People in Cali don't sound like how people try to fake it here. Why are people being so fake here? Why are people (usually caucasian; don't mean to stereotype) so afraid to be themselves? You can tell they're born and raised in Texas.
2006-06-26 13:39:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Houston
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2006-06-26 14:53:22 · update #1
Houston is a big city with an identidy crisis. It is the 4th largest city in the US but has nothing unique about it. Other than cowboy boots, there is nothing special about it. They're trying to be something they aren't because they don't know what they are.
2006-06-26 14:48:56 · answer #1 · answered by Adam 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
OK this is getting ridiculous... first new york now cali....
OK.. first Houston is a huge city... so lots of people are from lots of different places. You will run into New Yorkers, Bostonians, Chigacoite's , Californians, etc becuase it is a big city, and people could be from anywhere. Does the "city" as a whole try to sound like x y or z. NO.
People sound or act like x y or z for many reasons, like my college roomate who went to Texas A&M was from Boston and he still sound like a Bostonian sometimes even though he has been in Texas for 15 years now, and calls Houston his home.
If anything Houston's dialact is sprinkled with spanish sounds, words, and dialect due to the large hispanic population. But really any large city like Houston will be such a mix of people that any generalizations about people or their speech habits are just not going to be accurate.
2006-06-27 06:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all, not everyone in Houston is from Houston, I moved here 25 years ago from Oregon and sometimes a little west coast surfer still comes out in my speech, my boss came here from New York 17 years ago and still has a very thick accent. This is a huge city,you will meet people from all over the country, all over the world I should say, you're going to hear every type of accent and dialect there is (if you listen real hard you might even hear a Texas accent), So get out of the mall and give the city a chance, you might just like it..... True story, several years ago while visiting a friend in Redondo Beach(LA) I had the opportunity to visit a country/western nightclub, I was quite amused at the number of CALIFORNIANS trying to act like TEXANS, It works both ways.
2006-06-27 17:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A great portion of the population in Houston isn't even from Texas. You mix all sorts of accents together and who knows what you'll hear from time to time. Walk through any parking lot and start counting the out of state license plates, maybe what you overhear is a true accent from wherever those people are from. Cause I sure don't know how you can "look" at someone and know where they're from, I guess I'm just not gifted that way.
2006-06-27 14:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by kathy059 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah at times you're going to come in contact with someone that's seems a little on the fakish side(Annoying as Hell), but hey that's ANYWHERE. There are a ton of people that live in Houston that are from California, New York, Philly,etc. and that have parents that are from such locations.... such as mine and sometimes the tones and pronounciations might mix... cuz it happens with me. So we're not trying to be anything other than ourselves in this HUGE city. And if someone wants to walk around in an Abercrombie pull over with some flip flops and talk like a "Californian" that's them. What does it matter anyway?.. as long as they're not messin with me. I really wouldn't care.
2006-06-27 03:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by Taylor made 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in Houston don't act like they're from Cali. In fact, most people in Houston don't care for Californians. Maybe you are like hanging out with like highschool girls or something.
2006-06-26 23:13:21 · answer #6 · answered by retyull 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know what...houstonians act and sound like houstonians...in every question you post, you criticized the people of houston as trying to act like the rest of the world...if you heard someone who was trying to act like a new yorker maybe it was because they came from new york...same with people who talk like they're from cali...you need to stop acting like houston is desperately trying to act like other cities...the only thing we're concern of is being texan
2006-06-26 21:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by Stephanie P. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hehe..yeah, I can just hear someone with a texas or southern accent saying that! And yeah, I have a heavy Okie accent, so I would sound horrible, like seriously, dude! Way out, man!
2006-06-26 20:42:13 · answer #8 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well im from houston and No no one tries to act like their from california aint nothin so good abt. cali. we have our own personality. so u you are just trippin wit yaself like the other girl said GET A LIFE!
2006-06-27 02:05:22 · answer #9 · answered by me. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look I am from Houston and well it pretty and at night if you go to the biggest hill or bridge yall will know why people like it there and there is more crime over there and here in Brownsville it is to calme not my type
2013-12-15 17:02:08 · answer #10 · answered by laura 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋