Diversity in Clear Lake and Friendswood

[tstone]

Originally Posted by Bike4Life

A majority of us are immigrants. There is no reason to argue about it.

Didn't realize I was in the minority here by being born in the US.

[dcoolbro]

Having recently moved from Seattle, which doesn't have much of a hispanic population, you'll probably fit well anywhere in the Houston area compared to there.

[Ron.]

Excellent point.

Originally Posted by texas7

People often misconstrue lack of diversity with racism.

[coog78]

If you like the diversity in Northwest Seattle, you're going to love the diversity in International Houston.

[friendswoodian]

Clear Lake is more diverse than Friendswood. You may not neccisarily be outcast in Friendswood, but you would definitely be a minority.

[Kensington]

This is an old thread. I'm sure the OP made their decision long ago. I was born in Houston and grew up in Friendswood (in the city proper). I agree it is not diverse, but, despite demographic profiles, I think there is more hispanic culture (whatever you consider that to be) in Friendswood than the numbers imply. I can think of 10 classmates and 3 families on the street I grew up on who could be considered hispanic. This is without much thinking, I'm sure if I asked my parents I could come up with more. They had extended families who spoke spanish, some spoke a mixture of Spanish and English in their homes. Their families had been in Texas for more than one generation and are all professionally and economically very successful. We also had teachers of hispanic origin at school (though none of them taught Spanish-- I still speak it with a weird TX twang!)

If you are middle-upper class, and don't mind living in a place that is conservative and predominantly Chrisitian, I would not hesitate to recommend the city of Friendswood to a hispanic family.