#22 Sugar Land - America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well (Houston: fit in, neighborhood)

[EasilyAmused]

why does it matter anymore where teens live? They're ALWAYS bored, and now days they are so wrapped up in their facebooktwittertextingtsextingslambooking I don't think it matters where they live.

Granted, the neighborhood kids in my subdivion aren't building car bombs, burning play grounds, cutting pine trees to fall in the road at midnight, and slashing tires while practicing with pipe bombs in the woods like the ones in my old,The Woodlands neighborhood....to each his own I guess.

[Sampaguita]

Originally Posted by lane_change

I choose to live in an MPC for a few reasons. Neighbors w/ kids so my son has other kids to play with in the neighberhood. I like the neighberhood ammenities like a pool, tennis courts, parks, etc...I can't afford to build all those in my backyard. I like that the drainage system is designed to not flood, so that is one less thing to worry about, and I like the size of the homes you can get, because I spend most of my time at home in my house, and not out of the my house. Now, I would love to have a huge 1/2 - 1 acre lot that allows for a bit of privacy and personal space, but I don't want to give up the other things I mentioned just to own more dirt around my house. I do wish they built an MPC that was designed 100% around 1/3 - 1/2 acre lots minimum, but if they did, they would require 5000sq/ft min. houses on them, price them through the roof, and it would be a $1mil+ area, which I can't afford to get in.

Good post. We're looking into an older MPC for the same reasons you list although we fall to the other spectrum as far as what our ideal house situation would be - inner loop, larger house on a nice-sized lot, zoned to good schools = $$$$$$ - so off to an older MPC we go!

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

why does it matter anymore where teens live? They're ALWAYS bored, and now days they are so wrapped up in their facebooktwittertextingtsextingslambooking I don't think it matters where they live.

Granted, the neighborhood kids in my subdivion aren't building car bombs, burning play grounds, cutting pine trees to fall in the road at midnight, and slashing tires while practicing with pipe bombs in the woods like the ones in my old,The Woodlands neighborhood....to each his own I guess.

You're right about the kids in/around TW. Who knew that most of the vandalism & car/house break-ins and even attempted holdups in THE Mall parking lots are being perpetrated by bored teenagers!

[EEstudent]

Originally Posted by dv1033

And what would high school kids be doing if they grew up in your urban utopia? Seriously, what benefits are the from growing up in an urban environment (Manhattan) compared to a suburban environment (Sugar Land).

I could care less where the kids grew up... that wasn't the point. It's just that now since school is out there will be more and more of these pesky kids around... because well its SugarLand and every household have 2 kids and there are thousands of houses.

[SilverWings]

Originally Posted by EEstudent

I could care less where the kids grew up... that wasn't the point. It's just that now since school is out there will be more and more of these pesky kids around... because well its SugarLand and every household have 2 kids and there are thousands of houses.

...and as predicatably as the Sun rises, EE's here to put down Sugar Land. Though I've yet to see a horse around here... odd.

Nice to see the ranking, though as every other city on the list was either from Californinia or DC... Not exactly the target I'd be aiming for there.(I'm not quite sure how $50K average income and $300K houses makes for a good place to live.)

[melissac123]

Hi, can you tell me how far is the commute from fresno texas to sugarland. I will possible be employed at an elementary school zip code 77489 in frenso but I really do not want to live there considered the negative things I have read and heard. thanks

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by melissac123

Hi, can you tell me how far is the commute from fresno texas to sugarland. I will possible be employed at an elementary school zip code 77489 in frenso but I really do not want to live there considered the negative things I have read and heard. thanks

At least 30 minutes depending where you live in Fresno and Sugar Land. You might want to look into Sienna Plantation though.

[Texas User]

SL was rated #2 best place to live in USA two years ago. I don't think its affordable. Its home prices are way up compare to Houston.

Where does Katy stand?

[LizzySWW]

^^^^^ Huh? Sugar Land home prices are way up compared to Houston??? Uh. No. You get almost 3X's as much square foot per dollar in Sugar Land than the better Houston neighborhoods. It has always been this way.

[Topaz]

Originally Posted by LizzySWW

Huh? Sugar Land home prices are way up compared to Houston??? Uh. No. You get almost 3X's as much square foot per dollar in Sugar Land than the better Houston neighborhoods. It has always been this way.

Yep, totally affordable. In Sugar Land, you can get a nice 2500 square foot house (not a fixer) for less than $250K, zoned to excellent public schools elementary through high school. It is very, very difficult to do that in the better Houston neighborhoods.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by Texas User

SL was rated #2 best place to live in USA two years ago.

Actually it was rated #3 in 2006 I believe.

Originally Posted by LizzySWW

^^^^^ Huh? Sugar Land home prices are way up compared to Houston??? Uh. No. You get almost 3X's as much square foot per dollar in Sugar Land than the better Houston neighborhoods. It has always been this way.

Houston is huge and prices are all over the place depending on the neighborhood, so it's kind of hard to compare city-to-city.
Maybe he meant compared to most other suburbs. I think it's generally more per square foot for the same kinds of homes in Sugar Land compared to Cypress, Spring, Pearland, probably even Katy. We had a hard time finding a place in Sugar Land (though our family is a little larger than average) and the sellers are not always the most easy to deal with because they know the area is desirable.