Reviews & Comments
Houston, TX
Might As Well Live In A Rainforest -
6/20/2016Houston (and all of southeast Texas) is a miserable place to live. The climate is classified as "subtropical", but there seems to be no real difference between tropical and subtropical. Just realize that the weather is nice about 20% of the year. The summers are long, hot, humid, and unbearable. It's pretty bad during the day time, too. A normal year has about 10 months of "summer" and two months of "other". If you're not dodging giant mosquitoes, you'll be dodging floods and hurricanes.
The traffic is out of control, and there is no scenery. If you enjoy looking at tons of ugly ass billboard signs, cows, endless miles of flat land and concrete, this is the place for you!
In all fairness, Houston is a big, modern city with lots of entertainment, restaurants, world class medical facilities, and nice pockets of urban dwellings. The residents come from all classes---homeless to billionaires--and almost all ethnic groups are well represented. Houstonians are tolerant and forgiving, for the most part. You'll find more open-minded people here than in the DFW area, for example. Sure, there's cowboy/redneck types around, but not nearly as many as in Dallas-Ft.Worth. There are a TON of fat, bible-beating, ignorant pot-bellied, narrow-minded rednecks up there! To summarize, Houston weather is awful, but there are things to do. The best places to be in Texas are in the hill country regions. It's still hot in Austin/SA, Kerville, Fredericksburg, and San Angelo...but it sure is pretty in those places. Stay out of Houston, if you can.