re: Seriously, whats so great about Texas?

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Culture....
New York, Austin, San Antonio, Boston, and so on and so on. You hear the name and you know what that city and it's people are all about.

You know what I see, smell, taste , and hear when I think houston? Interstates, car exhaust, car exhaust, and honking horns in traffic.

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Completly agree, but putting San Antonio up there with Boston and New York? No way.

Completly agree with your Houston analysis though.

It's not on the same level, but I can hear, smell, taste, and see the city when I think about it. That's what I'm saying. It has a recognizeable sense of identity.

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Austin

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You people keep talking about Austin as the most cultural city in Texas. Half of the people in Austin are from California. Austin today is light years different from the Hippy Hollow/Keep Austin Weird t-shirt days of yore.

If you went to Dry Creek before Owen Temple wrote a song about it, you get a pass....otherwise shut the frick up about Austin. It's not all that.

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There is no Houston "sound" to music.

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Screwed and chopped? DJ Screw? Pimp C?


Come on man.

Austin has its own brand of music. It has its own legendary style of BBQ. It has an attitude that is pretty unique. Cities with identities draw in lots of people from elsewhere who want to be a part of that identity, people who want to live somewhere not because it's where they can find a job, but because they want to be there. There is not a soul over 18 living within the city limits of New Orleans that doesn't want to be there. Having a cultural "buy-in" on such a level creates a certain mood, passion, and pride in a city that can make it a really fun place to live.

Most cities don't have that. Austin does to an extent.

Culture: a unique identity that seperates a city from others. Thpically made noticeable in a unique musical, culinary, or artistic tradition native to the area.
Charm: aesthetically pleasing architecture that does not resemble literally every other cookie-cutter post WWII urban sprawl development.

hos

I lived in Dallas for 2 years when I was about 22(2002). Rockwall actually. Place is gorgeous. Lived with a buddy who bought a 2700sqft house, brand new for 140k. Everything looks like it was built yesterday. Fast forward...he just bought a house that appraised at 1.1 for 650k. I'm back in school and I'm secretly hoping(although wifey said she's cool with it) to land a job in Tx. Not sure I wanna be as far as dallas though.


TL-- lifelong coonass...LA is 3 Fs Food, Family & Football. Other than that. There's no reason for the whole dam population of LA not to GTFO

True, but u can do that there too. Us Louisiana folk think we have the market cornered on fishing. It's silly. Myself included at one time

They do high school football better than anyone else. Not saying they play it better. They manage it better. They don't have as much recruiting as most states have. The kids go to the schools where they live. If they find out you moved to a town just to play sports, they won't even let you play.

The main reason is the good public schools. Because there are so many good public school options, private schools haven't poached kids away from their neighborhood schools. A few private schools in Texas have begun to care about football, but most still play in their own league and no one ever hears about them.

Since I moved away in 2010, I've read about the problems they are beginning to have with private schools recruiting basketball players. I expect football might follow, but it would take decades for Texas to become as screwed up as Florida or Louisiana when it comes to high schools recruiting.