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Beaches: Galveston within 45 minutes from downtown Houston. If you live in downtown LA it is around 30-45 minutes as well. Covered.
Casinos: Poster mentioned 4 hours to Vegas. It's 2.5 hours to Lake Charles. Covered.
Parks: Well there is the bayou but yeah this part kind of sucks
Beautiful weather: Nah, not in Houston
You can get a lot of what LA offers inside the loop but not all.
Relative.
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I suppose you don't spend much time inside the loop.
Buffalo Bayou Park is beautiful with people jogging and riding bikes all year round. Memorial Park and Hermann Park are also nice. Ever been to a show/bar in Montrose, Downtown, Midtown, Heights, or east downtown? Tons of options for food as well.
Houston weather is fine mid-September - May. Dress comfortably and enjoy the heat the rest of the year.
It isn't LA, but you probably suck at life if you can't find anything fun to do inside the loop. My only complaint is there aren't any hiking or natural trials near by to spend a day walking around.
There are tons of outdoor natural options in/around Houston, just that they don't involve topographical changes.
Don't worry OP, i feel the same exact way you feel. Growing up in New York City, i'v always felt bad for the teenagers my age who wasted their youth in Flyover States, ESPECIALLY Texas. At least Colorado and Montana have aweing beauty mountains. Texas is just a big flat state with ugly brown coastal water with a small portion of the western state having mountains. Honestly if you're driving from East Texas to West JUST for mountains, then you might as well drive alittle more deeper into New Mexico.
Texas is nothing special. The only reason this subpar state has alot of pride-recognition is because of its massive land size, therefore leading to a bigger population. Imagine if New England/Original 13 colonies were one big state the size of California, and Texas being cut up into abunch of tiny states.
Texas is boring and no tourist goes to vacation there. It's strictly a business city with no one proud being stuck there. I just feel bad for the millennials that could've been born in California but instead their parents left to a state they dont care about, just for the bigger more affordable house.
"Hill" County is a joke. In California, they call those "sudden slight changes in land elevation". The entire West Coast and part of the East Coast have REAL hills and mountains.
Texas is a city?
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This is all I'm saying. I didn't even say anything negative about Houston, just what others perceptions are that live outside the metro and that is fact. Go out of town, tell someone your from Abilene and ask them what they think about Houston. I guarantee you will get much more negative than positive which is a direct contradiction the poster I initially quoted....But if you dont call modern Houston the best, most Texan and most beloved city ever Houstonians get their panties in a wad. And most have the audacity to judge DFW and Austin on their citizen's arrogance.
Culturally most Houstonians have more in common with folks in LA then they do with Texans 1.5 hours away. Houston is distinctly Houston, and other than Austin, is more unlike the rest of Texas. So therefore I wouldn't consider Houston all that Texan.
Of course they would, country people hate big cities.
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After 25 years of living here I feel like its time to move on. Houston its being over run by people moving in and there is construction around every corner. Also it seems that its just getting hotter and hotter every day. I have been here since high school and college and post college and feel like now its just being taken over. Anyone else thinking of moving on to something new?
I can understand what you're getting at TexanGirl007. I moved to Houston from Nashville, TN back in 2009 and really liked Houston at first. You see, I grew up in Florida and loved the weather and outdoor activities as a kid and into my early adult years. I ended up in Tennessee because I was chasing jobs and that's where half of my family was from.
Around 2009, the economy in Middle Tennessee (and most of the rest of the country, for that matter) crashed so badly that thousands of people were showing up to Kroger job fairs. At that point, my ex and I decided we were leaving for Texas (like so many other people did.)
We had pretty significant savings and started out in Houston. We applied for job after job after job and never got a single call back in the entire 3 months that we were living here. At that point, we moved to San Antonio to try our luck and had a similar experience only with WAY less opportunity. From there, we drove up to Dallas and although my ex was offered a position with a hospital, it wasn't involving her profession. At that point, our savings were on the south side of the levy (so to speak) and we came to decide whether or not we wanted to return to Tennessee, stay in Dallas, or give either Houston or San Antonio another shot. The next day I received a call about a job in Houston and decided to return.
I've now officially been in Houston since the middle of 2010 and have noticed so much change that it's ridiculous. I've lived in Bear Creek, Cypress Station, The Woodlands, Conroe, and now East Houston (Galena Park area.) I really enjoyed Bear Creek but didn't work on that side of town and wanted to be closer to work. I knew nothing about Cypress Station and took the word of an apartment locator that it was an okay part of town (BIG mistake.) I almost broke my lease with the apartment complex, that's how bad I wanted out of that area. From there, I ended up in The Woodlands, but the complex I lived in skyrocketed the prices, so I ended up in Conroe. I enjoyed Conroe but much like The Woodlands, the prices continued to rise. When my lease was up in Conroe, my rent literally went from $700/mo. to $1,200. I searched and searched in the Conroe and Spring areas for cheap rentals, but even mobile homes in those areas were renting for $1,100 or more per month, not to mention the ridiculous utilities in the area which included $100 every 3 months for trash and the $100 minimum water bill.
That's how I ended up in East Houston.
I understand that Houston is a huge city and with huge cities come high prices and massive amounts of crime. I've also come to find that most Houstonians have come to accept that it's just a part of everyday life and It's really not. The neighborhood I live in looks like it should be in a 3rd world country. People are killed pretty often, lots of break-ins, home invasions, property damage, and the worst part is I work in the Galleria area and have to put up with the commutes every day. I can't afford to live any closer to work than I already do.
I'm not a fan of huge crowds but it seems like no matter where you go, there's always hundreds of thousands of people. I refuse to go to all the cool events the city puts on like the 4th of July fireworks at Eleanor Tinsley Park. I don't even consider a drive to Galveston anytime during any holiday's.
I ended up taking my wife on a vacation to Nashville last year and she fell in love with it. The only time she'd ever left Houston was a trip out of country with her church, so she wasn't familiar with the topography or the weather. She's constantly nagging me about moving up there, so we're probably going to head back when our finances are right.
Overcrowding isn't an issue there, the weather is gorgeous most of the year, and it only takes 15 minutes to get from one side of town to the other, not hours.
Good luck on where ever you decide to move and as always, Go Titans!
Boring people require high energy places that make them feel like they have lives when in reality they are dull and unimaginative bores. It must suck to be you.
Something like that, I tend to notice, too. I'm never bored, though I can have time on my hands on occasion. I don't crash parties, either, since my higher energy 20s are long gone.
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I'm not a fan of huge crowds but it seems like no matter where you go, there's always hundreds of thousands of people. I refuse to go to all the cool events the city puts on like the 4th of July fireworks at Eleanor Tinsley Park. I don't even consider a drive to Galveston anytime during any holiday's.
I don't do crowds and I'm not a shy guy, either. I could hop the MetroRail for those events, but it's not my thing.
Anyway, I get OP. Houston lifer, but the mPh is wasting away here. All the IH jobs seem to be nothing but asbestos/insulation samplers and toxicology jobs are on either coast. The Carolinas aren't anywhere near as big a sausagefest than Houston is, to boot. I kinda liked Ft Dodge when I was on a project in Iowa back in 2010, oxygen tank toting fat folks and dearth of cute women aside. It might be time to take up applying for some EHS jobs at Kansas State, Nebraska and the like. Community type feel, low mystery meat saturation and corresponding crime levels sounds good to me.
I understand that Houston is a huge city and with huge cities come high prices and massive amounts of crime. I've also come to find that most Houstonians have come to accept that it's just a part of everyday life and It's really not. The neighborhood I live in looks like it should be in a 3rd world country. People are killed pretty often, lots of break-ins, home invasions, property damage, and the worst part is I work in the Galleria area and have to put up with the commutes every day. I can't afford to live any closer to work than I already do.
I'm not a fan of huge crowds but it seems like no matter where you go, there's always hundreds of thousands of people. I refuse to go to all the cool events the city puts on like the 4th of July fireworks at Eleanor Tinsley Park. I don't even consider a drive to Galveston anytime during any holiday's.
I ended up taking my wife on a vacation to Nashville last year and she fell in love with it. The only time she'd ever left Houston was a trip out of country with her church, so she wasn't familiar with the topography or the weather. She's constantly nagging me about moving up there, so we're probably going to head back when our finances are right.
Overcrowding isn't an issue there, the weather is gorgeous most of the year, and it only takes 15 minutes to get from one side of town to the other, not hours.
Good luck on where ever you decide to move and as always, Go Titans!
Ive always liked Houston alot, but I cant disagree with this...It DOES seem like Houstonians have just accepted that random senseless crime, traffic congestion/absurd amounts of construction, with people zooming around the freeway going the wrong direction killing other drivers in head on collisions because theyre drunk (or they just dont care), as normal parts of life. It seems like there are constant murders and breakins in Houston. There also is constantly some loser/bum staggering up to you asking for money. Nothing is easy to access due to the sheer amount of people clammoring everywhere. You pay to park just about anywhere you go. Combine that with the absolutely hellish (and I do mean hellish) heat in freaking late september, and the city does start to lose its appeal. Nice amenities, but whats the use of having a ton of amenities if everything is a chore to go to.
Ive always liked Houston alot, but I cant disagree with this...It DOES seem like Houstonians have just accepted that random senseless crime, traffic congestion/absurd amounts of construction, with people zooming around the freeway going the wrong direction killing other drivers in head on collisions because theyre drunk (or they just dont care), as normal parts of life. It seems like there are constant murders and breakins in Houston. There also is constantly some loser/bum staggering up to you asking for money. Nothing is easy to access due to the sheer amount of people clammoring everywhere. You pay to park just about anywhere you go. Combine that with the absolutely hellish (and I do mean hellish) heat in freaking late september, and the city does start to lose its appeal. Nice amenities, but whats the use of having a ton of amenities if everything is a chore to go to.
Get a job and a home in The Woodlands, and you're just dealing with traffic and heat for the most part.
Get a job and a home in The Woodlands, and you're just dealing with traffic and heat for the most part.
Yeah...i was going to tack that onto the end of my post as well, but I was rushing to work at the moment...however the way that I was going to phrase it is: the only way to have a reasonable quality of life is to move to an expensive suburb (I was thinking more of Katy or maybe Sugarland..although I hear of a lot of burglaries in Sugarland also) but the woodlands is too far from the desireable parts of the city to me. (Galleria, Memorial, Energy Corridor, Downtown, Greenway Plaza etc.)
I've lived in Houston my whole life and I can't wait to leave. Houston wasn't always this bad- or at least not 15 years ago. The cheap cost of living has attracted hundreds of thousands of people here, making traffic unbearable and the prices of cookie cutter homes unaffordable. The heat index also seems to be getting worse every year- I won't go anywhere outside for fear of having sweaty armpits show. The only positive are the jobs- but there's a crap load of competition even for those since everyone has a degree nowadays.
Hi TexanGirl007. I can completely relate to your feelings! I lived in Sugar Land and Houston for 23 years, most of it very happily, but lately it just seemed to lose much of its appeal for me. Constant traffic, relentless heat, the flooding, increasingly-militarized police, rampant materialism, urban sprawl, lousy radio choices, political tension, same old debates about what to do with the Astrodome, etc. I finally had enough and up and moved far, far away. Private message me if you want to know more details, but let me just say that I understand how you're feeling.
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It might be time to take up applying for some EHS jobs at Kansas State, Nebraska and the like. Community type feel, low mystery meat saturation and corresponding crime levels sounds good to me.
