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Poor 3 23.08%
Fair 6 46.15%
Great 3 23.08%
Awesome!!!! 1 7.69%
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Old 01-26-2016, 12:33 PM
 
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I'm a Marketing professional in the Atlanta area and I visited Houston a few years ago and fell in love with the city. Texas often makes national news for wacky laws and racial tension. Does Houston have this problem? What do you love about Houston and what do you dislike?

Any feedback you natives can share on these topics would be most helpful. Thanks in advance! :-)

 
Old 01-26-2016, 12:54 PM
 
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Houston is the most diverse large city in the US. That doesn't eliminate racial tension but it's certainly a plus imo
 
Old 01-26-2016, 02:15 PM
 
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Texas makes the national news because the national media hates Texas.
 
Old 01-26-2016, 02:21 PM
 
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The national news doesn't hate Texas. People in Texas are just too sensitive. Everyone gets bad press including Florida, California, and New York. You'll do just fine here.
 
Old 01-26-2016, 02:29 PM
 
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People in Texas are just too sensitive.
 
Old 01-26-2016, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Upper Kirby, Houston, TX
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The national news doesn't hate Texas. People in Texas are just too sensitive. Everyone gets bad press including Florida, California, and New York. You'll do just fine here.
To a degree you're right, and people of Texas are much more prideful and get their feelings hurt when ill is spoken of their state than people in other states, speaking from general stereotypes of course. To be your devil's advocate though, I do think that other states also get it's bright spots accented in the news a lot more than Texas does. The only time I ever see anything positive about Texas is when I read some rare article from the WSJ how the economy is amazing here in spite of all the other awfulness. It's most upsetting when going to other places and meeting people that have no idea what the place is like yet have formed very strong and harsh opinions of it and its' people. I guess people on here do that about California though..
 
Old 01-27-2016, 06:35 AM
 
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The national news doesn't hate Texas. People in Texas are just too sensitive. Everyone gets bad press including Florida, California, and New York. You'll do just fine here.
I'll give you Florida, mostly due to the disproportionately high number of stupid people there, but the media is nowhere near as negative about California and New York. Really, the media gushes over NY most of the times since that is where the media is based.

Texas gets a lot of bad press in the national media, but of the rest of the states are mostly ignored by the media like they don't exist.
 
Old 01-27-2016, 07:48 AM
 
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