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Old 07-19-2013, 08:28 PM
 
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I am tired of Houston bashing. We all know the issues of living in this city and surrounding areas. I want to celebrate this thriving and vibrant city.

1. Houston has decent and safe neighborhoods in almost every price range.

From the expensive : Tanglewood, memorial, West U, Bellaire, River Oaks, Heights, any burb

To the moderate : any burb, Meyerland, West Houston, Westbury, Maplewood, parts of the Spring Branch area north of I10 etc...

2. Miller Outdoor theater

3. amazing healthcare/hospitals/doctors

4.Terry Hershey park/ Memorial park

5. direct flights to so many international cities

6. shopping (Harwin, Galleria, small funky boutiques, upscale shops of every variety)

7. restaurant variety- you can eat at a new restaurant every night for a year

8. very diverse population

9. jobs, jobs, jobs

10. long gardening season

11. warm winters


Anything else?
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Old 07-19-2013, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Katy TX
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Thank you for that, Meyerland. I love our great city as well.
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Old 07-19-2013, 09:24 PM
 
Location: The Greater Houston Metro Area
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Originally Posted by Meyerland View Post
I am tired of Houston bashing. We all know the issues of living in this city and surrounding areas. I want to celebrate this thriving and vibrant city.

1. Houston has decent and safe neighborhoods in almost every price range.

From the expensive : Tanglewood, memorial, West U, Bellaire, River Oaks, Heights, any burb

To the moderate : any burb, Meyerland, West Houston, Westbury, Maplewood, parts of the Spring Branch area north of I10 etc...

2. Miller Outdoor theater

3. amazing healthcare/hospitals/doctors

4.Terry Hershey park/ Memorial park

5. direct flights to so many international cities

6. shopping (Harwin, Galleria, small funky boutiques, upscale shops of every variety)

7. restaurant variety- you can eat at a new restaurant every night for a year More like two years - per type

8. very diverse population Over 90 embassies

9. jobs, jobs, jobs

10. long gardening season

11. warm winters


Anything else?
People - we are so diverse - and made up of the most welcoming people. That is Houston's greatest strength.
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Old 07-20-2013, 08:28 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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I lived in Houston about three years, and loved it. Still have friends in the central "cool" areas there.
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Old 07-20-2013, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Sugar Land, TX
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long gardening season

Yes! I have friends mentioning (on Facebook and elsewhere) about their first fresh from the backyard garden cucumber or tomato or pepper, and we have been bringing in fresh produce for months! It is wonderful!

After 9 years here, there is still so much for us to discover...places to eat, places to go, people to meet. Houston never gets old to us.
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Old 07-20-2013, 09:19 AM
 
Location: In your head, rent free
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I was making salads out of my garden before most people were planting theirs, I can't complain about that.
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Old 07-20-2013, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
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Boy, don't even try to touch this
Boy, this beat is crazy
This is how they made me
Houston, Texas baby!

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Old 07-20-2013, 11:17 AM
 
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- Very diverse (Love the food diversity)
- Almost tropical
- Close to the beach (better than the lakes I used to swim in Missouri)
- Lots of trees in North Houston (I lived in San Antonio before moving here)
- Lots of venezuelans (where I'm from)
- Got a venezuelan restaurant close to my house
- Next month "Churromania" (Venezuelan churro chain) is gonna open it's first location in Houston in Willowbrook mall
- It's an engineers job paradise. I didn't like my first job here and almost instantly I found a MUCH better job (took a couple of weeks because the guy that was gonna interview me was on vacation)

And I'm sure there's many others that I can't think of right now
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Old 07-20-2013, 02:01 PM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Really great museums. We have nothing remotely close in Austin to something like HMNS. The zoo. the Theatre District. Miss pro sports too.
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Old 07-20-2013, 09:27 PM
 
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What convinced me to move back to Houston (hopefully soon) was a trip in January where I found a green landscape with flowers blooming around the city. The weather was cool but not too cold to brown out things like in places further north and west. I live in Austin and in the winter, everything is very drab and brown because we have some pretty hard freezes here. I can't wait to get to a greener landscape.
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