Houston laughs at Austin’s version of traffic.
Houston is just a crappier version of LA; dangerous, congested, filled with the entitled class, and smoggy. LA at least has decent weather and the silver lining of your waitress being the former homecoming queen dreaming of making it in show biz... Houston has the advantage of being within a state that has not gone completely nuts.
I was on Houston’s ‘mixmaster’ one night in the late sixties when a large dog ran out in front of me. Had he jumped, he would have come through the windshield and killed me. Luckily for me, he only put a large dent in my front bumper.
It was so late, there was no other traffic or things might have gotten real interesting.