Houston
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9/13/2012
Kevin, The Heights is a very old part of town right outside of the city which was the suburbs to live maybe 20 to 30 years ago. It is bordered on all sides by neighborhoods that are ghettos such as 45N & Airline and other rapidly loosing that safe & blue collar appeal such as Shepherd & 20Th area.
Whiteoak Avenue (6th street) was a small strip of the heights that gave the heights a short lived appeal with bars, restaurants and new homes and actually improved the lower part of the heights in value which now the city is building bicycle trails and parks that extend all the way to downtown. This very same thing has been done in the REAL SUBURBS described by Denise with far better results such as Sugarland, The Woodlands, Cypressh, and many other out side beltway 8 suburbs where entertainment, education, property taxes and recreation for the family is superb.
Yes the water at the beach is brown but that is b/c the Mississippi dumps its water on the Gulf of Mexico and while other cities like Austin might offer a far more favorable all around outside venues with better weather options and less aggressive mosquitoes if there is such a thing, Houston offers far better employment opportunities and it is less saturated that say Austin where many University of Austin graduates returned to Houston for work as many of their rivals from College Station.
As a military rat I have had the strange experience of living in several places such as NYC, long Island, NY, New Jersey, Philly (Downtown and North East), Denver, San Diego and Hawaii(Honolulu). Houston might not be as scenery aesthetically pleasant as Hawaii or Denver or the Entertainment Utopia that NYC is, or the sidewalk friendly Toronto or Miami is, Houston is like a NYC and its boroughs at a much smaller scale.
We are a growing city that offer the most important factor ... employment b/c at the end of the day who cares if you have the most beautifully wave on your back yard if you can't afford a food, education and shelter for your family.
Bp | Houston, TX