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View Poll Results: which city is it?
Dallas 5 11.63%
Houston 8 18.60%
Amarillo 3 6.98%
Lubbock 7 16.28%
San Antonio 15 34.88%
Austin 5 11.63%
Voters: 43. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-13-2009, 11:54 PM
 
Location: New Mexico to Texas
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which city has TX written all over it, that maintains that true TX lifestyle.

I've been around Lubbock and Amarillo growing up, I lived fairly close by in Eastern NM. Ive been to El Paso and Dallas, oh and Odessa but that is it.
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Old 11-14-2009, 12:48 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Where is the option for Fort Worth?
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Old 11-14-2009, 01:36 AM
 
Location: New Mexico to Texas
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Where is the option for Fort Worth?

I wanted to add Ft.Worth and I knew someone would mention it but I figured it was too close to Dallas so I threw in Austin for the last choice.
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Old 11-14-2009, 01:56 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Downtown Rancho Cordova, CA
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You have to define "Texas lifestyle" Are you talking about the Hollywood image of cowboys? In the last 100 years or so, there were relatively few Texans who ever lived that lifestyle.

East Texas, which for some reason is ignored in the mindset of what it means to be "Texan" was historically much more like the southern U.S., ie Alabama, Georgia, etc. It was principally farming, lumber and later oil.

Up until WWII, Houston was a southern town, not a southwestern town. Beaumont and Port Author were heavily influenced by LA.

Today, there are so many Hispanic immigrants in Texas that San Antonio should probably win.

So what are you talking about when you say "Texas Lifestyle"--Cowboys or East Texas Farmers or Hispanic immigrants?
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Old 11-14-2009, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I'm sort of with ElectroPlumber here. I think each City in Texas represents the Texas lifestyle of the region it is in. I don't think one stands out above another really because you could say that San Antonio and Austin have the Central Texas "Texan lifestyle" and El Paso the West Texas lifestyle as well as Lubbock and Abilene. Amarillo has it's own Texas style and Laredo/McAllan/Corpus Christi represent South Texas style.
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Old 11-14-2009, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I would say that Austin and vicinity would probably represent the entire state culturally the best simply because it has a little bit of each if you look for it (though that fact is often overlooked). A little of East Texas, a little of South Texas, a little of West Texas, a little bit of North Texas, and so on, all within easy reach. More than any of the other cities mentioned, I'd think, in any case.
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Old 11-14-2009, 01:30 PM
 
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I was born and raised in Houston. I attended UT in Austin. Texas is a magnificently diverse state. My view of The Texas Lifestyle is based primarily on Houston where I grew up. To me Dallas and El Paso could have easily been viewed as different planets. That's not a bad thing, just very different. You've got to remember that you could drive through 3 or 4 eastern states in the time it takes to drive from Houston to El Paso. Everything really is bigger in Texas, including the distances between cities.

I chose Austin only because it's centrally located and gives a taste of each climate and cultural diversity but from my perspective Houston is Texas and will always be home. I've lived in CA for over 25 years but it's never been home.
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Old 11-14-2009, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Northeast Texas
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Putting Amarillo and Lubbock on there while Forth Worth or some other cities size of Amarillo is big time bias. Don't know why you put Lubbock or Amarillo on there.

Definitely only OP's poll only.
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Old 11-14-2009, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Downtown Rancho Cordova, CA
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I was born and raised in Houston. I attended UT in Austin. Texas is a magnificently diverse state. My view of The Texas Lifestyle is based primarily on Houston where I grew up. To me Dallas and El Paso could have easily been viewed as different planets. That's not a bad thing, just very different. You've got to remember that you could drive through 3 or 4 eastern states in the time it takes to drive from Houston to El Paso. Everything really is bigger in Texas, including the distances between cities.

I chose Austin only because it's centrally located and gives a taste of each climate and cultural diversity but from my perspective Houston is Texas and will always be home. I've lived in CA for over 25 years but it's never been home.
Same here. Born and raised in Houston, now residing in Northern CA. My view of Texas is still Houston, although I lived in Abilene and Temple for awhile. Unlike so many of the CA natives here who make a past time out of knocking CA, I basically try and enjoy the good points and tune out the nonsense. And all that aside, we will probably leave the state next year and maybe move back to Texas. Hey who knows? It's a big country.
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Old 11-14-2009, 05:49 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I wanted to add Ft.Worth and I knew someone would mention it but I figured it was too close to Dallas so I threw in Austin for the last choice.
Nah

Completely opposite cultures only 30 miles apart.

Dallas is the flashy, cosmopolitan big city while Fort Worth is the much more laid back smaller city & is where the Wild, Wild, West unofficially begins.
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