77024 - How is this area?

[Mom2Feebs]

The Woodlands is different. It's very nice and in some cases, gorgeous, in its own right. You just can't compare the two. 77024 is one of those incredible, unplanned events. I don't think anyone at the time they were building had any idea it would be like it is. It's pretty fabulous.

[karuna95]

here's additional demographic information on residents, businesses, and lifestyle of people who live in zip 77024

77024 Zip Code (Hunters Creek Village, Texas) Detailed Profile - residents and real estate info

[pepper131]

In 77024, does the community look down on people who live in apartments? Especially a kid who is high school. This may us and I'm wondering if we'll be like the kids on Abbott St in Highland Park (Dallas).

[modster]

Originally Posted by pepper131

In 77024, does the community look down on people who live in apartments? Especially a kid who is high school. This may us and I'm wondering if we'll be like the kids on Abbott St in Highland Park (Dallas).

I would expect some level of it. How much? Who knows, but I would prep myself and family to expect to run into some degree of it.

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by pepper131

In 77024, does the community look down on people who live in apartments? Especially a kid who is high school. This may us and I'm wondering if we'll be like the kids on Abbott St in Highland Park (Dallas).

You struck me as more of a Heights/Montrose type, as I understand you are from East Dallas? If so, the short answer is yes, expect to feel a bit out of place. It probably won't be as bad as Highland Park, as old money here tends towards understatement, for the most part, but West Houston is very affluent and heavily Republican. The elder Bushes have a home out there. Then again, I had a friend who briefly attended Kinkaid, one of the best private schools in Houston located in the area, during middle school when her family came into some money, and she described her experience there as quite hellish. She didn't last a year before she begged out. But maybe the public schools are different? I suspect how you will be viewed will depend on what your husband does for a living, how much money you make, and how you frame your situation (i.e. just in an apartment temporarily while you househunt, moved there for the schools, etc.) Good luck.

[EasilyAmused]

Honestly, if you don't make a big deal about it "they" won't. Just make sure your child doesn't go in with a chip on his shoulder.And make sure that you don't either. If you want to be different/anti-establishment for the hell of it to see if you get a reaction, then you'll get one. That gets more of a reaction than anything.

Remember, they are all kids and they all have issues to contend with. Money has nothing to do with it. Kids don't even both to ask what parents "do" for a living. It actually has more to do with how YOUR family approaches it than how those others view it. Prejudging other because they are well off is just as bad as being judged for be less well-off. Some of my good friends lived in rentals due to divorces, employment etc. They were cool with themselves, so no one cared.

No big deal is viewed as no big deal. Houston's blue bloods are rather tame. We don't bite hard.

[pepper131]

I really appreciate these responses. It's wonderful to get views from both sides of the fence. I have my perceptions of things and I'm not always right... But sometimes I am...

Yes, I know we'd more comfortable in the Heights or probably a different, more up-coming area that "modster" has posted elsewhere on this forum. But I'm so nervous about school - Carnegie gets 800 applications for 100 spots.

We live "small" and that doesn't get too much respect from people who don't understand. But we don't do things differently just to be different. Although my son does like wearing his Russian winter hat and pins. And if that's "it" for his teenage rebellion, I'm just fine with it.

My best friend happens to live in a million dollar home on Lakewood Blvd in Dallas - she's also a Republican. I like to tell her she's crazy and she likes to tell me the same. Maybe it's because I grew up in that bubbletown Midland, Mich that I get along with Republicans just fine although I disagree with them.

At least my husband has only a 6 month lease. Honestly, who knows where we'll end up. We hear from Carnegie at the end of March and the school my son has been wanting to go to in Dallas (SEM) in mid April. If he gets into SEM, we may not move - it's such a big deal school and will cut a clear path for his future.

[houstoner]

Then you'll probably be fine. Houston's is a pretty egalitarian atmosphere overall. I'd agree that our bluebloods are rather tame and taught not to flaunt their wealth or look down on others who don't have it, in general, and we have quite a few eccentric well-to-do folk you'd never suspect were monied if you saw them on the street. I know you're probably going crazy with the waiting to see where y'all will end up! Hope everything works out for you.

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by houstoner

Then you'll probably be fine. Houston's is a pretty egalitarian atmosphere overall. I'd agree that our bluebloods are rather tame and taught not to flaunt their wealth or look down on others who don't have it, in general, and we have quite a few eccentric well-to-do folk you'd never suspect were monied if you saw them on the street. I know you're probably going crazy with the waiting to see where y'all will end up! Hope everything works out for you.

Yes. Big difference between Houston and Dallas in that respect. It's what I love most about this area (77079, 77024). I drive around in my 10-year old Isuzu Trooper and no one bats an eyelash because you never know.

[GoneToHouston]

What about apartment living in this area? Memorial City Apartment complex, for example? Are the apartments also considered still in a good area?