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Old 10-03-2011, 01:05 AM
 
Location: Bellevue, WA
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And yet those people from the attractive cities keep moving here.
Cheap housing and jobs...that's why people moved/might still be moving to the area. Very few moved for any other reason.
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Old 10-03-2011, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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Cheap housing and jobs...that's why people moved/might still be moving to the area. Very few moved for any other reason.
Right, because the utopias they come from can't produce jobs. But yet they come here complain about a lack of zoning, or "In California we do it like this" or "In new york we do like that and its so much better" its too conservative here.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:17 AM
 
Location: Pearland, TX
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I love no zoning. I think every church should have a porn shop real close to it. Keeps the earth on its axis.

Just sayin'...

Ronnie
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Heights
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Honestly, I don't really think about it unless something ironic or just humorous pops up next to something else or if there's a big media stink about something.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Honestly, I don't really think about it unless something ironic or just humorous pops up next to something else or if there's a big media stink about something.
yeah, I notice the zoned cities more when I travel to them, because you are accustomed to your home, when you travel else where and start asking yourself why is everything so darned far, you realize that they don't do things like we do
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:38 AM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Cheap housing and jobs...that's why people moved/might still be moving to the area. Very few moved for any other reason.
Exactly.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:54 AM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Right, because the utopias they come from can't produce jobs. But yet they come here complain about a lack of zoning, or "In California we do it like this" or "In new york we do like that and its so much better" its too conservative here.
I get annoyed by transplants from up north and out west as much as anyone else, but some of their gripes are legitimate. And every native or long time resident of Houston does not support the lack of zoning. Some of us who have spent time in cities with better planning see it as a flaw.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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I have lived in NY, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Ontario (different parts), Denver and San Antonio- I moved here because I like it.
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Old 10-03-2011, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Where nothing ever grows. No rain or rivers flow, Texas
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we all get old and change priorities
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Old 10-03-2011, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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I get annoyed by transplants from up north and out west as much as anyone else, but some of their gripes are legitimate. And every native or long time resident of Houston does not support the lack of zoning. Some of us who have spent time in cities with better planning see it as a flaw.

You can't have it both ways. You said you liked it here because of cheap housing. One of the reasons Houston is affordable is because of no zoning, for better or worse you can build where ever you want. The reasons places like San Fran and Portland and New York and Boston is so expensive is because zoning makes the prices sky rocket. Which prices the average person out, therefore they move to Houston and then complain about the lack of Zoning.
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