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Old 03-10-2022, 04:54 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about other cities in Texas?

I was just in West Texas and told people I live in DFW when they asked. The first thing out of their mouth was "ouch, that traffic". I was in San Antonio a few months ago and got the same exact response.

Here's what I think of when I think of the following cities/regions.

El Paso: Deserts
Houston: Crime (it seems like all of the sketchy stuff in TX happens in Harris County)
San Antonio: The Alamo and the Riverwalk
Austin: Liberal college students and homeless people
West Texas: Desert and oil fields
South Texas: Basically Mexico, just in the US
Dallas: Snoody people and sketchy Altima drivers with paper license plates
Fort Worth: Stockyards and cowboy hats
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Old 03-10-2022, 06:43 PM
 
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San Antonio: The Alamo
Dallas: Wealthy
Houston: Sprawl
Austin: Hippies
Fort Worth: stockyards
El Paso: Desert
Corpus: beach
San Marcos: college students
New Braunfels: rivers
Fredericksburg: tourists
East Texas: southern
West Texas: oil/gas and cowboys
South Texas: same as West Texas

Special

Oklahoma: OU sucks
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Old 03-10-2022, 07:59 PM
 
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San Antonio: The Riverwalk
Dallas: Fair park
Houston: Diversity
Austin: Young and vibrant
Fort Worth: Anytown, USA
El Paso: Crappy version of San Antonio
Corpus: Beach
San Marcos: train station
New Braunfels: Weekend madness
Fredericksburg: Lame German town (I lived close to Colonia Tovar in Venezuela)
East Texas: Lots of confederate flags
West Texas: Hills around Sheffield, Texas
South Texas: South Padre Island
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Old 03-11-2022, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Ill do two lists. Positive and negative first thoughts.

Positive
Houston: Diversity and amazing food
Dallas: Huge Gay scene and Great Nightlife
Fort Worth: Friendly and Western
Austin: Best Bar scene in Texas and Outdoorsy
San Antonio: Hispanic Culture and Riverwalk
El Paso: Amazing people and Mexican Food
The Valley: Warm Weather and best beaches in Texas
Waco: Great Downtown and charming neighborhoods
Amarillo: see Waco

Negative
Houston: Illegal immigrants and crime
Dallas: unfriendly people/snobs
Fort Worth: Redneck
Austin: tone deaf liberals who think they are better than everyone else
San Antonio: one dimensional/boring
El Paso: No Diversity
The Valley: Chain Restaurants and illegal immigrants
Waco: Rape University and the Dividians
Amarillo: Trump lovers in a city that smells like cow ****
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Old 03-11-2022, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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Dallas: pretentious people
Fort Worth: western culture
Houston: petrochemicals
San Antonio: Hispanic culture
Austin: liberals and hippies
Fredericksburg: wineries
San Angelo: sheep
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Old 03-11-2022, 12:58 PM
 
Location: East Texas, with the Clan of the Cave Bear
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Positives and negatives of each:

Austin: + nothing.

- traffic, very lib bordering on insanity, stinky tent cities, unfortunate that it's part of Texas, horrible traffic and it's hard to drive around when going east/west

Houston: + Best medical in the world in The Med Center, has everything and anything shopping wise one could want.
Great food, supports Texas and the US through its industry

- Democrat government contributing to crime especially the DA who is cool with criminals preying on the people
, overrun with illegals, infrastructure strained by so many people. Lotta cops getting shot (R/T the previous negatives), Unorganized, many parts dirty.

El Paso: + I don't know.

- Within rifle range of Mexico. 800 miles from me.

Dallas: + Cowboys ! Have several good friends there.

- Too many people, traffic sucks, Democrat DA that is cool with criminals preying on the people, southern Tornado Ally with lots of hail

Ft. Worth: + Stockyards, not Dallas , - southern Tornado Ally with lots of hail, bad traffic.

East Texas (Tyler/Longview, Nacogdoches/Lufkin even down to Beaumont): + Greenery abounds with diverse flora and fauna, huge lakes with the best outdoors scene, great salt of the earth people. Pretty good overland hiking and wonderful ATV parks covering miles and miles. Most southeastern parts have a strong Cajun influence where there's dozens a restaurants serving crawfish ... even the Tex Mex ones.

- people (mostly weak minded ones) think everybody dresses in gray and carries the Stars and Bars which is untrue. It is pretty much a poor region due to lack of industry.
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Old 03-11-2022, 04:21 PM
 
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I worked in Conroe for many years and I would start seeing confederate flags the moment I cross the San Jacinto River (as I would enter Conroe)
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Old 03-12-2022, 06:24 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Originally Posted by Dopo View Post
San Antonio: The Riverwalk
Dallas: Fair park
Houston: Diversity
Austin: Young and vibrant
Fort Worth: Anytown, USA
El Paso: Crappy version of San Antonio
Corpus: Beach
San Marcos: train station
New Braunfels: Weekend madness
Fredericksburg: Lame German town (I lived close to Colonia Tovar in Venezuela)
East Texas: Lots of confederate flags
West Texas: Hills around Sheffield, Texas
South Texas: South Padre Island
Haha, I've lived in East Texas for nearly 30 years and have only seen one Confederate flag the entire time - and I took a picture of it because it was so unusual!

Here's my take on your list:
Dallas: Traffic and congestion
Houston: Lots of Vietnamese
Austin: CONGESTION
Fort Worth: Cowboys - Where the west begins
El Paso: Mariachi music
Corpus: Not a great beach town
San Marcos: Texas State University
New Braunfels: Little Germany
East Texas: Hills and greenery
West Texas: Energy - long drive though
South Texas: Lots of Hispanic influence
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Old 03-12-2022, 12:32 PM
 
Location: United States
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Austin: Lady Bird Lake
Dallas: The giraffe
El Paso: Snow on the Franklin Mountains
Fort Worth: Water Gardens
Houston: Beyoncé
San Antonio: Fiesta Texas

When it comes to the larger regions in the state, I believe we all pretty much think of the same thing first..

West Texas: Desert
Panhandle: Plains/Big sky
North Texas: DFW
East Texas: Forests
Central Texas: Hill Country
South Texas: "Mexico"
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Old 03-12-2022, 01:19 PM
 
Location: DFW, Texas
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El Paso: New Mexico or Mexico vide, still Texan
Houston: Humid, Flood
San Antonio: Riverwalk, Alamo
Austin: We are cool because we are weird
West Texas: Boonies
South Texas: South Padre Island, best Texas beach
Dallas: Everything is bigger in Texas
Fort Worth: Cowboys
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