"Houston Is Butt Ugly"

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In reply to Actual Talking Thermos • 7:42a, 4/7/23
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Actual Talking Thermos said:
I'm mostly incredibly happy with the TX-for-CT swap but the food in Houston (and TX generally) is way better than anything here except the pizza.

Ned Lamont was part of realizing I'd come to a better place. It was mid-football season and suddenly the political ads during games were completely different than the background noise I'd gotten used to. "Our public schools are top 3 in the nation, and if we re-elect the governor we can do even better!" is a really different vibe than "we're #40 in education but here I am shooting a gun at a target that says CRT on it."


But what if those ratings are based in part on how much CRT is embraced? Circular?
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7:51a, 4/7/23
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This dude obviously hasn't seen some of the female butts in Houston if he's saying butts are ugly.
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7:54a, 4/7/23
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Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
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7:56a, 4/7/23
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If you have an Aggie degree and worked the oil patch, chances are you did time in Houston area.

The great thing about Houston is meeting someone from Houston.



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In reply to Texasclipper • 8:04a, 4/7/23
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Delete your post before you drive traffic to that thread that gets it nuked.
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In reply to LegalDrugPusher • 8:05a, 4/7/23
LegalDrugPusher said:
I will say this as a native of Dallas. Houston is friendlier and much much better food selections. But Houston is a crap hole and dirty.
Friendly would be on a sliding scale.
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In reply to Actual Talking Thermos • 8:09a, 4/7/23
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Actual Talking Thermos said:
I'm mostly incredibly happy with the TX-for-CT swap but the food in Houston (and TX generally) is way better than anything here except the pizza.

Ned Lamont was part of realizing I'd come to a better place. It was mid-football season and suddenly the political ads during games were completely different than the background noise I'd gotten used to. "Our public schools are top 3 in the nation, and if we re-elect the governor we can do even better!" is a really different vibe than "we're #40 in education but here I am shooting a gun at a target that says CRT on it."


Connecticut largely prices out or culturally excludes the people who tend to do poorly academically as large social groups, so that makes performing well in education much easier. A more culturally homogeneous society tends to agree on priorities and then deal with those priories. Culturally Heterogeneous societies or groups have more difficulties in doing this.

I was born right about in the middle of Houston and grew up there and lived in the area until I was 40. It sprawls out and was built on a low lying coastal plain area, and wasn't developed as a neatly laid out old east coast city. It grew late after oil hit it big and the ship channel was developed in the 30's (and A/c) and took off in a surge of uncoordinated accretions of suburbia or surrounding growing towns, and while the benefits of no real zoning was interesting mixes of developments it was also chaotic.

The city is not in a pretty area and it doesn't look pretty. It has plenty of green in the spring and summer and fall but it's very plan southern coastal green. It has a LOT of concrete and terribly ugly billboards, and sprawling suburbia, because it does have space. It's humid and muggy often, and has an earthy smell due to the geography.

Houston has mostly all the things you want for a place to live: jobs, affordable housing, lots of options for entertainment and education and recreation but it is NOT a tourism friendly town. There's not just any one particular place with lots to see or do unless you have a specific targeted interest there.

Houston is s mini-van. Practical and functional but not flashy or pretty.
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In reply to Actual Talking Thermos • 8:10a, 4/7/23
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Actual Talking Thermos said:
I'm mostly incredibly happy with the TX-for-CT swap but the food in Houston (and TX generally) is way better than anything here except the pizza.

Ned Lamont was part of realizing I'd come to a better place. It was mid-football season and suddenly the political ads during games were completely different than the background noise I'd gotten used to. "Our public schools are top 3 in the nation, and if we re-elect the governor we can do even better!" is a really different vibe than "we're #40 in education but here I am shooting a gun at a target that says CRT on it."


Awesome. Texas is a better place since you left as well
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 8:12a, 4/7/23
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MouthBQ98 said:
Actual Talking Thermos said:
I'm mostly incredibly happy with the TX-for-CT swap but the food in Houston (and TX generally) is way better than anything here except the pizza.

Ned Lamont was part of realizing I'd come to a better place. It was mid-football season and suddenly the political ads during games were completely different than the background noise I'd gotten used to. "Our public schools are top 3 in the nation, and if we re-elect the governor we can do even better!" is a really different vibe than "we're #40 in education but here I am shooting a gun at a target that says CRT on it."


Connecticut largely prices out or culturally excludes the people who tend to do poorly academically as large social groups, so that makes performing well in education much easier. A more culturally homogeneous society tends to agree on priorities and then deal with those priories. Culturally Heterogeneous societies or groups have more difficulties in doing this.

I was born right about in the middle of Houston and grew up there and lived in the area until I was 40. It sprawls out and was built on a low lying coastal plain area, and wasn't developed as a neatly laid out old east coast city. It grew late after oil hit it big and the ship channel was developed in the 30's (and A/c) and took off in a surge of uncoordinated accretions of suburbia or surrounding growing towns, and while the benefits of no real zoning was interesting mixes of developments it was also chaotic.

The city is not in a pretty area and it doesn't look pretty. It has plenty of green in the spring and summer and fall but it's very plan southern coastal green. It has a LOT of concrete and terribly ugly billboards, and sprawling suburbia, because it does have space. It's humid and muggy often, and has an earthy smell due to the geography.

Houston has mostly all the things you want for a place to live: jobs, affordable housing, lots of options for entertainment and education and recreation but it is NOT a tourism friendly town. There's not just any one particular place with lots to see or do unless you have a specific targeted interest there.

Houston is s mini-van. Practical and functional but not flashy or pretty.


Meh. The Houston museum District is pretty awesome
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 8:14a, 4/7/23
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MouthBQ98 said:


Houston has mostly all the things you want for a place to live: jobs, affordable housing, lots of options for entertainment and education and recreation but it is NOT a tourism friendly town. There's not just any one particular place with lots to see or do unless you have a specific targeted interest there.
Well stated.
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8:49a, 4/7/23
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Houston is the absolute worst place to live where you can make a ton of money. It's basically like living in the industrial district of any other town, if you put that district in a sauna, except you have to drive through 4 hours of traffic to get through it.
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8:52a, 4/7/23
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Lol. I'm not bragging on Houston's aesthetics because it is not visually attractive. But let's be clear, Dallas is a ****hole. And this from a Cowboys fan.

On the other hand, Fort Worth is one of the nicest mid/large cities I've seen anywhere in the US.
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8:59a, 4/7/23
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Yeah, downtown Houston is a real heap o' **** compared to Hartfo.....errr....

Gig 'Em
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 9:00a, 4/7/23
MouthBQ98 said:

Houston is a mini-van. Practical and functional but not flashy or pretty.


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9:01a, 4/7/23
Downtown Houston is way more visually appealing than Hartford f-ing Connecticut...and not filled with a bunch of frozen miserable yankees that you want to slap every time they open their mouths and belt out that god awful grotesque accent.






I do find it funny when people from Dallas call Houston "ugly" though. Dallas is one of the most bland and boring cities I have ever been to. There is nothing "pretty" about it.
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9:01a, 4/7/23
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I was born in Bellaire, spent my first 8 years in Sharpstown, then moved to Lake Jackson. Now I live in Katy Cinco Ranch. Would not live in Houston even if gifted a home inside that cesspool. When I finished at A&M and was deciding on a place to live, I never once considered doing the "hip" thing and moving into the midtown or downtown areas of Houston. Just no appeal to that for me. Since A&M, I've spent two years with an actual Houston address, but even that one was in far west Houston. Also lived in Missouri City, Richmond Pecan Grove, and now Katy.

I go to great lengths to limit my time in Houston. My employer has an office at City Centre, which I go to once a week, but that is it. Haven't been to the Museum district since my daughter was little. Haven't been to a Texans game since 2012 and an Astros game since 2018. Did plan to get to Minute Maid last month for the Ags vs Rice, but had a foot injury that kept me from venturing into the Houston ****hole.
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9:07a, 4/7/23
I have good friends from Houston. That said, Houston sucks. It's ugly, uncomfortable, terrible traffic. No one from there wants to go back once they leave.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 9:08a, 4/7/23
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I was born in Bellaire, spent my first 8 years in Sharpstown, then moved to Lake Jackson. Now I live in Katy Cinco Ranch. Would not live in Houston even if gifted a home inside that cesspool. When I finished at A&M and was deciding on a place to live, I never once considered doing the "hip" thing and moving into the midtown or downtown areas of Houston. Just no appeal to that for me. Since A&M, I've spent two years with an actual Houston address, but even that one was in far west Houston. Also lived in Missouri City, Richmond Pecan Grove, and now Katy.

I go to great lengths to limit my time in Houston. My employer has an office at City Centre, which I go to once a week, but that is it. Haven't been to the Museum district since my daughter was little. Haven't been to a Texans game since 2012 and an Astros game since 2018. Did plan to get to Minute Maid last month for the Ags vs Rice, but had a foot injury that kept me from venturing into the Houston ****hole.
Aw come on, Houston's great. Me and some coworkers witnessed a drive-by cartel-style hit job the other day in River Oaks in broad daylight.




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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 9:10a, 4/7/23
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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I was born in Bellaire, spent my first 8 years in Sharpstown, then moved to Lake Jackson. Now I live in Katy Cinco Ranch. Would not live in Houston even if gifted a home inside that cesspool. When I finished at A&M and was deciding on a place to live, I never once considered doing the "hip" thing and moving into the midtown or downtown areas of Houston. Just no appeal to that for me. Since A&M, I've spent two years with an actual Houston address, but even that one was in far west Houston. Also lived in Missouri City, Richmond Pecan Grove, and now Katy.

I go to great lengths to limit my time in Houston. My employer has an office at City Centre, which I go to once a week, but that is it. Haven't been to the Museum district since my daughter was little. Haven't been to a Texans game since 2012 and an Astros game since 2018. Did plan to get to Minute Maid last month for the Ags vs Rice, but had a foot injury that kept me from venturing into the Houston ****hole.


Lol. I've had some great times in recent years at the museum district, Minute Maid, Menil, midtown, But you showed them
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In reply to Captain Pablo • 9:11a, 4/7/23
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I'm happy for you that you had some good times there. That's great.

Perhaps you missed the part where I said that I found nothing personally appealing there.
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In reply to aggie93 • 9:13a, 4/7/23
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aggie93 said:
Hartford isn't some paradise either. It's basically generic East Coast City that no one cares about. Connecticut is for commuters.

Fun fact, Connecticut is 5000 Square miles, the Houston Metro is 10,000. Population is also twice the size of Connecticut. So maybe the Houston Metro should get 4 Senators just to be fair.


Seeing who these morons elect to run the city and the county... let's not
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 9:17a, 4/7/23
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I'm happy for you that you had some good times there. That's great.

Perhaps you missed the part where I said that I found nothing personally appealing there.
People who like homo-erotic art exhibits tend to rave about the museum district.
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In reply to LegalDrugPusher • 9:20a, 4/7/23
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LegalDrugPusher said:
I will say this as a native of Dallas. Houston is friendlier and much much better food selections. But Houston is a crap hole and dirty.
They're both democrat run **** holes filled with ignorant, idiot *******s. I'm ashamed they're Texas cities. We should build a wall around them and fill it with water. Add Austin too for good measure.
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9:34a, 4/7/23
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I worked in Downtown Houston two weeks last year. As far as downtown areas go, Houston sucks.

During the day it's not too bad but after dark, it's deader than a door nail.

But compared to places like SF, LA, NY, etc. There is less of a chance of stepping in human excrement in Houston.
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In reply to AgNav93 • 9:38a, 4/7/23
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AgNav93 said:
LegalDrugPusher said:
I will say this as a native of Dallas. Houston is friendlier and much much better food selections. But Houston is a crap hole and dirty.
They're both democrat run **** holes filled with ignorant, idiot *******s. I'm ashamed they're Texas cities. We should build a wall around them and fill it with water. Add Austin too for good measure.

Do you even San Antonio bro?
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9:41a, 4/7/23
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"Who cares what some yank thinks about The Paris of The Southwest..."


Uh, The what??
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In reply to buda91 • 9:44a, 4/7/23
buda91 said:
Old line: "houston is a great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there"


That's very true. I truly enjoyed living there but I've never gone back since I left.
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9:44a, 4/7/23
Well She Jack is about to be mayor of Houston so get thread topics ready because you ain't smelt shat yet.
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In reply to C@LAg • 9:44a, 4/7/23
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C@LAg said:
Dan Scott said:
It's not so much that Houston is ugly, it's there's nothing to do as a tourist. Downtown Houston is dead and has nothing worth seeing. Reliant Stadium is isolated surrounded by nothing. You need a car to get around.
no.it is ugly.

there is no shame in admitting it.

but at least it is a resilient and growing city unlike many of the ****holes up north.


Having been born and raised 40 minutes from Houston, and moved away 21 years ago, I must concur that it is not an attractive city, but when I'm driving from Dallas and see that Houston skyline, its beautiful to me because that means I'm almost home.
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In reply to HollywoodBQ • 9:47a, 4/7/23
HollywoodBQ said:
I worked in Downtown Houston two weeks last year. As far as downtown areas go, Houston sucks.

During the day it's not too bad but after dark, it's deader than a door nail.

But compared to places like SF, LA, NY, etc. There is less of a chance of stepping in human excrement in Houston.


It used to have zero night life, but it actually gets pretty bumping on the weekends nowadays.

I was in downtown LA for a business conference last summer. I couldn't believe they even held it there. It was like a dystopian nightmare. No one felt safe there and they told everyone to avoid the streets and walk in groups if you had to. You could just leave downtown LA as is and film a post apocalyptic movie there. Drugged out homeless psychos everywhere and absolutely zero night life or day life. I don't see that place ever coming back. Complete sh**hole.
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In reply to Anonymous Source • 9:48a, 4/7/23
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Yeah, downtown Houston is a real heap o' **** compared to Hartfo.....errr....

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9:48a, 4/7/23
Houston is absolutely not a tourist city. There are no major tourist sites, it is brutally hot 6 months of the year and flatter than a pancake.

As a metro area, it is a great place to raise a family, people are nice, the food is great, and the price of living is low.

That being said City Centre, the Heights, Museum District, Galleria are all nice areas and have good nightlife.

I have lived a significant amount of time in Dallas and Houston. It's close but I think Houston is better.
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9:49a, 4/7/23
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Two words

Swamp ass
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In reply to BoydCrowder13 • 9:56a, 4/7/23
BoydCrowder13 said:
Houston is absolutely not a tourist city. There are no major tourist sites, it is brutally hot 6 months of the year and flatter than a pancake.

As a metro area, it is a great place to raise a family, people are nice, the food is great, and the price of living is low.

That being said City Centre, the Heights, Museum District, Galleria are all nice areas and have good nightlife.

I have lived a significant amount of time in Dallas and Houston. It's close but I think Houston is better.

Houston has: NASA, rodeo, and top professional sports teams (hosts super bowls, major tournament games). On top of that the art museums are top 10 in the nation maybe top 5 and the natural science museum is top as well. It feels like you can find a brewery every 3 miles.

Now outside of the rodeo houston's tourist things aren't Instagram sights so it just isn't seen as a tourist spot.
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9:56a, 4/7/23
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Sprawl and modern architecture makes for an ugly city. Add in the crime and you have a certified ****hole. Sadly, most cities are trending in that direction.
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