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How is this an odd comparison? They are statistical peers. La vs htown would be odd, because houston doesnt compare, and comparing suburbs wouldn't work either because fort bend is not on the same level as oc.
How is this an odd comparison? They are statistical peers. La vs htown would be odd, because houston doesnt compare, and comparing suburbs wouldn't work either because fort bend is not on the same level as oc.
I think the only reason people are finding the comparison odd is because a county is being compared to a city. A good comparison would be Harris County vs Orange County. Of course Orange County wins! It's one of the best counties in the U.S. while Harris County is irrelevant to most people. How many people actually even know that Houston is in Harris County?
I would say Vietnamese is about even. Chinese food sucks in both cities, at least by SF/NYC standards. Mexican I prefer OC though Chewy's is pretty good. Houston obviously wins for BBQ. To the extent there are delis in both cities, OC wins on that, although Kenny and Ziggy's is excellent, especially for a city with a tiny Jewish population.
Quite honestly I wasn't all that impressed by NYC's Chinese food. My expectations were pretty high & what I had there was no better than what I could have gotten in Houston. While I loved the dense urban vibe of NYC's Chinatown/Little Italy its obviously very old & run down looking, some people like that, I don't. Houston's "New" Chinatown is suburban in feel, but everything there is brand new & is pretty dense by sprawlbelt standards.
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I would say Vietnamese is about even. Chinese food sucks in both cities, at least by SF/NYC standards. Mexican I prefer OC though Chewy's is pretty good. Houston obviously wins for BBQ. To the extent there are delis in both cities, OC wins on that, although Kenny and Ziggy's is excellent, especially for a city with a tiny Jewish population.
Chinese food sucks in the OC? I would imagine it didn't do to all the Chinese enclaves they have.
Definately Houston for me. I prefer a big city over a giant county with bland developments and uninspiring architecture. Houston is big and spreadout but you do have a choice of living in close in neighborhoods with various styles of architecture, old and new. Be close to great cultural amenities, professional sports teams, great shopping, lots of restaurants and employment centers. Plus its pretty diverse. I live in Los Angeles and I rarely go down to the OC...no reason to.
Definately Houston for me. I prefer a big city over a giant county with bland developments and uninspiring architecture. Houston is big and spreadout but you do have a choice of living in close in neighborhoods with various styles of architecture, old and new. Be close to great cultural amenities, professional sports teams, great shopping, lots of restaurants and employment centers. Plus its pretty diverse. I live in Los Angeles and I rarely go down to the OC...no reason to.
I see OC as having a lot of the same things. I live in LA also, but I do enjoy OC. Large swaths of OC are simialr cookie cutter, particularly South County, but there is a lot of diverse feel in the neighborhoods.
Newport vs. Huntington vs. Anaheim vs. Fullerton.
Anaheim has baseball and hockey. If you live in Fullerton, Dodger stadium and Staples aren't all that far!
If one lives in Katy, TX it's the same distance to Astrodome.
How is this an odd comparison? They are statistical peers. La vs htown would be odd, because houston doesnt compare, and comparing suburbs wouldn't work either because fort bend is not on the same level as oc.
You're comparing a city to a suburban county. That's like comparing Philadelphia to Broward County, Florida. It's an odd comparison. I don't understand why you are surprised many find it odd.
Still the feel of central Houston and the close proximity to great museums, downtown, the theater district, Minutemaid Park, Toyota Center, great hospitals and great shopping is the key for me. And I've been to a baseball game in Anaheim....no thanks!
You're comparing a city to a suburban county. That's like comparing Philadelphia to Broward County, Florida. It's an odd comparison. I don't understand why you are surprised many find it odd.
Houston is physically about the size of a county, and has urban and suburban sections. OC also has urban and suburban parts, and again are statistically similar. City and county are just words, numbers don't lie. Phillly and broward are statistically nothing alike. Pay attention to the numbers ppl. Not the symantics. Would jville florida be superior to hudson nj because one calls itself a city and the other calls itself a county. With words things are relative. With numbers they are not. From a functional standpoint however, i can see your point, seeing as houston contains the core of a metropolis while oc functions largely as a suburb.
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