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Originally Posted by 599GTO
It's so sad though. All those people all that growth yet it's still a wasteland.
When you think of Houston, you think ........[crickets]. It simply has no identity. And no, Montrose doesn't count as identity...it looked like a dollar store version of Brooklyn's Williamsburg or something. The only draw in Houston seems to be cheap real estate and a healthy job market.
Many people seem to love that exurban Houston lifestyle. Big cheap $250,000 McMansion in some treeless wasteland like Katy. Big garage to safely park your financed-to-the-hilt SUV. Enough space to waddle your wide load into the said giant SUV and into McDonalds drive thru, then off to a big box like Walmart (which is probably 100 feet from your McMansion due to lack of zoning) and then back home to the comfort of your McMansion. And "good schools" of course.
Let's hope Houston catches up on the culture/amenities front before the population growth stops (because it will stop -- look at NYC and LA's past where it seemed like their huge pop. explosions would never ever stop)
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Actually, the above is more of a statement about you.
When I think of Houston, I think of things like The Port of Houston, the Texas Medical Center, Rice University, live oak-lined boulevards, the Menil Collection, the Williams Waterwall, the San Jacinto Monument (the one that recognizes the decisive battle which resulted in the USA's western border moving to the Pacific Ocean), Johnson's Bank of America Center, Pennzoil Place, the Alley Theatre, Jones Hall, the nations first PBS tv station (KUHF), the Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Art Car Parade, iFest, the beer can house and orange show, the night time gay pride parade and our out and proud lesbian mayor, Barbara Jordan, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, the creative program at the University of Houston, Hermann Park, Armond Bayou, Memorial Park, Discovery Green, Market Square, MD Anderson Cancer Center, the original Mama Ninfa's, the Alabama Ice House, Frenchy's Chicken, the Breakfast Klub, Tafia, the Hay Merchant, Poison Girl, Warehouse Live, Numbers (still rocking after all these years), the Chapel of St Basil at the University of St Thomas, Texas Southern's Ocean of Soul, the Rothko Chapel, William Ward Watkin's original building for the MFAH, the freaking Astrodome, NASA, Bernie's Burger Bus, Crawfish and Noodles, Kim Son, Mark's, Bombay Pizza Company, BB's Tex-Cajun Cafe, and yes, oil, gas, AND alternative energy.
Oh, and you know what opens to the public on April 12th? Yoshio Taniguchi's Asia Society of Texas House; just the 11th such center in the world.
At the end of the day though, I could give a rat's ass if you hate Houston because I absolutely LOVE this city, her people, the food, and the culture (which is wildly diverse, open, and constantly changing).