I m moving to Houston next month and was wondering if Texas people really talk with that strong accent we hear in movies. Do people really sound like that? And what s the culture there like?
We all have country accents and oil wells in our back yard. We all ride horses and wear cowboy boots, too. Yep, it s true...everything you see on TV is true.
I from Houston and no not a lot of people talk like that and if they have accents there not strong you won t see horses or cows galloping across the plains . Houston is city-like you have lots of malls lots of places to eat lots things to do . Houston is very diverse it s not just one culture there lots of them . Every year we bring back all that country stuff with the annual Rodeo around FEBURARY and March. Kinda like a carnival lots of rides lots of singers and lots of bull riding things like that in the Reliant stadium .
I used to live in Houston....yeah...you do get some people that talk with a strong accent, but then you get other people that don t. Houston can be quite the melting pot of people so you will meet various people with different accents. The culture is pretty typical American...but there s of course a lot of hispanic influences, which is nice. I think it s a vibrant city, but it s very large and can be a pain to get places, especially in a hurry. Traffic can be a complete nightmare. Have fun!
some people do have a country accent like what you hear on tv but remember that houston is actually 40% spanish speaking so you will hear a lot of spanish accents as well. the culture is like no other. a huge melting pot of many different nationalities combined: nigerian, hispanic, french, indian, pakistani, the list goes on and on!
that is true and untrue. i live like an hour north of Houston and the only people who have country accents are the people who live outside of Houston. The city has all new busy business people. But movies stereo-type us. It s not all tumbleweeds and crap, where i live, everyone has their little designer attire and $100 haircut and stuff, but whatever. Most of the places around here still keep the southern feel but most of it has really modernized. Try going to montrose if you love gay bars, and get ready for all the MEXICANS. (not trying to be racist, at all. just get ready) personally, I can t wait to get out of here.
We travel to Houston on a regular basis to see The lakewood Church in Houston. Home of Joel Osteen. We love it there. Spend usually a weekend there at a time. Even looked for a vacation home there. It s just the burbs are way too far to the city for me a housewife and my husband to work in corporate Houston.They have been nothing but polite to us when we take drives, travel and ask questions. Cowboy hats and boots are normal and I love the folks there! One day we will like to get a home there for weekends when we retire, for now, we ll just have to visit Texas. When we go we like the country so we drive as far out as we can possibly get to in a day.Best Wishes on your move!
I live in Texas and you will hear a stronger accent in the rural areas of the state than in the big cities. I am talking about the really twangy accent. All born and bred Texans have somewhat of an accent. We feel the same way about the accents from the East Coast...do they really sound the same way they do in the movies?
I just moved from DC to Texas a year and a half ago. I actually really like it. There are some strong accents but I have a friend that has lived in Houston all of her life and she doesn t have a hick accent at all. Depending on where you live it will be different. The people are different. In DC we had such a melting pot of cultures and people but in Texas we have a lot of Hispanics. Some places are a little prejudice which I am not use to at all. I really do like Texas though. It immediately felt like home.I didn t read the answer above. I guess he s saying much of the same thing.Let me just add this. I think how you ll feel about Texas will depend on you. I had a friend visit (from DC but now lives in WA) and she totally embarrassed me. She started speaking with this very hick accent. I didn t expect she d hate Texas as much as she did. Then again a family member visited and is now moving here. She obviously loves it here. I guess all we can do is give our opinion of how we see it. I find it to be a lot of fun here. There are places that can be a little more stereotypical than others. I know I might have offended some with my answer. I m like you though(or will be), I m totally new to this state and this is how I see it. I gave you my opinion. I ve been to many different cities here in TX, have been all over the world and to many different states in the US as well. I m younger and I love it here. I hope this helps. :)
No, honestly, I have lived all over. Miami, NYC, Seattle, Phoenix, etc., and people in Texas sound just the same as people in L.A. here do now. Honestly, out of all those places I have listed (and more) Houston has been my favorite to live.... Houston is amazing with so much to do... No matter who you are, you will love it there!!And, I am sorry, but the person above me is COMPLETELY wrong.
Get ready for big truck, big hair, very big women, and blue eyeliner! Oh can t forget the humidity and depending on where you are from you probably won t fit in because of your accent. They do have them and it gets worse the further south you go!
I m from the Dallas area, but I ve spent some time there. You will see and hear some of the old country accent. But you ll hear lots of people who talk normally. And you ll also see quite a few Hispanic people. Hope you like it down there.
People only talk like hicks or rednecks in small crap towns like Brenham. BIG City culture like in Dallas , Houston Austin is much different there are people of all nationalities here so you will find all kinds of accents other than just hick ones LOL.
think about Bush Jr. and Joel Osteen, they are proably not from countryside but they don t talk normally . Get it?the answer is many do have accent and many don t.
Yes they do, and don t let anyone else tell you otherwise. The way some people sound is very annoying. Most try to fake it though. Doesn t work! The accent is still there.
Most people don t unless you go to a rural area. The culture is pretty much like the rest of the US. People wear shorts and flip flops more though ;)
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people do not really talk like that, unless you go out to the country. The culture is basically bar be cue,and football lol
well im from virginia and we have a real country accents but texas people sound like northerns to us but they are not all country
hell no. not even the white people. only the country ones...but there are country people all over the U.S.
Yes I would say that about 30% of the people in the cities talk with a honky accent and about 50% in the suburbs and 80% in rural areas. South East Texas is the hokiest and most low class region of Texas to me. Allot of the people here in SE TX. are racist and homophobic and yadie yada. They say mam and sir here out of respect. If your a northerner you probably think that s actually rood and it makes one sound old but here its respectful. You will see allot of country bumpkins that wear camo, have beer bellies, and wear cowboy boots and have mustaches that say the N word etc. especially in the Baytown area. However the classiest and most sophisticated people live on the West side of Houston in the Galleria area and the North Suburbs I would have to make an exception for Sugarland and Pearland those suburbs are south of Houston they have nice people too. The ghetto is pretty much the whole east and south side of the city especially the 5th ward! You don t want to get off the freeway and go into those parts for any reason. The people in North Texas especially DFW act better. Houston has the 7th largest mega mall in the country called the Galleria theres stores like Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue there. If you want bargains we have allot of outlet malls in the area. The Houston Astros baseball team plays at Mitutemaid Park. We have concerts at the Toyota Center and another place in The Woodlands which is a suburb north of Houston. Down town doesn t have anything really except for hookers and hobos but they are trying to bring in some venues and make people want to live there. The cities in the south are spread out unlike the cities in the North so we dont have very lively downtown s.