here's a few hopefully honest pictures of Lubbock. Really unremarkable, but not as bad as depicted by the thread starter:
the 34th Street strip.
A typical 'inner city' neighborhood around 28th Street or thereabouts.
Another shot of an inner city home:
The fringe growth. This is the intersection of 98th and Indiana
A typical newly developed neighborhood around 98th Street. Anonymous brick boxes with very little character, but you find those almost everywhere.
A wealthy area in the furthest reaches of the metro area. This is in one of the few 'suburbs' a small town called Wolfforth. (That has to be the ugliest house I have EVER seen...
New student housing. This place is the incarnation of all that is evil and dehumanizing about suburbia. Believe it or not, it's actually quite a popular place to live.
I don't have all that many pictures of Lubbock anymore...my computer crashed a few months ago and I'm obviously a little far away from the place now.