It's a strange phenomenon, the same thing all over Houston.Preach on, sistuh girl. Hopefully folks will start to believe if enough of us residents set them straight. To you Houston Haters, local and not: why don't you step up the plate and take a swing at a good time instead of sitting back and bitching? Gimme a call. I'll be your wingman.
When I tell people I recently moved from the Chronicle's Austin bureau to start writing this column, I often get an apology.
"Oh, I'm sorry," they'll say. "That must have been a hard move. Don't you miss it?"
"No, actually," I usually say. "Austin gets really small after a while. There's Prozac in the water, and people seem overly concerned with being weird. Houston, with all its imperfections, is real to me. I love this place."
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The real inconvenient truth for some is that Houston's a cool town
Lisa Falkenberg is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle who recently relocated from Austin to Houston. In today's piece, she describes a conversation that I have endured countless times since my November return to H-town after 18 months in Austin.
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Texas=sprawl and this scares me
I couldn't have said it any better.
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