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Old 04-30-2009, 11:36 PM
 
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That's not true because if you didn't care you wouldn't have accused me of speaking for others....

For the most part....I was merely restating what I have heard time and time again.....
I think actually what you're doing is letting others speak for you and you're just kind of going "yeah, what they said."

Where all in the city have you been anyway? What have you seen?

I'm not really intending to be belligerent here; it's an honest question.
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I think actually what you're doing is letting others speak for you and you're just kind of going "yeah, what they said."
that's not at all what I'm doing because I've said before that they're opinions are not necessarily mine. What I am saying is that I have heard complaints from others of Houston's supposed ugliness and that they have a legitimate beef.

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Where all in the city have you been anyway? What have you seen?
Specifically, I have been to the Woodlands, Kingwood, the entire stretch of FM 1960, Sugar Land/Missouri City area, Westchase, Katy, the Galleria (my favorite part), downtown and took Fannin to the Medical Center.

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I'm not really intending to be belligerent here; it's an honest question.
Me neither but it really frustrates me that you guys don't understand what I'm trying to say (and please don't say you do understand because if you did we wouldn't be having this conversation)
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Old 05-01-2009, 02:17 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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What kind of trees?
Pine trees on I-45 North, palm trees on I-45 South.

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Old 05-01-2009, 02:20 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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And that's what it all comes down to. Some people actually like the flatness. They might think it's cool to look outside in a thunderstorm and watch lightning from miles away. Can't do that where there's hills - you don't always see as far.
Yeah, I love watching those summer afternoon thunder clouds roll in from the Gulf!!!!
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Old 05-01-2009, 02:25 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I think this would look better for 45.

It's still a freeway though. Show me a freeway that's pretty.
North Central Expressway in Dallas is one of the prettier freeways I've seen. The US 59 trench is kinda like a wanna be NCE lol.

Do you know what kinda vine they used along those walls on 59?
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Old 05-01-2009, 02:30 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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This is a city of 5 million people
6 million now, heck it was at 5.5 million a few years ago.
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Old 05-01-2009, 04:14 AM
 
Location: Tomball, TX
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lol.

Yall have no idea what ugly is until you have lived in Detroit.

Jeesh. You cant expect a metro with 6 million people to be pretty all over.

Get over it.
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Old 05-01-2009, 07:14 AM
 
Location: houston/sugarland
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lol.

Yall have no idea what ugly is until you have lived in Detroit.

Jeesh. You cant expect a metro with 6 million people to be pretty all over.

Get over it.
who said it had to be pretty all over... Just asking for a notch above dilapidation and catastrophe.
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Old 05-01-2009, 09:48 AM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Specifically, I have been to the Woodlands, Kingwood, the entire stretch of FM 1960, Sugar Land/Missouri City area, Westchase, Katy, the Galleria (my favorite part), downtown and took Fannin to the Medical Center.
So what did you think of these specific areas as far as how they looked? Would you be able to go back to the people who are telling you Houston is ugly, and tell them most of these areas are not ugly? (with the exception of I-45 and 1960 in my opinion)
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Old 05-01-2009, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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If you live in or around the loop you will almost never use the freeways except to leave town.
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It dosen't just look ugly from the freeway hah You think once you exit it's over? ummm, absolutely not.
Perhaps not where you live, but where I live, yes. My neighborhood is very attractive. And, it's about a mile from the freeway. But, as jfre81 pointed out, I don't need to use the freeways to get around. I often avoid them.

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Many view it as the worst a city could get.
So what? Let them stay away. Jfre81, you shouldn't have posted the positive photos. You should have let the people MrMcCoySays wrote about to continue to believe what they want to believe. We don't want the simple-minded to come to our city in droves.

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Beautiful cities like Charlotte aren't touristy. but the attractiveness of a city has other bonuses other than just attracting visitors. The popularity and desirability of a city has the potential of bringing more businesses, jobs, cultures, and other useful and interesting resources into town
Houston seems to be having a pretty difficult time attracting business:
TOP METROS OF 2008 -- Site Selection magazine, March 2009

Er...
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