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11-06-2009, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv
Do you know anyone that might want to buy a house in the Como Park area of St. Paul? My mom has been stuck up there for months trying to sell it as her dad passed away. I am trying to get my mom to move down here to be closer to us, but she loves Chicago too much.
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Too funny. Housing market in Mpls/St. Paul is slowly coming back but it's too slow. My house was in the market for 3 months and not sold so we just canceled the contract dues to winter is coming up and slow traffics during this time of the year. We hope for the best for the second time around.
Maybe you can buy a ticket and invite your mom down to Houston for a visit. Take her to places that you think she will fall in love with, maybe she will change her mind and want to move to Houston? Why would one loves Chicago too much I wonder? |
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11-06-2009, 06:16 PM
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Yeah, when we were relocated here just over a year ago I was overwhelmed by the relocation package the realtor sent me...magazines, maps, brochures, etc. So much information to digest! But it made it so exciting for me. I particularly remember opening the brochures for Seven Meadows and Cinco Ranch out here in Katy...it looked like living in a resort and I had never seen anything like it...and quite frankly, it IS like living in a resort to me. And I love it.
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That's what I like to hear!! I'm glad to know that someone has had a wonderful experience relocating to Houston in recent months (or as you said, a year). I received an email from an apartment complex called Newport on the Lake in Katy and the pictures are amazing!!! I am currently looking into receiving more information on the complex.  |
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11-06-2009, 06:26 PM
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Location: Houston/Heights
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Days like the last few we've had, make it all worth while. Only two skeeters to deal with. |
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11-06-2009, 06:34 PM
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I don't live in Houston but I have visited three times.I enjoyed it whenever I got to see family in Houston.I enjoyed the Space Center during a previous visit. Also, I enjoy seeing the big city and that part of the state( I live in Midland).
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11-06-2009, 07:18 PM
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Location: Owasso,Oklahoma
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Originally Posted by texasexplorer
I don't live in Houston but I have visited three times.I enjoyed it whenever I got to see family in Houston.I enjoyed the Space Center during a previous visit. Also, I enjoy seeing the big city and that part of the state( I live in Midland).
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The Space center is by far my favorite attraction when visiting. Everytime I visit I make a point of going there. Learn something new every time. The employees are very friendly there also. I never knew what people meant about southern hospitality until I visited Houston for the first time. 
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11-06-2009, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: St. Cloud, MN, and I love Minnesota, but I think St. Cloud sucks(Just my opinion)
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Originally Posted by LadyTee73
I just received a Relocating to Houston magazine and it is so large!! I love the pictures and all of the information that it has to offer. Houston is DEFINITELY a city that I am considering relocating to! The magazine is so big I haven't read through the entire thing and I received it almost a week ago! LOL!
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the magazine i got too is huge, takes a long time to read |
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11-11-2009, 01:22 PM
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I live in northern Scotland but my husband spends a lot of time in Houston (oil industry). I love coming to Houston whenever I can. The weather, for me, is great. Hot and humid yes but that beats sleet, snow, blizzards, ice, horizontal freezing rain and only a few hours of daylight in winter! The food, the food, the food. Fantastic. The service. Amazing. People are polite and friendly. The houses are fantastic value for money. The cost of living is low (compared to here). Theatres, museums, parks. Kemah is just a short-ish drive away. You are lucky to live in nsuch a great city. And stop moaning about the traffic. You want to see traffic, come to Britain during rush hour. We are gridlocked!!!!! And, of course, the shopping. Well.........I love it.
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11-13-2009, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by lazzza
And stop moaning about the traffic. You want to see traffic, come to Britain during rush hour. We are gridlocked!!!!! And, of course, the shopping. Well.........I love it.
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This is so true. Houston traffic can be bad, but I have also seen worse in other cities and countries.
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11-14-2009, 12:20 PM
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Location: Houston
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I have lived in Houston for 40 years. Actually, it used to be a GREAT place to live. Now there is nothing nice I can say about it at all. Gangs, potholes, polution, rudeness, high prices, crazy drivers, well, I guess that's enough. If you have family here, that's the only +
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11-25-2009, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by tstone
Affordable space to call my own.
Culture that encourages reasonable & necessary defense of said space.
A decent dose of "live & let live" + fiscal conservatism. Enjoying this while it lasts. 
Good food options found in just about every established & reasonably diverse area in the entire metro.
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Damn, that sounds like heaven.
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