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.
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.
FWIW several of the East Coast states that are tiny should be combined and should have been combined long ago. Connecticut and Rhode Island should be part of Mass, as it stands they get 6 Senators for a small piece of land without many people who are culturally very similar and vote almost identically.shack009 said: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.
If only there were another part of congress where representation was determined by population.
aggie93 said:FWIW several of the East Coast states that are tiny should be combined and should have been combined long ago. Connecticut and Rhode Island should be part of Mass, as it stands they get 6 Senators for a small piece of land without many people who are culturally very similar and vote almost identically.shack009 said: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.
If only there were another part of congress where representation was determined by population.
Or better yet we can actually go back to the true Federalism system the country was founded on so Congress doesn't have much real power and who cares how stupid they want to run their little liberal enclaves.
At least they aren't glorified counties.ATM9000 said:aggie93 said:FWIW several of the East Coast states that are tiny should be combined and should have been combined long ago. Connecticut and Rhode Island should be part of Mass, as it stands they get 6 Senators for a small piece of land without many people who are culturally very similar and vote almost identically.shack009 said: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.
If only there were another part of congress where representation was determined by population.
Or better yet we can actually go back to the true Federalism system the country was founded on so Congress doesn't have much real power and who cares how stupid they want to run their little liberal enclaves.
There's greater substantiation to combine Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas by this logic.
Esteban du Plantier said:
It's sorta like how Fran Lebowitz described New York. Nobody actually enjoys it, it sucks. But New Yorkers are proud of how tough they are for living in such a terrible place. They don't like the place, they like how cool they are for enduring the terrible place.
All my Houston friends act the same way. When I visit every 3-6 weeks from the most incredible place to live on earth (College Station), I'm blown away by how much Houston sucks.
buda91 said:
Old line: "houston is a great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there"
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.
WestAustinAg said: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.
My ESPN friend tells me Ct is mostly a series of suburban towns with very high crime rates and filled with people like Aaron Hernandez who was born in Bristol.
aggie93 said:
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.
You'd get more she-jacks and another hank johnson type...milner79 said:aggie93 said:
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.
We've seen how Houston as a whole votes. No thanks.
Esteban du Plantier said:
It's sorta like how Fran Lebowitz described New York. Nobody actually enjoys it, it sucks. But New Yorkers are proud of how tough they are for living in such a terrible place. They don't like the place, they like how cool they are for enduring the terrible place.
All my Houston friends act the same way. When I visit every 3-6 weeks from the most incredible place to live on earth (College Station), I'm blown away by how much Houston sucks.
And as a native of Houston living in Dallas, I'll agree with you. Better looking women in Houston, too.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.
Ehh sort of, it's more like one small town that never ends. As soon as you're theoretically out of one town you're already in the next. The distribution of people is just totally different than anything you see in Texas. It's extremely population dense overall but there's not a lot of city and there's basically no vast unused space. It's just house house house house farm farm house house stores house house farm farm and on and on and on.WestAustinAg said: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.
My ESPN friend tells me Ct is mostly a series of suburban towns with very high crime rates and filled with people like Aaron Hernandez who was born in Bristol.
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.
