible. And this is without transit.

International nonetheless. But like I said, air traffic has very little to do with a city's importance, so I don't know why this has become a drawn out discussion.

Air traffic is important to a city's worth. Businesses and corporation oftentimes decide their corporate HQ location based on airports and accessibility. At the end of the day, Houston and Dallas are important to America, they just have different economic focuses.

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by metroplex2003

This actually depends on how you define busiest.
DFW still is 3rd busiest in terms of aircraft movements.

Aircraft movements and passengers are the two criteria used.

As for the 500,000 person lead, what is your source.

U.S. Census rates Houston at 5.5 million, DFW at 6.2 million, giving DFW a 700,000 person lead, or 12.7% This as of July 1, 2006...which is the latest and most up to date figures. Unless Houston magically grew by 200,000 people, which it's not growing at that fast of a rate per year, then those figures listed above are correct since DFW and Houston's growth rates are roughly parallel. Most US boomtowns do not add more than 100,000-150,000 people per year
If DFW and Houston are both booming Metro areas, then their leads shouldnt change drastically.
Thus, DFW has roughly a 12.7% lead over Houston.

I made a thread not too long ago about Houston being at 5.7 million. Look under my name.

[SpeedyAZ]

Okay. What about it?

Someone deleted all of the infomation and put up some weird typing. I guess wikipedia fixed it before you saw it.

Its okay to use kilometers! Metric is the American way. You have just proved that Houston is truly an international city.

BTW everyone: Please stop using the monarchist system. WE ARE NOT ENGLISH/BRITISH! WE ARE AMERICAN! Metric is better and more democratic/egalitarian. Please support the efforts of the United States Metric Association at http://www.metric.org and support the fulfillment of "fix the standard of weights and measures" in Article 1, Section 8 of our constitution by making metric the official measure of the land by contacting your congressman, senators, and the president. Its time to declare INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain!!!

NO!!! I doubt it will ever change and hopefully it doesn't. Everyone understands miles/feet but almost nobody understands kilometers.

[mpope409]

Originally Posted by SpeedyAZ

NO!!! I doubt it will ever change and hopefully it doesn't. Everyone understands miles/feet but almost nobody understands kilometers.

It's not that I didn't understand it, I'm just used to everybody always using miles so I didn't notice that he put km

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by SpeedyAZ

NO!!! I doubt it will ever change and hopefully it doesn't. Everyone understands miles/feet but almost nobody understands kilometers.

What if I told you that 100 km/h is freeway speed? Would that be easier?

I didn't know that you were so conservative that you supported the monarchy. Apparently the foot is based on the length a 12th-century KING'S foot. I guess it is safe to say that the cup is based on volume on the king's favourite(since you love Britain so much) drinking cup and the pint is based on the volume of the king's beer stein. I hope you like your £sd. (pounds, shillings, and pense). Its way too complicated for any human being.

Apparently the running joke is that the British didn't convert to decimalized currency for so long because it was so hard to use. The same could be said for the Gregorian calendar and popery. The founders were not afraid of change since the Gregorian Calendar was adopted during their lifetime, in 1752. This was the biggest change to come since the Reformation!!! The intent of Article 1, Section 8 enabled the federal government to adopt the metric system exclusively without interference from states when possible.

I really don't understand miles/feet. I guess I wasn't taught miles/feet at school in the USA. Thank God! The mile enables sprawl. The kilometer is walkable. The foot is too short to measure buildings or mountains; the meter is better suited. BTW What kind of foot do you use? The Texas foot? The Arizona foot? The Phoenix foot? The Houston foot? Your foot, King ____? At least the meter is the same everywhere in the world. What's the difference of 99F vs. 100F? Both temperatures are only 37C in metric. It still feels the same! Fahrenheit is unscientific since it compares two unlike things.

Its easy to change. Just stop using miles, feet, and inches and start using the variations of the meter; (Centi-, Milli-, and Kilo-) meters. Converting only makes it harder. It is simply un-patriotic to use the English system! Metric is coming soon since we cannot trade in the EU without listing exclusively in metric units starting in 2010. You'll see metric products very soon to meet this deadline. Let's make measuring as easy as counting money.

One more thing: DO NOT mess up Wikipedia!

[metroplex2003]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

Its okay to use kilometers! Metric is the American way. You have just proved that Houston is truly an international city.

BTW everyone: Please stop using the monarchist system. WE ARE NOT ENGLISH/BRITISH! WE ARE AMERICAN! Metric is better and more democratic/egalitarian. Please support the efforts of the United States Metric Association at http://www.metric.org and support the fulfillment of "fix the standard of weights and measures" in Article 1, Section 8 of our constitution by making metric the official measure of the land by contacting your congressman, senators, and the president. Its time to declare INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain!!!

I did not intend my use of km to be a British vs. America thing on a forum that is Dallas vs. Houston. I used "Km" simply b/c I was too lazy to convert and the website I used was using "km"

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by metroplex2003

I did not intend my use of km to be a British vs. America thing on a forum that is Dallas vs. Houston. I used "Km" simply b/c I was too lazy to convert and the website I used was using "km"

I just wanted to vent my frustration that metric is barely used in America. I was so excited that somebody finally mentioned the value in metric--something Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Ben Franklin would be proud of. The British reference is supposed to mean that using metric is revolutionary. Its okay to use kilometers, so please don't convert into English measures. Converting makes it harder to use metric. No one needs to know the English value; it is a crutch against using metric just like the decimal inch or the decimal mile.

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