Houston: Opportunity City

I'm counting TCU and UNT.

Rice has a very small enrollment and the kids don't get out beyond the hedges much. UH is full of immigrants and thirtysomethings; take them away, and the enrollment of "typical students" is probably about the same as Sul Ross.
 
UNT might be considered in the Metroplex, but would you consider Galveston part of Houston? because that is about the same distance to Fort Worth. Besides, Fort Worth and Dallas might as well be in different states. They are VASTLY different and about 40 miles apart. Including TCU in a Dallas discussion really just shows that you haven't spent much time here.

There is only one university of consequence in Dallas and it is SMU. UNT is in Denton. Again, would you consider Conroe Houston? because that is how far UNT is.

I know you like Houston. I like Houston. But the nightclubs are similar, the suburbs are similar, downtowns, demographics, size, stores, malls, all very similar.
 
Alright, agree to disagree. But I do kind of consider Galveston and Conroe as Houston now. There's basically no countryside in between all those places now.
 
Dallas and Houston ARE very similar. I don't know why people that live in Houston feel that their city is so much better. I strongly dislike both cities equally.

Both cities specialize in big cars and long driving times. You can't walk anywhere in either city. Both cities are equally conservative. Both places have inferiority complex as evidence by things like calling themselves "the NYC of the South." What a hilarious statement. If Houston or Dallas were great cities you'd here cities calling themselves the Houston of the Mid-West or the Dallas of the North-West. You don't here New Yorkers calling themselves the _______ of the North-East.
 
Care to elaborate on this propaganda campaign to name Houston the NCY of the south? Other than a couple of posters on this particular thread, I had not heard that term before.
 
The only peeps I've heard refer Houston as "the NYC of the south" is Houstonians. I think Atlantan's do the same thing.

London is more like NYC than any other US city, imo.



I'd think the closest thing to NYC as far as cuisine, density, and demographics would be San Francisco or Philly. Of course, I've been to neither places.




I think Houston and the Metroplex, if you look up sprawl in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Houston or Dallas.
 
Also, when talking about "inside the loop," how big of an area is that? Would it be like Riverside to Hyde Park? Does it include Uptown and downtown?
 
I moved to Houston about two years ago from San Francisco. I had decided to move back to Texas, and was looking in both Houston and Dallas as I knew there would be minimal opportunities in my field anywhere else. I grew up in West Texas with family in Dallas, so that is where we went to shop, visit cousins, etc., and that is where I thought I would prefer to live. My idea of Houston was pretty much traffic and suburbs. Then I started interviewing, and when I would come to Houston, I would spend time with college friends in inner loop Houston. I quickly decided I would prefer Houston to Dallas. The places we hung out had an Austin-type laid back quality and I was impressed with every restaurant I tried.

When I got a job offer, I decided to buy in Houston. I had been living with two other girls in a 1400 sq ft. apt. in a high rise building with an amazing view of the bay in SF. While there is certainly no view of the bay, I bought a quaint 1400 sq ft. home in Houston, and my mortgage payment is less than I paid in rent for my 1/3 of the SF apartment. My house is in a residential area less than 3 miles from downtown. I regularly walk to Kroger, Blockbuster, Walgreens and several restaurants rather than driving, and a number of my neighbors do the same. While I plead guilty to driving an SUV, unless I leave town, I fill it up about once a month as almost everywhere I go is within a five mile radius, and yet the scenery is far from homogenous.

I have found the diversity of restaurants, museums, theater and sports to be on par with San Francisco, although Minute Maid Park will never compare to SBC.

I also love to travel, and from a location and service standpoint, Houston is really ideal. You can always get a cheap ticket on Continental somewhere.

Anyway, I probably sound like a Chamber of Commerce ad, but having lived in a city I never thought I would like for more than two years, I will now say that I really love living in Houston, and am not sure I would rather live anywhere else (short of Austin, which is somewhat unrealistic considering my profession). There is a lot more to Houston than traffic and urban sprawl.
 
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