Fall Creek vs. The Bridges (Houston, Sugar Land: neighborhoods, income, most dangerous)

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by rusty2006

Fall Creek is too close to the big landfill, IMHO. You may have some nuisance odors from it.

Fall Creek never gets order from the land fill, so I wouldn't worry about that.

If I had a concern about Fall Creek, it would be the reputation of the middle school and especially high school.

With a 9-year-old, I'd be recommending Eagle Springs over Fall Creek; however, I wouldn't make any dire warnings about Fall Creek due to the school situation. My brother, who can afford other neighborhoods, lives in Fall Creek and has a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old, and they aren't having any school issues.

[CoreCore]

Thank you all for your great insight!

It is very much appreciated!!!

Any further thoughts or concerns regarding 'The Bridges on Lake Houston'?

[Prey521]

My boss lives in Fall Creek and he said that he's maybe smelled the landfill once in the last 3 years that he's lived there so I wouldn't worry about that. Fall Creek is awesome because of it's location....easy access to Downtown, but that also makes it susceptible to burglars, since it's right off the Beltway. It's also near rather lower end community/trailer parks, so that takes away some of the niceness of living in Fall Creek.

Eagle Springs is awesome, but the traffic going in that direction just keeps getting worse and worse. And now that they have a new community in the works for that area and no signs of road expansions that I've seen, expect traffic to be a nightmare. Can take me sometimes 20-25 minutes to drive the 7 miles from the Park and Ride to our house just off of Atascocita Road right before Eagle Springs.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by Prey521

but the traffic going in that direction just keeps getting worse and worse. And now that they have a new community in the works for that area and no signs of road expansions that I've seen

Actually, there is quite a bit of road expansion work planned to help that area.

How much it helps will be the answer that only time will tell.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/houst...west-lake.html

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by curbur

Uhh... the closest thing you could really compare that on the west side suburbs is that Katy and Cypress have a little bit of glut just north of I-10 in the bear creek area, but that doesn't even come close to comparing what's near the neighborhoods just outside the beltway along Lake Houston. You're a few miles away from some of Houston's notorious hoods like Homestead or Trinity Gardens. Please tell me somewhere nearby The Woodlands, Tomball, Cypress, Katy, or Sugarland that even comes close to the level of crime seen over there. Of course your comment is right about the inner city, but that's always true of most inner cities, not enough room so good areas and bad areas aren't far from one another, however, I don't think that's really accurately comparable to the situation in Houston's suburbia.

Sugar Land / Stafford / Missouri City / Meadows Place are very close to some of Houston's roughest, poorest areas. Really much closer than the Atascocita / W Lake Houston areas are to the bad parts of NE Houston.

[curbur]

Originally Posted by LocalPlanner

Sugar Land / Stafford / Missouri City / Meadows Place are very close to some of Houston's roughest, poorest areas. Really much closer than the Atascocita / W Lake Houston areas are to the bad parts of NE Houston.

Sugarland, Stafford and Missorui City are near Meadows Place. Meadows Place you could argue is close to Alief, (~5 miles), which is close to Sharpstown and Gulfton, but that is still much further away in terms of mileage than what Fall Creek is to Homestead, (~3.6 miles). There's also more direct access via major thoroughfares, as well; I get your point somewhat, but that doesn't really invalidate what I said about that area of town.

[lhafer]

Originally Posted by curbur

Sugarland, Stafford and Missorui City are near Meadows Place. Meadows Place you could argue is close to Alief, (~5 miles), which is close to Sharpstown and Gulfton, but that is still much further away in terms of mileage than what Fall Creek is to Homestead, (~3.6 miles). There's also more direct access via major thoroughfares, as well; I get your point somewhat, but that doesn't really invalidate what I said about that area of town.

Well, if Sugar Land or Katy Were closer to IAH, then they might be a consideration for the OP. But since they aren't, it's kind of a moot point.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by lhafer

Well, if Sugar Land or Katy Were closer to IAH, then they might be a consideration for the OP. But since they aren't, it's kind of a moot point.

Well, I wasn't responding really to the OP, more to curbur. However, I was risking things getting off-topic, so I apologize.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by curbur

Sugarland, Stafford and Missorui City are near Meadows Place. Meadows Place you could argue is close to Alief, (~5 miles), which is close to Sharpstown and Gulfton, but that is still much further away in terms of mileage than what Fall Creek is to Homestead, (~3.6 miles). There's also more direct access via major thoroughfares, as well; I get your point somewhat, but that doesn't really invalidate what I said about that area of town.

While Sugar Land in particular is close to Alief (and less than 5 miles), I was more thinking of Westwood (probably Houston's most dangerous area) and Fondren Southwest.

Look, most of Houston's outer ring suburbs are located just beyond low income and rough "middle ring" areas - Champions and Klein, Fort Bend, Pearland, the Friendswood / Clear Lake area all just past the poor-reputation middle ring. It's pretty much a given in Houston, you'll pretty much have to pass through and interact with lower income elements. If anyone is freaked out about that, Houston isn't the place for them.

[lhafer]

Originally Posted by LocalPlanner

Well, I wasn't responding really to the OP, more to curbur. However, I was risking things getting off-topic, so I apologize.

Ha, I didn't mean to quote you, I mean to quote curbur. My bad. I tried to rep you, but it's making me spread it around before I can.