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Booma94
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8:39a, 4/6/23
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I'm surprised nobody has gotten off the porch to chase this stick.

Is it wrong to agree with the CT governor when he says downtown tine is butt ugly? I roamed around GRB and EaDo this weekend to attend various events and festivities and was disappointed in the amount of trash everywhere.

There were tons of police everywhere, which led to everything being very safe, but maybe Sly should have increased the amount of funding for trash cleanup. A walk from street parking by Little Woodrows to GRB to MMP left me really disappointed that visitors to our once-great city would be greeted by trash everywhere. The asthetics of the area are challenging enough if it were clean- warehouses and industrial buildings are not very nice to look at, but add trash to the picture and "butt ugly" is an understatement.
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8:55a, 4/6/23
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The Tine is never going to win any awards for overall prettiest city. The city is built on a coastal plain that is flat as a pancake and other than the Gulf, has little to no restrictions to stop sprawl. What we do have are several areas all over the greater Houston area that check all the "pretty" boxes. You just have to know where to find them, and it won't be next to an 8+ lane freeway, which is what most tourists see since that's really the only way to get around the city.
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9:01a, 4/6/23
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You can't say anything when it's true.
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9:03a, 4/6/23
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9:05a, 4/6/23
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9:20a, 4/6/23
There are a couple of aesthetically pleasing parts of Houston. The revamped Buffalo Bayou trail system is nice (when not inundated w/homeless or dead bodies). Memorial Park is nice.
That's about it.

45 South entering Houston has to be the ugliest "front door" of any major city in the US.

Except for access to world class medical care I can't imagine why anyone chooses to retire here.
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In reply to NoahAg • 9:24a, 4/6/23
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NoahAg said:
There are a couple of aesthetically pleasing parts of Houston. The revamped Buffalo Bayou trail system is nice (when not inundated w/homeless or dead bodies). Memorial Park is nice.
That's about it.

45 South entering Houston has to be the ugliest "front door" of any major city in the US.

Except for access to world class medical care I can't imagine why anyone chooses to retire here.
Fairly low cost of living, relatively easy to navigate, world class food and arts, only cold about 5 days a year.

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9:25a, 4/6/23
If this came from other governors, I can see it being valid. This hack lives in Hartford, CT which may be the ugliest and lamest city in America.
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In reply to NoahAg • 11:04a, 4/6/23
NoahAg said:
There are a couple of aesthetically pleasing parts of Houston. The revamped Buffalo Bayou trail system is nice (when not inundated w/homeless or dead bodies). Memorial Park is nice.
That's about it.

45 South entering Houston has to be the ugliest "front door" of any major city in the US.

Except for access to world class medical care I can't imagine why anyone chooses to retire here.

My parents moved here to be closer to 4 of their 6 grandkids. And to my father's sailboat he keeps moored in Kemah.

I maintain he did so to be closer to his boat rather than his grandkids. He has no comment.
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11:25a, 4/6/23
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I love it when people say Houston is ugly. Just imagine how many more millions would live here if it was pretty!!?? This town is full. Also, people romanticize pretty cities, and there just arent that many the size of Houston in North America. Maybe Seattle and Vancouver to some degree. But if you keep the scale/size in perspective, I find LA, NYC,Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Philly all underwhelming in the beauty department. SF would be the most appealling IMO, but we see how disgusting it has become, which then makes me laugh at people who think Houston is dirty. Our downtown actually is very clean, almost too corporate and conformist to be that messy. So FYHA yankees!
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11:26a, 4/6/23
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Walked from Eado to MMP yesterday and can confirm lots of trash and construction where they tore down part of Lofts at the Ballpark were not aesthetically pleasing.

I go downtown a bit and the area from Theater District to the saucer aren't bad
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11:35a, 4/6/23
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In reply to Milwaukees Best Light • 11:41a, 4/6/23
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Milwaukees Best Light said:
Grannies, Gays and Grandes
Thank you for flying Southwest.
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In reply to Booma94 • 12:06p, 4/6/23
you said "once great"... what exactly is not great now that was "once"... I'm curious
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In reply to drumboy • 12:08p, 4/6/23
drumboy said:
Walked from Eado to MMP yesterday and can confirm lots of trash and construction where they tore down part of Lofts at the Ballpark were not aesthetically pleasing.

I go downtown a bit and the area from Theater District to the saucer aren't bad
yeah, it depends on where you are.

I was downtown a couple weeks ago on a Saturday and was pleasantly surprised with the number of people walking around, getting things to eat, going to park...

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12:10p, 4/6/23
this is very depends on street/block/area
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12:50p, 4/6/23
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What Downtowns or CBD's does anyone walk around in thinking, "wow - beautiful!"
I always want to know what the comparison is when out of towners and insufferable transplants whine.

I understand and appreciate certain architectural aesthetics, but at street level you're generally not seeing much to titillate or separate one area from another besides traffic and homelessness.
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12:51p, 4/6/23
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Also Uconn team hotel was the Whitehall I believe. Or at least I saw the Uconn busses there. So of course that corner of downtown I would also think sucked. It isnt Disco Green or Market Square/Theatre District.
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12:55p, 4/6/23
Houston's a charmless, piecemeal planned sprawl of concrete and stripmalls nestled upon a swamp where it's too hot to go outside 150 days out of the year and you can get shot for honking your horn, along with accents of high crime and higher obesity with a pinch of soul crushing daily commutes and life altering flash floods
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In reply to bularry • 1:23p, 4/6/23
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bularry said:
you said "once great"... what exactly is not great now that was "once"... I'm curious
Well, the Dem enhanced crime surge for one led by Lina and Sly. An ever increasing homeless population in the downtown area for another. The fact that the county judge and her cronies have mastered the fine art of corruption also doesn't help.

Don't get me wrong. I still live here because I like it, but like many places the tine has regressed from its greatness due to those currently occupying the leaders' chairs..
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Microwave Onions said:
What Downtowns or CBD's does anyone walk around in thinking, "wow - beautiful!"
I always want to know what the comparison is when out of towners and insufferable transplants whine.

I understand and appreciate certain architectural aesthetics, but at street level you're generally not seeing much to titillate or separate one are from another besides traffic and homelessness.
Maybe it's just me, but when I look at any downtown, it's more the cleanliness that I notice than the architecture. When a city is hosting a major event and can't even pick the beer bottles and food containers up off of the sidewalks it send a bad message.

I was in Boston and was impressed with how clean everything was, at least where I was. I was also in LA and was amazed at how much trash there was everywhere. So in my small sample size, I'd put Boston in front of tine, but tine miles ahead of LA.
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1:46p, 4/6/23
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He probably went to fantasy when he should have checked out Treasures.
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1:51p, 4/6/23
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Houston sucks no one should ever move here try Austin it's way better
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2:13p, 4/6/23
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The littering has gotten out of control. Trash all over the place.
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2:46p, 4/6/23
Dumb MF'er needs to come out to Cypress for some real beauty.
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3:54p, 4/6/23
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Its a shthole but its my shthole dammit.
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4:00p, 4/6/23
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Somebody should have taken him to Pasadena or Plum Grove to see ugly.
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4:38p, 4/6/23
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Every time I come home from someplace else I am reminded that Houston is an armpit. An armpit with a good economy and lots of jobs... but aesthetically it is an armpit.
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4:50p, 4/6/23
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They aren't wrong
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In reply to combat wombat™ • 4:50p, 4/6/23
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Agreed. But I didn't move here for the scenery. But for the carrer opportunities and cost of living.
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5:32p, 4/6/23
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He's lives in Hartford so he knows butt ugly.

Checked with my friend and he said the consensus among people with a brain in CT is that this guy is an idiot. He also said it's extremely ridiculous for him to say anything bad about Houston considering UCONN has now won two national titles here.

What do you boys want for breakfast BBQ ?.....OK Chili.
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6:46p, 4/6/23
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When ya going back to Hartford? Who cares..?? /Andrew Dice Clay.
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9:13a, 4/7/23
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Not sure what part of our fine city he experienced, but no zoning and having billboards along every high way does not lead to the most beautiful city.

I still love the H.
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In reply to NoahAg • 11:45a, 4/7/23
NoahAg said:
There are a couple of aesthetically pleasing parts of Houston. The revamped Buffalo Bayou trail system is nice (when not inundated w/homeless or dead bodies). Memorial Park is nice.
That's about it.

45 South entering Houston has to be the ugliest "front door" of any major city in the US.

Except for access to world class medical care I can't imagine why anyone chooses to retire here.
Coming from the North (IAH) or South (Hobby) on 45?

What is so bad about the "Front door" of Houston?
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In reply to Booma94 • 11:51a, 4/7/23
Booma94 said:
Microwave Onions said:
What Downtowns or CBD's does anyone walk around in thinking, "wow - beautiful!"
I always want to know what the comparison is when out of towners and insufferable transplants whine.

I understand and appreciate certain architectural aesthetics, but at street level you're generally not seeing much to titillate or separate one are from another besides traffic and homelessness.
Maybe it's just me, but when I look at any downtown, it's more the cleanliness that I notice than the architecture. When a city is hosting a major event and can't even pick the beer bottles and food containers up off of the sidewalks it send a bad message.

I was in Boston and was impressed with how clean everything was, at least where I was. I was also in LA and was amazed at how much trash there was everywhere. So in my small sample size, I'd put Boston in front of tine, but tine miles ahead of LA.
Interesting....when I went to Boston my first impression was that it was an old, ugly, city.
Old buildings, old freeways, old looking roads.

The historical areas looked cool. The gentrified Southie neighborhood was high tech looking.....but most of Boston looked.....dated.
I understand that Boston is also one of the oldest major cities in the United States....but it did not appeal to me at all.

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