Because Houston isn’t a city, it’s just a never ending suburb.
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chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is it not just straight up Houston. It’s almost larger than Chicago now.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same thing with a lot of ‘large’ cities in the US. The city seems absolutely huge, but in reality it’s just a part of the metro area around it. Makes me wonder how New York and LA got so big without being a collection of a dozen smaller towns, even though they both have lots of surrounding suburbs of course.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
They were devolved before widespread car adoption
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Another form of generational wealth being locked in for generations? As good a theory as any I can think of.
Folstar@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Because they said city, not parking lot built on a bog.
COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Houston is too sprawled, even within Texas DFW has the bigger metropolitan population. It’s just that DFW has some lines drawn in it separating the cities while in Houston they’re all considered the same city.
That being said culturally it’s definitely not DFW or Chicago. I think Miami is the clear 4th from its city size and unique culture, though I also can see the arguments for DC and SF.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
My asshole is really big, but you don’t see anyone trying to say it’s great.