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That's better than chocolate and vanilla. There is a lot of reverse racism in Atlanta. It's ripe for a riot worse than Katrina. Boy that gave me heartburn, I need some MYLANTA after talking about Atlanta so much. At least Houston is progressive and lacks racial tension. The guitar string is very tight and about to break in Atlanta while in Houston it's barely wound.
uhh, wth is "reverse racism"? Just because whites are the victims, that makes it different than plain old ugly racism? No, racism is racism no matter who the victims. Explain what you meant by that if you don't mind?
This is absolutely ridiculous, you guys have been making the same points over and over again. Houston has 5.6 million Atlanta has 5.1. Thats still a big difference, and with the recent population trends Houston will keep its lead. I've been to Atlanta, it is very scenic, but doesnt feel as big as Houston. Houston has all those big buildings, the beach, i dont even feel like going on, i have nothing to prove, IMO Houston is alot more important. Before this thread i didnt even think people would compare these two cities, I thought it was a given that Houston was more important. Global City proves it for you guys! I see absolutely no point in even participating further in this pointless discussion. How about this comparison, Atlanta vs Charlotte? makes more sense to me.
No. Regardless of the winner to this assanine debate (yet it draws me back) Atlanta and Houston are much better comparisons than Atlanta and Charlotte. Come on man, you've got the unlimited resources of the internet so you could have easily found out that Metro Charlotte only has a little over 2 million. That's almost as dumb as comparing NYC and Charlotte because they are two financial centers.
Houston has a lot more going for it? Says who? You base your opinion on what?
The fact that Houston is more developed, more diverse, more cosmopolitan, etc. All the attributes of your New Yorks, your LAs, and your Chicago's. Houston isn't there yet, but they're closer than Atlanta.
Houston is more cosmopolitan, yet it has a "blue collar mentality", much more down to Earth and diverse. Atlanta is all about the "bling-bling", the chains, the Escalades with big wheels, platinum chains, a good city if you are a P.I.M.P or a playa, not a good place if you are a Playa HATAH like myself . Atlanta is a "ghetto fabulous" metropolis, a place "too busy to hate", whatever that means. Houston is a much better place for normal people like me, (not a P.I.M.P or a playa)
Houston is more cosmopolitan, yet it has a "blue collar mentality", much more down to Earth and diverse. Atlanta is all about the "bling-bling", the chains, the Escalades with big wheels, platinum chains, a good city if you are a P.I.M.P or a playa, not a good place if you are a Playa HATAH like myself . Atlanta is a "ghetto fabulous" metropolis, a place "too busy to hate", whatever that means. Houston is a much better place for normal people like me, (not a P.I.M.P or a playa)
I have lived in both. Atlanta is a very materialistic city IMO and the ghetto culture is everywhere. Houston is unpretentious and much more diverse. I voted for Houston, much better city!
I have lived in both. Atlanta is a very materialistic city IMO and the ghetto culture is everywhere. Houston is unpretentious and much more diverse. I voted for Houston, much better city!
Ok, well I can respect an opinion like that. I think both cities are pretty materialistic but I'll concede that Atlanta does have some areas (not in the ghetto) that ghetto culture is glorified. You have to realize that the city proper of Atlanta is almost 60% black and only 33% white. I'm not being racist, its just a fact that blacks make up the majority of urban ghettos, not whites. But the city proper only has 480,000 versus the metro area's 5.1 million so I think those stereotypes are not so applicable to the areas as a whole.
uhh, wth is "reverse racism"? Just because whites are the victims, that makes it different than plain old ugly racism? No, racism is racism no matter who the victims. Explain what you meant by that if you don't mind?
I've heard that blacks outnumber whites in that city/metro. So if it is the attitude of that place, I'm expecting a French Revolution.
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Houston is more cosmopolitan, yet it has a "blue collar mentality", much more down to Earth and diverse. Atlanta is all about the "bling-bling", the chains, the Escalades with big wheels, platinum chains, a good city if you are a P.I.M.P or a playa, not a good place if you are a Playa HATAH like myself . Atlanta is a "ghetto fabulous" metropolis, a place "too busy to hate", whatever that means. Houston is a much better place for normal people like me, (not a P.I.M.P or a playa)
That mentality puts Houston on par with Chicago or N.Y.C. Atlanta's puts it on par with DFW or L.A.
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I have lived in both. Atlanta is a very materialistic city IMO and the ghetto culture is everywhere. Houston is unpretentious and much more diverse. I voted for Houston, much better city!
Is that why they are one of the few cities in the South to have Bloomingdale's, especially 2 locations? It's very hard to attract them back to Texas much more to Houston. Even the rich are willing to shop at Macy's (Foley's before the merger) because it's Houston's store.
The GaWC seems to think Houston has the edge over but Atlanta... but
Im sure people from Atlanta will fart on their inteligence and correctness.
Gamma world cities / minor world cities
6 points: Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington, D.C.
5 points: Bangkok, Beijing, Montreal, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw
4 points: Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai
Seriosly people this argument is reverting back to agression through civic pride (like most of the boards here) instead of leaving your bias behind and truly evaluating the cities for what they offer (not completely un-existant on this board, but we could still use more of it).
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