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I'll start calling Seattle a "big city" when it builds freeways through passes so people can get to their homes in an adjacent valley like in Los Angeles and when it has more people than Houston.
Ok you dont make sense Seattle does have passes there like 10,000 ft up in are mts. I 90. And in city we have hills and tunnels like the mt baker tunnel on I 90. and beacon hill tunnel . why go over put the trains and freeways through tunnels. And the water we have 2 of the three largest floating bridges in the world in Seattle crossing lakes. And what kind of statement is it when you say Seattle wont be considerd a large city tell its as big as Houston. So any city to be considerd big needs to be several hundred square miles large. So were all supposed to start basing all other cities of Houston wow your city isn't the perfect city to base all cities on and your perception of how to judge large cities is warped. Ok were going to name all the large cities in the USA hmm lets just compare them to Houston if there bigger than Houston there big huh. Yeah thats a great way to judge cities.
Seattle is far more urban but Houston is much larger, so both have a big city feel, but in different ways. Seattle's big city feel is more in the vein of Chicago/SF/Boston (but to a lesser extent), while Houston's big city feel is more in the vein of LA (but to a lesser extent).
I totally disagree about food and nightlife - I think they go to Seattle.
Houston by a mile. Those of you choosing Seattle probably haven't been to both cities. While Houston does have some open lots in downtown, the overall Houston area is much more massive and big city feeling than Seattle, which runs into nothing about ten miles east of downtown (despite being long and narrow along the sound).
Some of you are so biased against the South and sunbelt, that when you haven't been to both places, you choose the wrong choice.
Houston by a mile. Those of you choosing Seattle probably haven't been to both cities. While Houston does have some open lots in downtown, the overall Houston area is much more massive and big city feeling than Seattle, which runs into nothing about ten miles east of downtown (despite being long and narrow along the sound).
Some of you are so biased against the South and sunbelt, that when you haven't been to both places, you choose the wrong choice.
10 miles East of downtown Seattle is Bellevue, a completely different city with a very different feel, although I certainly wouldn't call it nothing. Your comment makes me question your knowledge of Seattle.
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