Houstonians' Favorite Suburbs (Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Mission: live in, zip codes, beach)

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Mr. Clutch

The 36A idea is interesting. Would provide another hurricane evacuation route from the coast and if Simonton, Fulshear, Rosenburg want to grow without it being completely disasterous traffic-wise, something like that will have to be built.

On the other hand, kiss the entire Katy Prairie goodbye if that happens. They need to build the third reservoir first imo before they start wide-scale development out there. We all know that's not gonna happen though.

Its a combination hurricane route (36 was a disaster during Rita) and a connection to the Port of Freeport which expects to pick up a lot of container traffic.

[NigerianNightmare]

Originally Posted by SugLandDAd

Sugar Lands advantage as a place to live is its access to Houston. Its significantly closer to places in the City of Houston than Katy, the Woodlands, and Fulshear.

Sugar Land works because its close enough in, that it has easy access to the parts of Houston its residents want, and yet is still separate.

The Woodlands works because it has a sufficient center of mass of its own, that it doesn't need closer access to Houston,

I hope Fulshear/Simonton builds some great properties and if they can develop a walk able town center concept that would be wonderful, but its never going to get any closer to Houston. Unless it somehow develops the similar self contained mass/center of gravity as the Woodlands, which is a big jump from where it is now, I don't see it displacing anything.

When I said upstage, I was emphasizing the "gorgeous suburb" part more than in other economic/proximity terms. Fulshear is very unlikely to see any type of truly middle class development (basically upper middle class only) unlike Sugar Land. It's also closer to Houston than The Woodlands and it borders wealthy areas like North Richmond/South Katy unlike both Sugar Land, Katy and The Woodlands.

It's more akin to far South Orange County vs. Anaheim/Irvine and other nice central areas of Orange County. South Orange County is wealthier and more isolated from lower middle class areas but it isn't like Anaheim/Irvine don't have their obvious advantages as well. Or a more local example, Richardson and Plano (Sugar Land and TW vs. Frisco/Mckinney/Allen (Fulshear; direction it's heading).

[Zoo2000]

Originally Posted by LonghornHotspur

2013 video. Nothing has happened. This is vaporware.

While part of me agrees with this--after all--they havent done anything in 6 years, what I see and hear is interesting:
a. The developers have been slowly and surely buying up pretty much all of Simonton over the past 10 years and their vision is long-term.i.e. they won't start building until the mid 2020s.
b. If you look over the area in google earth, you'll see bands of oak trees lining...nothing. This is where they plan to build some of the major thoroughfares. Once they get to building the roads, the oaks lined them will be full sized.
c. They have actually broken ground on the commercial portion of this. Man Engines on Woods Rd is actually part of Twinwood. In fact, they build the first part of Twinwood Rd between Woods Rd and FM 359

I also have an attitude of I'll believe it when I see it...but signs are there. The fact that the developers is some sort of Chinese consortium makes it even more intriguing.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by bu2

The Woodlands assuming no commute issues. Love the trees and trails, especially in the older sections.

The Woodlands very much reminded me of Alpharetta area.

[magni]

Originally Posted by azin88

There’s two different parts of Spring, The Woodlands/Spring and Old Spring. Old Spring is what exactly you described as crazy behavior and/or people. I really dislike that area. The new Spring around the Woodlands area like Gosling Rd/West Rayford area near Grand Parkway is very nice, although, in major construction right now. It’s a war zone out there.

The Woodlands is basically Spring anyway. Anyone that lives in The Woodlands can also put Spring address in case some people didn’t know that.

That is not completely true. The Woodlands is not a city itself (at least for now) but a township. And its land falls in intersection of three cities; Spring, Conroe and Tomball.

So, residents of the Woodlands can also put a Spring, Conroe or a Tomball address depending on the exact location. In other words, not all parts of the Woodlands are also Spring.

[Zenstyle]

Why isn’t Missouri City among the choices?

[Jamaraa]

Originally Posted by Zenstyle

Why isn’t Missouri City among the choices?

Great question! I’m also wondering why areas such as Alief, Sharpstown, Meyerland, Mission Bend, Richmond, Rosenberg, Willowbrook, Westbury, Greenspoint, Stafford, Meadows Place, and the Energy Corridor were left out?

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by bu2

Its a combination hurricane route (36 was a disaster during Rita) and a connection to the Port of Freeport which expects to pick up a lot of container traffic.

Why not upgrade 36 to a freeway and build 36A as a freeway from scratch? Fort Bend County can have a separate freeway system like Orange County, but attached to Houston's hub-and-spoke.

The South County still has the potential to be the more wealthy upper class Costa Mesa/Newport Beach of the South O.C. centered on Needville, while Cinco Ranch-Cross Creek is like the middle/upper middle class Irvine-Lake Forest-Mission Viejo of the South O.C.

Originally Posted by timtemtym

I miss Houston so much that I moved to the most Houston area of SoCal (wide boulevards, suburbia).

There are no parts of Texas that have wide boulevards that you see in a typical American suburb. I was marveling at Las Vegas grid system and the wide roads. Suburban Chicago has the same. Westheimer Road would be the typical wide road in any American suburb, but it's only wide because it's the state highway designed to carry large volumes of traffic through the area. The typical 4-lane with median Houston road would be considered narrow in an American suburb.

[stoneclaw]

OP what about Pasadena?

That would've been my choice!

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Wasir

None.

If someone had all the money in the world they wouldn’t even be living in the Houston area to begin with.

You really should travel more often, there are much nicer places to live - especially if you can afford it.

If someone had all the money in the world they wouldn’t even be living in America to begin with.

You really should travel more often, there are much nicer places to live - especially if you can afford it.

I like to travel often internationally on foreign carriers since the service on the domestic airlines (especially the Big 3) suck. Bush IAH has the best selection of foreign carriers in the Southern U.S.