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Old 08-05-2010, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Why wait on it in muggy old Houston when you can enjoy it now in Dallas? The open prairie lands are just more room for growth for Dallas. I'd rather live on prairie lands than bug-infested, stinky, polluted swamplands.
Houston hasn't been pegging the thermometer at 100-103 degrees like Dallas has. Also Houston has open prairie as well. Ever heard of the Katy Prairie?

 
Old 08-05-2010, 05:08 PM
 
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Houston hasn't been pegging the thermometer at 100-103 degrees like Dallas has. Also Houston has open prairie as well. Ever heard of the Katy Prairie?
As Galveston is always about 5 degrees cooler than Houston, the city of Houston will always be about 5 degrees cooler than Dallas. But it feels just as hot. See, you have to understand how the evaporation of water and the recondensation of it either soaks up energy or produces it, respectively. In other words, as water will keep temperatures from rising as it uses up energy in the evaporation process, it keeps temperatures from falling past the dew point as it produces energy by recondensing as water on solid things.
There always needs to be solid things to condensate on for evaporated water to recondensate. This is true of even raindrops. Therefore, the morning dew!

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Old 08-05-2010, 08:16 PM
 
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Why wait on it in muggy old Houston when you can enjoy it now in Dallas? The open prairie lands are just more room for growth for Dallas. I'd rather live on prairie lands than bug-infested, stinky, polluted swamplands.
Because having a beach in your backyard is better than all those boring things combined, especially if you have to endure that dried up, scorched, endless, bland, ugly prairie for 200 miles in every direction.

At least the Houston area has some variety in the landscape. Beaches, bays, forests, wetland, grassland and the best skyline in Texas.

Houston isn't missing anything. And there is plenty of land to expand on in southeast Texas. Houston is not and will not be hurting for places to grow anytime in the near future.
 
Old 08-05-2010, 08:23 PM
 
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Because having a beach in your backyard is better than all those boring things combined, especially if you have to endure that dried up, scorched, endless, bland, ugly prairie for 200 miles in every direction.

At least the Houston area has some variety in the landscape. Beaches, bays, forests, wetland, grassland and the best skyline in Texas.

Houston isn't missing anything. And there is plenty of land to expand on in southeast Texas. Houston is not and will not be hurting for places to grow anytime in the near future.
Best skyline? Which one? Downtown? The Galleria? The Texas Medical Center?
These are all impressive, but I don't think any of them can beat downtown and uptown Dallas together as seen from the fabulous neighborhood of Oak Cliff.
 
Old 08-06-2010, 11:03 AM
 
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Undisputed facts
1. Dallas is hotter than Houston in the Summer. Advantage, Houston.
2. Houston is muggier than Dallas. Advantage, Dallas.
3. The City of Houston is bigger than Dallas. Advantage, Houston.
4. The metro area of Dallas is bigger than Houston. Advantage, Dallas.
5. Houston is home to many successful oil companies. Advantage, Houston.
6. Dallas is home to many retail, banking and transportation companies. Advantage, Dallas.

Disputed facts
1. Everything else.

Conclusion
It's a wash.
 
Old 08-06-2010, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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Undisputed facts
1. Dallas is hotter than Houston in the Summer. Advantage, Houston.
2. Houston is muggier than Dallas. Advantage, Dallas.
3. The City of Houston is bigger than Dallas. Advantage, Houston.
4. The metro area of Dallas is bigger than Houston. Advantage, Dallas.
5. Houston is home to many successful oil companies. Advantage, Houston.
6. Dallas is home to many retail, banking and transportation companies. Advantage, Dallas.

Disputed facts
1. Everything else.

Conclusion
It's a wash.
The most sound conclusion on this thread yet.
 
Old 08-06-2010, 11:36 AM
 
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Undisputed facts
1. Dallas is hotter than Houston in the Summer. Advantage, Houston.
2. Houston is muggier than Dallas. Advantage, Dallas.
3. The City of Houston is bigger than Dallas. Advantage, Houston.
4. The metro area of Dallas is bigger than Houston. Advantage, Dallas.
5. Houston is home to many successful oil companies. Advantage, Houston.
6. Dallas is home to many retail, banking and transportation companies. Advantage, Dallas.

Disputed facts
1. Everything else.

Conclusion
It's a wash.
Okay. But the OP does not want to hear that. Can one compare and contrast Houston and Dallas. Yes. Why? Well, it is because they are unique and different.
So, it is not a wash.
For example, the three main business districts of Houston, with this being downtown, uptown, and its Texas Medical Center, are close together. Also, the main universities in Houston are clustered close together. In comparison, the universities in Dallas - Fort Worth are many miles distant from each other. SMU in Dallas is thirty miles from TCU in Fort Worth. TCU is forty miles from the University of North Texas in Denton, the University of North Texas is forty miles from SMU in Dallas.
Because Dallas - Fort Worth is a vast distribution center for its own locality, for Texas, for the region of the southwest, for the south, and, finally, for all of North America, it has warehouses all over the metropolitan area with some companies having multiple warehouses for each level or region. Similar to Chicaco but more like Toronto in Canada, this huge amount of distribution (approaching 700 million square feet of space) has created numerous business districts in DFW and they are spread out in comparison to Houston. While downtown Houston and the Medical Center are three to four miles apart, the distance between downtown Dallas and the Telecom corridor in Richardson is fifteen miles. As there is four to five miles distance between downtown and uptown Houston, there is thirty miles between downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth. While Houston has numerous medical centers clustered together in the huge district making up the Texas Medical Center, Dallas - Fort Worth has numerous medical centers spread out about its metropolitan area. Houston has two and a half major airports in IAH and Hobby, while Dallas - Fort Worth has four in DFW airport, Love Field, Alliance and Addison Airport.
Tell me, how is this a wash?
While Houston is mainly energy and medicine, the Dallas - Fort Worth area is far more diverse.
And so on . . .
 
Old 08-06-2010, 11:52 AM
 
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The most sound conclusion on this thread yet.
Dallas is hilly in places, Houston is flat save for West Mount Houston. Rising dramatically out from the marshes and swamps of Houston is the dramatic West Mount Houston, as if out of place, topping out at one foot above the surrounding lowlands. Be careful not to leave ones vehicle in neutral in this particular area as, in a matter of a millenium, it may roll a distance of an inch.
Another famous street that Houston can be proud of but will never mention is its famous Telephone Road. They say the ladies roaming the streets in this neighborhood are just itching to be picked up.
Of course, the Dallas - Fort Worth area also has these kinds of streets.
Also in Houston is Montrose Blvd where numerous homosexuals live and play, not that there is anything wrong with that.
Of course, the Dallas - Fort Worth area also has these kinds of streets.
So, yes, in some matters, the differences between Houston and Dallas - Fort Worth is a wash.
 
Old 08-06-2010, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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So basically Dallas is better than Houston because it has more sprawl? Good lord, this is getting strange.
 
Old 08-06-2010, 12:07 PM
 
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So basically Dallas is better than Houston because it has more sprawl? Good lord, this is getting strange.
Honestly, you aren't going to try to make that argument.
Unless warehouses can be built a hundred stories tall, the answer is no. The Dallas - Fort Worth area is not sprall. Houston actually has more sprawl than Dallas - Fort Worth because it does not have zoning. While Houston can and probably will start building differently because of the new green economy, the Dallas - Fort Worth is still going to be a major distribution point for its own locality, for Texas, for the southwest, for the south, and for North America. To see this for oneself, just google the two areas. It only takes a glance at each to see how much better planned the Dallas - Fort Worth area is to Houston.
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