Why do people move to Texas and then want to complain about everything Texas? (Houston: 2015, houses)

[I Love Buildings]

I would say Houston's sprawl gives it a distinct advantage when giving neighborhoods character. It's not like Manhattan where you can easily get to know it in one full day. Houston you have to live here to understand, it takes time to really explore each main street and major intersection.

Then you have the suburbs Sugar Land and The Woodlands which are entirely different worlds of their own within an already big metro. Texas suburbs arent your typical burbs!

[soletaire]

Yes, let's compare every burgeoning 20th century city to 400 year old New York City...that's brilliant

[lepoisson]

Originally Posted by PanthersFan56

In my opinion, Texas is like the Walmart of the united states. It's cheap and sometimes you gotta settle for cheap, even though it's not as sophisticated as New York.

I just moved to DFW and really like it here, but you're kind of right (at least about the bigger cities in Texas). This area seems to lack authenticity. Everything feels so commercialized and it's just one big box store after another. I think it's because most of the growth occurred in the past few decades.

When I first moved here, I didn't even feel like I was in Texas. You could drop a stranger off in DFW and they probably wouldn't be able to guess which state they were in.

I'm sure people will attack me. But when you visit places like New Orleans, Boston, Santa Fe, Savannah, you'll see the authenticity I'm talking about.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by lepoisson

I just moved to DFW and really like it here, but you're kind of right (at least about the bigger cities in Texas). This area seems to lack authenticity. Everything feels so commercialized and it's just one big box store after another. I think it's because most of the growth occurred in the past few decades.

When I first moved here, I didn't even feel like I was in Texas. You could drop a stranger off in DFW and they probably wouldn't be able to guess which state they were in.

I'm sure people will attack me. But when you visit places like New Orleans, Boston, Santa Fe, Savannah, you'll see the authenticity I'm talking about.

Because those are old cities with a lot of history behind them. San Antonio would probably be the only Texas city that is historically preserved and was mentioned by Mark Twain as being one of four only truly unique cities in the country along with Boston, New Orleans and San Francisco. I would've added DC in there too.

Texas cities are very young and were built for practicality. They weren't designed for the specific tastes of the urban enthusiasts. The new development is an experiment in ultimate practical living for the professional families that work in the big cities. Nothing wrong with that. But most Americans would choose practical over the style of a city's design.

I used to think like you when I was younger but have come to find out now as an older guy that stuff is great for tourism and to preserve existing historical cities like NOLA, but for newer cities what are they supposed to do? Build replicas of older towns like they do in China? No seriously that's what they're doing over there is building replicas of old English towns and European landmarks. It's weird and makes the country look silly because they're just giving people the ammo to joke about how they're a country of knockoffs.

[radiolibre99]

lepoisson, You said you live in Dallas, no? I'm looking up vids of Dallas and it looks pretty nice and upscale, especially in the uptown and downtown areas. It's not tacky commercialized either, it looks nice sort of a Texan style Beverly Hills thing going on. By the way you make it sound I assumed it was all tacky box stores and shopping centers.

[Soonhun]

I never found any part of Dallas tacky. Maybe boring or suburban, in a few parts of the city, but nothing ever screamed tacky.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Parhe

I never found any part of Dallas tacky. Maybe boring or suburban, in a few parts of the city, but nothing ever screamed tacky.

Urbanite snobs think anything that's not NYC or SF is tacky. From the pics that I saw, Dallas is very clean, pretty and upscale. It's up there along with Austin and Fr. Worth as prettiest Texas city.

[Mr.Garcia]

The two things that bother me the most is the heat and the drivers.

[NCN]

Unhappy people complain.

[MrCurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by DanielWayne

Houston is a prime target, too. To them, Houston is a dirty infested swamp where the summer temperatures are comparable to the surface of Venus.

But Houston is a dirty infested swamp where the summer temperatures are comparable to the surface of Venus. Which is why I moved somewhere else in Texas.