Houston is a lot like LA (Dallas, Humble: shop, gardens, oil) - Texas (TX) - Page 22 - City-Data Forum

BCEagles01 · 03-21-2011, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by cBach

+1 - this is the most unbiased post in the whole thread.

Houston is a nice business city with a cheap cost of living. It's a good place to raise a family.

It has not, will not, cannot ever compare to LA in terms of universities or anything else for that matter.

It should just be satisfied that it's its own town that has a relatively good (if plain) life for its citizens.

There's nothing wrong with that at all and nothing to be ashamed of Houston.

Thank you.

Excuse all my typing mistakes. Coming from the east coast, I had many images of Houston in my head. None of which were close to being true. I like it here. I miss some of the food and having the subway to get around ( I'd park my car in a heartbeat ) I can say I was very disappointed that my company allowed our headquarters to move to another city, as I felt costs would be much cheaper here to do business here.

Houston looks to be in good shape from what I can see though.

Metro Matt · 03-21-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Spade

No it's not. Only the Northern part of the loop is thick forested like East Texas.

North of I-10 is where you'll find the most forested parts of the city, but obviously you have not been on the eastside of downtown on I-10 going out of Houston I take it. It is very forested too. Also Beltway 8 West just south of I-10 is an urban forest.

Hell I've seen large groves of pine trees as far south as Clear Lake & League City before granted they were more than likely planted decades ago.

Did you know the Houston area used to be a major source of lumber in Texas?

blkgiraffe · 03-21-2011, 05:04 PM

Wow, now people are just throwing in random places. Alabama, Hawaii, Kansas City, and others. No.

New Orleans - Houston has a large creole/cajun culture, ports, parts of Houston have architecture similar to that of New Orleans and overall, the cities are very connected; probably moreso than Dallas.

Atlanta: Both large southern cities, trees, southern culture, and vibrant black communities.

Los Angeles: Palm trees, large Mexican/Asian populations, located near the coast, ports and both are integrated.

Dallas: Self-explanatory

HtownLove · 03-21-2011, 05:08 PM

Houston is most like St Louis and Omaha. Those other cities.. not so much

blkgiraffe · 03-21-2011, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by HtownLove

Houston is most like St Louis and Omaha. Those other cities.. not so much

I always felt Houston had a strong resemblance to Paris.

Spade · 03-21-2011, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by cBach

Houston is in many ways like Atlanta.

Outside of North Houston, I'm not seeing this.

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North of I-10 is where you'll find the most forested parts of the city, but obviously you have not been on the eastside of downtown on I-10 going out of Houston I take it. It is very forested too. Also Beltway 8 West just south of I-10 is an urban forest.

I've been all over Houston. That part of Houston on the beltway maybe forested. But it's not thick and certainly not as thick as the Northern portions of Houston and East Texas.

Metro Matt · 03-21-2011, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spade

Outside of North Houston, I'm not seeing this.

I've been all over Houston. That part of Houston on the beltway maybe forested. But it's not thick and certainly not as thick as the Northern portions of Houston and East Texas.

Thats great, then you should know there are piney forests & swamp/marsh land on the east side too.

You should also know Houston used to be a major source of timber & that Clear Lake has its pines.

They'e even planting loblolly pines in Katy.

As you can see, I-10 is roughly the dividing line of the great "pine belt" of the Southeastern United States
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Pinus_taeda_range_map.jpg (broken link)

South of Downtown Houston the coastal vibe becomes much more apparent & the "woodsy" look disappears, however you can't go anywhere within a 50 mile radius of Houston without seeing some type of tropical foliage.