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Which gives off the perception that Austin is "treeless". Dallas to a lesser extent goes through the same thing.
I had an employee once who was from Midland, which I know is completely different than Austin or Dallas. She found the trees in the Southeast to be frightening due to their height.
East Austin has nice foliage from the trees, but the general eastern Austin metro area does not (around the airport, Manor, Pflugerville, Hutto, etc.). Even going south near Kyle and Buda (east of 35) is similar. The Austin metro is more than just the city of Austin . And the Atlanta metro area does not have a single spot that looks similar to the ones I named from the Austin metro where you can see rolling prairie as far as the eye can see in some spots.
Maybe it was a slight over-exaggeration to call the eastern Austin metro area a treeless prairie when compared to ATL metro, but that was really a nitpick from my overall point that went on for several pages lol.
Yeah true, fair point on Manor, ect. I’m hardly out that way but it’s true that there are generally less trees out that way and east Austin metro (everything east of 130) is also home to several ranches as well.
Well that's not the notion that was made if you go back and read, but Austin posters have ran with it lol. If we were talking city limits then sure, but this thread is about metro areas and that's where Austin loses the tree battle even more to ATL.
Besides your link is bogus. There is no way San Fran or Dallas has more trees or more of a "tree canopy" than Houston or Nashville. What's the source?
I'd like to see the source on that link though because it feels very incomplete. I think the reason for the "steam" is because some posters forgot we were talking about metro areas so when I mentioned there were parts of Austin metro that were like a treeless prairie to me when compared to Atlanta (east of 35 and especially around the tollway, and as you head north), some Austinites disagreed. One even saying there used to be trees there 400 years ago as if that mattered.
The thing is that these areas are "metro Austin" only because the city grew to the point that suburban sprawl entered the formerly rural/agriculture areas outlying the city. As somebody who lives and works in the central part of the city, this is rather meaningless to me. I literally live adjacent to a forest (and 2/3 of my property is forest) and see a thick tree canopy anywhere I go. You can understand how hearing the area described as "treeless prairie" is not consistent with my life.
By the way, I live "east of 35". East of 35 has the thickest forests of all, as we have the deepest soil. That's the same reason why the area is primarily farmland once you get 10+ miles east of Austin (it's the most productive area to grow things in the ground).
Well that's not the notion that was made if you go back and read, but Austin posters have ran with it lol. If we were talking city limits then sure, but this thread is about metro areas and that's where Austin loses the tree battle even more to ATL.
Besides your link is bogus. There is no way San Fran or Dallas has more trees or more of a "tree canopy" than Houston or Nashville. What's the source?
I'd like to see the source on that link though because it feels very incomplete. I think the reason for the "steam" is because some posters forgot we were talking about metro areas so when I mentioned there were parts of Austin metro that were like a treeless prairie to me when compared to Atlanta (east of 35 and especially around the tollway, and as you head north), some Austinites disagreed. One even saying there used to be trees there 400 years ago as if that mattered.
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. And the Atlanta metro area does not have a single spot that looks similar to the ones I named from the Austin metro where you can see rolling prairie as far as the eye can see in some spots. 
