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Houston is the armpit. Newark is the lower end of the butt crack.

Approximately 10/1/03 06:38, Joe uttered for posterity:

Amen.

Ah! I tend to blank that period of my history as much as possible. The only thing I ever got out of NJ was ME - and a persistant sinus infection.

Or maybe he's confusing Baytown/Channelview/Pasadena with Houston proper. Generalizing the east side industrial areas to all of Houston (which surprisingly a lot of outsiders do) is almost as bad as generalizing Newark or other industrial areas of coastal NJ in the NYC metro to all of Manhattan...

When viewed from space, city limit signs are meaningless. The large metropolises look like cancer cells growing on the earth.

Approximately 10/1/03 13:23, jjp uttered for posterity:

Actually kinda liked Houston, but then I usually hung around down on the south area and in the south suburbs. Great diversity of places to pig out...

Sorry - coming from the Chicago Metro area and reading those two statements about DFW (too many people and too expensive), I just had to laugh. =)

Tirya

-- TDC Inca Jeeper A dirty Jeep is a happy Jeep.

I can understand that - spent a fair amount of time around Chicago when I was stationed in Madison, WI. You have to remember that my years in Texas were basically spent in an area west of a line from Del Rio -> Waco -> Abilene -> Amarillo. When I first saw "The Last Picture Show" all I could think of was: Hell - I grew up there!

You in Fort Ding-a-ling? Any pics?

I would have to agree with you there, however Newark is getting more and more high-line due to 9-11 and financial firms wanting to still be close to NYC but not in it.

... still giving elusive answers... or rather no answers.

I've found that usually when people say they hate it, it's because they're either misinformed, exaggerating, or don't like large Sunbelt cities in general.