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Yeah idk about not being a good place to visit. I went for a weekend trip over the summer and spent all two days in museums and had three good meals. Totally worth it.
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My dad is getting his treatment at MDA and over the summer they took my niece there and also visited NASA and the zoo and the aquarium and they had a blast. Also we're pretty lucky as a state to have one of the top two cancer centers in the world right in our backyard, there are people that fly in from all over the world and have to temporarily live there for six months to a year. My mom told me she meets people who literally commute from Austin to Houston and back again in one day to get treatment. That's a good six hours or so on the road but for our backwards-rear end conservative playground of a state to have that is really lucky. e: RIP Blue Virginia https://twitter.com/JohnnieMo/status/918544357778636800 zoux fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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skipdogg posted:Houston is a great place to visit. I live in SAT and we do 2 or 3 long weekend trips a year to Houston. NASA, Kemah, Childrens Museum, HMNS, all great places to visit. Even went to a Texans game and had a great time. The League City area is on our short list of places to move if we leave San Antonio I will say that, our museum district is fantastic.
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Oct 12, 2017 19:41
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The HMNS should be a particular point of pride for the city and everyone living here. Especially the post renovation Paleontology wing. And if you are into that kind of thing, the Menil/Rothko Chapel are pretty unique draws as well.
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Oct 12, 2017 19:48
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The Rothko Chapel is incredible. I wasn't super into the natural history museum TBH, the fossils are cool but the big corporate-sponsored section on how awesome fracking is turned me off.
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Oct 12, 2017 19:51
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If they actually build the high speed rail between Dallas and Houston, that will be huge for both cities for development. Also it would finally be something Houston (and Dallas) could point to as making it world class.
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Lote posted:If they actually build the high speed rail between Dallas and Houston, that will be huge for both cities for development. Also it would finally be something Houston (and Dallas) could point to as making it world class. Good luck, with the reps from every district between the two cities doing everything they can to prevent it.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:The Rothko Chapel is incredible.
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Never forget. https://houstonitsworthit.com Badger of Basra posted:Everything was inauthentic once and in 100 years people who just moved to Austin from Mars will be asking why the new arcology going up in Hutto can't be authentic like the Domain The only people moving to Austin in 100 years will be Shanghaiese asking themselves whether US outsourcing is really worth the low wages and declining living standards for expats.
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Lote posted:If they actually build the high speed rail between Dallas and Houston, that will be huge for both cities for development. Also it would finally be something Houston (and Dallas) could point to as making it world class. zoux posted:Good luck, with the reps from every district between the two cities doing everything they can to prevent it. There are also countless NIMBYs in both cities, I remember going to packed meetings in the GOOF in Houston and people were absolutely losing their minds about a high speed rail that, IIRC, at the time would have been using the same right of way as the BNSF railway.
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Back Hack posted:I will say that, our museum district is fantastic. I think it's a perspective thing of living in the city. My wife's Aunt and Uncle are planning a trip to San Antonio next year for a week and I was all "Why? What the hell are they going to do here for a week?", but then I realized there's tons of touristy stuff to do here, but we never do it because we live here. I've lived here over 10 years now and I never go to the river walk, rarely visit Market Square, have never been to Six Flags, and have only visited SeaWorld once. There's the Alamo, the various Missions, there is the HIll Country to visit, the zoo is decent, the Witte finished it's recent expansion, the Pearl brewery area is hopping these days and Austin is only 90 minutes away.
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I'm pretty sure SA is technically the biggest tourist draw in the state.
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skipdogg posted:I think it's a perspective thing of living in the city. My wife's Aunt and Uncle are planning a trip to San Antonio next year for a week and I was all "Why? What the hell are they going to do here for a week?", but then I realized there's tons of touristy stuff to do here, but we never do it because we live here. I've lived here over 10 years now and I never go to the river walk, rarely visit Market Square, have never been to Six Flags, and have only visited SeaWorld once. There's the Alamo, the various Missions, there is the HIll Country to visit, the zoo is decent, the Witte finished it's recent expansion, the Pearl brewery area is hopping these days and Austin is only 90 minutes away. It's such a shame that San Antonio is rebelling against its "Keep San Antonio lame" movement.
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zoux posted:I'm pretty sure SA is technically the biggest tourist draw in the state. It is.
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zoux posted:I'm pretty sure SA is technically the biggest tourist draw in the state. I thought it was the outlet malls in San Marcos? I heard something a while ago that more people come to visit the outlets than anything else in Texas. I wish I was joking
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skipdogg posted:I thought it was the outlet malls in San Marcos? I heard something a while ago that more people come to visit the outlets than anything else in Texas. I'm getting a job at the Amazon Warehouse down there (old job laid me off, Amazon's requirements for getting hired are "can you fill out an I9, put on pants for the interview, and are aware you're going into the busiest part of the year") and between the exit to I-35 and the next exit to the north there are not one, not two but FOUR Mattress Firms, 2 on each side of the highway. There's literally a pair on opposite sides of a Panera Bread within site of each other (in separate buildings, but the only building between them is said Panera Bread). The strip/outlet malls in San Marcos are insane.
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I thought the only reason San Marcos existed was Schlitterbahn. People go there to shop? I've mostly only seen the northward expansion of Austin over the past few years, which is pretty dramatic. Can you go south from Austin on I-35 and never see a break in the roadside retail all the way to San Antonio yet?
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litany of gulps posted:I thought the only reason San Marcos existed was Schlitterbahn. Floating the river too
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litany of gulps posted:I thought the only reason San Marcos existed was Schlitterbahn. People go there to shop? Uhh yeah, there's a huge Tanger and huge Premium outlet mall there divided by Centerpoint Rd It's huge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marcos_Outlet_Malls quote:I've mostly only seen the northward expansion of Austin over the past few years, which is pretty dramatic. Can you go south from Austin on I-35 and never see a break in the roadside retail all the way to San Antonio yet? Not yet, there's still a break north and south of San Marcos, and a small one between SAT and New Braunfels, but not much. Another 10 to 20 years and I expect the corridor to be solid all the way from 1604/I35 to Austin and beyond. The Austin area expands pretty far south if you want to count Kyle as part of the metro Area. In 30 to 50 years San Antonio and Austin will probably form a giant MSA of 6+ Million people.
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Also, Gil's Broiler. Ate hundreds of Manske rolls in college.
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Somehow you still won't be able to drive east/west in Austin easily.
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litany of gulps posted:I thought the only reason San Marcos existed was Schlitterbahn. People go there to shop? Schlitterbahn is in new braunfels
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jaegerx posted:Schlitterbahn is in new braunfels Damnit I was itching to say that.
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Aquarena Springs is the best reason to visit San Marcos.
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jaegerx posted:Schlitterbahn is in new braunfels Yeah, I guess that's true. So the only reason San Marcos exists is to try and lure people going to Schlitterbahn or San Antonio into stopping at an outlet mall. Also as a repository for people that couldn't get into a good public university.
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Hey man, that is more than a lot of places have got going for them.
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Good soup! posted:I worked in news for years in Houston. Speaking from personal experience I have met a ton of representatives, city officials, and plenty of Houstonians that think this way, particularly with how projects like Bayou Greenways 2020 and the Memorial Park Master Plan are framed. The latter in particular was interesting, as a number of officials I spoke with were constantly invoking Central Park in NYC, which, while not necessarily a bad thing to do and falls in line with a lot of PR buzzwords to get people to understand the scope of the project, rubbed me the wrong way. My thinking is - you've got a prime opportunity to do something awesome with a "by Houstonians, for Houstonians," vibe to it, stop trying to compare yourselves to a place like NYC because, no disrespect, there is absolutely no contest. It could be worse. You could pull a page out of the Baytown playbook and sandwich every god drat thing ever onto one small 2 lane road sandwiched between I10 and 146. For such a small town on the very outskirts of the city this place is entirely too much of a bitch to get around.
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litany of gulps posted:Yeah, I guess that's true. So the only reason San Marcos exists is to try and lure people going to Schlitterbahn or San Antonio into stopping at an outlet mall. Also as a repository for people that couldn't get into a good public university. San Marcos is the only place where I’ve smoked weed and played chess with a dude who literally lived in a tent by the river so its entire existence is justified imo
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Marxalot posted:It could be worse. You could pull a page out of the Baytown playbook and sandwich every god drat thing ever onto one small 2 lane road sandwiched between I10 and 146. For such a small town on the very outskirts of the city this place is entirely too much of a bitch to get around. Jesus that sounds terrible
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That idiot that was mayor of Corpus Christie for 37 days is raising money to run against Ted Cruz in the primary. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/10/16/former-corpus-christi-mayor-tries-essay-and-rib-contest-fund-senate-ru/
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Spacebump posted:That idiot that was mayor of Corpus Christie for 37 days is raising money to run against Ted Cruz in the primary. Doubtful he'd be worse, and probably more likeable for the month he'd last as a Senator before quitting. At least the special election afterwards would be a circus.
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Spacebump posted:That idiot that was mayor of Corpus Christie for 37 days is raising money to run against Ted Cruz in the primary. It's funny because usually dumb publicity stunts serve to make the grifter money but I can't see how he's going to get any from this.
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Badger of Basra posted:It's funny because usually dumb publicity stunts serve to make the grifter money but I can't see how he's going to get any from this. He claims the building is worth 500k, but it's been appraised at 140k, and he says he'll cancel the contest if he gets fewer than 1500 entries (1500x $250=$375k). So if everything goes his way he's getting almost three times the building's value while telling the marks it's worth five times what it'd actually go for. Pretty classic con.
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lmao at the editor of *Breitbart Texas* getting hissy that someone called him a moron https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/920478557012455425
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Donald Trump Jr. is coming to the UNT campus to speak on the 24th or 25th. Can't remember. Local papers are not allowed in (of course). I wonder if I should protest...
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Paul Ryan was down here in the Valley yesterday and went to a doctor owned hospital to have some kind of meeting or speech, two hours later guy was flown out. Rumors have him trying to gain fundraisers from local conservative Democrats and Republicans. Mainly probably from Cantu Construction which pretty much own that hospital, a local bank chain and a poo poo load of properties.
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Trabisnikof posted:Aquarena Springs is the best reason to visit San Marcos. Aquarena Springs closed ages ago, I thought. Like the late 80s or maybe 90s or some poo poo. I remember going when I was a wean though.
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I've lived in and around Austin for 20 years now and I've never been to San Marcos.
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zoux posted:I've lived in and around Austin for 20 years now and I've never been to San Marcos. You should, it's a nice town to drive through. It's downtown is kinda quaint.
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