3 Best/Worst Things About Houston? (Dallas, San Antonio: credit, military, budget)

[msmash]

Good things
1. Food
2. Arts (if you want to fight the traffic)
3. Medical Center


Bad things
1. CRIME
2. TRAFFIC
3. It seems like everything is built either in or near a flood plain
4. DRIVERS (not paying attention)
5. No zoning'
6. 50/50 chance that a driver actually has car insurance, OR that the vehicle is even registered in their name
7. The heat! It is like an oven
8. Tree roaches

[mpope409]

Best thing: life

Worst things:

Warm winters (I hate this with a whole heart. I can't stand waking up on Christmas day with no snow or cold air)
Tree roaches
Poor publicity
Free fall sprawl
Lackluster developments
No subway/few rail

Heat and no-zoning seem to be the common things, but I think Houston has it good in the summertime, compared to other places in Texas and the no-zoning adds a unique touch to Houston in an odd, ugly-duckling sort of way.

[ayannaaaliyah]

Originally Posted by texanborn

I'd think those illegals would give your neighborhood more diversity!

Sorry to disappoint, I don't have illegals in my neighborhood, that I know of. As a matter of fact my neighborhood is a nice mix of nationalities

[SOMEONEINTX]

That is politically incorrect. by the way do you love to radio stations there? I ask if I am in the United States or in Mexico?

I used to own a website called houstonsucks.com I was soo fed up. Bill white won by almost 90 percent because he was the ONLY ONE who advistered for mayoral reelection in 2005. Then that jerk republinazi wannabe hispanic shelly sekula-gibbs (dropped the rodriguez name that time) passed a smoking ordinance against the voters that is how houston politics are these aholes like to do whatever they want f- the voters. the whole city runs on the houston chronicle a biased unfair and unbalanced paper. What do except for a city that shoves rail down your throat?

The neighboorhoods are AWFUL,.

some major ghettos slums whatever you want to call it are:

1. Westchase District
2. The wards
3. Alief
4. Northline airline
I pretty much summed that up

the city smells like raw sewage big stickhole

every road has to be torned up thanks to rickjerk goodhair pompom perry (i voted for Kinky)

Home brake ins where the liberal law enforcement can't proscecute the criminals when caught because our jails are full nonsense.

Before someone wants to argue their case with me I would say first of all even though I voted for Kinky I vote libertarian and if only one person is on the ballot I don't check that one, and second my neighboor had their house invaded by a habital criminal on the southwest side of houston and stole a lot of stuff and the neighbor before next door to me on the other side. I bought a gun before I move because I would shot the n point blank f the liberals i believe in the second admendment and the first admendment.

know do you want to challenge my statement about how crappy houston is?

i sense move to central texas and like it so far but if it gets more expensive I am thinking about oklahoma city where the rent is affordable and the goverment stays less intrusive.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by SOMEONEINTX

That is politically incorrect. by the way do you love to radio stations there? I ask if I am in the United States or in Mexico?

I used to own a website called houstonsucks.com I was soo fed up. Bill white won by almost 90 percent because he was the ONLY ONE who advistered for mayoral reelection in 2005. Then that jerk republinazi wannabe hispanic shelly sekula-gibbs (dropped the rodriguez name that time) passed a smoking ordinance against the voters that is how houston politics are these aholes like to do whatever they want f- the voters. the whole city runs on the houston chronicle a biased unfair and unbalanced paper. What do except for a city that shoves rail down your throat?

The neighboorhoods are AWFUL,.

some major ghettos slums whatever you want to call it are:

1. Westchase District
2. The wards
3. Alief
4. Northline airline
I pretty much summed that up

the city smells like raw sewage big stickhole

every road has to be torned up thanks to rickjerk goodhair pompom perry (i voted for Kinky)

Home brake ins where the liberal law enforcement can't proscecute the criminals when caught because our jails are full nonsense.

Before someone wants to argue their case with me I would say first of all even though I voted for Kinky I vote libertarian and if only one person is on the ballot I don't check that one, and second my neighboor had their house invaded by a habital criminal on the southwest side of houston and stole a lot of stuff and the neighbor before next door to me on the other side. I bought a gun before I move because I would shot the n point blank f the liberals i believe in the second admendment and the first admendment.

know do you want to challenge my statement about how crappy houston is?

i sense move to central texas and like it so far but if it gets more expensive I am thinking about oklahoma city where the rent is affordable and the goverment stays less intrusive.

You did the right thing for you - you left.

[sweetclimber]

Originally Posted by SOMEONEINTX

That is politically incorrect. by the way do you love to radio stations there? I ask if I am in the United States or in Mexico?

I used to own a website called houstonsucks.com I was soo fed up. Bill white won by almost 90 percent because he was the ONLY ONE who advistered for mayoral reelection in 2005. Then that jerk republinazi wannabe hispanic shelly sekula-gibbs (dropped the rodriguez name that time) passed a smoking ordinance against the voters that is how houston politics are these aholes like to do whatever they want f- the voters. the whole city runs on the houston chronicle a biased unfair and unbalanced paper. What do except for a city that shoves rail down your throat?

The neighboorhoods are AWFUL,.

some major ghettos slums whatever you want to call it are:

1. Westchase District
2. The wards
3. Alief
4. Northline airline
I pretty much summed that up

the city smells like raw sewage big stickhole

every road has to be torned up thanks to rickjerk goodhair pompom perry (i voted for Kinky)

Home brake ins where the liberal law enforcement can't proscecute the criminals when caught because our jails are full nonsense.

Before someone wants to argue their case with me I would say first of all even though I voted for Kinky I vote libertarian and if only one person is on the ballot I don't check that one, and second my neighboor had their house invaded by a habital criminal on the southwest side of houston and stole a lot of stuff and the neighbor before next door to me on the other side. I bought a gun before I move because I would shot the n point blank f the liberals i believe in the second admendment and the first admendment.

know do you want to challenge my statement about how crappy houston is?

i sense move to central texas and like it so far but if it gets more expensive I am thinking about oklahoma city where the rent is affordable and the goverment stays less intrusive.

No one is saying that Houston is perfect, but the positives are greater than the negatives. I am sorry about your bad experiences living in Houston, but you might want to use spellcheck and use better grammer period so your posts are easier to read!

[CT1913]

Best
1.Diversity
2.Mild Winters
3.Entrepreneurial Spirit: Everyone here either owns their own buisness or they have a business on the side in addition to their normal 8-5..i only have one job i feel like a slacker, they motivate me to strive to start my own gig..
4. Affordability
5. FOOD (That may also be a bad thing since i cant get into my cute jeans anymore..)
6. The shops in the Village (even tho traffic and parking is HORRIBLE)

Worst
1. TRAFFIC
2. Sprawl (Beasley, Brookshire, Hempstead look out the city is coming 4 u..)
3. Limited options for mass transportation & the attitude Houstonians have regarding mass transit (Sidenote:Can't get anyone to join the carpool to work ;Everyone HAS to have their own car just in case they 'might' need it..)
4.CRIME: Its worse now than when i moved here 6yrs ago & since i came from a small town, increasing crime is a bit scary...ive had my home & car burglarized.

[jfre81]

I'm of the mindset that you have to accept that crime will happen in a large city. However I think more could be done. HPD's resources are stretched pretty thin, as it is. It is difficult to patrol a city that sprawls out so much. It's just way too much turf to cover.

I'm definitely not one who likes government/law enforcement snooping around but we really do need some more cops....any who are reading and are looking for different scenery, take note.

[deann]

Forgive me for being ignorant, but I live in MI looking to relo to Houston. But what the HELL is a TREE ROACH? Freaks me out just thinking about it! Do they bite? Do they come into your house?

[Cali 2 Tha South n Back]

BEST
*Houston's underground rap scene
*Women
*Affordable housing
*largest postmodern skyline
*places to shop
*Beyonce

WORST
*lack of real transportation options
*aggressive drivers
*freeways under construction too long
*Fondren Southwest. Typically a Houston version of Gary, IN, Camden, NJ and Richmond, CA.
*Takes too long to get point A to point B
*Who? Mike Jones.