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re: Seriously, whats so great about Texas?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:44 pm to kingbob
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:44 pm to kingbob
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I think houston? Interstates, car exhaust, car exhaust, and honking horns in traffic.
Inside the loop of Houston >>> anywhere in Louisiana
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to call its own.
who cares? How many times do you eat gumbo, jambalaya, etoufee per year? I'd rather have a 1000 different options than a food to call our own
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:44 pm to kingbob
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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.
Completly agree, but putting San Antonio up there with Boston and New York? No way.
Completly agree with your Houston analysis though.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:47 pm to texag7
See, I see St. Louis Cathedral and balconies. I smell a strange mix of stagnant pond water, homeless piss, alcohol, beniets, and something fried. I can taste the red beans and rice. I can taste the roast beef from Parkway or the muff from central grocery. I can taste a sazerac while listening to professor longhair play the piano. I can hear shorty, Anders, Satchmo, Kermit, Louis Prima, Boutte, ect.
You get what I'm saying.
You get what I'm saying.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:48 pm to Honky Lips
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.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:48 pm to Honky Lips
We have lots of oil in the ground. Otherwise we'd be South Dakota with warmer weather.
California is a much superior place if not for the crazies there.
California is a much superior place if not for the crazies there.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:49 pm to kingbob
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Austin
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.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:50 pm to Panny Crickets
quote:I fricking LOVE Ft Worth
Viva la Fort Worth!
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:50 pm to kingbob
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There is no Houston "sound" to music.
Screwed and chopped? DJ Screw? Pimp C?
Come on man.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:51 pm to NIH
I probably eat jambalaya about 24 times per year, gumbo and etouffee each around 6, boiled crawfish around 4, oysters around 5, muffalletta's around 8, all other Louisiana staples around 20 times.
There isn't much I lack for in Baton Rouge as far as food outside Korean BBQ, really good BBQ (ours is ok, but not fantastic), and great tex-mex (still have some kickass tacos, though).
Trust me, I eat exceptionally well.
There isn't much I lack for in Baton Rouge as far as food outside Korean BBQ, really good BBQ (ours is ok, but not fantastic), and great tex-mex (still have some kickass tacos, though).
Trust me, I eat exceptionally well.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:54 pm to offshoreangler
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.
Most cities don't have that. Austin does to an extent.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:57 pm to offshoreangler
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.
Charm: aesthetically pleasing architecture that does not resemble literally every other cookie-cutter post WWII urban sprawl development.
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:03 pm to Honky Lips
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Lake Travis but other states have places like this
It's the 4th or 5th best lake in Texas
Do you even Texas?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:37 pm to Honky Lips
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Seriously, whats so great about Texas?
Nothing....
I lived there for 5 years. The people are mildly retarded and believe they live in the greatest place on earth. frick Texas and frick texans.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:39 pm to Old Sarge
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
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
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:41 pm to Schmelly
Amen. Only I'd add fishing and make it 4 Fs.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:47 pm to tigerinthebueche
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
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:48 pm to offshoreangler
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If by culture you mean parts of the city look like fricking Juarez sure...it's full of culture.
I've been to Juarez...my guess is that you haven't if you are saying this.
And anybody referring to any part of SA as ghetto has no grounds comparing it to a place like NOLA.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:06 pm to Honky Lips
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.
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.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:09 pm to Alleman
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Also, the roads are great. Their "Farm to Market" roads are county roads but are in better condition than Louisiana's interstates.
Well, yea, close to the cities/suburbs. I drive these roads all day everyday, and they are just as shitty as Louisiana roads when you're 1-2 hours east of Dallas in Tawakoni
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