Summerwood is Changing (Houston, The Woodlands, Spring: house, neighborhood, buy)

[BROWNPLAYBOY310]

I moved to Houston from Los Angeles in 2011 and purchased a house the next year in Summerwood. The homes were very nice and spacious for a better price than Id pay living closer to Downtown. The commute isn't bad and the area is very well kept and the schools had good reviews. As a minority I was hoping for a place that was diverse like Los Angeles where my children and I could be insulated from the pervasive racism in the south. However, now I think Summerwood may be getting too diverse.

I quite enjoyed being one of a handful of minorities but now that I see more and more of my people moving in I'm noticing that some of the new blacks and Hispanics don't have the same values. I saw a kid around 4 or 5 riding his bike (with training wheels) down the street and no parents in sight! I've also noticed graffiti on some of the group mailboxes. Anyone else in Summerwood worried about this? I'd still say its a mostly white area but I don't want to get to a tipping point.

[right]

Lol

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by BROWNPLAYBOY310

As a minority I was hoping for a place that was diverse like Los Angeles where my children and I could be insulated from the pervasive racism in the south. However, now I think Summerwood may be getting too diverse.

LOL @ the pervasive racism in the south.

EDIT: This has to be trolling.

[right]

it's not, read his history

[stoneclaw]

Summerwood is a very nice area. I had a friend just buy a house there about a year ago and it was beautiful.

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by right

it's not, read his history

This.

I'm just smh all around. A minority thinking it's getting too diverse? Not wanting a lot of they're own people moving in, encroaching on their territory? Can't have all the minorities blasting their workout music in the garage right? Only you because they let you get away with it? LMAO!

Man, please stop.

You should have moved to The Woodlands if you wanted to stay the lone (I'm not sure what you are black or Hispanic person around). I always assumed some South Asian or Middle Eastern. In my experience they were the only ones who would ever call themselves "brown" in any reference.

[ToyYot]

You've been there a year, you see a bit a graffiti and 5yr old kid on a bike and it's all going to h*ll. This coming from a guy who likes to go into a workout "beast mode" while benching 450lbs listing to rap in his driveway. In comparison to your complaint, that's the seventh sign of the apocolypse!

[dejamiller]

Trolling at its finest. Like others have stated read his history. Utterly Ridiculous.

[hbcu]

You have to do homework on your Houston history

the new master-planned neighborhood close to urban/minority areas are going to change....that's how its always been

South Park was white....
Aldine ISD was white
SW Houston was white
Spring was white
North Forest was white

Summerwood is easy to get to and tons of folks from North Shore, Channelview, Aldine, North Forest have moved out there

[BROWNPLAYBOY310]

Originally Posted by stoneclaw

Summerwood is a very nice area. I had a friend just buy a house there about a year ago and it was beautiful.

Oh it's still beautiful and well kept, but the one thing that bothered me last summer was the obnoxious behavior of some of the kids at the community pool. It seemed like their parents weren't there or just not caring. Some little Kid there was pushing other kids when they got up to the slide, I couldn't see his parents around so I had to reprimand the kid myself. Also, there were a lot of people in mid thirties with lots of tattoos. Now it may sound hypocritical for me to complain since I have tattoos, but I'm paying good money to get away from the people I grew up with. If I bought a house here to get away from the hood! I don't know, maybe the tattoo thing is just a sign of mainstream cultures acceptance of body art, but I have a feeling Id see less tattoos in The Woodlands.

The sad thing is I have friends living up in The Woodlands in Aubrn Lakes and I felt very out of place at their Christmas party. All white people talking about how they live in such and such subdivision of the subdivision (a thinly veiled way to flaunt the price of their home). On top of that the white mothers seemed to smother their children, running around them wiping their nose every 10 seconds without giving their kid a chance to breathe. Everyone seemed so pretentious I just wanted to get out of there.

Maybe this is just Texas culture and something ill have to get used to. Or maybe as a person of color from the streets who got an education and elevated himself above his surroundings I'm forever cursed. Too real for the burbs, yet too educated and well off for the hood. Hopefully my home will rise in value in 5-10 years and I can sell this place and move out to a home of equal size back in LA. Sorry if I offended anyone.