Is There a BIG Difference between Houston in Pre-2000 and Post-2000? (Baytown: violent crime, layoffs)

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

Not much different, to be honest. Just more New Orleans accents around time. Those that stayed are apart of the Houston community now.

That's funny, even the Houston Police Department said that crime went way up after all of the criminals from New Orleans came here after Katrina... and the murder rate went way up...

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Why?

Because most are welfare bums...

[SouthernBoy205]

Ok. Let's not talk about the people from New Orleans.

[SouthernBoy205]

Any other differences?

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by Houston3

That's funny, even the Houston Police Department said that crime went way up after all of the criminals from New Orleans came here after Katrina... and the murder rate went way up...

Did you expect nothing to happen when you added 100k+ people within a week???

Besides, its been 5+ years. Let that BS go.

[SouthernBoy205]

I already know that this thread is about to get closed.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

Not much different, to be honest. Just more New Orleans accents around time. Those that stayed are apart of the Houston community now.

I think it was hella different. I left Houston a year after Katrina and returned last year and every time I would return for a visit Houston looked different.

I10 expansion was completed during that time and the 1hr crawl from Katy to downtown was cut cut in half. I think the 59 expansion was also done during this time. On the flip side I saw 288 go from a highway that was bad at rush hour to one that is just pure hell. 45 was hell back then and its still hell now. Same for 290.

A couple of towers downtown has gone up during this time
Houston Pavilions and Discovery Green has been making downtown more fun since this time.

A population almost the size of the city of Austin moved to the metro during this time and you can definitely feel the increase.

on the bad side, the Galleria and some parts of Richmond became more beat up looking during this time, while Greenway and the rest of Uptown improved. Talking about uptown, holy mother, that thing has certainly changed since 05. Oh and the med center. My God that thing is always on the move.

Since 05 the western part of town (past the beltway) and the northern part of town (north of the beltway) has been growing super fast.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by Houston3

That's funny, even the Houston Police Department said that crime went way up after all of the criminals from New Orleans came here after Katrina... and the murder rate went way up...

And again, most of that was people who were fighting each other in New Orleans started fighting each other again in Houston. Besides, Houston's crime rate was already rising before they came.

[v2four]

I'll save all the new orleans/hurricane katrina drama for yo momma...its old news...but, I still think FEMA is paying rents for some of those sorry azz mofo's..smh...dayum

back to this great city of Houston....this place seems like it has doubled in the last 10 years....and I think the abundance of all the cheap land, the affordable housing and the "build it and they will come" attitudes that were prevelant in the early 2000's is the reason this area has expanded by leaps and bounds.

In the mid 90's, if you told someone you lived in Katy or Fulshear or Pearland or the Woodlands, Cypress, Richmond/Rosenberg, Baytown or channelview...people would say you lived out in the boomdocks...you were in way out in the "country"....

however, thats not the case now....all of those areas I listed above have exploded with new homes, retail development, way too many taj mahal type schools, new roads, traffic issues and problems that come with too much competetion.

In 2000, the biggest player in town was Enron....the Astros new ballpark downtown was Enron Field...Enron sponsored so much stuff around here, but it was something really dirty about those guys on smith st. Dynegy was their step brother....they employed probably 10k people combined downtown.....each of them were practically worthless on paper, cooking the books to keep the stock price up, and that led to their eventual demise...enron is gone....dynegy is barely hanging on

who can forget tropical storm allison in June of 2001? she dayum near destroyed Houston with five straight days of rain, causing major flooding to downtown, the medical center, greenway plaza, meyerland, all the neighborhoods that are close to bayous or creeks, and it led to some massive re-allocation plans, flood plans, and govermenment purchases of private homes in flood areas..

all of the freeway work that started on I-10 West(Katy freeway) is finally complete...59 North was finally completed.....45 north and south, 290 west and possibly the worst freeway in Houston right, 288 south to Pearland, are all in needs of major upgrades.

Houstons sports teams were awful, and still are...Texans only one winning season in 10 years....Astros went to the world series in 2005, only to be swept, and havent sniffed the playoffs since....Rockets had T-mac and Yao and we should have had at least one championship with those two, but we didnt even get a series win with them BOTH on the floor together..

We did get a super bowl, which was awesome....nba all star game, which was good, but was a sleezy hoe fest in the entertaiment aspect...final four just left, and will come back in 2016.

I will come back and finish later....heading home.

[Texas User]

Its a lot more diverse now then before 2000.