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Old 03-03-2008, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Austin & Houston, TX
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Hi all! My husband is considering a relo to Houston (energy corridor) and we are interested in living in the Woodlands area. We would greatly appreciate any input on commute (i.e. actual drive time btwn 6-7am, 4-5pm, back roads etc.). Can you avoid highways and stay within a 50-60 min commute?
Thanks for help!
Long commute time in my opinion. Katy,TX would be a closer match, they have great schools and your husbands drive time would be cut in half.
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Old 03-03-2008, 09:56 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Hi all! My husband is considering a relo to Houston (energy corridor) and we are interested in living in the Woodlands area. We would greatly appreciate any input on commute (i.e. actual drive time btwn 6-7am, 4-5pm, back roads etc.). Can you avoid highways and stay within a 50-60 min commute?
Thanks for help!
Commuting from the Woodlands to Downtown Houston is already hellish. Working in the EC is one of the reasons living in Cinco Ranch can be justified. If one works in the Galleria-Greenway Plaza-Downtown corridor, I would recommend living on the other side of the reservoir. From personal experience, I had to visit HAR headquarters in Greenway Plaza from Cinco Ranch. Rush hour was terrible. I'm wishing for the commuter train over the Westpark Tollway.
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Old 03-03-2008, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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The OP is long gone. The Woodlands to the EC is a crazy commute. There're so many suburbs that are good that're so much closer the The Woodlands. I don't care how over-rated people make it, its not worth 3:30 in the car each day. Uh huh, no way.

Actually Katy is the only burb that makes sense for the EC. Memorial is the best over all, but its not a master-planned community.
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Old 03-03-2008, 11:35 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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The OP is long gone. The Woodlands to the EC is a crazy commute. There're so many suburbs that are good that're so much closer the The Woodlands. I don't care how over-rated people make it, its not worth 3:30 in the car each day. Uh huh, no way.
I wouldn't do that unless I already live in The Woodlands. 3:30 might be an exaggeration; I'd say around 4:45-5:15 is good enough.
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Old 03-03-2008, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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No exaggeration about it. If I left by 6:15 in the morning, it took me 65-70 minutes from The Woodlands to the EC. If I was running late and didn't get out untill 6:30ish, 90 minutes easy. If there was a wreck...........

I have to leave by 4:45 if I wanted to get home anywhere near 6:15 ish.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:11 AM
 
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What about Spring east of 45 to the EC? Ok really I am only thinking oil companies. Right now I work for one in NE houston but I am not sure where the other oil companies for EE Controls are. Where I work now Kingwood is a good choice but since we are the furtherest east on the beltway it might be a bad choice unless I stay where I am a good while.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Basically anywhere up there to the EC is like trying to get to the other side of the moon during prime drive times.

Kingwood to Downtown isn't that bad.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:40 AM
 
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EasilyAmused..

I am having a hard time picturing where the EC is and whether or not it includes most the oil companies. I know where I am NE beltway and where a few other oil companies are and they seem to be NW.

Thank you for answering.
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Old 03-04-2008, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Oil companies are all over Houston, still for the most part mainly downtown. There's an area West of the Beltway on I-10, centering on Eldridge. Where BP and Conoco Phillips are. Techchip as well. There's a lot of building of Class A towers currently going on. It's something that's been in the works since the 80's, but now due to the oil boom is finally taking off. More and more companies want to build "campuses", and there's space there to do it.
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Old 03-05-2008, 04:52 PM
 
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No way I would drive from The Woodlands to the EC daily.
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