Where Would You Like To Retire? (Houston: place to live, safety, beach)

[brownybaby]

Probably the hill country, near abody of water that has not dried up. : )

[jluke65780]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

It will definitely NOT be in Houston or Texas, I HATE it here. It will be Eastern Tenn close to the North Carolina border because the weather and scenery are so much better there, at least to me.

But ILNC, your post usually seem so positive. This is a shock coming from you.....

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

But ILNC, your post usually seem so positive. This is a shock coming from you.....

Blame it on the heat I usually am positive, but I really do HATE living in Houston, the heat is really getting to me!

[Texas User]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

Blame it on the heat I usually am positive, but I really do HATE living in Houston, the heat is really getting to me!

Trust me I know how it feels coming from California and CA is known for one of the greatest climate in the world.

[Big Dirty]

I used to live in North Carolina, and I all i can say is WHAT A BORING STATE!!!!! It is very hard to make friends there. People seem to have their little circle of friends and do not want to let anybody in. The social life there consists of drinking beer and drinking beer. I much prefer the ease of making friends here in Houston. No matter how f'ed up you are here people seem to accept you. I have made more friends in 10 months in Houston than 3 years in NC. Also, I'll take 4 months of heat over 5 months of cold. At least in Houston you can do activities year round.

[Texas User]

Originally Posted by Big Dirty

I used to live in North Carolina, and I all i can say is WHAT A BORING STATE!!!!! It is very hard to make friends there. People seem to have their little circle of friends and do not want to let anybody in. The social life there consists of drinking beer and drinking beer. I much prefer the ease of making friends here in Houston. No matter how f'ed up you are here people seem to accept you. I have made more friends in 10 months in Houston than 3 years in NC. Also, I'll take 4 months of heat over 5 months of cold. At least in Houston you can do activities year round.

People are friendly in Texas but conservative. I will take cold anytime. In Houston, you can't do much in heat.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by Big Dirty

I used to live in North Carolina, and I all i can say is WHAT A BORING STATE!!!!! It is very hard to make friends there. People seem to have their little circle of friends and do not want to let anybody in. The social life there consists of drinking beer and drinking beer. I much prefer the ease of making friends here in Houston. No matter how f'ed up you are here people seem to accept you. I have made more friends in 10 months in Houston than 3 years in NC. Also, I'll take 4 months of heat over 5 months of cold. At least in Houston you can do activities year round.

Maybe you can do activities year round, but I can't stand to be outside in this heat. But like I said before all places are not for all people and Houston is not for me. Five months of cold weather sounds wonderful to me.

[Big Dirty]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

Maybe you can do activities year round, but I can't stand to be outside in this heat. But like I said before all places are not for all people and Houston is not for me. Five months of cold weather sounds wonderful to me.

I can understand that. I just got back from having a coffee outside in Montrose. I couldn't imagine doing that in say January in NC. Being able to be outside year round is just one of the things I love about The Big Dirty.

[MissDaisy]

Originally Posted by Texas User

Why would it be like death?

Because clearly, he is close to his family...loves them dearly...that is a wonderful thing..

the problem with being a loner, Texas User, is that in the end (and interium) you are....well...alone...

...and as we move on in years, we appreciate how fragile and temporary life is..

[MissDaisy]

Originally Posted by rigas

i dont know what parts of guate you are going to, or when you are going but i go twice a year at least, and my wife is from there, born and raised.

yes there are dangerous places but then again there are dangerous places right here in hosuton as well. i mean i placed some piers for a new home in 5th ward, only to see my job on the news the next morning because some man was shot in teh face right in front of it only hours after we left.

there is more to guate then just guatemala city. and for the record, 75-80% of all kidnappings and roberies involve the security/body guards in some way shape or form.[QUOTE guatemala gets a bad wrap but i feel safer walking down a street in zona 10 then walking through a street in jarez mexico in the middle of the day. [/QUOTE}

my mother in law is the ceo of a bank (well an american bank branch there) and the ONLY time she has ever been even aproached was 15 yrs ago and they wanted her BMW. ironicly enough, my wife and her cousin where at a night club and found the car. they "stole" it back as my wife always had the spare key.

the road "up the mountain" is the new "it spot" (this is the highway to el salvador) but there are so many nice little towns all along the coasts.

THAT goes without saying...juarez has been a crime infested pit for some time now! So to compare juarez to virtually anywhere besides the war torn areas of the middle east is really a subject of non-conversation, and certainly not anywhere in the Forbes top ten, twenty ,one hundred lists of places to retire...or survive..

The mere statement that 75-80% of all kidnappings & robberies are from security personel fails, sorry, to conjure up warm, fuzzy, binky cuddle feelers...

I for one, would choose for comparison, a bit more benign area.