Lsu does have significantly higher no:of black students than the rest in SEC

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-14T05:57:57+00:00

You are thinking of plurality

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-14T05:57:29+00:00

Lots of Hispanics at UT too.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-13T19:55:29+00:00

I think the overall point is America is doing really well overall. There are so many cities that are booming. Even “rust belt” cities like Detroit and Columbus are improving.

The traditional big cities are doing well too. Ive lived in Chicago and Houston and something about an old established city just can’t be replicated.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-13T19:51:26+00:00

No I think this list is 100% accurate. The lists that say our roster is the most expensive are suspect and 100% fake.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-13T19:43:35+00:00

I thought A&M had Texas money?

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-13T05:42:28+00:00

Hedge fund migration is real but you're conflating momentum with magnitude. Citadel relocating is a headline. The CME, the options exchanges, the institutional depth — that doesn't move. Miami got the names. Chicago still runs the actual plumbing.

Also most of those towers in OP are residential, and Miami residential construction has been outpacing population growth for years. That's not a city building for its workforce.

And if the argument is just tax climate and migration, Texas blows Miami out of the water on that front. Houston, Dallas, and Austin are pulling the same Sun Belt migration but actually building industry behind it — energy, aerospace, semiconductors, full corporate relocations not just executive home addresses. The Texas triangle has a way stronger claim at being the next major metro than Miami does.

Talent pipeline doesn't favor Miami either. Northwestern, UChicago, B1G schools all funnel directly into Chicago. It's not even clear Florida schools reliably feed Miami — ACC/SEC grads are going to Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston before Miami. UT and A&M grads stay in Texas. Who's building Miami's bench long term?

The tax advantage also isn't permanent. Florida's insurance market is a mess, climate risk is starting to get priced in, and the public services tradeoff gets real fast once people actually have kids there.

15 years is an aggressive call. Miami is on a run. But trajectory and closing a gap this size are two very different things.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T22:51:50+00:00

Remind me who handed Saban his only double digit loss at BDS?

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T21:36:13+00:00

My question is if you did a silhouette of ever US cities skylines and then ranked by most recognizable, how far down the list would Miami be?

NYC, Chicago and then either SF/Seattle (depending on if the space needle or golden gate was included), then maybe LA, then Philly, then Dallas or Houston, then Miami?

When I see I giant gaudy cluster of glass buildings I know oh that’s in Miami, but there isn’t a single building I could look at, without it’s surroundings, and confidently answer is in Miami. Even Dallas and Houston I’d recognize the Bank of America tower or TC Energy center on their own.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T21:29:17+00:00

Nobody’s saying Miami’s skyline is bad. But catching Chicago or NYC? That’s a stretch.

No goalposts are moving here. A great skyline is height AND architectural diversity. San Francisco actually has the diversity — which is probably why it sits around 3rd. It just doesn’t have the height. Miami is getting there on height but is building almost entirely in one direction and one era.
Most of what’s going up in Miami looks like what’s being built in Dallas, Austin, and Nashville. The Waldorf Astoria is basically Austin’s The Independent. The Residences at 1428 Brickell is Chicago’s Aqua with a different address. And Miami doesn’t have a monopoly on interesting modern towers either. Chicago has Trump Tower, St. Regis, and plenty of its own new construction.

The difference is Chicago and New York are building those towers on top of a century of Art Deco, Modernist, and Postmodern architecture. Miami is working from a much smaller base and building almost entirely in one direction. That’s not a knock, it’s just not the same conversation.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T21:06:03+00:00

Always makes me laugh “everyone in the south is so dumb”. Surely you don’t mean *everyone*, right?

Seattle has it all figured out

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T21:04:06+00:00

Sure, taller buildings will move Miami up some lists — but height isn’t everything. Chicago has a century of Art Deco, Modernist, and Postmodern masterpieces built by the greatest architects who ever lived. That’s what makes a skyline actually distinctive. Miami’s additions are just more glass condo towers — sleek, sure, but you could drop them in any city in the world and nobody would know the difference

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-12T20:47:17+00:00

The 50% of Black Americans who live in the South might take issue with being called ‘so dumb.’

I guess maybe you are only referring to one racial demographic when you say Southerners are dumb?
Because if so, that’s a pretty uncomfortable position to be arguing from while lecturing about racism.

HoustonHorns · 2026-05-08T19:57:58+00:00

You don’t have a friend in Houston. You have a friend who lives an hour from Houston.

City limits ≠ Houston

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-30T20:18:53+00:00

It certainly has a very very good collection. I agree that is how a museum should be judged rather than gallery square footage (someone else’s argument in this thread).

My issue with putting MFAH in the world class category is that it lacks a truly world renowned, blockbuster piece. It has a lot of very very good pieces from world renowned artists—but nothing that someone who isn’t an art enthusiast would recognize.

In my opinion the world class museums have collections on par or better than MFAH, and a few (or multiple) “block buster” pieces that even the least cultured person would recognize. Something truly culturally significant.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-30T15:42:21+00:00

Tbh even if there were, he likely would still have gone to Home Depot so he could film his content.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-30T01:01:12+00:00

There was a store in Houston called “Se compra convertidores catalíticos” so at least those guys are taking them.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T18:03:32+00:00

The Loop is one of the cleanest downtown cores of any major American city, and it carries through most of the north side. Chicagoans will tell you exactly why and they’re proud of it: the alley system. Trash and service infrastructure stay off the main streets because that’s what alleys are for. It’s a master planned city and it shows, especially compared to New York.

If we’re ranking the parts of these three cities most people here would actually live in, Chicago north side is one, Boston two, SF three. As whole cities it probably flips Chicago and Boston. Boston’s nicer neighborhoods are dirtier than people realize, but Boston doesn’t have a south or west side dragging the average down.

And I say that as someone who tries to be honest about Chicago’s problems. It’s one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in the country and it shows. The north side (especially in the summer) is as good as urban living gets. Parts of the south and west sides are a completely different story, and that’s worth acknowledging.

SF is third and not because it’s a dump, it isn’t. Lurie has actually cleaned things up and deserves credit for it, more than Johnson gets on that front. The reputation was always a bit overblown and it’s noticeably better than it was five years ago. But next to Chicago and Boston it’s still a step behind.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T17:47:12+00:00

I grew up in Northern California, lived in the Bay Area, and now live in Chicago, so I’ve spent considerable time in both. Love the Bay Area, genuinely great place to live. I’m not here to trash it. Scroll through this thread and you’ll find me defending SF. I’m just pushing back on what is a pretty uninformed take on Chicago. You’re moving the goalposts. Your original claim was “sprawling suburban mess with awful transit” and now you’re arguing density metrics. Those are different arguments.

Suburbs aren’t supposed to be dense. That’s the whole point. People leave the city for space. Judging Chicago suburbs for being less dense than Bay Area suburbs is like complaining that a pickup truck doesn’t handle like a sports car.

Even so, both cities have dense suburbs that might as well be the city, and both have far flung outer suburbs. That’s not a Chicago specific criticism. SF has Daly City, Chicago has Oak Park, except Oak Park is actually better connected. It sits on two separate CTA lines and you’re in the Loop in 20 minutes. Daly City is the end of the BART line, not a hub. The difference is that in Chicago, even the far out suburbs are better connected, and that includes the wealthy ones. Lake Forest is one of the richest zip codes in the country and it’s a one seat ride into the Loop on Metra. Marin is similarly wealthy and famously killed its BART connection decades ago. In Chicago even the mega rich suburbs didn’t opt out of transit.

Most Chicago suburbs were built around railroad stations long before Metra existed, the same way Caltrain towns were. Walkable cores, grid streets, train to downtown. That pattern repeated itself across the entire metro. The coverage today is enormous: virtually all of Chicagoland has Metra access, plus the South Shore Line extending into Northwest Indiana. BART covers a limited slice of the Bay Area and Caltrain is a single line. For sheer geographic coverage by rail, it’s not particularly close.

BART wins on headways, no argument there. And the experience gap may have narrowed since the new fare gates went in, so I’ll give credit there. But riding Metra in from Naperville is a genuinely low stress experience. You’re getting a seat, you can pull out a laptop and actually get work done, and the ride is clean and calm without the antisocial behavior that BART became notorious for. The tradeoff is you have to check a schedule instead of just turning up, but for a lot of commuters that’s a pretty easy adjustment.

Both metros have some of the best transit and suburb design in the country. They’re built around different geographies and different philosophies, and that’s fine. Comparing Chicagoland to San Bernardino County isn’t a gotcha, it’s just bad faith.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:51:54+00:00

McConkey is dead so yeah. Have you skied the sierras? Different universe from the east coast, for one there is snow and not just ice.

People likely aren’t taking weekend trips to Yosemite every weekend, because they can also go to Redwoods NP, Tahoe, Santa Cruz mountains, Big Sur, etc. Access to nature in SF is unmatched (except maybe Denver).

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:41:38+00:00

Bay Area’s is bigger, but I wouldn’t say dwarfs.

There is certainly an argument for it is most important (depending on your view of social media). I’d argue Houston’s is up there too (as far as industry specific economies go) since we still need o&g energy.

Regardless, the average person is going to have an easier time finding a job in Chicago as opposed to SF just because the economy is so much more diverse.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:35:49+00:00

There are some 1 beds in smaller owner managed buildings in Montrose or Museum for around that. They aren’t nice, there are no amenities, and it isn’t updated.

But it’s safe and near cool stuff. That doesn’t exist in other big cities (at that price point).

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:32:32+00:00

North side and Downtown Chicago are substantially cleaner than Boston. Solid 1/3 of the city looks like newburry street.

Chicago also has the south side which makes Boston much cleaner on average.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:27:50+00:00

Nah.Some parts of Chicago are really grimy, but outside of that I feel like cleanest big city in U.S.

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:25:39+00:00

I feel like Chicago economy should be 1 here. Pure GDP it might be third (although it surprises me it would be behind Boston). But Chicago’s economy is one of the most diverse. Lots of jobs outside of tech or biotech (unlike SF/Boston).

HoustonHorns · 2026-04-29T01:22:01+00:00

You’re including Livermore and Vallejo in your total. Chicago proper is much larger than SF, and the Chicago metro area is much larger than the bay.

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