what is the deal with Corpus Christi

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i try not to even "relive" the nightmare of living in South Texas(i lived 30 minutes from Corpus, and worked in Corpus) last year...and decided to just check out this link....well i have to say, what was said in those posts really depicted my impression of the area. for all of yall who criticize me for criticizing Corpus and South Texas, believe me, after 3 years in Georgia, i was ecstatic about coming back to my homestate of Texas...and when i took the job down there, i had high hopes...and what i ended up in was a Third World Country....just like these posters describe. one of the posters say "well it's better than Iraq, or is it?"....i kept saying to myself that whole year, i would have rather been deployed to the sandbox than repeat another year there...at least i would have had "battle buddies". i am so glad that nightmare is over and i have found MY Texas once again and am very happy.............

Originally Posted by CalGal953

I only visited Corpus twice, in spring 1999 and 2001, and my experiences there were okay. I did see a lot of negative posts from some people that lived there, though.

City of Corpus Christi Texas Sucks - Screwed Central Board

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Originally Posted by SOM

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I hate:
-Trash / litterbugs / dirty diapers in every parking lot
-Lack of culture (concerts / theatre / a freakin' record store!)
-Crappy city maintenance, like Ocean Drive parks that have broken up road work pavement at the waters edge
-Ugly parks (Cole Park excepted, although see comment above!)
-The weather
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Okay, I'm too lazy to dig...what other comment about Cole park? I can't find it!

My two cents;

I grew up in Portland (lol, I almost typed POTland... and that would be true too cuz there was not much else to do!)... which is across the Harbor bridge and just a few miles outside CC. People live in Portland, but usually work in CC or at the Naval Air Station. Portland is (well was?) about football, church, and kids. Now I know, Corpus and Portland are two different places.. but not really!

I moved when I was 13, in the mid 80's, to San Antonio. My mom still owns a house in Portland, the one I grew up in, that she keeps as a rental, because she had some fantasy that one day me or my brother would move back there.

Um, no thanks.

I realize that SA isn't NYC, but for a girl from Portland it WAS the "City" and after getting out of small town Portland, with it's good-ole-boy cops, a church on every corner, and NOTHING TO DO if you didn't play football or want to be head cheerleader, I was glad to go and had no interest in returning there to live. For "fun" we hung out behind the K-Mart, or in the HEB parking lot. Then we had to hide from the cops after curfew. Thank goodness almost every yard had pampass grass and such to hide in. There is probably more now (I think even a movie theater!), but at the time there was not a thing to do there. My mom was content to macrame and paint and go to the beach, so if that's your thing and you like it low key you might be okay there.

I also have a love-hate relationship with the entire area. Of course I spent a lot of time in Corpus, there's no where else to shop and eat. Portland has more stuff now (a Starbucks even!!!) but Corpus wasn't that much better, and just seemed very slow and backwards.

I grew up spending almost every warm weekend on the beach, and lots of time at the CC bay, and I get a longing for it from time to time, head down for a weekend, then come back to SA with no desire to go back for several months. I agree it has a ton of potential but it's got a long way to go. The funny thing is, my kids (who have been raised in SA, and are 10 and 16) romanticize the place and LOVE it and want to move there. They have no idea though of what it's like to LIVE there. I think they're just infatuated because, unlike SA, it has a breeze.

I will say one thing... I read about the bacteria in the water causing death and loss of limbs when entering a flesh wound. OMG!! The reason this shocks me is becasue when we were at Port A last month we saw NO warnings, and when we took the kids to Cole Park there were warnings but they in no way conveyed the real danger of bacteria-laden waters!! We did not get in the water there but we did see someone with their toddler wading. Scary!

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re: bacteria in the water.....

four years ago, i got a staph infection while i was still in the hospital recovering from hip surgery ..... THAT required three more surgeries, 8 weeks on i.v. antibiotics, etc. etc. etc. ...... that infection was much more difficult to deal with than the originally pretty complicated hip surgery.....

point being i guess is that bad shiot can happen ANYwhere and usually does sooner or later......