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Old 06-04-2013, 06:14 PM
 
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Weather and scenery vs. jobz and square feetz. Which one wins?

 
Old 06-04-2013, 06:21 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Weather and scenery vs. jobz and square feetz. Which one wins?
Los Angeles
 
Old 06-04-2013, 06:22 PM
 
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Yeah but paying more for an equally crappy area sucks

The fact is most people just can't afford to live in the nice parts of la

Unless they live with roommates , which isn't very desirable either.

Might be hard for people that make high salaries to grasp this .

I agree with you that people are willing to pay more if they can afford it .. Of course some people just don't let la and would refuse to live here even if they can afford a nice area .
A lot of people are like me and have decent salaries and live in older apts in nice areas like valley village, north Hollywood and Burbank. It beats living in nicer areas in Houston.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Yeah but paying more for an equally crappy area sucks

The fact is most people just can't afford to live in the nice parts of la

Unless they live with roommates , which isn't very desirable either.

Might be hard for people that make high salaries to grasp this .

I agree with you that people are willing to pay more if they can afford it .. Of course some people just don't let la and would refuse to live here even if they can afford a nice area .
Not everyone in Houston can afford to live in the nice areas either. What you describe is hardly an L.A. phenomenom. It's not like Houston is devoid of poverty and dicey areas. The crime stats refute that.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 06:54 PM
 
Location: SoCal & Mid-TN
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While the big Texas cities have their parts of town that don't feel like Texas - the prevailing culture is still undeniably Texan. Even those urban neighborhoods in Houston/Dallas are nothing like LA.
^^^This. You can count skyscrapers and density all day long, but the culture is sooooo different that you can't compare the two, IMHO.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 07:06 PM
 
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I live in Houston and imo, the two cities are nothing alike. Nada. Zip. Zero.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 07:32 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Shouldn't the culture in Houston be Texan, considering its in Texas? Don't see how that's different than any other city in any other state. The culture between the two cities are different, but there are still some similarities. Houston is one of five cities (the bay, la, nyc, and dc being the others) to have a Pacifica radio station. The art car parade started in houston. I mentioned the no zoning earlier. It's pretty live and let live in Houston. People hype up Austin as that place in Texas, but Houston was the original and still is.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 08:59 PM
 
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^^^^

You are starting to sound like a brochure...a radio station makes a city nothing like another city. It's the same as when they mention the same Broadway shows come to town.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 09:12 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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^^^^

You are starting to sound like a brochure...a radio station makes a city nothing like another city. It's the same as when they mention the same Broadway shows come to town.
Hahaha don't come here with that. How is it the same thing as Broadway shows going to town? I only brought that station up to show that houston is more than just this "Texan". Besides, I think being home to one of those stations shows what kind of city it is. Broadway shows go all over the place. All I see are stereotypes in this thread and you not looking at the broader scope and instead nitpicking. Why was this thread started anyways? Because barcelonafan read some of metro matt's posts in the Texas section (not even from Houston), and then tried to generalize that as all Houstonians. There are some entertaining reads here tbqh.
 
Old 06-04-2013, 10:12 PM
 
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Houston definitely has a large population of people barely scraping by as well. When I taught in Southwest Houston, I regularly got kids who moved in from California and I always wondered why if they moved from a super expensive place like LA, they would end up in a slummy place like Alief. So they lost the scenery and were still scraping by. Odd, but maybe they came from a part of LA more run down than SW Houston which seems unlikely...
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