Post #223,291
9/6/05 10:40:58 PM
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Grrr
[link|http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/qtakes/la-op-flood4sep04,0,7545038.story|A NEW New Orleans] Forget crawfish \ufffdtouff\ufffde -- look to ugly Houston for a vibrant economic model. Makes me think he's never been here. While not the most beautiful city, it certainly isn't ugly. As I've mentioned before, all my relatives that have visited where very surprised at how nice it was in Houston. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #223,315
9/7/05 12:28:15 AM
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Depends on where you go, I'm sure.
The parts of Houston I saw on my trip there weren't much different from Detroit.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #223,381
9/7/05 10:00:45 AM
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True
There parts of Houston that are definitely ugly; though, I've also driven around parts of LA that were just as depressing. I wonder when he was last here, it could explain much. In the 80s the city was in a serious slump due to the [link|http://www.dallasfed.org/research/houston/2003/hb0304.html|bust in oil]. Between March 1982 and March 1987, more then 225,000 jobs\ufffdapproximately one in eight\ufffddisappeared in Houston. I moved here in 87 and at the time downtown was a desolate wasteland after 6pm with the homeless taking over the streets. During the 90s our economy diversified and for the past few years our downtown has been undergoing a major revitalization. I read that some of the people who came for the Super Bowl in 2004 were so impressed with the city that they were planning to build homes here. Interesting - he's changed the subtitle on [link|http://joelkotkin.com/|his site](or maybe the LA Times changed it for publication). Forget crawfish \ufffdtouff\ufffde -- look to Houston for a vibrant economic model. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #223,395
9/7/05 10:45:42 AM
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I actually wasn't talking about the downtown...
We were down there in the mid-90s, and the parts we saw (from the highways) looked like every other over-developed, strip-malled, cheese-ass concrete city in the US. :-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #223,398
9/7/05 11:15:56 AM
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ah - the boring parts of town :-)
[link|http://www.houstonfreeways.com/modern/images/2004-09_update/DSC00022_800.jpg|this] is what I see on my drive to work.
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Post #223,399
9/7/05 11:18:02 AM
8/21/07 6:36:38 AM
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Ick - Autotopia
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
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Post #223,402
9/7/05 11:22:22 AM
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not all of us can boat to work
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Post #223,499
9/7/05 5:13:25 PM
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but all of us know you need to___work on a boat
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Post #226,378
9/25/05 3:14:39 PM
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Is that the Westpark Tollway?
Or is it Highway 228? Maybe the westbound leg of South Beltway 8?
lincoln
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Post #226,387
9/25/05 4:36:07 PM
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Parkway
I take [link|http://www.fbctra.com/2-0-1%20map.htm|Fort Bend Parkway] from 6 to 8.
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