(08-14-2019 12:15 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(08-14-2019 07:45 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-14-2019 07:19 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-14-2019 07:09 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-13-2019 04:55 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  I love it when a guy who doesnt live here tries to tell a lifelong resident what our "culture" is. lol...Dont make me climb down off this horse and unholster my hog leg Pilgrim. Gimme a break. We drive air conditioned cars through the Taco Bell drive through lane just like everyone else. Good Lord. Apparently the Houston "culture" was just fine with eastern schools in 2011 when UH was invited to the Big East.

Using your Taco Bell standard, Chicago and Lafayette, Louisiana share the same culture.

Good Grief. I tried ....

Yes, Lafayette has 6 million people in it. Such a good point. Again, as I said before, once cities get to a certain size, they tend to be more alike than different. Chicago, LA, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston tend to have much more in common than they differ. It’s not a difficult or even controversial concept. I’m kinda shocked your having so much difficulty comprehending a pretty basic point.

... and as I explained earlier, nobody in DC or Philly or NYC or Boston thinks of Houston or Dallas or San Antonio as being culturally similar or peers.

E.g., my wife's family has lived in the DC area for generations, and in 2012 when her nephew graduated from UVA and said he was taking a job in Dallas, they acted like he was moving to the moon, LOL. Some civic leader wannabes in Dallas or Houston might like to think of themselves as culturally more like Philly or Chicago than El Paso or Lubbock, but nobody else does.

So go get yer shine box, er, 10-gallon hat and go make the rounds of those oil wells, pardner.

Im calling bs on your anecdote. Any rational person knows you go where the jobs are especially if you’re a recent college grad. Not just Dallas, Houston or Austin but to places like Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Nashville, etc.

I guess all those thousands Yankees and Californians (myself included) have been moving to the “moon” in the last 30 years.

My anecdote was 100% accurate, unless you think i was saying that the family literally thought he was moving to the moon, which is silly. Obviously they are aware of Dallas as a major, growing city. Heck, the Cowboys are the Redksin's big historic rival. But point was, they regarded it as culturally much farther away then just a 2 hour and 15 minute plane flight Dulles to DFW.