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Originally Posted by wpmeads
Haha, well I'm not not in the mood to get into it, but I will say if your just looking for a good, well paying entry level job in a big affordable city, Houston would definitely make my number one list for young professionals. BUT if your considering nightlife, music scene, entertainment, etc..... not so much.
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With the plentitude of bars, indy coffee houses, lounges and dance clubs of EVERY stripe in Houston, the 4th largest US city with droves of people coming from all over the world...and you say "not so much" entertainment here?
Upon closer look, Houston even kicks Boston's butt for culture:
http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/12-...-back-on-2010/
I don't know. Those few people who actually say there's no nightlife in Houston...are really bored types who don't know how to have fun, don't have any sense of navigation, or appreciation of all the new spots that continually open up here or continually need to be deposited on the Vegas Strip (or some fascimile) all the time.
There are SO many options here I'd like to check out, I just don't always have the time.
The beauty of the H-town metro is that there are dozens of entertainment pockets with ALL sorts of spots. Unlike tradtional urban cities that are stuck with a type of layout and centrality, at least H-town offers different environments in the geography.
There are SO MANY places that are cool and spread around, Agora, Boheme, Byzantio, Brasil, Poison Girl, Liberty Station, Super Happy Funland, Layal, CoCo's, Antidote, Komodo, Barcadia, Avant Garden, Anvil, Retro Lounge, Cat Birds, Royal Oak, Cafe 101, GingerMan, Candy, Cafe Europe, Cova Bar, Continental, Genji's, Pink's Lounge, No-Tsu-Oh, Flora N Muse, Straits, Confort Lounge, Cafe Yummy, Czar Bar, Onion Creek, Zone 504, just to name a few...I NEVER get bored here.
S--t, I can go to Agora many times and never get tired of that locale!
-Richmond Avenue
-Washington Avenue (NY Times Travel had to write about that party strip TWICE in recent years!)
-downtown
-Shepherd Plaza
-Galleria area (especially the Sage/Alabama axis and Uptown Park)
-New Chinatown (particularly at Dun Huang Center)
-Heights (particularly the interesting White Oak St.)
-Midtown
-Rice Village
-Montrose
-City Centre
-Kemah Lighthouse District (those indy patio bars can put out some live music, that's for sure.)
-Woodlands Waterway
So many nightlife clusters in the Houston region. And there's a supposed lack of nightlife?
What Houston lacks in density, it sure has plenty of spots in the bend and on the edges. There's just something for everyone here.
Even on Wednesday nights when I drive to work...just Richmond Avenue alone has cool cafes and bars that are PACKED!
I mean, every format is here in H-town's metro. Traditional urban downtown, offbeat colorful backstreets, pedestrian corridors, pedestrian low-rise villages, wide open patio bar/club boulevards...what other metro can give Houston's array?
Once again, the sticks-in-the-mud who say Houston isn't fun...are the type of folks who probably aren't any fun to be around (especially the types who simply dislike Houston) in the first place.
If Houston isn't fun, then other big cities aren't fun.
The 4th largest US city, one of America's most diverse, more people coming here...I mean really...
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I copied them. They were all on Forbes, Kiplinger and some other yahoo lists of top cities for young adults
