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View Poll Results: Where do you live?
Central 6 14.29%
North 2 4.76%
Northwest 4 9.52%
Northeast 3 7.14%
East 1 2.38%
Southeast 6 14.29%
South 0 0%
Southwest 12 28.57%
West 8 19.05%
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Old 07-21-2011, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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I'm surprised no one lives in the South as of yet. I thought Pearland was a booming area.
Booming is the key word, not boomed. It is the last area of Houston to be settled (other than the lower Brazoria County settlements which were part of the early colonial settlements of Texas).

In the east you will find the oldest settlements (I can't call them burbs of Houston, some of them are older than Houston). The North came next but slowed down. The West was the first to really boom and consume all of the landscape, then finally the south. The North has picked back up, and now has over 1m people.

It is crazy that north Houston only had a couple tens of thousands in the 70's and now has 1,370,930 people.


http://www.north-houston.com/develop...nts/Table1.pdf

while SW Houston is packed with people, south of the beltway is still rather sparse outside of the SW areas (Missouri City, Etc)
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Old 07-21-2011, 10:36 AM
 
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Booming is the key word, not boomed. It is the last area of Houston to be settled (other than the lower Brazoria County settlements which were part of the early colonial settlements of Texas).

In the east you will find the oldest settlements (I can't call them burbs of Houston, some of them are older than Houston). The North came next but slowed down. The West was the first to really boom and consume all of the landscape, then finally the south. The North has picked back up, and now has over 1m people.

It is crazy that north Houston only had a couple tens of thousands in the 70's and now has 1,370,930 people.


http://www.north-houston.com/develop...nts/Table1.pdf

while SW Houston is packed with people, south of the beltway is still rather sparse outside of the SW areas (Missouri City, Etc)
I can tell from Goggle Maps. LOL!
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Old 07-21-2011, 10:56 AM
 
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SW, Willowbend - Meyer Park- Westbury area - Whatever you want to call the South Post Oak General Region.
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Old 07-21-2011, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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I can tell from Goggle Maps. LOL!
Several square miles of that empty land = cow pastures on top of oil fields and pipelines on the SE side outside of the beltway. Those areas may never be developed.
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Old 07-21-2011, 11:37 AM
 
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Several square miles of that empty land = cow pastures on top of oil fields and pipelines on the SE side outside of the beltway. Those areas may never be developed.
That land is owned by oil companies and they keep cows on it just to get the tax break. That land won't be developed till those tax exemptions are ended. But that would kill the cattle industry so it probably won't happen. Unless they just did it in Harris country. Still probably not gonna happen.
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Old 07-21-2011, 01:08 PM
 
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I found an awesome coffee shop in Meyerland today: Fioza. Near Belden's. It was seriously the best cup of coffee I've had in memory. High quality stuff. Nice food too. Check it out!
Yes! I have been there. Good stuff! It's just north of me off Chimney rock I believe. I love how they make those pretty creme designs on the froth. I forgot about that place. Thank you for the reminder. Guess we are good on the coffee shop front. Now we need a good ole fashion European or Irish sports pub. I used to love to stop in for a coffee every morning on paseo de extremadura in Madrid. There was a small bar on the corner that was just fantastic. Ahh the memories! Funny how the bars there served coffee in the morning and spirits in the afternoon/evening.
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Old 07-21-2011, 01:28 PM
 
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I live in Candlelight Oaks, close to Oak Forest
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Old 07-21-2011, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Yes! I have been there. Good stuff! It's just north of me off Chimney rock I believe. I love how they make those pretty creme designs on the froth. I forgot about that place. Thank you for the reminder. Guess we are good on the coffee shop front. Now we need a good ole fashion European or Irish sports pub. I used to love to stop in for a coffee every morning on paseo de extremadura in Madrid. There was a small bar on the corner that was just fantastic. Ahh the memories! Funny how the bars there served coffee in the morning and spirits in the afternoon/evening.
That would be cool. I used to get a coffee on weekend mornings and stop by a nearby pub for a couple shots of 'adult flavoring'.
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