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I don't love either city. Houston is a great example of how not to build a modern city. Philadelphia has history, but it's also ugly in a lot of places and has serious crime issues. To boot, the people can be a little testy.
I don't love either city. Houston is a great example of how not to build a modern city. Philadelphia has history, but it's also ugly in a lot of places and has serious crime issues. To boot, the people can be a little testy.
The Wards, Acres Homes, South Loop, Sunnyside, Greenspoint, East Side, Sharpstown, Denver Harbor, Gulfgate, Almeda Plaza, SW Freeway & Harwin, Eastex & Kelly. Need I go on (because I can).
Many of these neighborhoods do not suffer from extreme poverty. Whoever told you this lied.
Houston's poverty rate is 19% while Philadelphia's is 24%. Both could use significant improvement. At least in Philly and many other dense urban cities the poorer neighborhoods are on a subway line with easy access into the downtowns and much more affluent neighborhoods with so many amenities. I feel in Houston and other less accessible cities the poor are more "stuck" in their neighborhood and it is hard to see past the hardships of everyday life.
....what a slum. It sounds like you might just be pulling these names from nowhere.
You realize I lived there for 26 years? I wouldn't go near most of Sharpstown when the sun is down, and tried to avoid it during daylight. And Sharpstown's one of the better of the bunch. If it's your little slice of heaven, so be it.
You realize I lived there. I wouldn't go near most of Sharpstown when the sun is down, and tried to avoid it during daylight. If it's your little slice of heaven, so be it.
No one said it was safe. That has nothing to do with saying the area suffers from extreme poverty, which it does not.
You realize I lived there for 26 years? I wouldn't go near most of Sharpstown when the sun is down, and tried to avoid it during daylight. And Sharpstown's one of the better of the bunch. If it's your little slice of heaven, so be it.
But Sharpstown isn't a place for extreme poverty. I understand your trying to prove a point, but it's kinda failing. Plus the pictures you posted are in uninhabited areas. No one even lives in those houses.
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