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    By the way, the 12th picture in your last post is just a rendering, and although it's a Midway project, it won't be in Houston.
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    Oh, you've never turned on the terrain on Google Earth and watched all those bridges sink? It's just the way the program was made. For a few of those bridges, they have 3D models (another button you can manipulate) to "replace" the bridges with 3D models.
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    I kind of have to laugh at how these Atlanta developments make them "more urban", because the whole "walkable mixed-use development" is just a buzzword for "outdoor shopping mall". You see, true walkable areas aren't created by a bunch of marketing wizards with some underused land on their hands, they're developed neighborhoods after decades. Times Square is one of the most walkable, most vibrant places in America, but it wasn't created in some boardroom meeting that decided New York needed a "walkable mixed-use development". I'm not saying that these developments are wrong, but they're a part of the destination, not the destination themselves. Village Arcade isn't the "big thing" in University Place, it's a part of Rice Village, and that's the real urban destination.
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    My love for Hempstead Highway dropped a notch when I had to make a sudden right lane change to avoid an 18 wheeler stopped in the inner lane to try to make a turn. In retrospect, it would've been a lot smarter to keep on the right (less turns there, after all), but I was still in "highway" mode, so to speak.
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    Cool!
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    Sometimes it takes a while. I remember when a section of road changed to 55 from 60, it took months, until about 9 months later, and it just appeared.
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    In all seriousness, though, San Francisco is like that guy who looks and acts like a hipster (because he is one), but is also cool to hang out with (and play card games or whatever), really intelligent, and one of the few people you know that can wear a fedora and not look like he needs to be punched in the face. Houston is the guy who looks a bit scruffy but has hidden depths (he knows restaurants better than S.F. does, for instance), almost universally likable to everyone he meets, and a true friend you could depend on if times got rough. Who would you choose?
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    Oh yeah, accounting too. A little knowledge on accounts receivable, and accounts payable, can really distort how well (or poorly) the company's doing.
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    If all things being equal, that means SF would be less liberal, have less of a homeless problem, more hurricanes, better freeways, have less hills, and have better supermarkets. Houston would be more liberal, have higher taxes, be prone to earthquakes, have terrible supermarket options, and generally lose a lot of what makes it attractive to industry in the first place. Tough call.
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    Well, I imagine that they do incorporate a margin of error and all that fun stuff. I think statistics need to be taught at every high school in America, since it both explains about the margin of error and other things like correlation is not causation, which many have a hard time grasping.
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    The Montrose bridges aren't the only lit bridges where someone at TxDOT has been asleep at the switch--I-45 N and Beltway 8 got green neon trim along the bridges that hasn't worked beyond a short time, if any. To have a nice city, it must be nicely maintained.
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    I find your "reasoning" to be dubious. Could you give an example of a Camden development that is "walkable" and not in Atlanta?
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    Cityside Crossing has amazingly poor access to the road. Now one way in, one way out, and the railroad crossing there just to the east complicates things (look on Google Earth right now--now way to turn right in or out because of the cars waiting for the real train). Methinks they need to have an alley connecting the apartment complex to the Fiesta parking lot with its own railroad crossing. Easy grocery access can be achieved, for one. Sometimes I wonder if Metro thought about these types of things at all.
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    Reading Swamplot, and the COTD seems to hit home: "Urban enthusiasts are under the delusion that most people want to walk around in sticky moist air and sit at their desk stinking all day from sweat in order to pretend they live in a city that was built before cars were invented so they can live like the people they envy on t.v. " Ouch. "But as cool as it may be to have a tiny, tiny, microscopic sliver of New York in the center of this city, it is totally unnecessary. Our booms have proven that." Ouch ouch.
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    I think it's just talking points on the parent university. *cough*TAMU Mays Business School in CityCentre*cough**cough*
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    Yeah, all HCAD gives me is addresses, but I could look those up. 7887 Katy Freeway, based on the size and shape of the building and multiple results, strongly indicates it was an office building. One of the companies of those is Auchan Hypermarket, though that's not the first place they tenanted (other records indicate their predecessor company, Texfield Inc., was at 4700 W. Sam Houston Parkway North. Since Auchan was gone by early 2003, it wasn't a problem for them when the building was condemned for construction.
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    Marble. Absolutely fascinating. All these years I thought it was concrete. No one uses marble anymore for building because it's far too expensive. Unlike the Midtown Sears, this one ought to stay because the company's future isn't questionable, it's built like a rock (because it is, lol), and the facade wasn't ruined decades ago.
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    Those lists are full of crap. Most of that was just ragging on the high temperatures.
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    Again, lots of subjectivism. Statue of Liberty is fun to see (don't pay go in) just because it's so iconic, and likewise ESB is expensive too. But as for Houston, there's JPMorgan Chase Tower (and the skylobby is free), the downtown tunnels, Hermann Park, the Museum District, and the Rice Village a short walk away. And that's just on the rail line. If you do take the subways in NYC (and the buses, since the subway stations are kinda far apart), you're obviously not too good enough for public transportation, and METRO will take you to other places not mentioned and beyond.
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    Crystal clear beaches and mountains?! Almost no city has that. Certainly not New York. Paris, France is entirely landlocked, and it's a city that is often fantasized over for its beauty and attractiveness. Are you going to disregard it because of its landscape?
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    Yeah, but there are also schools that are 80-95% Hispanic. Or 80-95% black. Would you really want to bus kids an hour across town to even them out somehow?
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    Yes, NYC has wonderful beaches...oh wait. They don't. By your own admission, you almost never venture outside the inner loop...and as for your what tourist attraction makes Houston stand out, I want to counter with "what tourist attraction makes NYC stand out"? A bunch of grotesquely overpriced tours to famous buildings like the Statue of Liberty? To answer your question, there's lots to do in Houston. The Galleria and other areas offer shopping (a tourist thing for certain), very good museums, fantastic dining opportunities, and tons of places to explore. If you want to sneer at the fact that there's no subways, you can. But the "Houston has nothing to do for tourists" statement is completely wrong.
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    What is that fortress-like columns in the back from? I mean, in the construction of 1111 Travis, some old concrete walls remained below the street level, that was from Foley's. But I can't figure out where those columns came from. Are they new? (They didn't come from the McDonald's, for sure) "Texas Tower", I think, was in the lower left hand corner (is that what the other demo'd building is from?). Are the columns near/below the streets construction from that?
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    Are you still there, there? Especially there's "grass is greener" problem from a CS perspective. In 7th grade I idolized Austin, and general discontent was there until sometime around 2008.
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    Based on the whole "west coast/east coast" I'm guessing terrain. We could do the next big thing: create giant mounds of trash near downtown and top them with styrofoam. With a little bit of forced perspective, they could look like majestic snow-topped mountains.
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