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LOL @ Houstonians never-ending quest to try to become like LA. One important ingredient that H-town is sorely lacking: a distinguishable personality. 99.99% of the population outside of Texas wouldn't be able to tell it apart from Dallas.
LOL @ Houstonians never-ending quest to try to become like LA. One important ingredient that H-town is sorely lacking: a distinguishable personality. 99.99% of the population outside of Texas wouldn't be able to tell it apart from Dallas.
Hell a good chunk of Houston's population IS from LA & California, especially Asians.
You don't see Texans moving to California by the droves these days that's for sure.
LOL @ Houstonians never-ending quest to try to become like LA. One important ingredient that H-town is sorely lacking: a distinguishable personality. 99.99% of the population outside of Texas wouldn't be able to tell it apart from Dallas.
No one wants to be LA, trust me. You've never been for a substantial amount of time. There is a highly distinguishable personality with Houston and it's people. 99.99% of the population of the US couldn't tell LA apart from Houston other than the beaches.
Hell a good chunk of Houston's population IS from LA & California, especially Asians.
You don't see Texans moving to California by the droves these days that's for sure.
That's TX's security blanket: "Most of you guys are moving here!" But in the end the only thing Houston has over LA (And what TX has over CA) is that it's cheap. Nothing else. It's an undesirable city in almost every sense. Nobody goes to Houston for a pleasure vacation nor is it really a desirable place to live in (you may thank the abundance of Wal-Mart caliber jobs due to growth).
So when your city sucks and lack an identity what do you do? You try to compare it to a city out of its league. Perfectly understandable.
No one wants to be LA, trust me. You've never been for a substantial amount of time. There is a highly distinguishable personality with Houston and it's people. 99.99% of the population of the US couldn't tell LA apart from Houston other than the beaches.
This is joke right? LA is one of the most recognizable cities on Earth. Even its skyline (which is constantly trashed) is instantly recognizable. Houston does have nice people, I'll give you that.
That's TX's security blanket: "Most of you guys are moving here!" But in the end the only thing Houston has over LA (And what TX has over CA) is that it's cheap. Nothing else. It's an undesirable city in almost every sense. Nobody goes to Houston for a pleasure vacation nor is it really a desirable place to live in (you may thank the abundance of Wal-Mart caliber jobs due to growth).
So when your city sucks and lack an identity what do you do? You try to compare it to a city out of its league. Perfectly understandable.
I personally love Houston and don't think it needs to be compared to LA.
That's TX's security blanket: "Most of you guys are moving here!" But in the end the only thing Houston has over LA (And what TX has over CA) is that it's cheap. Nothing else. It's an undesirable city in almost every sense. Nobody goes to Houston for a pleasure vacation nor is it really a desirable place to live in (you may thank the abundance of Wal-Mart caliber jobs due to growth).
So when your city sucks and lack an identity what do you do? You try to compare it to a city out of its league. Perfectly understandable.
Cheap land is most definately a huge aspect but 1000s of places have cheap land. What Houston also has is a lot of built up amentities and the ability to attract many jobs, not all are walmart either. Houston has a higher per cap income than does LA.
Jobs and the ability to attract them are what makes Houston grow
Whether that is sustainable and their tax base can afford the ever to be increasing cost of infrastructure will be the telling story for the continued success of Houston. time will tell
Houston is not all that different from LA 50/60/70 years ago. A better industry potentially (and more diverse overall) with a much worse climate and to me geography but much of what you said about Houston is just not correct
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