We need to get the HECK OUT OF HOUSTON!!!!!!! (Austin: school district, live in)

[mikeyyc]

Originally Posted by ahzzie

You should make some decals for people to put on their houses to look like they've been egged. You'll make meeeeelions!

Is it just too much to ask to get some sharks with frickin' laser beams?

[usc619]

Originally Posted by TexasTheKid

Well, you've sold me on your house. I'll take it. I can't imagine a neighborhood better than yours. I love living in crime infested suburban holes. Honestly, I think you may need to work on your sales pitch. Seriously.

Psst...maybe I'm missing something but didn't the OP say she was RENTING?

[mikeyyc]

Oh way to go USC. Muddying the waters with FACTS. There'll be none of that around here. Posturing and unfounded generalizations only.


People like you are all the same.

[XodoX]

Originally Posted by mikeyyc

Oh way to go USC. Muddying the waters with FACTS. There'll be none of that around here. Posturing and unfounded generalizations only.


People like you are all the same.

[usc619]

Originally Posted by mikeyyc

Oh way to go USC. Muddying the waters with FACTS. There'll be none of that around here. Posturing and unfounded generalizations only.


People like you are all the same.

LOL just saying.

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by mikeyyc

Is it just too much to ask to get some sharks with frickin' laser beams?

Awesome!! We say that all the time around here when things...just aren't going right... LOL

[Malvie]

Originally Posted by BBall Coach

I always cringe when I see people post here and say they are moving here from somewhere else, only want to pay $xxx for a place to live, and have all of these other criteria in regards to location, safety, aesthetics, etc. I'm glad that they're checking it out before coming, but sometimes the expectations sound a bit unrealistic in relation to the budget. If you're not used to Houston and unaware of the many do's and don'ts, you could be setting yourself up for a shocking experience and disaster by moving into some seedy areas that fit your monetary requirements, but clearly lack the other things you would desire to be happy and feel safe. Make sure you do your research of the areas you're considering BEFORE you buy/rent. Houston is huge...all the areas are not the same. As the above poster mentioned, there are probably areas you can go to with that price range that may be safer and a better fit for you, but they still may not be the perfect place that you envision. After researching, you may discover that you can't afford to live where you want in Houston, then you either stay where you are or make the decision in advance that you will deal with whatever comes your way and go in eyes wide open. I'm sure many people would have been more than happy to give their opinion on that area of town.

I agree, BBall Coach. I, too, want a beautiful mansion in Memorial, backing up to the Bayou (but I don't want any flooding), in a fabulous school district (resale value) within walking distance to clubs, bars, restaurants (but not where people park when they go to clubs, bars, and restuarants, and of course, no traffic whatsoever; nor do I want any OTHER pedestrians walking around anywhere near my property), and within walking distance of my office (but not where any high rises can compromise my personal privacy) and with huge trees but safe from hurricanes, all for the maximum I can afford which is $500 a month. Oh, and a personal HPD patrol car driving up and down the street in front of my house and a free burglar alarm.

My other pet peeve is the folks who move here from elsewhere and cry because there are no basements (thread a few days ago), or the city's not totally pedestrian (many threads), or because it's not "urban" enough.

I lived in NYC for 3 years and LA for one (with 2 years each in Minneapolis and Atlanta).

NYC is certainly pedestrian and urban! Yup, very much so. So you can only get what you absolutely essentially must have at the grocer's (and you have to go to the green grocer, the meat market, and the dry goods place because there's no supermarket), because you have to drag it back to your apartment on foot and you can only get what you can carry. You get to stand there to cross the street while the bus sloshes black water from the street onto your dress clothes and your Burberry overcoat while you slog through the black snow to your tiny 6th floor walkup with the view of the airshaft which is $2,500 a month, and you get to smell the guy next to you on the subway as he rambles incoherently. But hey---it's urban and pedestrian! Just don't worry what that liquid you're stepping in is---you don't need to know.

LA is Houston with a nicer, closer beach, same crime level, more traffic on worse freeways and 10 times as expensive.

Minneapolis has basements, which you need to store all your snow gear, which you need to shovel the snow so you can get into and out of your driveway.

Atlanta is Houston, but smaller and more crime-ridden, with no beach at all but a better train system (as long as you work downtown and live in the burbs). If you live and work in Buckhead (as I did), the train does you no good (except for going to Braves games) and there's no such thing as pedestrian. Well, Lenox Square Mall...

Yes, those other places also have their charms (NYC is...NYC; it's incomparable; LA is way cool; Minneapolis---well, um, ok. I moved to Mnpls for work, quickly discovered that I hated the cold weather, and found another job---in the south. Atlanta is great, but then it's very like Houston, isn't it...), but I'm always shocked when people move here expecting it to be EXACTLY like where they just left.

Anyway, rant over.

[drew2020]

Wow...I worked at that Walmart's optometrist office several years back and didn't have any situations like that. It was a bit shady there, but I was always aware of my surroundings. Maybe things got alot worse recently.

[MagnoliaThunder]

Houston is and has always been a mean city. I grew up not far from there. If you have the flexibility to move, you might consider the outskirts of Austin? Good luck - I can imagine how stressed you are trying to make the right choice...I'm so sorry all that has happened to you.

[barackbff]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Somebody either didn't do a whole lot of research when making a move, or is telling us an entertaining story.

I was thinking of making a short film where I do a lot of sensational accounts of crime and debauchery in the city, and I thought I'd name it...*makes Dr. Evil pinky-to-mouth gesture* "The Nightly News."

Want to audition?

This thing won't let me rep you, in spite of the fact that I've been spreading the love. Sooo ... right here, rep, rep, rep!