Which big Texas city has the best downtown? (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Ft. Worth) (Longview: amusement parks, closing)

[feconi]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

You can go people watching in Deep Ellum and Exposition Park (both are well defined) anytime after 10:30 PM Friday-Sunday. You can go people watching at night at West Village or West End (well defined areas) and anywhere on McKinney street or Knox/Henderson block (well defined areas) or Latino Cultural Center (defined area). The neighboring, virtually connected at the hip, area to downtown is Oaklawn and you can go people watch at the Victory Park (well defined area) and Cedar Springs gay district (well defined area: it's the gays, for Christ sake) or at the monthly art walks on dragon street/neighboring streets (not defined too well). The art district (well defined) has free nightly events several times a month. You speak of gargantuan Dallas as if it is a bare bones ghost town compared to a much less but overly pretentious city like Austin. There is so much free activity in Dallas that it is impossible to be bored. It requires scheduling and planning ahead: something that intellectuals tend to do. In Austin you just have to drive your car into a herd of traffic and people and wait in line to find a parking spot for 45 minutes (as if you were in a communist city). Then travel with a herd to literally 9,000 bars and restaurants on 6th, 5th, and 4th street. Ughhhhhhhh.

Thankfully the people don't populate the downtown area of Dallas like they do in Austin. Do you know how miserable, claustrophobic, boring, money-wasting, and draining it is to drive around downtown Austin??

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As I've said before, your over-the-top generalizations are far from reality. Nothing you say is grounded in facts and probably not grounded in experience, either.

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[deathpenalty03]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

^^^^^Ok, much better

yeah i agree with their post.

austin has a nice downtown, with tons to do.
houston has nothing at night- in the day their isnt much but office buildings
dallas- great city and suburbs- but not much to do

pick austin
or san antonio
for food, and sports pick SA
for artsy stuff and high prices, but tons to do pick austin

[artsyguy]

The lies people tell are just terrible. Downtown Austin is Godawful: plus you can have BBQ, beer, and loud music anywhere. Why is that considered "tons to do." While Dallas the art, restaurant, shopping, nightlife, sports, multicultural utopia of Texas you say "not much to do."

"For artsy stuff and tons to do pick Austin..." This is an outright lie. A complete fabrication. There is more art in Frisco, Texas's Texas Sculpture Garden than anything in Austin. And that is truly sad.

Originally Posted by deathpenalty03

yeah i agree with their post.

austin has a nice downtown, with tons to do.
houston has nothing at night- in the day their isnt much but office buildings
dallas- great city and suburbs- but not much to do

pick austin
or san antonio
for food, and sports pick SA
for artsy stuff and high prices, but tons to do pick austin

[artsyguy]

Downtown Dallas is a utopia. Main street park, World Aquarium, Farmer's Market, Latino Cultural Center, Deep Ellum, The Arts District, The Central Library, and The West End. What more could you want?????????? DisneyLand? I'm not trying to brag but I am just stating the fact that I had 100X more fun in Deep Ellum in one night than I had my entire year in Austin. Have you ever been to a wedding where an Angel and a Demon got married? Well, they did that in Deep Ellum. It was wild. But that is how boring and lousy Austin is. Deep Ellum has more to do than all of 4th, 5th, and 6th street combined. And everyone you meet in Austin are overly sheltered pampered white Protestant people coddled with their white privilege.

Aside from those facts, let's look and see some more facts: Austin downtown has UT Austin which looks like Stalin designed and built the dump, I meant campus himself; 4th, 5th, 6th streets, and side streets with literally 5 million garish and homogeneous bars and restaurants, filthy bums getting in your face demanding money, foul wafts of odors everywhere you go, cigarette odors galore, tons of traffic, and herds of automaton-looking people and that's really it. I guess that is fun for you.

Originally Posted by feconi

As I've said before, your over-the-top generalizations are far from reality. Nothing you say is grounded in facts and probably not grounded in experience, either.

[royal744]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Downtown Dallas is a utopia. Main street park, World Aquarium, Farmer's Market, Latino Cultural Center, Deep Ellum, The Arts District, The Central Library, and The West End. What more could you want?????????? DisneyLand? I'm not trying to brag but I am just stating the fact that I had 100X more fun in Deep Ellum in one night than I had my entire year in Austin. Have you ever been to a wedding where an Angel and a Demon got married? Well, they did that in Deep Ellum. It was wild. But that is how boring and lousy Austin is. Deep Ellum has more to do than all of 4th, 5th, and 6th street combined. And everyone you meet in Austin are overly sheltered pampered white Protestant people coddled with their white privilege.

Aside from those facts, let's look and see some more facts: Austin downtown has UT Austin which looks like Stalin designed and built the dump, I meant campus himself; 4th, 5th, 6th streets, and side streets with literally 5 million garish and homogeneous bars and restaurants, filthy bums getting in your face demanding money, foul wafts of odors everywhere you go, cigarette odors galore, tons of traffic, and herds of automaton-looking people and that's really it. I guess that is fun for you.

Kindly get a grip and stay on topic.

[feconi]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

The lies people tell are just terrible.

I know, it really is awful. The lies that trolls tell are even worse.

[Dallaz]

I think Downtown is getting better.

[worldlyman]

San Antonio and Ft. Worth have the "best" downtowns in terms of overall usage. Downtown is all they've generally got aside from nearby theme parks.

Downtown Houston is a mix of mystique, nightlife, tunnel life, towering observation and high end culture. These aspects do not happen all at once, but depending on the time on the clock, one aspect of downtown Houston is there when I need it.

No-Tsu-Oh or Minuti Coffee or the Buffalo Bayou walk or the tunnel shops...I love downtown H-town.

Again, there is a sense of mystery and excitement I get from downtown Houston that I don't really get from superficial San Antone or Ft. Worth...though it's nice to take people there to the River Walk or Sundance Square.

[Marlin96]

I say San Antonio at the top, just because of the Riverwalk. I'm unfamiliar with Fort Worth's downtown so I'm unsure of the next four, but Austin's is pretty good, too.

[ASouthernRebel]

I think Kilgore, TX has the best downtown HAHAHAHA It only takes 2 seconds to get through it.