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Originally Posted by Crawford
Yeah, West TX, to me, seems like peak anti-urbanity. I mean, Amarillo, Midland and Lubbock are decent sized towns, but their downtowns barely exist. And there don't appear to be prewar neighborhoods of any note.
El Paso has decent urbanity and some prewar neighborhoods, but that's basically New Mexico/intl. bordertown and culturally very different.
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There's tons of prewar neighborhoods in Amarillo, though they were pretty much all built for the car (in the 1920s). The city must have boomed in the 1920s, many intact neighborhoods from that era. (My Amarillo duplex that I recently sold after managing it remotely for over five years was from 1925 in a very homogeneous and intact neighborhood, though not very walkable.)
I lived in Amarillo for a couple months and was waiting on a diesel injection pump for my truck so I was a pedestrian for about a month. The bus system is a total joke. It's not really possible for a normal person to live there without a vehicle.