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When it comes to Texas. More than likely visitors have never seen the scenic parts due to our cities being located in areas away from them [which I personally believe is a good thing]. Just image Houston being deep in the piney woods. All of those trees and nature would be destroyed.
When it comes to Texas. More than likely visitors have never seen the scenic parts due to our cities being located in areas away from them [which I personally believe is a good thing]. Just image Houston being deep in the piney woods. All of those trees and nature would be destroyed.
Not necessarily. Look at Atlanta. Soletaire and I were just discussing this issue in the Texas forum.
Not necessarily. Look at Atlanta. Soletaire and I were just discussing this issue in the Texas forum.
I don't know. It seems other cities in the south are different when it comes to preserving their nature and history. Texas is more about tear it down and pave over it. Look what's happening in the northern parts of Houston. Just sad.
Who's boasting? This thread has remained remarkably civil, with people from both sides by and large expressing appreciation for the other. Quit trying to stir the pot
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Originally Posted by MtnLion512
I don't see how anyone could look at the pictures posted on the last few pages and still have the above opinion...no one is that ignorant/intransigent/blind, right?
Just calling it as I see it: If you don't care for my detection of some Texas hyperbole, life goes on.
If you want to stir the pot over my posts, however, not taking the bait. I've said what I have to say about the actual matter at hand. And apparently so have most voters.
I don't know. It seems other cities in the south are different when it comes to preserving their nature and history. Texas is more about tear it down and pave over it. Look what's happening in the northern parts of Houston. Just sad.
You guys have posted some great photos of Texas, and several of them surprised and impressed me. But overall the Northeast still wins for me by several orders of magnitude.
I don't know. It seems other cities in the south are different when it comes to preserving their nature and history. Texas is more about tear it down and pave over it. Look what's happening in the northern parts of Houston. Just sad.
If Houston was located in a different part of the state, who's to say that there wouldn't've necessarily been a different attitude about preserving nature. You changed history by changing where the city was located, so you'd have to allow the possibility of that, too.
Hands down, the northeast U.S. has by far the best scenery...Have lived in TX for 31 years, coming from
NY...While the weather SOMETIMES is better in Tx versus Northeast, overall the scenery is much prettier
in general in the N.E. way more trees,mountains,water as in lakes/rivers,gorgeous colors in the fall etc.etc.
Give me the Northeast late spring,summer, fall and a little bit of winter (one good snowfall) any day of the year...
I love the Northeast so much, I'm working on moving back that way sometime soon...
just my .02 cents
One thing that should be acknowledged more by Northeasterners is that the landscape in the region is, by comparison, much less varied. The mountain ranges of the Northeast look essentially identical -- from Maine on down to Pennsylvania. Of course, I find the region more uniformly pretty, but I've never thought one state's mountains, lakes or coast stands out dramatically more than another (aside from maybe the development character, i.e., Cape Cod v. Jersey Shore).
One thing that should be acknowledged more by Northeasterners is that the landscape in the region is, by comparison, much less varied. The mountain ranges of the Northeast look essentially identical -- from Maine on down to Pennsylvania. Of course, I find the region more uniformly pretty, but I've never thought one state's mountains, lakes or coast stands out dramatically more than another (aside from maybe the development character, i.e., Cape Cod v. Jersey Shore).
Texas definitely has variety.
Agreed, though I think New Hampshire has a bit of an edge mountain-wise. There are subtle distinctions between each mountain region.
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