BimboColesHair
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Re: Three-Way ORL/LAL/Cavs Rumor
Allow me. Houston, which has no zoning laws, annexes a lot areas outside downtown. Harris county, the county I live in and the county Houston is in, is absolutely massive. I live up by Lake Houston, which is a good 30-40 minutes away from downtown, yet I am still considered to be living in Houston. To give you an idea, I grew up in Twinsburg (located in Summit county) which is about the same distance to Cleveland as I currently am from Houston (~25 miles). Also, one thing I've noticed about Houston when it comes to fans is that they are a lot like the Florida teams in terms of the amount of people who live here who have moved to the area from a different state (like me) and are fans of different teams. For instance, I see quite a bit of Browns, Steelers, and Packers fans (to go along with the massive Cowboys bandwagon) down here for football and I think in my 3 years down here I have seen more Spurs/Mavericks fans than I have Rockets fans. Houston is indeed a large city and ever since I have moved here I have wondered why none of the teams can really rake in FAs in sports. The weather is warm year round, have a strong housing market, economy is good, food is great, no income taxes, downtown, especially the Galleria, is nice to walk through, and there are beaches (not good ones) 30 minutes away. Also, in terms of the Houston TV market, they have to compete with FS Southwest, which comes standard on all cable packages I have had down here, which airs Mavericks and Spurs games.
The US Census considers the Houston area to contain an area called "Baytown". They consider the Cleveland area to be Elyria to Mentor, which seems pretty on target. So I took the Census at its word.
I've never been to Houston, so what actually constitutes the Houston area is unknown to me.
Allow me. Houston, which has no zoning laws, annexes a lot areas outside downtown. Harris county, the county I live in and the county Houston is in, is absolutely massive. I live up by Lake Houston, which is a good 30-40 minutes away from downtown, yet I am still considered to be living in Houston. To give you an idea, I grew up in Twinsburg (located in Summit county) which is about the same distance to Cleveland as I currently am from Houston (~25 miles). Also, one thing I've noticed about Houston when it comes to fans is that they are a lot like the Florida teams in terms of the amount of people who live here who have moved to the area from a different state (like me) and are fans of different teams. For instance, I see quite a bit of Browns, Steelers, and Packers fans (to go along with the massive Cowboys bandwagon) down here for football and I think in my 3 years down here I have seen more Spurs/Mavericks fans than I have Rockets fans. Houston is indeed a large city and ever since I have moved here I have wondered why none of the teams can really rake in FAs in sports. The weather is warm year round, have a strong housing market, economy is good, food is great, no income taxes, downtown, especially the Galleria, is nice to walk through, and there are beaches (not good ones) 30 minutes away. Also, in terms of the Houston TV market, they have to compete with FS Southwest, which comes standard on all cable packages I have had down here, which airs Mavericks and Spurs games.