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I have been to St.Louis once and to Austin many times since it's only 45 minutes to an hour from San Antonio. Austin does have a very nice backdrop, nice new emerging skyline, great restraunts and cool overall vibe. St.Louis has the upper hand as far as full fledge big city, landmarks, density, historic districts, multiple skylines. I was scared when I drove into St.Louis, it's much more intense than Austin, faster pace. You are comparing a huge fast ticking Grandfather clock to a progressive and a bit hyper little brat of a city. They are both great cities in their own ways.
Sweet home SA,
You bring up an interesting side point about being scared when driving into St. Louis because of it's intenseness. I feel that in some cities like Chicago (and st. louis too sometimes) but not in cities like Tampa Bay, Indy, etc... It's not always about the cities size but about traffic density, entrances, how close the development is to the highway, etc.
Austin: younger, hip population...that was circa 1991. I believe Austin is a lot more mainstream now than hip.
It's still a hip town with a lot of hipsters though. Austin still has a large population of young people. I'm in my 20's and all my friends adore Austin and a bunch of them move there for college or right after college.
Maybe it was just Dallas (shut down three times for being a NYer, and it wasn't "just in Fun").
I actually really like texas and have had many great times there, but after the bad experiences, I just don't reveal myself as a NYer anymore.
The Texas pride thing wears a bit thin after a while.
Texas pride is exaggerated imo and is more of a defense mechanism when used. I will tell you, coming home and reading this thread is hilarious. Most of the people I know could care less about this stuff lol. Plus half the people living here aren't from here so...
Now what exactly does this have to do with the topic?
Katy is primarily far-flung cookie-cutter suburbia of Houston.
It's not Houston, nor it is rural Texas. So it's not representative of either. Yet you make judgement calls of both all the time, all of which are very stereotypical and mostly inaccurate and purposely negative/degrading.
I couldn't live in rural Texas (or rural much of anywhere) but don't think it's all bad.
LOLOL You're assuming I stayed in Katy. But you assume a great deal anyway. Two of your many assumptions are that I haven't seen Texas recently or at all.
You're wrong on both counts. And no I'm not inaccurate about my opinions of Texas.
But hey, you keep defending the place. It's cute.
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