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Old 10-24-2017, 12:25 PM
 
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I'm downtown nearly every week, and while it is improving I'm still not aware of any major city with a worse downtown.
OKC, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Detroit, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, all come to mind - as well as quite a few others that are more arguable.
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Old 10-24-2017, 01:17 PM
 
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I'm downtown nearly every week, and while it is improving I'm still not aware of any major city with a worse downtown.

Houston is still relatively a new city and has come along way for making downtown livable.
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Old 10-24-2017, 01:52 PM
 
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My money is on Amazon 2 going to Denver.
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Old 10-24-2017, 03:00 PM
 
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My money is on Amazon 2 going to Denver.
If not Houston then my bet is somewhere in EST to counter PST. (Boston, DC, ATL perhaps)
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Old 10-24-2017, 03:19 PM
 
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If not Houston then my bet is somewhere in EST to counter PST. (Boston, DC, ATL perhaps)
Pick a city and we will make a friendly wager. The winner gets to pick a tag line the user will use in his identity for a month.

PS - anyone else is welcome to get in on this.
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Old 10-24-2017, 03:35 PM
 
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OKC, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Detroit, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, all come to mind - as well as quite a few others that are more arguable.
Agree that Phoenix downtown sucks. Beating out the likes of Detroit, Orlando, and Tampa isn't much of an accomplishment for the 4th largest metro in the country.
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Old 10-24-2017, 04:39 PM
 
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After more review, I think Austin all the way
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Old 10-24-2017, 07:25 PM
 
Location: Southeast TX
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Midway put in a bid and added a video, not sure if you have all seen it, thought I would share.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaeUB9sh...=we_are_midway
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Old 10-26-2017, 07:15 AM
 
Location: Memorial Villages
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I think Houston's dependence on the oil industry gives us a mild case of Dutch Disease that scares away big prospective employers. Oil's in a slump now, but once it comes back, oil companies will poach a lot of the local talent and drive up the cost of doing business for non-O&G companies.

Of course, plenty of poaching occurs in the tech industry as well.
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Old 01-18-2018, 10:53 AM
 
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Houston is not on the latest list of 20 cities for 2nd Amazon HQ. :-(

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...-20/ar-AAuQP8o

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Amazon said it will spend $5 billion in the city where it builds its second headquarters, and will employ 50,000 there.

The cities are:

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Montgomery County, MD
Nashville, TN
Newark, NJ
New York City, NY
Northern Virginia, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh, NC
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.
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