Tyler, Texas - Would you live here? (Houston, Dallas: calculated, income)

[soletaire]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Tyler is becoming more of an open minded town, at least from what it used to be 15-20 years ago.

It can still be conservative, yet open minded at the same time.

Lots of cities are that way.

Get over it already.

I guess....but you're telling me to get over it when your entire apparent existence revolved around convincing people that Tyler is some sort of liberal mecca. I always just let you do it without objection, because I figured you actually believed it, plus I too think Tyler is MUCH more openminded and a lot less meddlesome than people give it credit for. Ive always accepted the duality of Tyler. I always maintained that open minded and progressive =/= exceedingly liberal.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by soletaire

I guess....but you're telling me to get over it when your entire apparent existence revolved around convincing people that Tyler is some sort of liberal mecca. I always just let you do it without objection, because I figured you actually believed it, plus I too think Tyler is MUCH more openminded and a lot less meddlesome than people give it credit for. Ive always accepted the duality of Tyler. I always maintained that open minded and progressive =/= exceedingly liberal.

Never, ever, ever did I say Tyler is a liberal mecca. FAR from it, but we're not some one horse town etiher.

I stated Dallas is trying to pass a law banning Blacks from sagging their pants which is pretty backwards considering its about 20 years late.

I also stated in Arlington a few weeks ago a lesbian couple got hate slurs spray painted all over their subaru in their own driveway & Fort Worth police & FBI raided a suspected gay bar & man handled (no pun intended) them inappropraitely.

That's were you got the whole liberal/conservative thing all screwed up.

I also stated Tyler has several gays clubs & bars, which it does.

[Metro Matt]

Teen fashion retailer Rue 21 coming to Tyler later this month.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20...SS01/307089993

[Mark Senior]

I also stated Tyler has several gays clubs & bars, which it does.

What club names and where? Really now?

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

I did in fact DJ at a club in Tyler on gay night. Every Wednesday night used to be gay night. They would even have guest drag queens from Dallas come down.

Speaking of gay clubs, every Sunday night is now gay karaoke night at Carretta's Mexican restaurant in South Tyler or so I heard from the grapevine.

Whoo hoo! Tyler is up to 2/7 of a gay club now. Only 1 5/7 to go to catch up to Longview.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by kenshi

Whoo hoo! Tyler is up to 2/7 of a gay club now. Only 1 5/7 to go to catch up to Longview.

Tyler could care less about Longview & vice versa.

Its like Dallas/Fort Worth.

I sure as heck don't see a Longview forum on here.

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

I sure as heck don't see a Longview forum on here.

They go by thread count and there's no one posting on here every time Longview gets a change in bus route or a new grocery store.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by kenshi

They go by thread count and there's no one posting on here every time Longview gets a change in bus route or a new grocery store.

Maybe when Longview steps up to the 100,000+ population mark in 20 years there will be more interest in the place.

Longview has always been about 20-30K behind Tyler which doesn't sound like a lot, but when you visit both cities its pretty obvious who's larger.

[KathrynAragon]

Tyler is 80 percent white collar and 20 percent blue collar. Longview is 80 percent blue collar and 20 percent white collar. The differences between the two cities are very obvious to anyone who visits both.

I moved to Tyler 20 years ago when it had a population of about 65,000. Now it has over 100,000 and do you know why? PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE THERE.

Longview is growing too. At about 65,000 people now, it feels good and comfortable - laid back and friendly - in the same ways that Tyler did twenty years ago. I've moved now and live between the two cities and I have the best of both worlds.

It's a great area. I love it here.

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Maybe when Longview steps up to the 100,000+ population mark in 20 years there will be more interest in the place.

Longview isn't that far from the 100,000 mark. It isn't as though things suddenly change when you hit this magical number. Plus Tyler is just short of it for that matter.

Longview has always been about 20-30K behind Tyler which doesn't sound like a lot, but when you visit both cities its pretty obvious who's larger.

No it hasn't. At the 1990 census, Longview had 70,311 and Tyler had about 75,000. Tyler has just been growing more in recent years. (There have been times when Longview grew more as well.) Even now, Tyler is only about 15,000 ahead.

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Tyler is 80 percent white collar and 20 percent blue collar. Longview is 80 percent blue collar and 20 percent white collar. The differences between the two cities are very obvious to anyone who visits both.

And that's supposed to be a point for Tyler?

I moved to Tyler 20 years ago when it had a population of about 65,000. Now it has over 100,000 and do you know why? PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE THERE.

Longview is growing too. At about 65,000 people now, it feels good and comfortable - laid back and friendly - in the same ways that Tyler did twenty years ago.

Where the hell are you coming up with these numbers? They are way off.

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