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Maybe because the Dallas Galleria was modeled after the Houston one. Or something along those lines.
Lake Conroe is beautiful and Lake Houston is really nice.
Clear lake is crap. I wouldnt compare it to anything nice in Houston or Dallas.
The Dallas Galleria and the Houston Galleria dont remind me of each other at all. The one in Houston is nicer. I agree with Jluke. A better comparrison is North Park and the Houston Galleria.
Lake Conroe is beautiful and Lake Houston is really nice.
Clear lake is crap. I wouldnt compare it to anything nice in Houston or Dallas.
I believe Clear Lake is really connected to the sea and is thus salt water, brackish salt water. I don't think it is really recreational (IE swimming and such) but more for sailing and access to the Gulf. I could be wrong though. It's definitely not crap but it doesn't compare to real, land-locked lakes.
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I believe Clear Lake is really connected to the sea and is thus salt water, brackish salt water. I don't think it is really recreational (IE swimming and such) but more for sailing and access to the Gulf. I could be wrong though. It's definitely not crap but it doesn't compare to real, land-locked lakes.
Well yes, Clear Lake is a totally different kind of "lake" than Lake Houston or Lake Conroe. I believe that's why many try to refer to it now as the "Bay Area Houston" rather than "Clear Lake."
The neat thing about Texas is that the large cities have their own style and are fairly close to each other (yet far enough). The exception is El Paso which has more ties with New Mexico and that SW desert culture.
Florida cities and towns mimic each other very much (Miami is just a grittier version of Tampa by the ocean, Orlando is just Tampa removed from the water...Daytona, Bradenton, Jacksonville, Ft. Myers all have very similar textures though St. Augustine is definitely a different animal).
Los Angeles and San Diego look a lot alike in their streetscape, San Jose and places around San Francisco don't look too different from San Diego (San Francisco itself is an exception, a classic East Coast style city)...Orange County always came across as a shared suburban extension between LA and San Diego, I mean Ocean Beach is not too far from places like San Clemente, Dana Point and all.
But Texans cities really do have their own character. San Antonio's core looks nothing like Houston. Austin's setting is definitely different than San Antonio's.
That being said, while I love Texas, Houston is THE GLUE which hold it all together for me in this region.
Dallas is a cool place, I've always loved it. The times I'd be out in Irving, it was always cool to see the neon glow of Dallas' skyline in the distance from a parking lot.
Houston's always just had a more open and chaotic, more international feel at its core and edge...and I prefer that. Dallas is international too but there's kind of a repressed nature up there...maybe that's just me.
But the OP said "Dallas is more cosmopolitan" while saying along the lines Houston is "more international." That's a contradiction in terms. I think he might have meant to say glitzy. Houston has just as much glitz but the presentation of things here in H-town is more chaotic and jumbled while in Dallas, driving along I-35W, seeing everything from their Doubletree to the Dallas Apparel Mart and all that into downtown, you capture their glitz in one fell swoop.
Ft. Worth is a great contrasting resource in the Metroplex. It's got great character and I usually enjoy Sundance Square. It's fun but kinda clean cut, reminds me of the San Diego Gas Lamp but better.
The thing I REALLY enjoy about Houston is that while our entertainment districts are in and of themselves subdued compared to other towns...other towns do not have the package of contrast we do.
Rice Village has a Santa Monica vibe but in a Euro-grid village which I think is kind of unique, rather than just being a typical straight drag which is all too common in SoCal for my tastes.
Montrose is a straight drag with a dangerous curve but look at that texture! It's part Melrose in spots but contemplate those converted Victorians which house some of my favorite coffee bars/lounges like Avantgarden to Agora Ka, and Byzantio in neighboring W. Gray. I feel that Dallas, San Diego and LA lack those types of places.
Midtown is a catwalk type environment with lots going on. W. Gray full of bars and eateries (Coco's, The Fish, Backyard, etc.) is sort of that mini slice of a NY hood that gives way to an oak tree-lined quasi-Victorian hood with more bars and eateries such as Byzantio, Cecil's and so on! You don't have that in NY or LA so much.
I love that little section of restaurant bungalows on Richmond Ave between Kirby and Shepherd, Blue Fish, Hobbit Cafe and two others...just the look of them, the feel...just in the bowels of a shiny, modern city, there is something quasi-rustic to serve up gastronomic pleasure in such an environment that lets us know that we are not in LA or NY or Dallas. By the way, you can take a few steps to McElroy's Pub or Davenport Lounge or Azteca...or an Asian spa in the Shepherd Plaza environs after the meal.
Downtown proper...talk about a Sunbelt city that has cool enough nightlife, a true urban look with skycrapers, big sidewalks with people about, Frank's Pizza, No-tsu-oh, Azuma, Tropioca, the Pavilions. LA and Dallas lack that in their downtown proper core. San Diego has the semblance but again, the Gas Lamp misses that edgy vibe. It's too Disney
And a contrast to downtown Houston...the Kemah Lighthouse District. That's a great collection of clapboard bars and cafes by the sea! I love the mom n pop vibe of it. It is offset by that more corporate Kemah Boardwalk but nobody can say that Kemah isn't a balanced entertainment area.
That's the great pleasure of living in H-town. So what if we don't have a grand Times Square or Santa Monica 3rd St Promenade. We do have all the VARYING entertaining corners that make up the entertainment scene here which is set in ways not like in other cities. You can get bored with 3rd St Promenade or Times Square as such but I can never get bored of the different array of entertainment corners around Houston.
I could go on but Houston is more my taste. My younger bro lives up in Dallas. He's the corporate clean cut type and he loves Big D. Me, a medical profession type, I like my hair long and full, he goes for the popular head shave. So to each his own. Like brother, like not, LOL.
Well yes, Clear Lake is a totally different kind of "lake" than Lake Houston or Lake Conroe. I believe that's why many try to refer to it now as the "Bay Area Houston" rather than "Clear Lake."
Well Clear Lake is opposite of clear, it's one of those irony type of things. I don't think many people in Texas know about Clear Lake.
The neat thing about Texas is that the large cities have their own style and are fairly close to each other (yet far enough). The exception is El Paso which has more ties with New Mexico and that SW desert culture.
Florida cities and towns mimic each other very much (Miami is just a grittier version of Tampa by the ocean, Orlando is just Tampa removed from the water...Daytona, Bradenton, Jacksonville, Ft. Myers all have very similar textures though St. Augustine is definitely a different animal).
Los Angeles and San Diego look a lot alike in their streetscape, San Jose and places around San Francisco don't look too different from San Diego (San Francisco itself is an exception, a classic East Coast style city)...Orange County always came across as a shared suburban extension between LA and San Diego, I mean Ocean Beach is not too far from places like San Clemente, Dana Point and all.
But Texans cities really do have their own character. San Antonio's core looks nothing like Houston. Austin's setting is definitely different than San Antonio's.
That being said, while I love Texas, Houston is THE GLUE which hold it all together for me in this region.
Dallas is a cool place, I've always loved it. The times I'd be out in Irving, it was always cool to see the neon glow of Dallas' skyline in the distance from a parking lot.
Houston's always just had a more open and chaotic, more international feel at its core and edge...and I prefer that. Dallas is international too but there's kind of a repressed nature up there...maybe that's just me.
But the OP said "Dallas is more cosmopolitan" while saying along the lines Houston is "more international." That's a contradiction in terms. I think he might have meant to say glitzy. Houston has just as much glitz but the presentation of things here in H-town is more chaotic and jumbled while in Dallas, driving along I-35W, seeing everything from their Doubletree to the Dallas Apparel Mart and all that into downtown, you capture their glitz in one fell swoop.
Ft. Worth is a great contrasting resource in the Metroplex. It's got great character and I usually enjoy Sundance Square. It's fun but kinda clean cut, reminds me of the San Diego Gas Lamp but better.
The thing I REALLY enjoy about Houston is that while our entertainment districts are in and of themselves subdued compared to other towns...other towns do not have the package of contrast we do.
Rice Village has a Santa Monica vibe but in a Euro-grid village which I think is kind of unique, rather than just being a typical straight drag which is all too common in SoCal for my tastes.
Montrose is a straight drag with a dangerous curve but look at that texture! It's part Melrose in spots but contemplate those converted Victorians which house some of my favorite coffee bars/lounges like Avantgarden to Agora Ka, and Byzantio in neighboring W. Gray. I feel that Dallas, San Diego and LA lack those types of places.
Midtown is a catwalk type environment with lots going on. W. Gray full of bars and eateries (Coco's, The Fish, Backyard, etc.) is sort of that mini slice of a NY hood that gives way to an oak tree-lined quasi-Victorian hood with more bars and eateries such as Byzantio, Cecil's and so on! You don't have that in NY or LA so much.
I love that little section of restaurant bungalows on Richmond Ave between Kirby and Shepherd, Blue Fish, Hobbit Cafe and two others...just the look of them, the feel...just in the bowels of a shiny, modern city, there is something quasi-rustic to serve up gastronomic pleasure in such an environment that lets us know that we are not in LA or NY or Dallas. By the way, you can take a few steps to McElroy's Pub or Davenport Lounge or Azteca...or an Asian spa in the Shepherd Plaza environs after the meal.
Downtown proper...talk about a Sunbelt city that has cool enough nightlife, a true urban look with skycrapers, big sidewalks with people about, Frank's Pizza, No-tsu-oh, Azuma, Tropioca, the Pavilions. LA and Dallas lack that in their downtown proper core. San Diego has the semblance but again, the Gas Lamp misses that edgy vibe. It's too Disney
And a contrast to downtown Houston...the Kemah Lighthouse District. That's a great collection of clapboard bars and cafes by the sea! I love the mom n pop vibe of it. It is offset by that more corporate Kemah Boardwalk but nobody can say that Kemah isn't a balanced entertainment area.
That's the great pleasure of living in H-town. So what if we don't have a grand Times Square or Santa Monica 3rd St Promenade. We do have all the VARYING entertaining corners that make up the entertainment scene here which is set in ways not like in other cities. You can get bored with 3rd St Promenade or Times Square as such but I can never get bored of the different array of entertainment corners around Houston.
I could go on but Houston is more my taste. My younger bro lives up in Dallas. He's the corporate clean cut type and he loves Big D. Me, a medical profession type, I like my hair long and full, he goes for the popular head shave. So to each his own. Like brother, like not, LOL.
Hmmmm... I don't think I'd put "Houston" and "glitzy" in the same sentence. Dallas, along with Atlanta, is definitely the more "put together" city of the two.
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