Sick of Living Here!
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7/5/2021
After 40 years of living in Houston or nearby (League City) I can't wait to get out when I retire.The climate is enough reason. It's 100 degrees for 100 days and now summer entails 2 months of constantly dodging hurricanes. Plus, 16 degrees in the winter should not shut down a city for four days.About all I see in Houston anymore, from when I drive under Beltway-8 in the morning until I drive out in the afternoon is poverty. If not poverty, then an extended lower-lower middle class. Something like 70% of the census tracts inside BW-8 are in the bottom third of national average household income. And there are some areas in my part of town (Clear Lake, which used to be a nice place to live) that are getting so bad I won't go there after night.Crime is out of sight here and the police are nowhere to be seen. They aren't even doing traffic stops anymore so people are driving reckless on the freeways. And about one person a day is getting shot in a road-rage incident.The city government is inefficient across the board and corrupt at the highest levels, and the county is going downhill as well. Property taxes are ridiculous.In short, Houston is quickly on its way to becoming the next Detroit.
Mark | Houston, TX