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Neither one of these makes sense because a 7 million metro Baton Rouge would be much more diverse than the current city. And Texas isn't accepting for immigrants by many people or how they may perceive Texas politics. New Orleans was and still is very accepting of immigrants culturally speaking.
Honestly that’s speaking of opinion than reality.
Houston gets more immigrants than all places other than NYC and Miami. New Orleans gets very few immigrants. That alone is enough to disprove that theory.
Houston gets more immigrants than all places other than NYC and Miami. New Orleans gets very few immigrants. That alone is enough to disprove that theory.
This. And additionally, Louisiana doesn’t have a historic Mexican population. That alone sets them very far apart culturally. The Louisiana culture has some relations to Houston but they aren’t twins. And the diversity gap is more than just a thing for the large metro area. Everything from Port Arthur, TX which is near the Louisiana border all throughout Texas and out west until you get to California, there’s a continuation of historic Mexican communities. That ends before entering the Louisiana border it basically suddenly halts beyond Port Arthur. And for the sakes of the topic, that stretch of Mexican immigrants included LA.
I don’t really agree that Houston has nothing in common with anything north of I 10. River Oaks exists after all. The museum district and TMC are LA than LB but I do agree that the more obvious similarities occur south of that portion.
I wouldn’t really go to that extreme either. A huge part of Houston’s culture is how international and ethnically diverse it is. There isn’t any city in Louisiana that has that.
I could certainly see Houston being a combo of LA and Baton Rouge or Lafayette, but not simply a mega sized Baton Rouge or Lafayette.
I remember someone saying that a few years ago about Houston and Baton Rouge. I took issue with that comp as well. They do share some similarities but even outside of size, there are big differences. The same is true with Houston and Los Angeles. To be fair, you can find similarities between any city but as easy as one finds a similarity, you can find differences as well.
In many ways that’s true. I’m speaking more towards how both have ineffective downtowns and multiple business centers. Climate, vibe, etc are totally different.
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Miami has more extensive sprawl imo
Miami is double the size so it does have more sprawl. Miami has a world class downtown, that’s quite a bit better than LA even. Tampa’s downtown is much smaller than comparable sized cities like Charlotte and Denver.
San Diego. Not size-wise, but culturally. Same surfing culture, same climate, same everything. Just smaller, less crowded, and less pollution.
Not seeing how Miami would be more similar to LA than San Diego. Nowhere on the East Coast is going to be more similar to LA than any city on the West Coast. Even Seattle had quite an LA feel when I visited.
San Diego. Not size-wise, but culturally. Same surfing culture, same climate, same everything. Just smaller, less crowded, and less pollution.
Not seeing how Miami would be more similar to LA than San Diego. Nowhere on the East Coast is going to be more similar to LA than any city on the West Coast. Even Seattle had quite an LA feel when I visited.
The OP said “outside of SoCal”. But also, Miami has far more sprawl like LA than San Diego has.
LA is just on another level - size, people, climate, topography, built environment.
I used to do semi-regular traveling between Houston and LA, and there is just too huge a contrast between the two cities. I lived in Houston, but when returning home it was still jolting how less crowded and dense Houston is than LA, it almost felt empty.
My exact feelings. I use to think Houston was similar enough to LA where you could make a comparison as a distant cousin of some sorts but once I actually went to LA that quickly changed.
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I dont think its very accurate IMO. It has things in common with both, but it honestly falls short in certain aspects too.
I tend to think its more of a combo of LA (particularly the area south of the 10, north of the 22 and west of the 605) Orlando, and Lafayette. I honestly dont get the NOLA influence here other than there are a lot of people from that city here.
I honestly think Houston has literally nothing in common with LA north of the 10.
Funny when I was in LA last year, the only parts of the metro I felt resembled anything like Houston was South of the 10. Also a lot of working class to lower income neighborhoods in Houston look very similar to what you find in that I-10 east corridor stretching from East of 45 in Houston all the way to Baton Rogue. Not New Orleans but there was times I was in Baton Rogue where I felt like I was back in Houston's older working class low income areas.
But honestly LA imo has it's own unique look to me. I think people dismiss the look and feel of sunbelt cities because these cities might not be as distinct from one another like the older cities on the eastcoast but outside of being car centric and sprawling LA feels nothing like Houston or Miami imo.
Miami feels more like a Caribbean city. And while all 3 have a large Hispanic population, Miami Hispanic presence felt a lot more direct than those 2. What I mean by that is, in Miami, Spanish felt a lot more like the first language in a lot of places I went to unlike LA and Houston. LA also looks more like a Western American city with it's own unique look with some southwestern Spanish influences.
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