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Originally Posted by Evergrey
is there a rivalry between Lubbock and Amarillo?
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Originally Posted by Jeeper
I'd call it a friendly rivalry. Being so close together and similar in size just begs for comparison, but in my experience they don't have much in common. It's something that I commonly debate with residents of Lubbock when I stay there, but it always stays friendly. I do concede to them that Lubbock's great asset, Texas Tech, gives them a leg up, not because of the school itself, but all the nice looking ladies that it brings in.
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I'll defer somewhat to Jeeper on this one (and others who are more recent residents of the area), but to use cities of a much larger scale for the sake of analogy -- the rivalry is maybe something like pittsburgh / cleveland but if cleveland had the topography of cincinnati. or philly / boston if boston were located where nyc is.
Amarillo and Lubbock are similar in many ways (population size, ethnicity, poverty rates, climate, geography) and only a little over 100 miles apart; and yet quite distinct in that Lubbock has a major univ. which is a huge factor in life there and Amarillo seems to be more of a transportation / commercial center.
And they both compete for the business of residents of the numerous smaller towns around there with populations of say anywhere from a few hundred to 35,000 or so in providing medical services, legal services, shopping, entertainment, etc. that can't be found in the smaller towns.
Their rivalry with each other is enhanced by their isolation from other major cities. From either Amarillo or Lubbock you would have to travel about 250+ miles to either Oklahoma City, Albuquerque or Fort Worth depending on the direction you were going to reach a larger city.