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Read into to your use of comparisons as you may - to me they seem to be used as whatever is most compelling to your story and inconsistent in sometimes a matter of seconds
So is Houston a top ten city on population, or is the real "city" inside or outside the loop
lol, that is what you are coming up with??? lmao. Be sure to tell me how it feels when y'all get passed by Albuquerque next couple of years
Oh man Philly posters are notorious for playing with numbers and boundaries. if you wanna do it at least have the balls like Houston to physically do it, not just sit there and gripe that if we were this or if we were that
Philly is losing significance as we speak. I hope they enjoy the look of San Antonio, Dallas and San Jose's rear, cause that is what they are gonna be looking at soon
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Originally Posted by HtownLove
Danny is right. The real City of Houston is within the loop.
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by kidphilly
wow someone is sensitive toniht, did you get your dinner, re-read what i wrote
I'm 20 years old. I don't like to be blamed for what others did, that is a very 5 year old to high school thing but it stands true, I am still a kid. And I thought I got counted in a group that I detest the thoughts of for "homerism" or something because your post seemed to have sounded like that, it wasn't clear enough for me to understand the meaning properly and I never let someone call me out for things I don't do, so it was an automatic defense from me. Yes it was defensive, but I simply hate homers regardless of where they come from, we can use less of that on an information site.
And your post was confusing to understand, I didn't quite get it, possibly some words left out to make it clearer and I found it offensive, especially given I try not to even talk about the place outside of its designated forum board and instead talk about other places.
And no, I haven't gotten my dinner yet. I haven't decided on what I want to eat yet either, and its literally killing me!
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lol, that is what you are coming up with??? lmao. Be sure to tell me how it feels when y'all get passed by Albuquerque next couple of years
I'll tell you what HTown, when the inner loop is within the top ten I will take Houston a little more seriously. So the inner loop is about what the 20th, 30th, 40th largest city based on what you consider the "real city"
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Do New Yorkers try and ditch Staten Island and Eastern Queens because they lower the overall scores?
Thanks for the reminder. Yes they do. Have you forgotten every single one of those Borough versus large American city threads? New Yorkers are the first ones to do that.
Do they have one downtown or two? Who cares because to them when its convenient they have one, and when its convenient to have "more" they have two.
Chicago vs Brooklyn. New Yorkers have done that.
Los Angeles vs Brooklyn. New Yorkers have done that.
Toronto versus Brooklyn. New Yorkers have done that too.
There's at least like 20 threads where they've done that. You can easily search it.
Hell even Chicagoans do that. Have you heard Chicagoans state Chicago is "two cities in one, complete polar opposites". Here on this site its fair game. Everyone has done it before, so why is it wrong for someone of a particular city to do it.
Even people of Los Angeles have done that before, there was a thread earlier by S.D Calif that was Los Angeles vs Valley City (the Western part of Los Angeles city limits). Spend time in the Los Angeles board and you'll see that they do it a lot too.
Wait so its a given, people of any city do it. So I take it back, its not just Houstonians, Philadelphians, Bay Areans who do its more people than you can imagine.
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Originally Posted by Dncr
I can say the "real" city of Chicago is everything North of the South Loop going by this argument.
See my post before, it went more into detail than this one. This one was just to add more to your debate list for "what I need to get back too!"
Ah I enjoy our debates, they're mostly for fun. But yes this one went kind of the wrong way because others didn't catch on that its just all fun and games.
Oh and for the record Dncr, I don't think you're a weak debater at all. Actually quite the opposite of that. Honestly half the time, I try to avoid quoting you (Because I would get killed easily!) unless I know for a fact that I can win (Which in this case I can because it was originally Houston vs Dallas). But yes this debate has been rather "lazy" for you. Come on this wasn't fun at all!
So the record is:
Me- 3 wins
You- 0 (LOL reminds me of the Cubs, oh wait you're a Cubs fan!)
Y'all know Walk Score is wildly inaccurate, don't you?
omg what a cute smilie
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Originally Posted by kidphilly
I'll tell you what HTown, when the inner loop is within the top ten I will take Houston a little more seriously. So the inner loop is about what the 20th, 30th, 40th largest city based on what you consider the "real city"
And that is excellent for a less than 100 yr old loop.
That's the biggest cop out I've ever heard! You can't axe 85% of the city while attempting to make a point. The vast majority (somewhere near 75%) of Houstonians live outside of the inner loop; you can't ignore that large of a population. Do New Yorkers try and ditch Staten Island and Eastern Queens because they lower the overall scores? Do Chicagoans deny the existence of the south side because it lowers our overall scores? I can say the "real" city of Chicago is everything North of the South Loop going by this argument.
Yes but city boundaries are arbitary. Old cities in the northeast include only dense mostly walkable (or close to it) areas while newer cities in the cities include recently developed suburbs. In the northeast, these areas would be outside of the city limits.
Hmm, what a weird chart. I didn't see my city there. But considering the walk score of my neighborhood and the 4 adjacent ones is 90+. At least 40,000 people live in neighborhoods that I know of with walk scores of 85+, it looks like a sham to me. (I live in Oakland, CA, in one of the most dense neighborhoods in the bay area -- 20K/sq mi)
Walkscore isn't perfect, but it works pretty well for giving an overall snapshot of an area, especially ciites. 80 seems a reasonable cut-off, although I did live happily and easily without driving somewhere with a walkscore in the upper 70s. It looks pretty reasonable for what it is.
Not sure what happened to Oakland -- maybe it wasn't included in the list of cities considered?
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