I totally agree. This page is over twice the length of Chicago's and three times that of New York's (which, in fairness, could/should arguably be twice the length it is now). While there are aspects of this level of detail that are commendable, all of this excess length seems due solely to the indexing of almost every neighborhood that's even in the orbit of Houston, which would fit on The Other Wiki but is not the objective of TV Tropes. I'm going to start deleting all of the entries that only list "another suburb" or the region's number of fast food joints as details.
I feel like someone working on this page has something against white people. Variations on "rich white suburb" show up about 31 times in the page.
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I think that's huge leap.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It's that it feels like "rich white suburb" is used dismissively every time it is used and it's being applied to areas that it probably shouldn't be applied to.
If it's not applicable, it should be removed. For the other citations, I would not mind seeing them rewritten.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Jay Maynard
The section on parts of town stops at the North Loop. There's more stuff north of there, you know, folks...I've been away too long to make a comprehensive effort, but I'll pitch in and help.
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Thanks. I was thinking about continuing but simply never got around to finishing up. At this point, the job is about half done. I hope that when its finished, it will be as good as the Chicago page.
Okay, I think we need to trim this page down to remove a lot of the excess neighborhoods, a lot of which don't have context. Anyone have any comments?
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