We will be moving to houston!!

[ijk keo]

i live on Spring Cypress, which is tomball on one side and spring on the other, and further down. Coming from Connecticut, texas has been nothing but a pleasant change. I grew up in Bridgeport, so the nice trees and tranquility could not be found. Texas is the place to be and our business is doing well, so we win all around. Oh, don't laugh at Texans when we say "YALL", it's funny, apparently. lol

[Bueller427]

our business is doing well

what type of business do you have?, reason being, My family also has a business here in new york [ for 79 years ] and we were thinking on starting one up out there as well, we sell work clothes/workware ex: lee, dickies, timberland boots, georgia boots, carhartt ect....to much to list. just wondering if it would be successful there.... NATSMENSSHOP (http://mysite.verizon.net/bizp5i3j/index.html - broken link)

Bueller

[Spade]

Originally Posted by So What!

One of the only positive things I can say about living in Texas is the cost of living, that's it. My family and I moved here in March of 2005 to the Spring area and we HATED IT!! People were very racist and nosey there and that seems to be the norm every where in Texas. We are currently in Cypress now and same o'l Sh**. Neighbors are very nosey and everyone does the "Keeping Up With the Jones's" deal here. People are not very open to interracial marriages, and there's almost no cultural diversity here. My family and I are cosmopolitan (3 or more nationalities; Polynesian, Caucasian, Asian, just to name a few) and we are outcasted by our neighbors and many others that we've interracted with. We are very humble, well-mannered people and we are judged because we "Look Different". None of us look anywhere close to "Elephant Man" or anything, but we still get outcasted.I wouldn't recommend anyone moving to Texas at all, but if you must due to financial reasons, then so be it. Other than that, you've got nothing here. The beaches look awful, and some beaches you have to pay to enter it (about $6 per vehicle) for an ugly beach with brown "Gulf Coast" water with no waves to surf...ewwwww, of course this comes from a person who has been spoiled with Pacific Ocean water. Some of the people here, like our neighbors who live directly across us totally look like they were products of "inbreeding". No disrespect, but it's true! And these people think we look weird because our skin color is brown. At least we're not too dark, not too light, we're just RIGHT!!THERE ARE NO STINKIN SIDEWALKS HERE! What is up with that? They do not encourage people to get any exercise whatsoever. Walking is limited to your own subdivision, like the segregation that goes on with races here. The pace is very slow here! I remember coming here in 2005 and heard on the radio station the DJ saying "Here's brand new music by ***** Cat Dolls, Don't Ya". New? I was listening to that for almost 6 months in 2004 in Las Vegas. Duhhh, brand new? Get with it!And, we are totally West Coast so our personalities are very colorful and outgoing, but to Texans, it's strange behavior. We're not strange, you guys are...lol!! I'm having fun here, Can you Tell? NO OFFENSE TEXANS, but you guys are the most boring, slow-paced, racist, dull people we ever met. YOU GUYS NEED TO GET OUT AND VENTURE INTO THE WORLD AND LEARN THAT OTHER CULTURES AND RACES EXIST AND HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOR IS A GOOD THING!!Okay, after having said those awful things, I would like to end this on a positive note. The PRICE IS RIGHT when it comes to realestate. In 2008 on the Forbes Magazine, Houston was been listed as one of the top 5 of the best cities for real esate investments. I totally concur. The educational system is definitely TOP NOTCH!! Even though I'm not too fond of Texas, Texas has very high standards in their educational system. From personal experience, as well as the experience of my children. They also have TOP NOTCH medical centers like Texas Children's Hospital.I guess things would be better for us here if my wife and I were the same race and if we were Caucasian. And don't judge me because I gave my opinion, I'm telling my side of the story through MY personal experience. If you are caucasian, you can't say anything because you don't know what it's like to be me and you can't live it through other people's experience, you have to have first hand experience to know what racism feels like. When I was told there was very minimal racism here, it came from my dad who was 100% caucasion so of course he won't know what it feels like unless he walked into an All-Black neighborhood.

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Out of Cypress and into a more urbanized but not significant and diverse area of the Houston area. Have you looked into Sugarland or Pearland? You won't have problems there. Cypress is like a gateway of the Houston urban area. On one side, the area continues to become more city like and urban (and suburban). On the other side, it becomes more rural and exurb.

[ijk keo]

Originally Posted by Bueller427

what type of business do you have?, reason being, My family also has a business here in new york [ for 79 years ] and we were thinking on starting one up out there as well, we sell work clothes/workware ex: lee, dickies, timberland boots, georgia boots, carhartt ect....to much to list. just wondering if it would be successful there.... NATSMENSSHOP (http://mysite.verizon.net/bizp5i3j/index.html - broken link)

Bueller

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