Anyone from NY that has moved to Houston and really like it ? (Dallas: rent, houses)
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I didn't read all the threads but I moved here from NY end of last year and been here for 6 months. I am adjusting a little easier because i grew up here and moved away after college. However, I moved down here with my whole family and my wife is having a harder time with the adjustment.
Here are MY pros and cons:
PROS:
Buy a 5 bedroom for 250k
No state and city income tax
Kid can play everywhere and is safe (generally)
Public transportation stress is gone
Cheaper to live in general across the board (even McDonalds happy meal is a buck and a half cheaper here)
CONS: No ethnic variety
Not much culture
Too many strip malls and half of them are empty
Too many areas is run down
Too spread out
No zoning really screw up the city imo
No ethnic variety? Where the hell do you live the woodlands?
Like i said, i am somewhat spoiled having live in both coasts for a long time. In New york, I live in a jewish building, I go walk one block, I get polish food. Right next to it, there is a jewish deli serving the best pastrami in the world. At the corner, the chinese place makes the best fried dumpling outside of chinatown. This is ethnic variety. This also applies in LA and San Francisco. Tell me, would i found this "ethnic variety" in river oaks? Montrose? Memorial City?
Forget the stats, there is really 3 major races here; Hispanics, white, and blacks. There is like 5 percent of everything else. People that want to move to USA the first time will not go to Houston first. Houston does not have that ethnic infrastructure to support immigrants (I am not talking about Hispanics).
Gay pride parade and greekfest is a a little tourist parade for tourists. If you consider those ethnic culture event, then i am done making my point.
I like Houston and its benefits and what it offers, just don't get so insulted when somebody raised their opinion.
Like i said, i am somewhat spoiled having live in both coasts for a long time. In New york, I live in a jewish building, I go walk one block, I get polish food. Right next to it, there is a jewish deli serving the best pastrami in the world. At the corner, the chinese place makes the best fried dumpling outside of chinatown. This is ethnic variety. This also applies in LA and San Francisco. Tell me, would i found this "ethnic variety" in river oaks? Montrose? Memorial City?
Forget the stats, there is really 3 major races here; Hispanics, white, and blacks. There is like 5 percent of everything else. People that want to move to USA the first time will not go to Houston first. Houston does not have that ethnic infrastructure to support immigrants (I am not talking about Hispanics).
Gay pride parade and greekfest is a a little tourist parade for tourists. If you consider those ethnic culture event, then i am done making my point.
I like Houston and its benefits and what it offers, just don't get so insulted when somebody raised their opinion.
Thats it dude a bunch of freakin eattry and you think you know what culture is .lmaoooo.. dude I have converstion with people from nigeri about their local terrorist groups, I read russian news papers, I watch everything from the bbc to CNTV , So you could walk from your place to a polish eattry ,clap clap, I use to walk across the street and go into a chec store for soda you could,nt get in america only places like that store, I want ilitan two blocks away, asian, throw a stone, jamicain had that last month, did,nt even take 15 min to pick up. carriabian, french all 15- 20 mins .
I work with people who speak multi- languges , french ,african, scottish etc this is culture vs someone who knows where a few nice ethic restrauants are
How are greekfest and the gay pride and splash , and the other things geared toward tourist since those things tend to be low key I have never seen greekfest in any tourist destination ad by Houston that goes for gay pride as well, those event tend to generate locally.
Funny i can remeber being 14 and wondering why street signs where in vetatmesse, or why the metro ad on the buses have 5 diffrent translations. NyY is a great city and has HOUSTON BEAT ON QUITE A FEW THINGS BUT OVER BLOWN STATEMENTS LIKE YOUR ARE THE REASON THREAD TURN INTO CITY BASHING
and again what you always think is spanish is not aways spanish , but a sub dilect
Houston has no infacsturce for immigrants ? hmmm Houston and Texas in general is now the highest refugee relocation in america...
Like i said, i am somewhat spoiled having live in both coasts for a long time. In New york, I live in a jewish building, I go walk one block, I get polish food. Right next to it, there is a jewish deli serving the best pastrami in the world. At the corner, the chinese place makes the best fried dumpling outside of chinatown. This is ethnic variety. This also applies in LA and San Francisco. Tell me, would i found this "ethnic variety" in river oaks? Montrose? Memorial City?
Forget the stats, there is really 3 major races here; Hispanics, white, and blacks. There is like 5 percent of everything else. People that want to move to USA the first time will not go to Houston first. Houston does not have that ethnic infrastructure to support immigrants (I am not talking about Hispanics).
Gay pride parade and greekfest is a a little tourist parade for tourists. If you consider those ethnic culture event, then i am done making my point.
I like Houston and its benefits and what it offers, just don't get so insulted when somebody raised their opinion.
I see you're one of those people, even though people will put evidence in front of you, you're going to harp on how great it is in(new york, LA, Chicago, Miami). River Oaks and Memorial are rich neighborhoods, that's a bad comparsion. There's not going to be much "ethnic variety" just like I'm pretty sure there's not much ethnic variety in Beverly Hills, CA; Alpine, NJ; BuckHead, Atlanta. Doesn't have the ethnic infrastructure? Have you been to China Town off of Bellaire? How about the Harwin area, which has been renamed the Mahatma Gandhi District? Do you know they have a small polish community off of Blaylock were they have a restaurant(Polonia) a store and a church and they have a polish festival? Did you know that Houston has the second highest Nigerian population? Did you know that Houston has the third largest concentration of Consulates representing 86 countries? That Houston has the third largest Vietnamese population? You need to get out of the suburbs and into the actual city. Places like Alief, Soutwest Houston(were there are a lot of jews) Montrose, midtown, The Heights.
I see you're one of those people, even though people will put evidence in front of you, you're going to harp on how great it is in(new york, LA, Chicago, Miami). River Oaks and Memorial are rich neighborhoods, that's a bad comparsion. There's not going to be much "ethnic variety" just like I'm pretty sure there's not much ethnic variety in Beverly Hills, CA; Alpine, NJ; BuckHead, Atlanta. Doesn't have the ethnic infrastructure? Have you been to China Town off of Bellaire? How about the Harwin area, which has been renamed the Mahatma Gandhi District? Do you know they have a small polish community off of Blaylock were they have a restaurant(Polonia) a store and a church and they have a polish festival? Did you know that Houston has the second highest Nigerian population? Did you know that Houston has the third largest concentration of Consulates representing 86 countries? That Houston has the third largest Vietnamese population? You need to get out of the suburbs and into the actual city. Places like Alief, Soutwest Houston(were there are a lot of jews) Montrose, midtown, The Heights.
I have no problem with a person saying NY is more diverse, it is, but for a blantaly false statement like Houston has no culture(even thou that is wrong statment since a person is cultured not a place) it a bit absurded , and annoys me when they point to eatty as their proof and pardes , I mean really if you think that is culture .lmaoh.. just becasue a person stays in a artsy neighborhood , dont make them a artist(I should know since I have stayed in those and still cant sing or dance or draw a straight line
14bricks, Montrose is very white. The Heights also seems very white on one side and very Mexican on the other. When I visited out of the loop around Harwin there was a lot of ethnic variety. Maybe it is just me but the inner loop really is just White-Black-Mexican. Thats not what I was told before I moved here and it was a little disappointing but whatever. I have learned what a lot of people say here is not necessarily true.
14bricks, Montrose is very white. The Heights also seems very white on one side and very Mexican on the other. When I visited out of the loop around Harwin there was a lot of ethnic variety. Maybe it is just me but the inner loop really is just White-Black-Mexican. Thats not what I was told before I moved here and it was a little disappointing but whatever. I have learned what a lot of people say here is not necessarily true.
it changes depending on what side of town your on, white-black,-mexcian , white -black-middle eastarn, white black asian, ect, and again what most people think is mexican or spanish sometimes is ither, just like middle-eastern breaks off into iranian, iraq, sudanian, etc thier not going to walk around with a big sign saying hey Im not mexican i,m ecuadorian, but make the mistake of calling them a mexican and watch out..lol
dont blame houston becasue you became stuck in suburb mode
Suburbs in some areas can be *more* diverse than the city of Houston. Where I lived in Skokie, IL, my neighborhood was much more diverse and you heard - Chinese, Japanese, Indian (Gudjarati), Spanish (Argentinian Spanish as well as Mexican Spanish and Spanish from Spain), Russian, Hebrew, Haitian dialects, etc.
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