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Old 09-06-2009, 05:04 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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I said that and your problem is you look too deep into the comparison. He didn't mean to talk down on Dallas; you as usual just over exaggerate everything toward Dallas. Basically Houston area has NATIVE palm tress; Dallas does not. Houston has a large Asian and Hispanic population; your argument when it comes to different ethnic groups is flawed. For one, LA area is much bigger than Houston so of course it's going to have larger numbers.
Percentage wise it has higher numbers too.

How do I exaggerate things "toward Dallas" exactly? Ive never seen you (jluke) trash Dallas, but I see other Houstonians on here do it quite frequently.
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Old 09-06-2009, 05:27 PM
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Please elaborate. If you're referring to my post I did not take those pics. It was merely to show how both cityscapes are alike at night. The style of architecture, height, & number of buildings in both cities downtowns are almost the same. Houston is a little taller & bigger overall. Its kinda like Chicago is to NYC...similar yet different.
Okay. To be depicted by photographs taken by somebody else in pitch darkness.

I can make Minneapolis or Denver look like LA that way.
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Old 09-06-2009, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Okay. To be depicted by appropriated photographs taken by somebody else in pitch darkness.

I can make Minneapolis or Denver look like LA that way.
Please...Minneapolis & Denver's skyline's look nothing like Houston & LA's. The height is just not there & neither are the palm trees.

This LA? LMAO

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Old 09-06-2009, 05:57 PM
mm4
 
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Nope. Sorry. Doesn't look or feel anything remotely like Houston.
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Old 09-06-2009, 06:12 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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Nice looking pics, but, really shows how much smaller it is, compared to San Antonio or Ft Worth. El Paso I would say w/o a doubt.
You are assuming that buildings with less height make it less big which couldn't be further from the truth. SA and Ft. Worth don't really have much office space for cities there size, plain and simple. Both cities have a sizable residential portion and hotel portion (more so SA).

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Nope. Sorry. Doesn't look or feel anything remotely like Houston.
You just like being argumentative. Pictures make for a pretty subjective comparison.

To the LA/Houston comparison:
I've been to LA several times and I think it does have a feel that is similar to Houston. Both cities have a pretty diverse population and have a chaotic feel to the them. I think both Houston and LA are cities that really don't have any other American city to compare them to besides each other.
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Old 09-06-2009, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Nope. Sorry. Doesn't look or feel anything remotely like Houston.
LA has mountains & Houston is more lush with greenery. When I first visited LA back in July I was surprised at how flat the city is in some parts just like Houston. Both have a chaotic feel, but Houston more so because of the enormous strip malls located right off of the endless feeder roads which LA does not have. The freeways in Houston are also much wider compared to LA, theres just more of them out there because the metro area is much larger, obviously.
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Old 09-06-2009, 06:58 PM
mm4
 
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...off of the endless feeder roads which LA does not have.
Beg pardon? You must not have driven things like the San Bernardino Freeway, through places like Covina.

All this "chaotic" stuff: Houston is no more "chaotic" than Lemmon Avenue, or Far North Dallas at Addison.
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Old 09-06-2009, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Beg pardon? You must not have driven things like the San Bernardino Freeway, through places like Covina.

All this "chaotic" stuff: Houston is no more "chaotic" than Lemmon Avenue, or Far North Dallas at Addison.
Huh? Addison is one of the most meticulously maintained suburbs in all of North Dallas. You are the only poster on here I've seen claim Dallas' zoning is as lax as Houston's. Lemmon Avenue in Dallas consists of a bunch of ghettofied strip malls with some older, nice neighborhoods behind it. The area is zoned.

LA's freeways & major arteries are not near as chaotic looking as Houston's. Both cities have billboards lining the freeways, but its more "in your face" in Houston because of the feeder roads which LA does not have. In LA you enter & exit the freeways...if you make a mistake you're screwed & can't U-turn around under the freeway at the next stop light. I've never seen a church right across the street from a XXX video store there like you would find in Houston.
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Old 09-06-2009, 07:52 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Ok, this I have no problem with. I get up in arms the many many times Ive heard Houston called a "mimi LA".
Well, take that up with your fellow Angelenos, who I heard it from. Not Houstonians.
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Old 09-07-2009, 02:38 AM
 
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TMC is the mother of all medical centers, but, I wouldn't start comparing it to downtowns such as Dallas, S.A. and even Ft. Worth.

San Antonio's downtown is much larger in area than the TMC. If i'm not mistaken it covers more square miles than any other Texas downtown.

Argumentative? No, because i'ts the truth.

Even though most of San Antonio's office space is outside downtown, along the business sectors of, I-410, 281, 1604, I-10, I-35, the infill of downtown S.A. is quite dense, regardless if it's a hotel, Bank, residential or Hosptial.
So comparing, a newly devloped medical district that covers a few blocks to a historic 300 year old urban core, is quite idiotic, and then to say it's medical district is the size of three Texas cities combined, simply delusional.

It's like saying San Antonio's downtown district is bigger than Dallas', Houston's and Austin's downtown districts combined because it has three times the hotel rooms in the downtown area.


And just a lil tid bit, S.A's downtown has five highrise Hospitals, (23 story NIX the biggest)and several to break ground soon at the new downtown University Medical Center. S.A.'s downtown is not all hotel.

Sorry if I'm being argumentative, but, I thought this was a forum.

dense downtownquote=dv1033;10639150]You are assuming that buildings with less height make it less big which couldn't be further from the truth. SA and Ft. Worth don't really have much office space for cities there size, plain and simple. Both cities have a sizable residential portion and hotel portion (more so SA).



You just like being argumentative. Pictures make for a pretty subjective comparison.

To the LA/Houston comparison:
I've been to LA several times and I think it does have a feel that is similar to Houston. Both cities have a pretty diverse population and have a chaotic feel to the them. I think both Houston and LA are cities that really don't have any other American city to compare them to besides each other.[/quote]
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