What Is The Most Dangerous Place To Live in Houston? (Elgin: townhomes, neighborhood)

[XodoX]

SugarLand ain't bad. It's just not that nice on 59 between 610 and beltway 8.

[Texas User]

Originally Posted by XodoX

SugarLand ain't bad. It's just not that nice on 59 between 610 and beltway 8.

Its a different world in SL when you pass the Houston area.

[texas7]

Originally Posted by XodoX

Well, what are you talking about? I was talking about SE Houston. Yeah, it does get better...once you pass the Beltway, a little further down the beltway.. But then we are talking about Friendswood, Clear Lake, parts of Pasadena. SE is just largely bad... not gonna fight over some tiny nice spots.

I don't know -- seems like you want to pretty much fight over everything (unless it is outside of the BW). All of Houston, every quadrant has both good and bad areas - it is what it is - and that is Houston. However, some people enjoy living in the inner city and when they do - then they have to find the good areas in whatever quandrant they desire.

[XodoX]

Originally Posted by texas7

I don't know -- seems like you want to pretty much fight over everything (unless it is outside of the BW). All of Houston, every quadrant has both good and bad areas - it is what it is - and that is Houston. However, some people enjoy living in the inner city and when they do - then they have to find the good areas in whatever quandrant they desire.

Well, where are the nce spots in SE?? I had to live in that area for 2 months.... didn't see anything nice!

[modster]

Originally Posted by XodoX

Well, where are the nce spots in SE?? I had to live in that area for 2 months.... didn't see anything nice!

Well so long as you didn't see them, they must not exist.

There are several nice areas over there, but you may not consider them nice in light of the fact you said this about Montrose:

Well, Montrose is maybe 3 miles wide. I would still say it's montrose - "outskirts" of it.
And the homes in Montrose ( besides that area ) are not very desirable in my opinion. Handful of nice homes... but probably very expensive.

In that post you were describing "that area" being the collection of Perry & other cookie cutter townhomes and massive suburban style complexes in Memorial Heights. You refer to it as being part of Montrose, (it isn't), and then described it as the "desirable" part. This is very telling about what you find appealing, as well as your knowledge of areas.

Clearly your tastes in the built environment run towards the mundane. Older urban areas with character are not your thing and that's fine.

The east end is clearly not for you. As for other people, there are a number of great options such as Idylwood, Eastwood, Houston Country Club Place, Garden Villas, and Glenbrook Valley, which is in the process of obtaining its Historic District status.

If Perry townhomes and big stucco apartment complexes fit your definition of nice, then I can assure you, there is nothing you would find nice in the east end.

[texas7]

Eastwood, Idylwood, Glenbrook Valley -- close in and many considered to be transitional neighborhoods as they shift back to desirable areas. Even those homes on the West side of U of H are starting to rebound -- know a couple of profs who live over there - can't think of the neighborhood name that I am trying to think of on that one. Montrose is a great area - artsy, free-spirited, social-life and so close to everything. There are some nice new areas bordering Scarsdale/Pearland but those are farther out and just outside of the BW. When you get beyond the BW, you have Clear Lake, Deer Park, Friendswood, Pearland but those are beyond the belt and farther out and really true suburbs of Houston versus being in the city. Like most of the other quadrants as well - outside the belt. But you have pockets of nice homes, some new and some older that are great places to live inside the belt on all sides. My preference would be to be all the way in town - midtown, montrose, heights or else all the way out - outside the BW but that is getting a little bland and boring and many of those transitional areas are looking really good to a lot of people including myself. Unless one is of the West U/River Oaks income - anything inside the belt is somewhat transitional but it is nice seeing some great old neighborhoods come back to their glory days. However this forum is an opinion based forum and you are entitled to yours - so in your two months of living on the SE side.

[TexasTheKid]

Originally Posted by dweej

People say things similar to your "joke" in all seriousness all the time. It's hard to hear inflection or see facial expressions on an internet forum. That's why I like to use those fancy emoticon thingys if it's not completely obvious that what I'm saying is not to be taken seriously (<<<< like that one, right there).

You're not too likely to ever see any of my posts using an emoticon. It won't ever happen unless someone hacks my account and goes on an emoticon terror spree. I'd rather be misunderstood than let some silly cartoon do my writing for me. I don't want to even suggest any similarities between City-Data and literature, but when it comes to writing, I'm a purist.

[Oildog]

Been reading this thread and haven't seen too much negativity on the first ward, like Houston Street between Washington and White Oak. Looking at housing over there.

[TexasTheKid]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Been reading this thread and haven't seen too much negativity on the first ward, like Houston Street between Washington and White Oak. Looking at housing over there.

Are you referring to the 77007 zip? That area's in the middle stages of urban renewal. Sure, there are still a few crack houses in the area, but those are rapidly fading away. There's basically only one neighborhood still comprised of shotgun shacks, but those houses are completely hemmed in on four sides by new townhouses and "urban loft" apartment complexes.

[Oildog]

Originally Posted by TexasTheKid

Are you referring to the 77007 zip? That area's in the middle stages of urban renewal. Sure, there are still a few crack houses in the area, but those are rapidly fading away. There's basically only one neighborhood still comprised of shotgun shacks, but those houses are completely hemmed in on four sides by new townhouses and "urban loft" apartment complexes.

Yes 77007. Its really gotten turned in the last 5 years closer to Memorial Park. I was looking closer to downtown. There is a police station and lumber yard nearby. Seen a few transients, but see that in Montrose too.