The Raiders from West Texas are usually fine. It's the ones that come here from everywhere else that suck.

as far as mexican food is concerned, this thread was about lubbock and B/CS there are qute a few good hole in the wall mexican food places in bryan.

and one thing that no one has mentioned yet is that when I want to buy some beer or liquor, I can drive the 2 blocks from my house and buy some scotch even if its 5 min before the place closes and still make it in time.

College Station > Lubbock

The main difference I see is that people in and around College Station know that it's a college town that carries a few of the amenities of a larger city. People in and around Lubbock actually think it's a grand metropolis with refined cuisine, arts, recreational activities, etc.

The beer argument definitely gives College Station the edge. I have a 40 minute round trip from my house on the north side of town to the strip. And once you get there everything costs 2x what it did in CS.

Wolfforth electing to sell beer is going to help those who partake over on the south and west sides of town. That should be much quicker than a trip to The Strip.

How can any town be easier to navigate than CS? Directions to anywhere always start with "Go down Texas AV." There are 4 major roads. You can find anything by going down one of those roads.

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How can any town be easier to navigate than CS? Directions to anywhere always start with "Go down Texas AV." There are 4 major roads. You can find anything by going down one of those roads.

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College Station is not overly troublesome to navigate, but Lubbock is literally the easiest place on the face of the earth to navigate.

The entire town is laid out in a grid, with a loop circling it. East-west streets are numbered, and the numbers get bigger as you go south. North-south streets use the alphabet. University, which runs on the east side of campus, bisects the town. Everything to the east of University uses a letter (Ave A, Ave B, etc.), while everything west of University uses a place name (Akron, Boston, Canton, Detroit, etc.) When you hit the end of the alphabet, you're at Slide Road, the main thoroughfare on the southern and western sides of town, the place names start over (Albany, Belmont, Chicago, etc.)

You say that you can find anything by driving one of the main roads in College Station. That's true for restaurants and such, but it becomes a little more difficult if you're looking for a specific address or someone's house. There were still some streets in B-CS that, after four years, I couldn't find, or needed directions to get there. In Lubbock, all you need is the address. 8254 Frankford is on Frankford, just off 82nd Street; 6831 Quaker is on Quaker, just off 68th Street. Even someone who has never been to Lubbock can find 34th Street or Milwaukee Ave. with ease, but finding Southwood or Rio Grande in College Station is a bit more difficult.

WTAg-

You keep bragging on Lubbock traffic...have you never been to Amarillo? Has LBB ever figured out how to time traffic lights, as AMA did 30 years ago?

I really like Amarillo....all the pluses of Lubbock and no Tech!

I really like Post...best allsups in west texas

thats all i got

I've lived in College Station for 16 years and have been to Lubbock a dozen or so times. I mostly agree with your first post, and add that the weather is MUCH better than the humid soup of College Station. Stepping outside at midnight in the middle of July and feeling a slight chill is greatness. The restaurants and choices for adult bars (not filled with college students) beats CS as well.

No way crime is better than CS, though. CS schools are also superior.

I like Lubbock and think it gets a bad rap. I would love to live that close to the mountains.

Facts are Facts...both suck.

Canyon, I've only been to Amarillo a couple of times in my life, so I can't say that I have much experience with it.

And cr06gis is right. The Allsup's in Post sets the standard for convenience stores in the world. I've been to a lot of them, and nothing beats that Allsup's. If you haven't been in there lately, they recently did some rearranging, moving and expanding the fountain drinks.

Man, I'm hungry for a MexiBurger now...

CanyonAg

I like Amarillo ok, although it feels 20 degrees colder up there in the winter.

I didn't realize we had WestTexasAg and WestTxAg06...

Amarillo is cooler...most of the year, that's a good thing.

And why anyone would ever stop in Allsups, anywhere, anytime, is beyond me. NAsty, nasty little places.

Give me a Town & Country > Toot & toteum > PakaSak >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Allsups.

unless things have changed since I was in school at Tech. Lubbock has no drainage system. Anytime it rains remotely hard it floods instantly. I cant remember how many times the intersection of University and 19th street was underwater and cars were flooded out. From a 15 minute downpour. I always thought it was so weird there is no sewer system in most of the city.

The drainage problem in Lubbock stems from the fact that there is essentially no elevation change whatsoever from one side of the town to the other. The playa lakes are the only source of drainage for most of the Llano Estacado, so you just have to give the water time to drain to the playas. That's a natural problem that is almost impossible to fix, like building a town below sea level.

The city has done some work to make drainage faster, though. They've installed a system that transfers water from playa to playa from west to east, and moves it to the "canyon" on the east side of town that is the headwaters of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos.

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there is essentially no elevation change whatsoever from one side of the town to the other

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Yes and no. It is incredibly flat, but the entire high plains has a gentle slope from west to east. And LBB does have Yellowhouse Canyon cutting across the northern and northeastern sections.

this thread makes me want to withdraw my tech law application.

979 - what is it with you and crime stats?? Reminds me of the girl in American Pie that says, "like one time in band camp," no matter what the topic is. And still no data to back up your claims.

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do you poke your brain with toothpicks?

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Ability to "C'mon and raise up": clear advantage to Bryan-College Station.

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Ability to "C'mon and raise up": clear advantage to Bryan-College Station.

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Winner.