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That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
It's not really the kind of city that has interesting places to go and things to see?
That's pretty much it. Horrible place to visit, great place to live. Whenever guests would come to town, I'd be scratching my head on things to do. Other than eat, that is. The museums (musea?) are great as well, but it's hard to take guests to one and have it be a great outing.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods? Serious question. I don't know my way around at all, but I work in the energy sector so I''ll likely be back at some point and would love more info.Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
yes, many...walk, great bike share program, etc but you definitely need a car. I rarely get caught in traffic b/c I stay downtown and rarely travel outside of the loop. It's just hot during the day (summer) so stay the f inside/in a car from 10-7pm. However, September/October is just around the corner and this is when the weather starts to get awesome.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods? Serious question. I don't know my way around at all, but I work in the energy sector so I''ll likely be back at some point and would love more info.Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
I'll PM for more info next time work takes me there.yes, many...walk, great bike share program, etc but you definitely need a car. I rarely get caught in traffic b/c I stay downtown and rarely travel outside of the loop. It's just hot during the day so stay the f inside/in a car from 10-7pm. However, September/October is just around the corner and this is when the weather starts to get awesome.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods? Serious question. I don't know my way around at all, but I work in the energy sector so I''ll likely be back at some point and would love more info.Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
Not gonna even read the rest of the thread cuz this just nails it. California native here, who spent 6 glorious years in Austin. Moved to the Great White North for work and miss Austin dearly.
Heights, West U/Rice/Museum District, Downtown, East Downtown are your best bets depending on what you want. Downtown is really undervalued right now.I'll PM for more info next time work takes me there.yes, many...walk, great bike share program, etc but you definitely need a car. I rarely get caught in traffic b/c I stay downtown and rarely travel outside of the loop. It's just hot during the day so stay the f inside/in a car from 10-7pm. However, September/October is just around the corner and this is when the weather starts to get awesome.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods? Serious question. I don't know my way around at all, but I work in the energy sector so I''ll likely be back at some point and would love more info.Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
yeah, Austin is overrated. I love to visit but I could never live there for more than a month or two.
This is basically my biggest concern right now. I hate driving. I hate vast expanses of strip-mallish blight and 8-lane, 45 mph roads (and would it kill you southerners to build a ####### city on a grid?) So far, I'm hearing the Heights is the place to go.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods?Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
I recently met a guy who had just moved from Austin to upstate NY to be closer to family. He said they put their Austin home up for sale in January and closed on the sale just like 2 weeks ago. In the 7 months that the house was on the market, the property price increased 15% in value. They ended up cashing in bigtime. Sounds like the real estate market down there is wild right now.
It really depends where you work. I can ride a bike, run (watch out for the cops) or drive to work. 2-3 min drive, 5 min bike ride. I rarely deal with traffic and only on the highway at night or when I'm going to Austin/Nola.This is basically my biggest concern right now. I hate driving. I hate vast expanses of strip-mallish blight and 8-lane, 45 mph roads (and would it kill you southerners to build a ####### city on a grid?) So far, I'm hearing the Heights is the place to go.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods?Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
By the way, my wife and I went to the lakefront today (a 10-minute drive from our apartment), walked around the bird sanctuary and beach and harbor with the newborn in tow. Weather app said it was 77 degrees. Lake breezes abounded. AND SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT HOW HOT IT WAS. This is the woman who wants to move our little family to Houston. FML
Traffic can be bad. It's worsened by the fact that it's such a linear city north-to-south. Getting from the "top end" to the "bottom end" during rush hour would be mind-numbing. And, due to the various tech companies strewn about the city with a variety of start/end times, rush hour usually started around 3pm.
Well, they both suck, just on different levels. The suck level of Houston is off the charts.
Austin was great 20 years ago, and Houston was awful 20 years ago.
Speaking of untimed stoplights, Houston downtown got their act together a couple years ago. I made it from the north side of downtown to the medical center and hit 27 straight green lights (yes, I counted) a couple weeks ago. Took me around 10 minutes.ffldrew said:
I was in SF a couple weeks ago and there was a suspicious package on the Bay Bridge. 3 hours to get out of a town that is about 7 square miles. I'm also not a huge fan of paying $3-5 an hour to park.I find it hilarious that any city in TX is being compared to the likes of SF.
Median home price 6.7 times the median household income? Yikes!I find it hilarious that any city in TX is being compared to the likes of SF.
You get what you pay for. SF is very popular because of all it's beauty and amenities. Culture galore! If it was a meh city then yeah, you wouldn't have traffic and higher alerts. I don't live in SF but love how I'm 30 minutes away from this fine city that never gets boring.I was in SF a couple weeks ago and there was a suspicious package on the Bay Bridge. 3 hours to get out of a town that is about 7 square miles. I'm also not a huge fan of paying $3-5 an hour to park.I find it hilarious that any city in TX is being compared to the likes of SF.
No one said it wasn't pricey here. There are rich areas in the bay area and there are more economical ones. I just enjoy being able to be anywhere from 30 min to a couple hours from SF, Carmel, Monterey, and other breathtaking areas that most can't afford to live in.Median home price 6.7 times the median household income? Yikes!I find it hilarious that any city in TX is being compared to the likes of SF.
At my wifes house in Katy, on Saturdays in football season, there are tons of flags out. Lots of LSU, UT, A&M, with lots of others sprinkled in.
I live in Montrose and it's very walkable. Tons of restaurants and bars and funky shops down Westheimer.Are there cool walkable city-ish neighborhoods? Serious question. I don't know my way around at all, but I work in the energy sector so I''ll likely be back at some point and would love more info.Yeah, I usually don't interact with such types but it gives the suburbs character. You can keep Austin weird, I'll keep Houston gross.Conversation I once had in Houston at a luncheon during a work conference:That works. You should want to move to Houston for the breasts, underpriced real estate, drink/food, champion level sport, low tax, etc. It's easy to live well here if you make decent coin.That's awesome! How often is she planning on visiting you in Chicago?Ugh. My wife wants to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
Me: You guys are from here, right? This is my first visit. Do you have any recommendations for great sites to see or neighborhoods to check out or anything like that while I'm here?
Houston resident: It's not really that kind of city.
Me:
Houston resident: Yeah. But it's a great place to raise a family.
Me: (gauged pros and cons of massive in-room porn bill showing up on expense account)
Weird place.
