Houston vs. Chicago- The Coli Weighs In

[chkmeout]

I just left houston, I'd still rather have a 500k house in Chicago than in Houston anyday.
If you've never lived in a City City, you'll never understand how boring those spead out southern cities are.
That's were people from chicago and NY go when they decide they can't hang up north anymore.
I personally know 4-5 women who've picked up and moved down there in the last couple years to try and start over. God bless them on their journey to wipe their slates clean and snag some unsuspecting southerner.

 

[Supper]

Weather was the only thing holding me back. I legit despise the cold with every fiber of my being. But as the article quoted someone as saying, Houston does seem to be lacking in palpable culture ... the biting of the Chicago bean is so telling.

Houston is the king of the sprawly sunbelt cities, and laid the blueprint for uncontrolled,sprawling land expansion cities to be even considered as world class.

Black(AADOS) culture- Houston > Chicago......Sorry. It's pretty close though. Our communities are older and more established than y'alls and seem to be holding up better today.

Overall culture though. Chicago > Houston. No other ethnic group in H-town really contributes to the cultural identity of the H besides aados people. Whereas Chi-town has real deep rooted irish, italian, and polish communities, is birthplace of the modern film industry, the live theater history, has that organized crime history.

OG gen working and middle class whites in Houston left the city for the outer burbs in early and mid 20th century. Hence why there's no real redneck/southern white culture in the city. White Houstonians are bland as shyt. When you don't have any culture coming from the dominant(white) society, it can make a city seem pretty bland.

 

[Spade]

I just left houston, I'd still rather have a 500k house in Chicago than in Houston anyday.
If you've never lived in a City City, you'll never understand how boring those spead out southern cities are.
That's were people from chicago and NY go when they decide they can't hang up north anymore.
I personally know 4-5 women who've picked up and moved down there in the last couple years to try and start over. God bless them on their journey to wipe their slates clean and snag some unsuspecting southerner.

Truth in bold. Which is why I say if I moved to Houston and can't live inside the loop, I won't waste my time. Outside of it is boring suburbia and will always be suburbia.

 

[invalid]

Black(AADOS) culture- Houston > Chicago......Sorry. It's pretty close though. Our communities are older and more established than y'alls and seem to be holding up better today.

What?

Who know anything about black Houston culture outside of black Houstonians?

The only cities in the south that have a black culture thicker than Chicago is Atlanta and New Orleans.

 

[TNOT]

Try buying a 5000 sqft mansion in a nice neighborhood in the Chi for $300k

my mother’s fam is from the Chi, 127th and mlk so I know that city backwards. Still wouldn’t trade Harolds chicken for Frenchys any day of the week.

Where are these mythical 5000 sq/ft mansions for 300k in Houston that are nice neighborhoods?

Y’all need to stop lying to folk.

 

[Supper]

What?

Who know anything about black Houston culture outside of Houstonians?

How well know a culture is known OUTSIDE the city ain't really important when determining cultural foot print. I'd say it's mainly about how represented and apparent the culture is inside the city. For instance, Black LA culture is much more known outside of california than Black Bay culture, yet local Black culture has a MUCH larger footprint within the bay area than la. Whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc are all immersed in the local black culture in the bay. The general pop of la don't really fukk with the local black culture as much. Black/aados culture in Houston functions similar to black bay culture.

AADOS culture is VERY apparent in Houston. You can't ignore it no matter where you are in the city.

First music scene- Blues

Oldest park- Emancipation Park(oldest in TX as well)

Most popular music scene- Hip Hop

Signature music style- Chopped and Screwed

Signature car culture- Slabs

Signature college sporting event- Labour Day Classic

Signature narcotic- Drank

Signature BBQ style- (South)East TX, which is firmly rooted in AA traditions

At least 3 of the 10 most popular nicknames, including the #1 most popular nickname for the city(H town) were coined by the urban AA community.
Best of Houston: 10 Best Nicknames for Houston

We even got McDonalds using the word "trill" on their billboards in the city.

Two of the most successful record labels to ever come out of the city Peacock-Duke and Rap-a-lot were both born out of the AA community.

Sam Lightnin Hopkins Is the only musician to have a dedicated TX heritage site.

Juneteenth was born here.

the biggest music fest in the city(Astroworld) comes from us as well.

Culturally H-town is Detroit.

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Can Chi claim the same thing?

Furthermore you know about know about Juneteeth, right? Y'all rappers stay talkin bout sippin lean, ack, double cuppin, muddy cups and shyt. And everybody and they momma talk about they drippin now, something we been doing. Drake, arguably the most successful rapper today, stay jockin my city's local black culture.

Show me how y'all got down for MLK's birthday this past Monday, and I'll show you how WE got down.

 

[FocusedDaily]

Truth in bold. Which is why I say if I moved to Houston and can't live inside the loop, I won't waste my time. Outside of it is boring suburbia and will always be suburbia.

Yup, and it's not even a diss to Houston, I mean i get it. It's nice, and pretty quiet, food is good, it's def a car city cause public transportation is kinda useless for the majority of residents.

Favorite thing about Houston, they are the most polite drivers I've come across anywhere in America, even tho I hate Houston's Highway interchanges with the heated passion of 1000 suns. They were all designed like a 11year old on meth that had too many hotwheel tracks.

 

[UserNameless]

When you don't have any culture coming ...from the dominant(white) society, it can make a city seem pretty bland.

I do agree with that for the overwhelming majority of cities .

 

[Supper]

I do agree with that for the overwhelming majority of cities .

Even in a city like New Orleans, whites still have a real New Orleanian culture. Their food, architecture, mannerism, music, and accents are still New Orleanian, Louisianaian, and/or Southern.

Their cultural foot print in the NO ain't anywhere near as large as black Orleanians, but at the end of the day they can claim the french quarter and mardi gras as their's. Pretty much anything that's uniquely Houstonian culturally comes from us, though.

Whites in the NO tend to have deep roots going back many generations in the city unlike whites in Houston. Although, that's changing due to the economic revitalization of the city and reverse white flight.

Fun fact: Throughout most of the mid 19th and early 20th century Houston was proportionately blacker(and smaller) than New Orleans. New Orleans white flight in the 60s was something serious. And they had no large replacement white population unlike Houston did.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

I enjoy my spead out cities.

People not meant to be stacked up on each other.

Space is crucial.

My crib quiet and I love it.

The city dont gotta be turt up all the damn time.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Where are these mythical 5000 sq/ft mansions for 300k in Houston that are nice neighborhoods?

Y’all need to stop lying to folk.

Breh all you gotta do is do a search. He over exaggerating a little, but you can get some big ass houses for as little as $300k

Here's 4400 sqft for $389k Houston got it good

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15623-Hunters-Lake-Way-Houston-TX-77044/123234784_zpid/

 

[TNOT]

Breh all you gotta do is do a search. He over exaggerating a little, but you can get some big ass houses for as little as $300k

Here's 4400 sqft for $389k Houston got it good

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15623-Hunters-Lake-Way-Houston-TX-77044/123234784_zpid/

I’m familiar, ive contemplated moving a few times, but I know what’s in store for me. You’ll get more house for your money, getting more quality, that’s for debate. Also you’re gonna be confined to your suburb, it will have everything you want, but you’re gonna give up some things to live there.

Anybody who tells you any different is lying to you

 

[SATAN]

Houston has badder bytches and better weather. (Even with the hurricane risk)

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I just left houston, I'd still rather have a 500k house in Chicago than in Houston anyday.
If you've never lived in a City City, you'll never understand how boring those spead out southern cities are.
That's were people from chicago and NY go when they decide they can't hang up north anymore.
I personally know 4-5 women who've picked up and moved down there in the last couple years to try and start over. God bless them on their journey to wipe their slates clean and snag some unsuspecting southerner.

I hardly hear anything great about Chicago though,A almost like javk got a better party scene. Houston got better women. New York got more cultures and bigger city vibes. I really think they don't sleep

What's so good about Chicago? If have to live there

 

[invalid]

How well know a culture is known OUTSIDE the city ain't really important when determining cultural foot print. I'd say it's mainly about how represented and apparent the culture is inside the city. For instance, Black LA culture is much more known outside of california than Black Bay culture, yet local Black culture has a MUCH larger footprint within the bay area than la. Whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc are all immersed in the local black culture in the bay. The general pop of la don't really fukk with the local black culture as much. Black/aados culture in Houston functions similar to black bay culture.

AADOS culture is VERY apparent in Houston. You can't ignore it no matter where you are in the city.

Spoiler

Official Rockets Saturday jersey

Former Mayor

Current Mayor

Can Chi claim the same thing?

Furthermore you know about know about Juneteeth, right? Y'all rappers stay talkin bout sippin lean, ack, double cuppin, muddy cups and shyt. And everybody and they momma talk about they drippin now, something we been doing. Drake, arguably the most successful rapper today, stay jockin my city's local black culture.

Show me how y'all got down for MLK's birthday this past Monday, and I'll show you how WE got down.

Ok. Before I shut this down, is this all you got? Can you give me a little bit more about the history and culture? You say blues, but Chicago is known for blues, and jazz, and gospel, and house, not even mentioning hip hop. Houston does not even register as being associated with blues. You do realize most of the families that left Mississippi and Tennessee during the 3 phases of the Great Migration came to Chicago, right?

You say Houston has a longer established black community? Houston was settled in 1837, Chicago was settled in the 1780s and was first settled by a black man at that. There were only eight or so free blacks in Houston around the time of the Civil War. There was not only an established black community in Chicago before the Civil War, there were blacks enlisting in the US Colored Infantry at Camp Douglas to fight against the Confederacy, the site of which is in Bronzeville, the historic black community.

What else has black houstonians contributed to in terms of the black arts, politics, business, etc?

And I don’t get your LA & The Bay comparisons. The black culture that was exported out of LA is black gang culture. Outside of that, there is no other aspects of black LA culture that has been exported out. I’m not saying there is none, but the more robust aspect of LA Black culture doesn’t appear to have left the region similar to the Bay.