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July 29, 2008 10:39 AM Subscribe
Houston, We Don't Have A Problem, except for the fact that our public transportation sucks, and we are ranked last in recycling. But we don't care, we are busy bashing Portland.
A comment about Houston's public transportation: Yes we have many Subways, they make great sandwiches and good cookies...though I wish the bags of chips, had more chips.
We have a great taxi system, if you are at the airport.
The bus system is great, as long as you have a car and a key map to drive to the "Park and Ride" to actually get on the bus.
The train goes from just south of downtown to downtown, its so nice, I took my kids to ride it as cheap entertainment.
Yes you do need a car in Houston, you can survive without it, you can ride the train if you live downtown (you wont go anywhere else)
A comment about Houston's public transportation: Yes we have many Subways, they make great sandwiches and good cookies...though I wish the bags of chips, had more chips.
We have a great taxi system, if you are at the airport.
The bus system is great, as long as you have a car and a key map to drive to the "Park and Ride" to actually get on the bus.
The train goes from just south of downtown to downtown, its so nice, I took my kids to ride it as cheap entertainment.
Yes you do need a car in Houston, you can survive without it, you can ride the train if you live downtown (you wont go anywhere else)
This post was deleted for the following reason: This kidn of reads liek a blog entry about how you feel about where you live. That's really not a good way to set up a mefi post. -- cortex
A couple of sets of forum and blog comments doth not a blue post make, really.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 10:49 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 10:49 AM on July 29, 2008
Yes, Portland is horrible. Don't move here. Stay in Houston.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 10:53 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 10:53 AM on July 29, 2008
On a brighter note, Houston recycles a whopping 2.6% of its waste.
posted by peeedro at 10:55 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by peeedro at 10:55 AM on July 29, 2008
I grew up in Houston, and need to drive out there again in the morning to stay for a few days.
Houston sucks. And it doesn't matter much to me, a visitor, how well the economy is doing when nobody from the top on down has any degree of taste in how to spend it.
Mean, ugly, willfully ignorant city of the damned.
Austin is great though.
posted by Navelgazer at 10:55 AM on July 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
Houston sucks. And it doesn't matter much to me, a visitor, how well the economy is doing when nobody from the top on down has any degree of taste in how to spend it.
Mean, ugly, willfully ignorant city of the damned.
Austin is great though.
posted by Navelgazer at 10:55 AM on July 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
Duh, the transit links blinded me to the recycling link, sorry.
posted by peeedro at 10:56 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by peeedro at 10:56 AM on July 29, 2008
strangeleftydoublethink writes "Yes, Portland is horrible. Don't move here. Stay in Houston."
Indeed. It's full of hippies, it's terribly polluted, overpopulated, poorly laid out, the beer sucks, the music scene sucks, the snowboarding sucks. Stay far, far away.
posted by mullingitover at 10:56 AM on July 29, 2008
Indeed. It's full of hippies, it's terribly polluted, overpopulated, poorly laid out, the beer sucks, the music scene sucks, the snowboarding sucks. Stay far, far away.
posted by mullingitover at 10:56 AM on July 29, 2008
I refuse to read anything that uses (not once, but several times) the so-called word visioning. As in "aggressive visioning by City Council". Oy.
posted by jokeefe at 11:06 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by jokeefe at 11:06 AM on July 29, 2008
Yeah, Portland, no good. I hear it, like, RAINS ALL THE TIME.
posted by rokabiri at 11:07 AM on July 29, 2008
posted by rokabiri at 11:07 AM on July 29, 2008
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