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Suburbs
- 2/26/2010
My family has lived in Katy Tx for just over 1 year. It is a nice suburb of Houston. As most suburbs it has nice areas and not so nice areas. The people in general seem
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Nothing to do in Katy
- 9/23/2009
Katy has absolutly no culture! The only thing the people are interested in here is high school sports. In order to find anything interesting to do you have to drive at least 30 minutes into
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Katy Texas
- 2/14/2009
Great place with everything you need! Excellent schools, lots of shopping, away from the big city and yet close
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Great Place to Call Home.
- 11/17/2008
I live in West Houston, in the Katy Area. I am from NYC. Lived in Chicago, LA and Miami. So, yes I love to live in big major cities. People who post negative comments about Houston are usually folks who don't like big cities, or who expect everything to be perfect. Which we all know can't exist in ANY large mid to large size city. Overall, Houston is a great city to work and live in. The Katy area is a great suburb to live in. Interstate 10 cuts right in the middle of the Katy area, making easy to get around the metro area. The homes are mostly on the new side, and are located within master planned communites. Shopping is great. Plenty of places to eat. And Houston and all it's entertainment is just minutes away. The Katy school district is among the best in the state. Overall great place to call
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Cost of Living in Katy Texas
- 9/4/2008
Cost of Living in Katy Texas is well below the national
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Katy, Texas -- Growth, prosperity and near Texas'
- 4/8/2008
I've lived in and around Katy for 16 years, including six years when I was in high school/college in the 1980s. Katy has grown from a small farm town into part of the Houston metropolitan sprawl. With the center of Houston projected to be near I-10 and Dairy Ashford in 10-20 years, Katy is close to the center of the action.
Atmosphere is friends and respectful with high school sports taking the spotlight on game nights. Business is good; housing is still pretty strong, and the economy has slowed only slightly. Gas prices are hovering at $3.20 as of April 7, 2008, while most are paying $3.60-$4.00+ in other major cities. Total energy deregulation solutions by Ignite/Stream Energy and traditionally low home prices have made the move to Katy a gold mine.
Road construction and long drives to downtown Houston are perhaps the biggest drawbacks to a suburban lifestyle if you have to drive in. Katy is among a handful of elite suburbs with above-average education
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Love Katy but always sick
- 2/28/2008
Katy is really lovely and very nice to live in, but my 4-year old and I have been sick since we moved here ... air quality very poor and allergies off the
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Good Place to Live
- 12/16/2007
Let me start by saying every place has it's warts and Katy is no different -so if you have a mindset of finding utopia, well, Katy and 99.9% of the world will not fufill your criteria.
Having said that, Katy is a very nice place to live - affordable housing, a very good school district and constant growth are just a few of the positives.
Katy is a suburb of Houston, so you can enjoy the 4th largest city in America and still live in a much smaller community.
As far as crime, traffic and the weather, well that depends on your mindset, after all we are not living in the 1950's so crime is a fact of life, though here it is less than within the city of Houston. Traffic is a bear but if you are resourceful you can find a way to beat sitting in traffic by using the bus park and ride system, carpool which allows the use of the high occupancy lane or move closer to your job.
The weathere here? can be brutal in the summer no doubt,
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You will love Katy
- 9/21/2007
Any of you guys want cheap living, beautiful houses, somewhere nice to live, come to Katy,TX. Katy has some of the Best exemplary schools, great for kids and family lifestyle. Talking about Cheap, Katy is one of the cheapest places I have ever been from housing, to grocery shopping and clothes. Great for a family. Weather is warm, hot, nice. Email me for more info about
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how is Katy ISD schools?
- 7/9/2007
relocating to Katy from Irvine, CA....how would you rate Kate in comparison to
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