#22 Sugar Land - America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well (Houston: house, neighborhoods)

[houstoner]

Any further attempts to hijack this thread into 'burb-bashing will also be deleted. The topic for those who have forgotten:

Originally Posted by xavier1774

America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well

In Depth: America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well - Forbes.com

Hopefully with the museum and other attractions opening up in the next few years, we can continue to move up the list. This is good news for Sugar Land and Texas.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by xavier1774

Hopefully with the museum and other attractions opening up in the next few years, we can continue to move up the list. This is good news for Sugar Land and Texas.

By other attractions, do you mean the entertainment center that's supposed to be going up near the new park?
Anyone know when that's supposed to happen?

Originally Posted by tstone

No surprise really, Old Richmond/Boss Gaston has always been dodgy.

No, Goldshire wants to build further south, on the other Old Richmond Rd near the Sugar Land regional airport. It would be zoned to Austin, not Bush.

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Let's be honest. North of Alt 90 doesn't really count to the average Sugar Land resident anyways.

I don't know why that would be. I could understand the part of it right by Alief or Mission Bend, but there's a lot of nice development around and just north of 90. Even more so once the Imperial site and surrounding area up Hwy 6 is redeveloped (and there is an example of good development plans, unlike Goldshire.)

If residents south of 90 keep up that attitude (if it's indeed true), they're going to find undesirable development creeping closer and closer to them. Much of New Territory is zoned to Austin High, the same school zone Goldshire wants to build. If they don't care, then they need to.

[jimmy914]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Let's be honest. North of Alt 90 doesn't really count to the average Sugar Land resident anyways.

It does for those of us that have lived here since before "First Colony" existed.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Let's be honest. North of Alt 90 doesn't really count to the average Sugar Land resident anyways.

Originally Posted by jimmy914

It does for those of us that have lived here since before "First Colony" existed.

I thought I saw on har.com that Orchard Lake Estates was one of the most looked-up subdivisions in Sugar Land and even all of Fort Bend. It's north of Alt 90.

[catfancier]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Let's be honest. North of Alt 90 doesn't really count to the average Sugar Land resident anyways.

Oh c'mon...a relative lives in Sugar Mill, which is part of "old" Sugar Land north of Alt 90. There are some very nice older homes (with mature trees!!) in that development, and I am pretty sure they consider themselves "average Sugar Land residents". And I for one would love one of the renovated sugar mill employee bungalows in The Hill area....

But since we're being critical... one thing I've never understood is how someone can pay big bucks to live in an oversized home in one of these MPCs -- and be less than 10 FEET from their neighbor!! That makes no sense to me at all.

[Topaz]

Originally Posted by catfancier

But since we're being critical... one thing I've never understood is how someone can pay big bucks to live in an oversized home in one of these MPCs -- and be less than 10 FEET from their neighbor!! That makes no sense to me at all.

Because it probably takes even more money to live in an oversized house with land. Likely, lots and lots more money.

[lane_change]

Originally Posted by catfancier

But since we're being critical... one thing I've never understood is how someone can pay big bucks to live in an oversized home in one of these MPCs -- and be less than 10 FEET from their neighbor!! That makes no sense to me at all.

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.

[EEstudent]

Originally Posted by usc619

Wrong!, the only areas I can honestly say that's better than Sugarland is River Oaks, any of the inner loop villages, West U, Rice area, parts of belaire and "maybe" The woodlands. Anything else is a reach, people just hating on Sugarland.

Let's just be honest, It's hard to beat the all around living you can get in Sugarland PERIOD!

btw; Sugarland's zoning is second to none

I guess you and Topaz are right.. except for the fact that things get real old real fast. I mean if Sugarland has some new attraction.. you go see it and bada-boom within 3 days you've literally seen everything.

In Sugar Land things are safe, clean, and if your living here.. its home

but with the Highschool kids and the slow,monotonous lifestyle... things get spoiled rather quickly.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by EEstudent

I guess you and Topaz are right.. except for the fact that things get [i]real old real fast.

Every kid that grows up in the burbs comes to realize this. Trust me, it ain't just Sugar Land.

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by EEstudent

I guess you and Topaz are right.. except for the fact that things get real old real fast. I mean if Sugarland has some new attraction.. you go see it and bada-boom within 3 days you've literally seen everything.

In Sugar Land things are safe, clean, and if your living here.. its home

but with the Highschool kids and the slow,monotonous lifestyle... things get spoiled rather quickly.

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).