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The real only unique big city in Texas would be El Paso. It's the only major city in the state that's isolated from the rest. Plus the city is located in the desert and mountains, in which no other Texas city can claim. See the thing about Austin is that it's over hype, heck you can find more things in San Antonio to do than in Austin, and SA is no slouch.
Corpus Christi is a gulf coast city as well I guess it's not very Texan as well.
Well you can say one thing about Corpus. It's not a Southern city in the mold of what people think is Southern. It's Texan and Mexican. Houston is a different animal.
Well you can say one thing about Corpus. It's not a Southern city in the mold of what people think is Southern. It's Texan and Mexican. Houston is a different animal.
Exactly. When I said Houston has a Gulf coast vibe, I meant it felt like other Gulf coast cities to the East(New Orleans, Mobile, Tampa). Houston has that vibe unique from Texas. Corpus feels different also.
Atlanta as a city is more liberal than Dallas. Atlanta is only 2nd behind Austin in the entire South as far as being liberal is concerned. The city though, not talking about the metro.
That surprises me about Atlanta. Atlanta just never struck me as being a liberal place. After Austin, I always thought New Orleans held the title of the most overall liberal big city in the South. Matter of fact, I always thought of New Orleans almost as liberal as San Francisco, in the way both towns are accepting of outcasts and misfits, drunks and druggies, throw-aways, broken people, and down and outters, generally the people who weren't wanted in their own home towns gravitate to warm weather liberal places like San Francisco, New Orleans, Austin, South Florida including Key West.
I don't think South Florida is that liberal. Democratic, yeah, liberal...maybe.
It's more Liberal than the group of cities he listed it with(save for San Francisco). South Florida might be the most Liberal major metro in the South. Raleigh and Austin are 3x smaller. Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, and NO's cores might be just as Liberal as Miamis core, but Miami remains blue the further out one goes from the core. ATL, Dal, Hou, and NO get quite Conservative in their burbs. Broward and Palm Beach Counties are even bluer than Dade. And not Northern, Democrat, Northern-Union Blue( Floridas a RTW state anyway) I'm talking somewhat socially, and somewhat economically blue.
I have lived in BOTH cities. I would say Austin is NOTHING like Dallas. The only thing both cities have in common is the Texas pride. That's it. Austin is a little weird and not because of some silly bumpstickers. It's a little weird because well...it's just weird. The people there all seem a bit pretentious(calm down folks it's just my opinion). Nice folks but hmmm I just can't put my finger on it. Dallas on the hand is super diverse, excellent restaurants, lots of big acts perform there, professional sports teams, a plethora of available jobs, a cheaper housing market. Where you actually get more for your money. In Austin a 600sq foot 1 bedroom apartment can cost $1100 and that's not even a downtown apartment. In Dallas for the same amount of money you can have a 2/2ba with a garage and jetted tubs and more square footage. Austin housing market is just plain terrible. To many people and not enough housing which drives the prices thru the gosh darn roof. AUSTIN IS NOT CHEAP! Please don't get the wrong impression that I hate Austin(hate is such a strong word). So in closing the two cities are very different!
The people there all seem a bit pretentious(calm down folks it's just my opinion).
Not too far off.
Austin is the only city I've been to where I heard a radio host smugly talk about how one remix of a popular song at the time (Gotye - "Somebody That I Used to Know") was worse than the original...
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