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The list is FBI statistics and on the New York website... its not some nurd in Dallas posting on his blog. -- hell's angels would have rocked. -- i think gentrification is god's gift. that or a private island... i think i'll call it danes.

Which is more important though, what plans for the future or what's cheapest? Every time the government tries to go the cheapest route (i.e. building contracts, roads, etc) they get what they pay for: shoddy work and bloated schedules. How is a transit system any different? Lets throw more buses out there. I personally LOVE going down Westheimer towards downtown and getting stuck behind a bus making stops every 5 minutes, ON TOP of the places that the street allows parking in one of the two lanes. Lets not forget the wonderful noxious fumes that billow out of it whether its idling or speeding up... so strong that you have to switch your car AC to recirculate. I've never ridden the bus here, but I know going from Greenville Ave. on a bus to downtown Dallas can take over an hour. The lightrail takes about 15 minutes: and I think that's the main reason people will never switch from driving to public transportation if its by bus. It takes to damn long.

i just kinda come and go. i'll post a lot for two weeks or so, then i don't come back for a month.

oooo i'm galleria! i used to be McKee Street Bridge... i felt ghetto.

ugh... let me post this one more time, because I don't think ANYONE reads prior posts. ------------------------------- Maybe I mispoke. My reference to comparable/houston was that out of every city I've ever lived in, Houston is the only place where the first question I was asked was "which do you like better, houston or dallas?" To this day, two years later, when I tell someone I moved here from Dallas, its the immediate response. The PDiddy thing... yeah, rap/hiphop has ruined Deep Ellum. -------------------------------

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<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm referring to newness, occupancy, and cost.

^ um, yes, 3333 is nice :-) oh... and i'm on the dallas site as well. there is RARELY an objectionable comment about Houston. in fact, when the DMN wrote that article about Houston, the boards came out AGAINST DMN for it, saying it was wrong to "sucker punch" Houston. some people here have an inferiority complex, whether it is justifiable or not.

there used to be a lot of hate crimes in oak lawn, i don't know if that has changed or not. even though the stats are pretty bad for OL, I still feel safer there than Montrose. I think it has something to do with the state of repairs in the area. The sidewalks are horrid in Montrose and a lot of the streetlights are blacked out by overgrown trees. Add to that rundown and boarded up houses, and the hookas on every corner...

ya know, its been a few months since i've seen a roadside bomb. thank you safeclear!

JFC! It doesn't mean anything. I simply said Dallas' highrises are spread out more than Houston. I said Houston feels newer than Dallas because: Dallas' highrises downtown are older and no new ones have been built since the early 90's. Why? Because there are highrise concentrations in suburbia (Richardson, Plano, Addison!, Las Colinas) that are just as nice and cheaper than being downtown... not to mention easier commute for employees with kids, etc. No occupancy=No new buildings People need to back the **ck up and READ...instead of seeing "Dallas has this, Houston doesn't.." as being an instant blow and requiring a retort. I didn't say anything about urban density.

Actually my statement was "the remark about highrise buildings doesn't seem to reflect all the billion-dollar condo construction taking place along Turtle Creek. Houston has no comparison when it comes to those." Point out ONE houston highrise that is comparable to the Paris Vendome or the Mayfair Now the Orion condos will be, but then we're talking about right now. If you're talking about the statement "actually think Houston is comparable to any of those cities are the people that actually LIVE in Houston." then you should READ what I ACTUALLY meant. So where are Houston's highrise concentrations? Downtown, a few in Greenspoint, and the Galleria area. (edit: oh, and Greenway Plaza)Concentrations -- not one or two buildings five miles apart. My statement was that Dallas' highrises aren't concentrated in two or three areas; they run from Downtown, through Uptown and Turtle Creek, Las Colinas (irving), Addison!, and Richardson. Could you point out where exactly I'm wrong?

I used to live in a loft across from Fair Park right when it went from edgy-artsy to edgy-dangerous. The windows of all of the office below my loft (two blocks of buildings) were all shot out one night, the police didn't do anything except submit a report. The DPD has had NUMEROUS problems in the past (i.e. paying informants who made up drug charges to get money... taking baking powder as evidence and saying it was coke...) and in my experience is more corrupt than Lee Brown. ;-) They did what they wanted and told everyone else to screw off (i.e. they couldn't park on the street in front of the restaurant downstairs so they'd pull their cars up on the sidewalk, sometimes four and five cars blocking pedestrians. we pulled up there once when we were moving out and they threatened to have us towed. when we questioned why they could park there and we couldn't, they took our IDs and ran criminal checks on us and told us to watch our step and move the car.) If the DPD treats the residents of South Dallas the same as they did us, I doubt they get much respect... which honestly, some of them don't deserve.

^ inbreeding does that (pugnoses). Hizzy -- how did I facilitate his first post bashing DFW?

But this isn't a thread about Houston, its Dallas/Fort Worth/Metroplex --> Say Nice Things About D-fw!... Maybe you should direct your frustration HouCajun, who is actually doing the trolling. I love Six Flags over Texas, but they keep raising prices! (I remember when I was a kid it was 19 bucks with a coke can) AND they charge a seperate fee to go to the water park. I went there once over Christmas and the lights were spectacular.

Ha! Dallas, IMO, seems to have lost its way. They don't seem to have a concrete plan for growth anymore. The areas they used to be so proud of (Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville, etc) are languishing and crime has become a daily fact of life.

ah... name calling. knowing that an anonymous person on a message board called me a useless troll keeps me up at nights.

Maybe I mispoke. My reference to comparable/houston was that out of every city I've ever lived in, Houston is the only place where the first question I was asked was "which do you like better, houston or dallas?" To this day, two years later, when I tell someone I moved here from Dallas, its the immediate response. The PDiddy thing... yeah, rap/hiphop has ruined Deep Ellum.

^I thought so as well. What was I doing? Houston is wonderful, and I think the perfect place to talk about just how wonderful it is would be in a Dallas/Fort Worth/Metroplex thread. I haven't been to it much, but I don't seem to remember Dallasites spending most of their time on their forum talking about how much they hate Houston... As a matter of fact, from the parts that I remember, most of the times it happened they were posters from Houston. And just in case anyone feels the need to question, I've lived in Houston for two years now, so I'm not a Dallasite coming to the Houston forum to bash. I don't suppose there's a BAN feature to this message board?

Things I like about Dallas: 1. White Rock Lake 2. Hotel Crescent Court 3. Uptown 4. Gayborhood 5. Fountain Place 6. Fair Park City Hall building (ok, that was a joke) 7. Victory development (a Phillipe Starck condo building was just announced!) 8. Highland Village 9. West Village shopping 10. Myerson Symphony Center What I LOVE about Houston: Well let's see. 45 to downtown, 45 to Galveston (ok, all of it) the trailer parks INSIDE city limits. the tranny bums on the corners. the utter lack of irrigation and landscaping on the highways (a mower wouldn't hurt). the constant blindness of the ugliness of, well, everything. the entire city that you don't want to be in at night. keystar event complex. the crime rate the light rail dubbed wham-bam-tram that runs from one stadium to the next. sports facilities(an attempt at legitimacy) new federal reserve bank (oh wait, its the Houston branch of the Dallas FRB) Harwin (need i say more) Popeyes on every corner (mmm, 150pc dark meat assortment for 10 bucks!) The illegals driving 20mph slower than the limit so they don't get arrested SafeClear The ghetto people(how could i forget) The fashion(daisy dukes and wife beater @ central market) The language (No habla ingles) Hurricane Harbor (not the water park in Dallas... Houston's streets after rain) the one toothed lady at Pottery Barn in Highland Village the only people that think houston can compare to dallas are the ones that live there. the weather(isn't the entire city a flood zone?)

haha... i lived in dallas for years and those giant messes both south and west of downtown stressed me out every time I drove them! looked like a blind man layed them out.

I don't think he's right off the highway. It looks like a cliff and 35 (its been a while since I've been in dallas, so I might be getting the highway designations confused) which could put it somewhere near that Baby Doe's restaurant.

get what? most people would rather have cows and grazing lands instead of used car dealerships and run down and abandoned buildings. If you're referring to the area south of Dallas, then yes, there are pastures... and a dump and a landfill. Comparatively, Houston has South Houston and Pasadena and refineries. We're talking about the same highway that runs through both Houston and Dallas, so yes, comparing 75/NCE and 45/Pierce Elevated is accurate. what I read and read until i got it was that having lived in New York, LA, Dallas, Atlanta and Houston, the only people that actually think Houston is comparable to any of those cities are the people that actually LIVE in Houston. Houston has areas that look newer than dallas, and visa versa (Galleria area, 59, etc). The difference is that while Dallas' most pricey neighborhoods run along 75 and thus have helped develop the 75/NCE area, Houston's expensive neighborhoods are spread out between River Oaks, Rice U, and Upper Kirby and dillute the development scale.

from my posts on here, you'd probably see that I'm pretty pro-dallas, but i do have to partly agree with the post about race being an issue in the city. i'm not sure if saying it is racist is actually accurate however. it is more economically segregated than race (but of course economic standing usually has racial patterns), and there are huge gulfs between the low incomes and the high incomes. i lived there for several years in a loft by fair park (deep ellum) and saw the area transition from grunge rockers and high school kids to hiphop and black almost overnight. when my friends and i first moved to the area it was a fun place with small bars and art galleries everywhere. we moved out of our lofts two years later when his girlfriend was mugged not once or twice, but three times (in two weeks, one time in broad daylight) on her way from her car to the front door... that and all of the windows of the businesses below our lofts being shot out one night. i went back a few months ago to check out the old neighborhood and felt even more unsafe. there were roadblocks and police everywhere. all of the advertising agencies and design houses that had set up shop there were gone. the art galleries which had drawn me to the area in the first place had turned into hiphop clubs (actually two of them had been burned down). The greenville avenue incident was probably a fluke. Its a strip that attracts mostly bratty SMU students and suburbia dwellers that want to come into the "big city" for a night on the town. I honestly don't think that the city council can do much about the problem. They can enact more laws and curfews and hire more police, but ultimately the responsibility for closing the economic and social gap lies with community leaders and parents. If they're raising gangbangers and snotty brats, then no amount of legislation can fix that. Its like seeing the water in the bathtub overflowing. The intelligent answer is to turn off the water, but the government's answer is to get the most expensive, solid gold thimble it can find and start bailing.