Miami vs Houston vs Dallas vs Chicago

From CNNMoney.com


Air pollution index:

Chicago: 110

Dallas: 102

Houston: 88

Miami: 49
Miami Beach: 37
*Miami Average:43*




Housing (Home price gain 2-5 years):

Houston: 6.44% (Lol, it's probably lower than inflation)

Dallas: 8.08%

Chicago: 12.16%

Miami: 19.81%
Miami Beach: 21.47%
*Miami Average: 20.64%*




Also, Museums:

Houston: 5 (ROTFL)

Dallas: 9

Chicago: 17

Miami Beach: 13
Miami: 14
*Miami Total: 27*


Miami is indeed "Heaven" compared to the above cities.

Now, who was the one saying that Houston come second only after NYC in terms
of museums, culture, etc?!?? You meant second after El Paso probably! LOL

ROTFL!!!

 

The number of museums is irrelevant. It's the quality of the art that they
contain that matters.

btw: Many knowledgeable folks believe that Fort Worth actually has the best
art collections in Texas.

Stu

 

Ok, but I also would think that if a city (Miami) has 27 museums and
attracts every year much more tourists than another (which only has 5
museums and attracts no tourists), it's easily said that the first one wins
hands down in culture.

Texas is close to nothing as far as "culture".

 

Rumor has it that Berlusconi's #1 Fan put forth the following:

How does one define "museum"? I'm guessing the definition is being used broadly
in the case of Miami and narrowly in the case of Dallas et al. (Can't speak for
Houston).

For example, there's a "Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant" museum, a "Texas Rangers"
museum, "Sixth Floor Book Depository" museum, a "Texas Air Force" museum, a
"Museum of Model Railroads" museum, "Age of Steam Railroads" museum, "Dallas
Firefighter's Museum", etc, that I'm guessing don't make the list, but Miami's
"Museum of Plastic Pink Flamingo Yard Decorations" museum gets included in the
list...

Hell, a simple Google search yields this link:

http://www.dallas.worldweb.com/SightsAttractions/Museums/index.html

....which alone lists about 14 Dallas museums, not to mention Ft Worth's list of
about 11 museums (from the same site).

The 25 listed above, moreover, are strictly non-fine art *museums*, not art
galleries/museums. Using the same site, the list of art galleries in Ft Worth is
4 (Kimbal, Amon Carter, Modern, Richardson) and Dallas is 6.

And none of this, furthermore, includes museums and galleries in surrounding
suburbs of Plano, Irving, Arlington, etc (each with pops in excess of 200,000;
not exactly tiny little cities devoid of any cultural offerings at all).

So we add all of these up and I get a total of 35 museums in DFW. Since you seem
to be judging culture by shear numbers, I guessed the DFW area outshines the
Miami area, huh?

Tell that to the folks at the Kimball Art Museum and Amon Carter Museum in Fort
Worth, as well as the Nasher Sculpture center in Dallas.

I can't believe I'm defending TX, but c'mon. Try not to make such
over-generalized blanket statements condemning an entire state, especially a
state who's main cities are now comprised of people from other states, not
native Texans.

 

You're totally right -- I've never liked that source.

The same is true for Houston too -- it has way more than 5 museums.
Plus, when its museums are like 10x the size of those in Miami,
obviously it holds more art. Which is why it ranks #3 in the country in
terms of fine arts museum space.

It's these idiots equating Texas with old western movies and rubbish
stereotypes. Total crap. Houston and Dallas have top-notch culture,
arts, shopping, etc... and San Antonio and Austin aren't exactly
backwater towns either. Anyone who knows anything or who bothers to do
the research from legit sources will find that out.

 

Exactly.... after all, the Louvre is just one museum, but it's the
LOUVRE...

 

Like I said, Houston has way more than 5 museums (I listed several in
another post), and those museums are all probably 10x the size of
Miami's, meaning they hold more art.

And do you think the NASA Space Center is set up for locals? No, it's
for tourists. So is much of the Galleria, and downtown Aquarium.
No tourists? You're a total idiot...

 

museums? we don't need no stinking museums!

we have home on the range, where the deer and the antelope get run off by
foreign developers looking to enslave property owners to school districts
etc. operating at a cost that no real business could ever justify (where
else could molesting teachers find work???)

yippee aye oh, cow pattie! jim stafford

 

ROTFL!!!

 

I trust CNNMoney.com much more than your bias word ;-)

You want to tell me that Houston gets more tourists than Miami?!?!

Go ahead, make us laugh!

Never heard one person from Europe traveling to Houston or Texas for that
matter for leisure...Anybody who has been there agreed on one thing though:
it sucks! BIG TIME

 

Let's cut the bullshit. It's based on the same exact criteria.

How many tourists does Dallas attract evey year? How many does Miami?

Let me add Ft. Lauderdale to the math though to be fair. It has the same
relationship that Dallas has with Fort Worth.

Ft. Lauderdale: 15

27+15 = 42

Miami/Ft.Lauderdale wins hands down

Never heard of them

The US is not known around the world for history and culture. Texas seems to
have much less of it than the average state. That says everything.

 

Please note huge cross-posting set in motion by an idiot troll.... You
score no points here... nothing to see... move along folks...

 

Houston is a major medical center and is a major destination from abroad for
medical care.

That counts as "culture."

Not the stuff that can be done walking down the street in a thong and
flip-flops, but it is culture.

BobbyG

 

So is University of Miami

No, it doesn't.

Culture is art and history. Texas has none.

 

OhOKaslongasit'syouwhosaysso.

University of Texas has produced more Rhodes scholars than University of Miami.

That's culture.

BobbyG

 

Lol, UT-Austin is my Alma Mater. I don't doubt it! ;-)

But University of Texas doesn't have a medical school as prominent as U of
Miami.

And the whole thing started as Houston vs Miami.

 

But the MD Anderson Medical Center... in Houston, and...
the Baylor College of Medicine, where Michael Debakey practices... also in
Houston...
are even more prestigious than UM's.

Jeez... I thought it started with Miami vs Chicago.


Stu - also a UT grad ;-)

 

I don't much care where it started.

This is where you brought it:

"Culture is art and history. Texas has none."

I went from there.

I understood what you were saying. That's culture.

;-)

BobbyG

 

You should check out such factors as crime rates, before you get too
enthusiastic about Miami. BTW, anyone who thinks Houston has a lower
pollution rate than Dallas hasn't lived near either!

 

Qualitywise, yes, but it is not as extensive as that in Houston. Note
that counting the number of museums is rather stupid unless one compares
the SIZE of the collections at each.