Frustrated where to live? (Houston, San Antonio: neighborhood, schools, college)

[AK123]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Kinda where I was coming from as well. Faux safety. I think AK is very sensititve about living in the burbs.

Funny, I thought maybe you were sensitive about where you lived because of all your comments and the thingies I see so often. From prisons to crime to apartments to 65k millionaires to other judgmental comments about the residents... it just gets kind of old after so many times.

And I like my current 'burb just fine. And so does Money Magazine (not that I really care... just saying)

However, I don't find it necessary to get in every thread pertaining to places in the Houston city limits to share my opinion about the faults of those areas. Unless it's an area I really know, I try to let more experienced people answer.

[ssgmun5000]

Really there are poeple who criticize people living in the burbs or just the burbs in general?

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by ssgmun5000

Really there are poeple who criticize people living in the burbs or just the burbs in general?

I think if anything was being criticized it's the idea that crime never happens outside the city.

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by AK123

Funny, I thought maybe you were sensitive about where you lived because of all your comments and the thingies I see so often. From prisons to crime to apartments to 65k millionaires to other judgmental comments about the residents... it just gets kind of old after so many times.

And I like my current 'burb just fine. And so does Money Magazine (not that I really care... just saying)

However, I don't find it necessary to get in every thread pertaining to places in the Houston city limits to share my opinion about the faults of those areas. Unless it's an area I really know, I try to let more experienced people answer.

angst angst angst.

Funny, I don't see any Woodlands/North Houston zips in the string you list ( 77407/77479... previously 77042/77079 & 78705/78701)of moving ever SW-ward

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by jfre81

I think if anything was being criticized it's the idea that crime never happens outside the city.

That and the pain an panic crew that bounce around and threaten to move every time one house out of 80,000 gets broken into, or god forbid an apartment building gets built. The "too good to live next to poor people" thing ..talk about getting old.

[Viny80]

Thank you for all those who named specifics areas and neighborhoods. You've been a tremendous help, alas the search continues!

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

That and the pain an panic crew that bounce around and threaten to move every time one house out of 80,000 get broken into, or god forbid an apartment building gets built.

1. Move to the burbs.
2. Feel 100 percent safe until you hear about a crime.
3. Freak out.
4. Post on the Internet and send mass e-mails about said crime.
5. Casually throw around words like "ghetto." If you can make something catchy and scary out of the place's existing name, do so and use it with impunity. Something like "Gunspoint."
6. Stigmatize the area and make sure it stays a "ghetto" for at least 20 years.
7. Move to the exurbs.
8. Complain about the commute, gas prices etc.
9. Repeat 2-6.
10. Move further out. Beware, the further you move out, eventually you are getting closer to San Antonio, and there are "ghettos" there.

[Txgal33]

Originally Posted by moddestmike

Sugar Land and Humble infested with gangs? sounds like someone peeing on you but telling you its raining.

Amen!

[usc619]

Originally Posted by jfre81

1. Move to the burbs.
2. Feel 100 percent safe until you hear about a crime.
3. Freak out.
4. Post on the Internet and send mass e-mails about said crime.
5. Casually throw around words like "ghetto." If you can make something catchy and scary out of the place's existing name, do so and use it with impunity. Something like "Gunspoint."
6. Stigmatize the area and make sure it stays a "ghetto" for at least 20 years.
7. Move to the exurbs.
8. Complain about the commute, gas prices etc.
9. Repeat 2-6.
10. Move further out. Beware, the further you move out, eventually you are getting closer to San Antonio, and there are "ghettos" there.

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

That and the pain an panic crew that bounce around and threaten to move every time one house out of 80,000 gets broken into, or god forbid an apartment building gets built. The "too good to live next to poor people" thing ..talk about getting old.

LMAO, soo true

[AK123]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Funny, I don't see any Woodlands/North Houston zips in the string you list

I don't list every zip in which I have lived... just the ones I have identified with the most. I did part of my schooling in Spring ISD... back when it used to be good.