which neighborhoods have highest education? (Houston, Sugar Land: home, high school, university)

[hsw]

Generically, education doesn't correlate well with intelligence or sophisticated tastes (or wealth)

Many of today's smartest/wealthiest guys are dropouts of Harvard undergrad or Stanford's engineering PhD program

Boston is world's most famous home to the classic "overeducated" crowd of those w/lots of education but limited career achievements or obvious intelligence

And many quants in energy/tech/finance tend to have leisure interests different from non-quants (recall how different are personalities by major in college)...latest-tech sports cars, old Bordeaux and single malts, etc are often more interesting to engineers/financiers than are usual interests of non-quants, even in same industry

Besides, Houston's energy industry is about as globalized an industry as tech or finance, so many guys travel extensively for business (and deal with many time zones in their day job) and often have less interest in travels to Podunk in their free time (vs those who don't travel much for business), esp in a Net/Blkberry era where so much data/video is readily available on any computer screen

[AK123]

Originally Posted by tstone

Professional type suburbs such as Kingwood + Clear Lake, Woodlands, Sugar Land, etc are where a bachelors is the usual minimum, several have Masters and a few have PhD's. Same goes for the west corridor from West U/Bellaire through Memorial and many parts of the Katy Area.

However the demographic there is going to generally be productive, suburban-style , usually family-oriented, private company workers. Also referred to by some as "white washed," regardless of the diversity.

In these areas, you'll be very hard pressed to find elitist scholars in ivory towers, who produce nothing more than the usual, intellectual circle-jerk. Unlike Bay Area California, Texas in general isn't really friendly to that group.

Agree with all of this.

[SteveArmy]

Definitely not the places where they allow firecrackers

[modster]

The dead give-away is when you go through a number of the houses in the area and they are over-flowing with good books. Not the we set a few in the bookshelf to look pretty books, but the mad array all over the house.
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[rb4browns]

Originally Posted by tstone

Professional type suburbs such as Kingwood + Clear Lake, Woodlands, Sugar Land, etc are where a bachelors is the usual minimum, several have Masters and a few have PhD's. Same goes for the west corridor from West U/Bellaire through Memorial and many parts of the Katy Area.

However the demographic there is going to generally be productive, suburban-style , usually family-oriented, private company workers. Also referred to by some as "white washed," regardless of the diversity.

In these areas, you'll be very hard pressed to find elitist scholars in ivory towers, who produce nothing more than the usual, intellectual circle-jerk. Unlike Bay Area California, Texas in general isn't really friendly to that group.

Amen to that from this Berkeley alum!

[professorsenator]

The most intellectual zip code in Houston is, hands down, 77005. This is the Rice University/West U./Museum area, home to numerous academics and researchers. 77006, which includes The Menil Collection, can be pretty intellectual too.

[Thaskateguy]

Da Heights, has da mostest edumacation, and lots ov smarts two. But we be particular hoo we lets in.

[sbhubbell]

[quote=modster;11374655]The dead give-away is when you go through a number of the houses in the area and they are over-flowing with good books. Not the we set a few in the bookshelf to look pretty books, but the mad array all over the house.

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That used to be a good sign but recently I'm not so sure...for example a lot of intellectually gifted people I know use Kindles now, almost exclusively. And I read tons and tons of articles from journals and magazines I used to have around the house (like the New Yorker or Scientific American) online. I just don't like clutter. So yes, I buy lots of books and I do have bookshelves full of them, but I purge them rather frequently to make room for new ones. And I purposefully keep stacks of current reading under my bed or in drawers next to my couch...mostly because little hands tend to ruin them, but also because I like things neatly organized.

The phrase "a messy desk means a busy mind" certainly is true of many, but if you want to talk messy these days, take a look at my hard drive.

As for culture and world affairs...I am so glad Houston has a lot to offer in that regard, and while my friends do discuss world affairs, we are pretty polite when it comes to our widely differing political opinions.

[AcresHomes44]

The big money areas in Houston have the highest education: River Oaks, Woodlands, Willowbrook, Tomball, Washington Terrace in 3rd Ward. Note that most of the aforementioned areas are in North & NW Houston.

[LizzySWW]

OP, don't let home price tags fool ya in Houston!! EX: A 2 million dollar home in Houston is generally owned by a lottery winner, pro ball player, or high school drop out who won a lawsuit with the help of "The Texas Hammer", Jim Adler. (He's a tough smart lawyer & goes after companies for every penny you deserve.) You can't expect these folks to keep up with a globe trotting Phd in biochemistry.


You & the OP who's concerned about the low SAT scores at Clements would have loved the crowd at Gilleys.

Houston Fact: Within 6 months of living here your accent will sound EXACTLY like John Travolta in The Urban Cowboy. You need to watch that movie a few times to get a good feel for the average Houstonian.

Yee Hawwwwwwwwww, welcome to Houston!