Houston vs. Dallas (Austin, Arlington, Plano: temperature, comparison, traffic)

[Trae713]

Hmm, time to rethink that endorsement.

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Houston is a strange mix of Los Angeles, New Orleans, & Atlanta all rolled into one sprawling metropolis.

You nailed it.

[Topaz]

Originally Posted by houstoner

He had me until he compared Dallas to San Francisco.

I was going to write something about all the differences between Dallas and San Francisco but I couldn't stop laughing.

Now Houston and Los Angeles, I can see the similarities. I grew up in Los Angeles and I felt instantly at home in Houston. Lots of the same good qualities and many of the same bad ones as well.

[$DFW8$]

Dallas is better hands down. Houston just wishes they were as good as Dallas! LOL!

[tstone]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

The comparison of LA & Houston is very accurate. Houston is a strange mix of Los Angeles, New Orleans, & Atlanta all rolled into one sprawling metropolis.

Well, this is the sunbelt...

[Brewzerr68]

Originally Posted by $DFW8$

Dallas is better hands down. Houston just wishes they were as good as Dallas! LOL!

And here is a perfect example of why I feel the way I do about Dallas. Thank you $DFW8$, for reinforcing a stereotype. It's OK, keep telling yourself that... the rest of the world doesn't care.

[Trae713]

I'm pretty sure he was only kidding.

[okaythen01]

hi guys how do you know if certain neighborhood is middle class or upper class? do you look at the medium income? if it's above state average then it's upper class and if it's about the same with the state average then it's middle? and I guess also look at the crime rate if it's less than state average then it's decent neighborhood? what else do you look at if the neighborhood isn't talked about much in the forum so you have something to go by? thanks

[First24]

Originally Posted by Brewzerr68

And here is a perfect example of why I feel the way I do about Dallas. Thank you $DFW8$, for reinforcing a stereotype.

The fact you have a certain sterotype about a city with over 1.2 million very diverse residents really exposes your ignorance.

[First24]

Originally Posted by Brewzerr68

As an L.A. resident who used to live in both Houston and Dallas, I would say that Houston is probably the most L.A.-like city in the nation, though I doubt that's what city planners intended. The similarities are everywhere: small, compact downtown with sprawling, amoeba-like suburbs broken by islands of skykraper-clusters (examples: Galleria-area Houston, Century City L.A.), bad smog, freeway dependency, heavy ethnic culture, high risk for natural catastrophe (Houston has hurricanes and heavy flooding, L.A. has quakes, fires, and mudslides), ugly character-less suburbs and a beautiful inner-city. I totally disagree that L.A. is "much more scary". The 5th ward in Houston is far scarier than anything in South-Central, though the gang culture is more widespread out here (though not as violent in recent years as it was in the 80's and 90's)

Dallas on the other hand, like many have pointed out, is NOTHING like San Francisco. Nowhere else in America is anything like SF. If I had to compare Dallas to a western U.S. city, I would say it most closely resembles Phoenix... and even that is a stretch. Dallas is uniquely TEXAN, though it is very much a big city. I agree that Dallas is ahead of Houston on the mass transit issue. Houston desperately needs a larger rail system.

The similarities between Houston and LA are the third world feel in certain areas and the freeway sprawl traffic, everything else is COMPLETELY different.

Phoenix like Dallas... LOL... You're dismissed.