Houston does have good things
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5/27/2007
I've grown up here in Houston...I've been here for 27yrs. If you are not from Houston you have to realize that there is Houston proper (which is a MASSIVE area b/c of serious annexation for a better tax base) and suburbs which all blend together. Which ever side of town you are in, you rarely need to travel to another side unless for work. If you are on the south side of town (I grew up in Clear Lake area), and are planning on traveling North (to Dallas for example) it WILL take you at LEAST one hour to reach the other side of town (more with peak traffic). There is ALWAYS traffic no matter what freeway (or expressways as some say) you are on. That is just a part of being in Houston. IF you don't like it find a job close to where you live. If you don't have car, forget living here. There is NO public transportation unless you live inside the inner loop 610. Outside the loop the public transportation is for commuting workers from the burbs into town. Every suburb has its own personality. Clear Lake is the area where many NASA employees live and is very close to Galveston (40min). Houston has some amazing resturants especially inside the inner loop; you can't find the diversity anywhere else. There is a zoo, Museum of Natural Science with a planatarium, Holocost Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Children's Museum, Museum of health science (forgot the exact name, but deals with the body)and the second largest theater district in the nation (I believe). Houston also has several Medical schools, several law schools, a dental school, a pharmacy school, an optometry school. Houston community college has many resources and tech programs and if you are looking for a university, there is the University of Houston and Houston Baptist University as well as Rice (which is an amzaing established area - very high property values). Because of Houston's Massive size, there are a ton of opportunities here even night life! You do have to be an agressive driver b/c you are sharing the roadway with 4 mil other drivers. If you didn't grow up in either New York (where hardly anyone drives) or L.A., Houston will be a change for you. I was suprised to read that people from Houston are rude. I think people who come to Houston are rude. True Houstonians are not rude. We open the door for people, we say hello and thank you. We are courteous. The geography does SERIOUSLY lack...you are in the coastal plains (at least on the south side). There are very little trees
Abhd | Dickinson, TX