Is There a BIG Difference between Houston in Pre-2000 and Post-2000? (The Woodlands: apartment, rent)

[TheEconomist]

No point living in yesterday. All you can do is move forward.

[Texascrude]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

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.

Oh, well than that's okay! I don't mind violent crime in my neighborhood as long as it is targeted crime -- oh happy day!

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by 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.

Awesome!

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by Texascrude

Oh, well than that's okay! I don't mind violent crime in my neighborhood as long as it is targeted crime -- oh happy day!

And the crime rate quickly went down a few months later, once they realized their **** wouldn't fly in Texas like it did in Louisiana.

[Texascrude]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

And the crime rate quickly went down a few months later, once they realized their **** wouldn't fly in Texas like it did in Louisiana.

You sure it wasn't because that's about when many of them started to return to New Orleans? I really doubt it's because our cops were just nothing like they had ever experienced in the Big Easy.

[SouthernBoy205]

What's the BIG difference in the skyline?

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by Texascrude

You sure it wasn't because that's about when many of them started to return to New Orleans? I really doubt it's because our cops were just nothing like they had ever experienced in the Big Easy.

If anything it's because of more competition from MS-13 and some of the other Hispanic street gangs in the drug dealing market.

[SouthernBoy205]

This is about to get closed like all my other ones.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

This is about to get closed like all my other ones.

I know, they are acting like Katrina was the only thing that happened in the past 10 years. Common man, like it or not the people that are left are Houstonians now. They are part of our society and they have just as much right to be here as we do.

now lets just move on and give the NOLAns a break.
Lets talk about our new roads, and new neighborhoods and rehabilitation of old ones

[crone]

It is no different today than when I came here the summer of 1948. There was always an air of expectation of something good happening.
It just keeps getting bigger. New buildings, roads etc. The people are about the same. Some days I think we all are a lot dumber, but something good happens and that thought passes.