[wideawake]

Houston may be hot, unfriendly and frustratingly difficult to navigate

Yes, Houston was extremely unfriendly to take in all those refugees. And New Orleans was well-known for its cold temperatures and mathematically laid-out street grid.

[P-40]

unfriendly

Houston is anything but unfriendly, in my experience.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Exactly, one of the few places in the US with a worse heat/humidity combo than Houston are New Orleans and Orlando. Nor is it unfriendly, and the road system is much more sensible than in many large cities. Apparently the writer simply plug-n-played a portion of the Chronicle's template response on why Houston needs:

1) Oodles of spending for light-rail
2) Oodles of spending for arts/sports/entertainment venues
3) Oodles of spending for the midnight basketball equivalent de jour
4) Oodles of spending on inner city patronage programs
5) Oodles of spending for inflated city pensions
6) Freeway towing
7) Oodles of spending to make us a 'WORLD CLASS CITY'(tm)

[HostileTerritory]

Well, New Orleans does appear to have gridded streets, less traffic, and fewer highways than Houston does. It's a natural consequence of being laid out much earlier and stopping economic growth in the 1960s.

[swain_forkbeard]

"And New Orleans was well-known for its cold temperatures and mathematically laid-out street grid."

Got me chuckling.