Richest Town In Texas

[madrone2k]

Originally Posted by War Beagle

Yeah I don't find bellaire to be that nice. West U is more consistently nice. I also prefer any of the "villages" to Bellaire too. Not even close to what Dallas has.

Yeah, its kind of interesting to me. I grew up in one of the Memorial villages and, looking back, it was a kind of idyllic environment that kept one from really knowing the reality of the overall city around it. I don't know if Dallas really had quite the same places, even though Highland Park and other places are quite nice. To explain by comparison, River Oaks is not the the same as the Memorial villages ... the latter of which I am starting to think of as the vestiges of German settlements from the 1800s. An interesting idea, but I may be making a stretch on it.

Dallas has some terrific neighborhoods also. I think it would be a good thing if we could maintain a memory of all these communities before we forget all of our history and just assume that everything has just been strip malls forever.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.biz...texas.amp.html

Once CD has 2017 figures, I wonder if the results will be the same ^^^^^.

Off the top of my head, it seemed to me that both West U and Westlake would fit into that city size (Westlake just barely), and that both would be above Bellaire.

CD pegs Bellaire's median household income at $190,484 for 2016.

CD pegs West U's median household income at over 200k for 2016, and Westlake also at over 200k.

[supfromthesite]

it was a kind of idyllic environment that kept one from really knowing the reality of the overall city around it

Believe it or not the entire city once looked like that

[Mr. Clutch]

Originally Posted by madrone2k

Yeah, its kind of interesting to me. I grew up in one of the Memorial villages and, looking back, it was a kind of idyllic environment that kept one from really knowing the reality of the overall city around it. I don't know if Dallas really had quite the same places, even though Highland Park and other places are quite nice. To explain by comparison, River Oaks is not the the same as the Memorial villages ... the latter of which I am starting to think of as the vestiges of German settlements from the 1800s. An interesting idea, but I may be making a stretch on it.

Dallas has some terrific neighborhoods also. I think it would be a good thing if we could maintain a memory of all these communities before we forget all of our history and just assume that everything has just been strip malls forever.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Villages - I think they're the prettiest neighborhoods in the city personally. As far as Dallas goes Highland Park is very nice as well, but there's something about the greenery and lushness of the Villages you really can't find in Highland Park - it has more of a wide-open, manicured look.

I prefer both over West University and Bellaire though, those areas are nice, but expensive moreso because of location than anything else.

[madrone2k]

Originally Posted by supfromthesite

Believe it or not the entire city once looked like that

That's a good point. I once saw a photograph taken -- I think -- somewhere near Harrisburg Blvd and and 69th Street that looked like a pine forest in a national park. I have also seen images of Buffalo Bayou downstream of downtown Houston, before the ship channel was dredged, that looked very beautiful. Added to that, I have memories from my own lifetime of areas that have been clearcut by developers. I'm sure the entire area wasn't stunning everywhere, but human beings have messed up a lot of it. OTOH, there are a lot of areas that were formerly kinda barren (treeless, I mean) that look better now than then. Bellaire is one example of that. I recall photos in the vicinity of the old Texaco laboratories there, perhaps from the 30s or 40s, that showed vast empty spaces with just a few roads "paved" with oyster shells.

[madrone2k]

Originally Posted by Mr. Clutch

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Villages - I think they're the prettiest neighborhoods in the city personally. As far as Dallas goes Highland Park is very nice as well, but there's something about the greenery and lushness of the Villages you really can't find in Highland Park - it has more of a wide-open, manicured look.

I prefer both over West University and Bellaire though, those areas are nice, but expensive moreso because of location than anything else.

One very nice thing about the Highland Park (Dallas) area is how they took advantage of Turtle Creek to create a very nice greenbelt. We don't have anything quite like that in Houston, although there are some kinda nice greenbelt implementation here also.