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What's the best city in Texas?
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OP put the top 7 most populous Texas cities on the list. Waco is down there at #25. If the poll allowed for 8 options, #8 would have been Corpus Christi
The answer is obvious: It depends.
I grew up in Houston and it's improved a bit, but it's like Los Angeles without the nice weather and with a lower cost of living (because there's no zoning, hence the flooding, low density, and massive traffic). It's a melting pot, it has its pockets, great food, but it's pretty boring and you'll be driving long distances everywhere. Absurdly humid.
Austin is great if you're in college, an alcoholic, or a white tech bro (if you're all 3, congratulations). Liberal politics (with ample libertarian douches), a shit ton of bars, and mostly centered around downtown; I'm sure surrounding areas have grown since. Traffic is atrocious, but has nice green spaces. In the decade I lived there, it grew enormously and was already becoming unwieldy. The food scene was....forgettable. Fun to visit, wouldn't go back to live.
Dallas area reminded me a lot of Houston; a lot of the same issues, if seemingly snottier.
San Antonio I never spent much time in, but probably a good place these days for someone who wants the balance of Austin with one of the other major cities. I'm probably cast my vote here, if only because you could daytrip to Austin if needed, and still get the boring, low-ish cost of living Texas offers without having to go across a massive cement sprawling urbanscape, with a decent sprinkling of what made Austin fun two decades ago,
The rest of the cities blow. Galveston is trash. Corpus doesn't have anything going for it except industrial pollution. Lubbock and College Station can DIAF.
I grew up in Houston and it's improved a bit, but it's like Los Angeles without the nice weather and with a lower cost of living (because there's no zoning, hence the flooding, low density, and massive traffic). It's a melting pot, it has its pockets, great food, but it's pretty boring and you'll be driving long distances everywhere. Absurdly humid.
Austin is great if you're in college, an alcoholic, or a white tech bro (if you're all 3, congratulations). Liberal politics (with ample libertarian douches), a shit ton of bars, and mostly centered around downtown; I'm sure surrounding areas have grown since. Traffic is atrocious, but has nice green spaces. In the decade I lived there, it grew enormously and was already becoming unwieldy. The food scene was....forgettable. Fun to visit, wouldn't go back to live.
Dallas area reminded me a lot of Houston; a lot of the same issues, if seemingly snottier.
San Antonio I never spent much time in, but probably a good place these days for someone who wants the balance of Austin with one of the other major cities. I'm probably cast my vote here, if only because you could daytrip to Austin if needed, and still get the boring, low-ish cost of living Texas offers without having to go across a massive cement sprawling urbanscape, with a decent sprinkling of what made Austin fun two decades ago,
The rest of the cities blow. Galveston is trash. Corpus doesn't have anything going for it except industrial pollution. Lubbock and College Station can DIAF.
Why are Californians flocking to Texas?
Texas sounds like one of the least appealing parts of the USA, is it just because lots of California is stupidly expensive?
Texas sounds like one of the least appealing parts of the USA, is it just because lots of California is stupidly expensive?
I used to edit the Dallas Observer's music section many years ago and have a soft spot for East Dallas, M Streets, Little Forest Hills, etc. (And I worked at a used CD store off Lovers and Greenville when those existed.) Dallas and Fort Worth each have cool pockets, where they are better to live in than to visit. I loved living right off Lower Greenville and Lewis when I was there, in terms of food and bars and things to do, and there's even more decent stuff built up there now.
Denton fucking rules. No idea if I'd ever wanna live there, but some of the best Texans on earth come from there.
Austin was amazing in the beginning of the '00s when I was there for college, back when everything was cool and dirt cheap (and SXSW was only $40 for the whole fest). There's more terrain and shit to do there, so I'll always recommend it to anybody who's never been to Texas before, but it sure ain't an undiscovered gem anymore.
I've never been to San Antonio or Houston as an adult, and never to El Paso. I should probably do that pilgrimage before Texas catches on fire.
Marfa, Terlingua, Big Bend natl park, Alpine, and that fort nearby with the observatory: do 'em all as a road trip if you can. One of the best trips of my life.
Plano can suck a fart.
Denton fucking rules. No idea if I'd ever wanna live there, but some of the best Texans on earth come from there.
Austin was amazing in the beginning of the '00s when I was there for college, back when everything was cool and dirt cheap (and SXSW was only $40 for the whole fest). There's more terrain and shit to do there, so I'll always recommend it to anybody who's never been to Texas before, but it sure ain't an undiscovered gem anymore.
I've never been to San Antonio or Houston as an adult, and never to El Paso. I should probably do that pilgrimage before Texas catches on fire.
Marfa, Terlingua, Big Bend natl park, Alpine, and that fort nearby with the observatory: do 'em all as a road trip if you can. One of the best trips of my life.
Plano can suck a fart.
Hah, I'm pretty sure I know exactly the one. I lived in a suburb south of Dallas and we'd drive in to go to that place, it was that good. There was a lot of good stuff going through there, and also someone was selling promo copies of unreleased dance music to them. More than once I left that place having paid $7 for a CD that wasn't out for a month.
Texas cities are pretty good places to live relative to most other areas of the US. Texas cities are much cheaper than California cities. In addition, Texas has no state income tax. So rich people can come here, pay very little in taxes, and talk about how pro-business Texas is. For now, we will not get into the ethics of shifting the tax burden to low income citizens or the abhorrent effects on education and children's healthcare.
No state income tax (it was the reason I chose TX as my state of residence in the military)
Every line of this is spot on about Houston. I laughed too hard.
Don't forget the on ramps every 500 feet on the right, and off ramps on the left every 500 feet. Middle lane is the only safe area there
Don't live in Houston but all of I-35 is a construction zone up through Waco.
