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At least it sticks, try putting 'progressive' with 'conservative', its like oil and water, 'conservative' and 'backwards' goes very well together though.

I think they are trying to attract ppl to visit, not move here. Ppl are already moving here in droves with jobs and low cost of living, while cashing out their real estate investments. Its image and tourism that we have a problem with. They probably want them to stay away but those meeting convention, tourism dollars and businesses relocating, setting up shop, bringing in investments looks kinda of nice. I think the money would be best used to upgrade the quality of the attractions, or in my dreams, linking up all those attractions with some kind of high speed transportation.

Others take it down, not them. Sometimes, its gone in a day, sometimes a few days, but I don't think they are the ones taking it down. Their spam signs are worse than those mortgage, painting, christmas light installation signs. It is bigger, bolder, more aggressively placed and with more frequency, they probably hope their signs will stay there forever like those in the mason area.

I certainly have my doubts, 'signs are nice and tasteful', 'I was disappointed that they didn't post signs for the grand opening', 'I stopped by and it was pretty nice', 'I was looking for info for their new year's plans', 'It may be their initial attempt to let ppl know', 'Its called advertising' and all in the first post. And the very act of registering just to praise about a retail location certainly goes with a spammer's behavior. And guess what, this morning, these clowns spamed and littered all over the neighborhood again, and lo and behold, its their new year eve plans he/she just inquired, posted about. What a coincidence huh. I just pick up some of their litter, my friends and neighbors would be taking more of them down.

Now that is weird too. Because that is what email spammers would also say: delete your email if you don't want to see it. I do pick up the trash and litter sometimes, and deleted my spam, but it is a hassle, and it wasn't the point, littering is one thing, littering as a way to ask for support is another. I still have my doubts about your relation to enzo, but you too enjoy the holidays if you see this post.

We should have both types to choose from. You folks say it as if one has to be exclusive of the other. When ppl hope for density, they don't want it for the whole area, they are just hoping for a few more pockets of density, or just a few areas to get denser, so stop dramatizing it as if the whole 610 is going to get filled up, government taking over, prices going through the roof. Just want some choices of really dense areas, which is kind of lacking. It is kind of impossible to fill up the inner loop anyway.

That weird, that's the kind of reaction email spammers often imagine their spam gets. You know like 'I saw the ad to add inches and they really peaked my interest., I thought the copy was nice and tasteful. Actually, I was disappointed they didn't show the before and after results.' But how nice of enzo, ask for the community to support their business by littering the community. And I don't know about the banners. If I stick the banners in their owners' or the spammer's ass, it would also be considered advertising, considering all the attention they would get, but they don't seem to be doing it. Plus, there is already a permanent signage available that lists all the businesses there already. Some banners have been there a long time, passed any initial opening stage. The good thing is that those banners don't go beyond that area, except for enzo's, which was littered all over katy. I just can't understand how enzo can ask for a neighborhood's support by littering all over it. I have to ask, are you an employee, manager, related to enzo, or the litter on a stick spammer? Because it is kind of strange that your first post would promote this place and even praise their littering of the neighborhood.

Maybe now we can be known as the place with the largest public restroom. When nature calls, just go where nature is.

Proof is indeed elusive, because $ --> evidence works for the opposing view too. Enterprises are known to spend money on controlling distribution/placement in lieu of product development for greater gains down the road.

Forgive me too if I didn't see the proof that all the programming are what ppl actually wanted.

Not all. Its always a mix. Sometimes they put out programming that majority wants to hear, sometimes its for the minority but push to the majority. That is incidentally how some monopolies work. Whole thing reminds me of windows with internet explorer, do ppl actually want it or is it because its there vs firefox.

LOL. You can actually compare them with the ppl in houston photos and see the difference in body shape and size. I got to say Jax takes nice pictures.

It is possible to dislike something that everybody else thinks is nice, but disliking it doesn't make it not walkable though. SF is small but not that small where every part is hilly. I think I can understand not wanting to climb hills, some parts are steep, but many parts are not hilly, and the street atmosphere is on every corner. It is really dirty in some parts though, but like Jax said, the sidewalks are large enough, that you can avoid the dirt. I don't like the pandering, but I don't understand how you can don't like all the ppl.

I wouldn't consider this a hip, pretty or trendy street, but I would consider it walkable when compared to feeder road sidewalks or across parking lots. I guess anything that has interesting street atmosphere would be considered walkable to me. Its not about being trendy or hip. compared to

Walkability can include doing something at the destination and be "strollable" on the way there. They don't have to be exclusive of each other. It is a knock on Houston, but if they reduce walkablility down to being only about proximity, then they might as well do a density research, and they had already done plenty of those.

Yes, yes, yes. A place is walkable not only because of distance, but there should be stuff in between point A to point B that makes the walk walkable, things to see and experience, people activity, weather. I see folks saying I am near this and I can walk to that, but what is in between?

Great for them, cause I got to wait days for a doctor's appointment here. Whose money they using anyways?

I think the fingers gave it away

I guess this is one of those, I have no kids, I don't even have someone who wants to make a baby with me, but guess what, let's play armchair parent.

I am sure you can find uncleanliness and dirtiness if you try hard enough, but for those cities, those are the exception rather than the norm. And I think those pics you posted are from offbeat areas rather than their main streets. I thought you implied the main streets or main gathering places are not real if they look clean and orderly. Those are certainly not their main streets as I remember their main streets as much cleaner than that. And also, I was in Singapore beginning this year, and the skateboarding with graffiti pic you posted is actually a designated area for skateboarding and graffiti, it was allocated and designed that way on purpose to mimic the US skateboarding parks. No other area in Singapore has that kind of graffti. I also checked the link of the pic you posted and you neglected to show the other pics which show the clean areas. These are the pics from the same link you posted And this pic above of their public transportation system is indeed as clean as show. I took it when I was there, it was extremely clean exactly like the pic, and it wasn't a amusement park ride. Here are some of the main gathering areas of the cities mentioned, and they are not amusement parks. Woodlands has something going on, it shows that real life and nice neat can go together, and I give them credit for that.

That door kicking until they get the message is a nice suggestion. I have seen kids in the neighborhood, and mums with strollers having to go around them and ending up on the road because these asses like to block the side walk with their pickups.

Many cities in the world are neat and orderly and they are real. Zurich (Switzerland), Montreal, Singapore, even our own Portland OR comes to mind.

Why is it when the place is really clean and orderly and pleasant, it would be consider not 'real world', Why do we lower our standards and consider a place 'real' only if there were some homeless hanging around, trash everywhere, broken sidewalks, overgrown grass, deteriorating conditions? If anything, being walkable is an accomplishment itself, considering how unwalkable most of our other areas are.

ROFL, someone's great grandparents are probably RIGL at this comment right now. As for the shooting, its not really right, but I certainly do not feel bad the burglars got shot though.

I don't think one can not act gay. Of course we have to know what exactly is acting gay. I meanif a person's partner comes to visit and gives the guy a peck on the lips, like a wife would kiss the husband when visiting, is that considered acting gay?