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Old 02-17-2009, 08:34 PM
 
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Houston, Texas is where it's at. The Heights and Jersey Village are both friendly big city sections of town and Houston was voted the most accessable city for the disabled in 2008.
The weather is beautiful, food prices are cheap, homes are beautiful with lush landscaping and rentals are affordable.
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Old 02-17-2009, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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Houston, Texas is where it's at. The Heights and Jersey Village are both friendly big city sections of town and Houston was voted the most accessable city for the disabled in 2008.
The weather is beautiful, food prices are cheap, homes are beautiful with lush landscaping and rentals are affordable.
Welcome to our forum. I cant argue with anything you said. I agree with you all the way.........
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Old 02-17-2009, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Houston, Texas is where it's at. The Heights and Jersey Village are both friendly big city sections of town and Houston was voted the most accessable city for the disabled in 2008.
The weather is beautiful, food prices are cheap, homes are beautiful with lush landscaping and rentals are affordable.

have you not lived here during the summer yet? you must not have. it is hot and muggy and the air is nasty. rentals are affordable in the areas you speak about but look at the type of people that are moving there. my wife graduated from jersey village high school in the 90's and it was a middle class nice school. i went for a visit during school hours 3 years ago and saw almost nothing but thugs. go ahead and rip me for being negative....but that is just how it is.
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Old 02-18-2009, 06:19 AM
 
Location: Houston
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have you not lived here during the summer yet? you must not have. it is hot and muggy and the air is nasty. rentals are affordable in the areas you speak about but look at the type of people that are moving there. my wife graduated from jersey village high school in the 90's and it was a middle class nice school. i went for a visit during school hours 3 years ago and saw almost nothing but thugs. go ahead and rip me for being negative....but that is just how it is.
I know..... I grew up in Alief from the mid 70's to the early 80's. I loved growing up there. My family lived in Huntington Village. We had a community pool, home owners association, everything was new. I went to Olle Middle School over on Boone and Bissonet and then went to Alief Hastings High. It WAS great.

Boy you should see it now!!! It looks like a war zone there!! Kids at the schools look like thugs. It is sad to see this once quaint community turn into what it is now!
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Old 02-18-2009, 06:29 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Huntington Village was getting thuggish in the 90s.

Otherwise booker_one speaks the truth about the summer weather & air here.
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Old 02-18-2009, 06:33 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Huntington Village was getting thuggish in the 90s.

Otherwise booker_one speaks the truth about the summer weather & air here.
I grew up in the Houston area and lived here for 38 years. I then moved to SO-CAL and lived in a beach city. The weather in CA was great. When we moved back to Texas last year, thank goodness it was in the winter. It allowed me to slowly migrate back to the horrid humidity and heat in the summer!
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Old 02-19-2009, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Houston is a very affordable big city, and any big city has a few warts. Yes its hot and humid in the summer, but its mild in the winter. I look forward to moving back.
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:41 PM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Alief, Jersey Village, Bammel/Westfield, Sharpstown.... who is next? All these places that used to be good areas with good schools not long ago, and then what happened?

Is it a result of no zoning, the school districts being inept, or something else? I know it can't be 100% because of no zoning, there are areas in other cities that do have zoning but are still in the same situation (case in point, Reagan High in Austin).

Maybe this is topic for a different/new thread...
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Alief, Jersey Village, Bammel/Westfield, Sharpstown.... who is next?

Clear Lake?
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:34 PM
 
Location: where nothin ever grows. no rain or rivers flow, TX
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Alief, Jersey Village, Bammel/Westfield, Sharpstown.... who is next? All these places that used to be good areas with good schools not long ago, and then what happened?

Is it a result of no zoning, the school districts being inept, or something else? I know it can't be 100% because of no zoning, there are areas in other cities that do have zoning but are still in the same situation (case in point, Reagan High in Austin).

Maybe this is topic for a different/new thread...
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