re: Seriously, whats so great about Texas?

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Cause when you're down in Texas Bob Wills is the king

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...even Willie will be the first to tell you.

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culture wise, there's no city in Texas that would be anyone's first choice to live in (except for maybe Austin)

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San Antonio has culture for days.

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She always uses the trxas history stuff they drill into their heads in school. Sounds like some Jim Jones shite to me

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Sounds like civic pride to me and a keen awareness of ones history. Heaven forbid someone be proud of their heritage. Guess that's only allowed for minorities. Of course it helps if your from a state about which there is actually something to be proud.
Guess we can always fall back on our nation leading rates of poverty, unwed mothers, High school dropouts, and STDs

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cities in the US the other being NY that has a full-time theater, opera, symphony, and ballet
all are considered the height of refined culture

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gay

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One doesn't have to be born into the right family (or go to the right high school) to get a good white collar job in its major cities

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This. I cannot stress how much that makes Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin better places to live for LSU and Tulane graduates than New Orleans. NOLA just can't compete.

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Houston and Dallas are both pretty boring, plain, and lacking in charm

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But that BR mid city charm is to die for.

Look at the sense of humor on this guy.

It's hard to beat for an Outdoorsman. Great hunting and and fishing for lots of different species.

Culture isn't measured in the number of theaters or opera houses or museums. Culture is an intangible thing. It's a city-wide identity. An attitude. A style. When someone hears the word "New Orleans", they can see it, hear it, taste it, smell it. The same is true for cities like 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. The neighborhoods lack identity. The culinary scene is varied and features great cuisine from all over he world, but it lacks a style unique to call its own. There is no Houston "sound" to music. Houston and Dallas simply lack the history of many other cities. They lack the unique look because they were largely developed after the automobile.