Moving to Houston

[TragicallyUnhip]

Originally Posted by DataBass

Houston suburbs suck. The Woodlands, Kingwood, River Oaks...etc. All those master planned communities are a joke.

Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made out of ticky tacky.

Ick. I suppose if you like living in a McDonalds Land, it would be right up your alley.

I wouldn't throw Kingwood in there. It's gorgeous out here. Not nearly as cookie cutter as Plano, Rockwall, or Southlake. We actually have a lot of trees, trails, wildlife, etc... We don't have a lot of fast food places or chains here, either. Have you ever even been to Kingwood? lol

[DataBass]

Originally Posted by TragicallyUnhip

I wouldn't throw Kingwood in there. It's gorgeous out here. Not nearly as cookie cutter as Plano, Rockwall, or Southlake. We actually have a lot of trees, trails, wildlife, etc...

I threw it in there because I knew you lived there.




I was just fucking with you. Kingwood, the Woodlands, etc are all pretty areas.

I was merely pointing out that everything looks the same.

And yes, I have been to Kingwood.

[TragicallyUnhip]

I actually haven't made it into any of the other ones listed. I've heard the Woodlands looks a lot like the back part of Kingwood. I remember thinking it all looked the same when I used to visit my parents, but I guess I'm just used to it now.

But, erm, beats the hell out of Garland. lol

Originally Posted by DataBass

I threw it in there because I knew you lived there.




I was just fucking with you. Kingwood, the Woodlands, etc are all pretty areas.

I was merely pointing out that everything looks the same.

And yes, I have been to Kingwood.

[bryAnt]

Sugarland is about as cookie cutter as it gets. The have building codes so that all business signs are black and white. Even Target's Target is black and white. I still love H-town though.

[Matisfaction]

Originally Posted by bryAnt

Sugarland is about as cookie cutter as it gets.

Sugar Land is the Plano of Houston, yet its 10 times more diverse & 3 times as small. Fort Bend County (Sugar Land) is the most diverse county in Texas.

As far as nice suburbs go...

Sugar Land > Plano

[Matisfaction]

Originally Posted by Shakes 999

I was always under the assumption that Houston was a shithole myself. THe one time I went it did seem really dirty. Now that the city is flooded with refugee's my opinion is significantly lower.

Just my opinion.

Most of those Katrina refugee's have been kicked back to Louisiana, at least the ones that never found jobs.

Dallas is some what cleaner, more organized looking than Houston, but what do you expect from a city with no zoning laws & home to the largest concentration of refineries/petro chemical plants in the world?

[Ms. H]

Originally Posted by Ash

I'm moving down there in a couple of weeks. Ask Roos or Rufus, they know.

[Matisfaction]

Originally Posted by TragicallyUnhip

How can you have an opinion when you've only been here once? Was it for a rave? Might explain the dirty thing. Those were never exactly held in the greatest parts of town. lol

But, yeah, there are shitty parts of town just like in Dallas. Only difference is the nice parts are a lot bigger and more diverse.

The difference is Houston has no zoning laws which basically explains why people who visit often cite it as looking "ghetto". In Dallas the ghetto areas are more concentrated to certain areas like Oak Cliff or Old East Dallas as where in Houston they can be right down the street from multi-million dollar homes. Its not unusual in Houston to see church's sitting next to adult oriented businesses, or skyscrapers being built right at your back yard. There is no such thing as residential or commercial areas in Houston, they're all mixed together. With very little land use regulation you can basically build what you want, where ever you want in Houston.