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View Poll Results: What city in Texas has the best culture/performing arts?
Dallas 7 26.92%
Fort Worth 2 7.69%
Austin 1 3.85%
Other-please comment below 16 61.54%
Voters: 26. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-19-2009, 02:03 AM
 
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Houston.
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Old 12-19-2009, 07:25 AM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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I'm hoping to move to Texas from NYC. Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin are my preferred cities, but wondering if there any cities you can recommend. I'd love to have:
1. Weather above 30 degrees average in January
2. Decent performing arts/culture scene
3. good standard of living. (nice apartment or condo for around 600-750 a month rent, preferably in a "downtown"/ hip area)
There are other preferences, but those are my top 3. Coming from NYC, I don't want to have too much culture shock of having nothing to do on Friday night. I hear Austin is great for culture. Any other suggestions?
Houston has the best arts scene in the country, with a fantastic Arts district downtown. Dallas is second out of the Texas cities, with Fort Worth third. Austin is more known for rock and country bands and live music than they are for their fine arts.

We'd love to welcome you into Texas, but you obviously know nothing about our state since Houston wasn't included in your poll. Either you haven't heard of Houston's great fine arts scene (or the city itself), you are uninformed, or you are plain ignorant. Sorry for the rant, but please do your homework before doing a poll next time.
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Old 12-19-2009, 11:23 AM
 
Location: A Land Not So Far Away
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Houston, far and away, has got the goods. I've heard a lot about Dallas' arts district area and the new things they have, but have never been there. And San Antonio has a pretty good symphony, too.
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Old 12-19-2009, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Hell's Kitchen, NYC
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Houston - hands down. Best theatre, dance and arts scene in the State. Fort Worth has the best museum in Texas - the Kimball, but museum is the operative word. No living arts scene. Dallas has some great cultural amenities too but geared more towards the people buying culture than making it. Austin is prettier and best for film and music - as others have noted, but it remains a kinda sleepy do it yourself kinda place. Houston also has far superior restaurants (in terms of both quality and variety) to any other city in TX, though in terms of local cuisine, San Antonio has better Tex Mex and the Austin area has better BBQ. In terms of high culture, no TX city can compare to NYC, Chicago, SF, heck even Boston . . .
I would say in terms of quality, at least Houston is on par with Boston, but in terms of number of "butts in the seats" to see said quality performance, you're correct. I avoid Boston's Theater District at all costs on nights when there are multiple performances in the area.

The funny thing is that in some ways Houston is very representative of "high culture," and in some ways it is the antithesis.
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Old 12-20-2009, 12:11 AM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Houston has lots of cool little inner loop neighborhoods. I lived in Rice Village, but there is the Montrose area, The Heights, Richmond, and a few others.
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Old 12-20-2009, 09:36 AM
 
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Housto because of its size purely.
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