Question on Houston and it's suburbs

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by tstone

They are techically refugees, unless the webster dictionary is wrong:

ref·u·gee : one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

But yes, ''evacuees'' is a much more accurate description, and is the term I use.

Speaking of this, yes they are still around and they probably aren't going anywhere. Almost every day driving to work I still see at least one Louisiana license plate. I'd say 99% of them are just doing what everyone else does: going to work to support themselves and their families. Yes, crime has gotten worse here, and no matter what the PC crowd tells you, we all know exactly why it's happening. But it's not like we didn't have a ****load of crime to begin with. Any drop in crime here will trend gradually over the long term at best. You can't say we didn't ask for it though.

And last time I checked, the DFW crime rates were all on par with ours, if not worse. I've sometimes heard native Dallasites say they have the reputation for being the ''meanest'' city in Texas.

Please read the definition you just wrote. They are not "refugees".

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by Wysiwyg

when youre over the crime thing you should still make sure you dont live too close to folks from NOLA. their type of lifestyle isnt what you would want from your neighbors. you can find lovely people from NOLA but you still have to live with their junky cars, loudmouth attitudes, baby-mama culture. they also have friends in the ghetto apartment areas who'd like to hangout in more peaceful neighborhoods. kinda like ghetto MTV cribs in front of your house

Oh please. I have family in New Orleans and they are nothing like that. This is just as stereotypical as every Texan wearing a cowboy hat and riding horses to work. The evacuees that came to Houston have blended in with the Houston area population already. You can't tell they are from New Orleans anymore.

To the OP, you really want an apartment, the Katy area has some nice ones on South Fry Road near Kingsland Boulevard (close to I-10). They are upscale, and are zoned to the exemplary Taylor High School.

[texas7]

A lot of them haven't blended and yes you can tell.

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by texas7

A lot of them haven't blended and yes you can tell.

You are probably not in Houston then because that isn't true. You may find some accents on some of the New Orleans natives, but other than that, you can't tell.

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

Oh please. I have family in New Orleans and they are nothing like that. This is just as stereotypical as every Texan wearing a cowboy hat and riding horses to work. The evacuees that came to Houston have blended in with the Houston area population already. You can't tell they are from New Orleans anymore.

To the OP, you really want an apartment, the Katy area has some nice ones on South Fry Road near Kingsland Boulevard (close to I-10). They are upscale, and are zoned to the exemplary Taylor High School.

*oh please* you know who i'm talking about. you guys who came from new orleans or have relatives in NOLA gets all defensive, i'm not talking about that.
i'd take a picture of my neighbors but theyre just starting to get it after a visit from the police and warnings from the HOA .

[usc619]

Originally Posted by Wysiwyg

*oh please* you know who i'm talking about. you guys who came from new orleans or have relatives in NOLA gets all defensive, i'm not talking about that.
i'd take a picture of my neighbors but theyre just starting to get it after a visit from the police and warnings from the HOA .

Dude please just shut the hell up, you're just a racist. You're always going and around about way of showing it, it's geting old.

[houstoner]

The thinly-veiled racism in this thread just boggles.

Originally Posted by texas7

A lot of them haven't blended and yes you can tell.

How, pray tell, can you tell? Please enlighten me. And more importantly, why does it matter? Most Katrina evacuees (and yes, that is the correct word for those who can't read or make head or tails of a definition ) are not criminals or thugs or gangstas. They're regular folk whose families lived in NOLA for generations. Most were homeowners and went to work every day. I know this from living there, not from watching alarmist reports on the news and believing everything I read and see on TV, like many on this thread.

[da jammer]

According to the OP his questions have been answered via DM. This topic got off on the wrong foot to begin with and has spiraled downhill quickly. If the OP has any further inquiries please start a new thread keeping in mind lessons learned from this one.