Houston Options

[Hartmann]

While we are on the subject of Houston, a friend of mine just accepted a job at National Oilwell Varco on the Beltway and Richmond. Any apartment suggestions in the Westchase area for a girl living by herself who doesn't know Houston at all?

Talking to a co-worker, she lives at Alta Royal Oaks off of Westpark and Wilcrest, one block from Richmond and the Beltway. They're clean, safe, and there is less traffic since there is not a ton of stuff around (just some townhomes and Royal Oaks, nice!)

[impala454]

i miss houston

thank you! i'm so sick of all the negativity people have towards houston.

[theIncredibleEdi...]

thank you! i'm so sick of all the negativity people have towards houston.

me too...I love Houston. I get so tired of all the people who admonish Dallas and are down on Houston. IMO, Dallas is too uppity.

[Testm0nkey]

lets love on houston!

# Houston has more than 11,000 unique restaurants.
# Houston has a Theater District second only to New York City in terms of a concentration of seats in a single geographic area. Located downtown, the 17-block Theater District is home to eight performing arts organizations with more than 12,000 seats.
# Houston has a unique museum district offering a range of museums, galleries, art and cultural institutions, including the Houston's major museums.
# Houston has more than 500 cultural, visual and performing arts organizations, 90 of which are devoted to multicultural and minority arts.
# Houston has a young population; 37 percent of Houstonians are 24 years old or younger and 34 percent are between the ages of 25 and 44.
# Houston boasts more than 40 colleges, university and institutions - offering higher education options to suit all interests.
# Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world, with a local economic impact of $10 billion. More than 52,000 people work within its facilities, which encompass 21 million square feet. Altogether 4.8 million patients visit them each year.
# Houston has the most affordable housing of 10 most populated metropolitan areas; Houston housing costs are 39 percent below the average of 26 U.S. urban populations of more than 1.5 million.
# Houston has the second lowest cost of living among major American cities.

[Seeker]

dallas and houston both suck

fort worth is actually the best city in texas

[theIncredibleEdi...]

and Houston has THE DYNAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[False Dude]

yeah but Cathryn should be like an ambassador for Houston. sometimes its like listening to a guided tour.

[Divergent Realit...]

yeah but Cathryn should be like an ambassador for Houston. sometimes its like listening to a guided tour.

that will touch your penis.

[impala454]

the science museums and stuff are really neat. and the sports stadiums are awesome. stros and rockets are doin pretty well right now too.

[kcroxyoursox]

I too love Houston and miss it terribly (I hate Fort Worth where every 7.2 seconds you're in some different little crappy city)

*Houston has Java Juice (bet no one else here has been there)

Here are a few rules about Houston:

1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is "Hue-stun," not "Ewe-stun", or "house-tun" Oh yea, it is pronounced "San Phil-ee-pay," not "San Phil-eep" (San Felipe). Enunciate, you idiots!

2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Houston has its own version of traffic rules...Hold on and pray. There is no such thing as a dangerous high-speed chase in Houston. We all drive like that.

3. All directions start with, "Go down to Loop 610".... which has no beginning and no end.

4. The Chamber of Commerce calls getting through traffic... a "Scenic Drive."

5. The morning rush hour is from 6:00AM to 10:00AM. The evening rush hour is from 3:00PM to 7:00PM. Friday's rush hour starts Thursday morning.

6. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear-ended, cussed out and possibly shot. When you are the first one off the starting line, count to five when the light turns green before going, to avoid getting into any cross-traffic's way.

7. Kuykendahl Road can ONLY be pronounced by a native Houstonian.

8. Construction on I-10, I-45, US 59 and Loop 610 is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment.

9. All unexplained smells are explained by the phrases, "Oh, we must be in Pasadena!" or "God, I hate Baytown!" or "Mmm, smell that Texas City!"

10. If someone actually has their turn signal on, it is probably a factory defect.

11. All old ladies with blue hair in a pink Cadillac have total right-of-way.

12. The minimum acceptable speed on Loop 610 is 85 mph. Anything less is considered downright sissy. In turn, the minimum speed on Westheimer is at least 45mph...

13. The rod iron on windows in east Houston is NOT ornamental

14. Never stare at the driver of the car with the bumper sticker that says, "Keep honking, I'm reloading." In fact, don't honk at anyone.

15. If you are in the left lane, and only going 70 mph in a 60 mph zone, people are not waving when they go by.

16. Beltway 8 is our daily version of NASCAR.

17. If it's 100 degrees, Thanksgiving must be next weekend.

18. When in doubt, remember that all unmarked exits lead to Louisiana.

22. If you live in Katy and I live on the south side of Houston, we'll never hang out

23. The best thing about being drunk between 2-5 am is Whataburger will serve both breakfest and normal menus.

24. You are always able to be pulled over by any police vehicle, even if you were just given a ticket.

25. You don't have to wait for an exit to get off a freeway, just follow the ruts in the grass to the feeder like everyone else. This is how Houston residents notify Texas Department of Transportation where exits should have been built.

26. Else-where, they are called frontage roads... Here in Houston, they are called FEEDER roads, so dont look stupid when we say "Exit the feeder road and use the loop-d-loop


YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM HOUSTON WHEN:

You're on your way to work one February morning and suddenly you're trapped in a traffic jam caused by a chuck wagon and fifty horses -- with riders -- and you look around to see that everybody in the cars around you is wearing a cowboy hat.

The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.

If you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you can go to a Randall's Flagship, a Kroger Signature, a Rice Epicurean, or an HEB Central Market to buy bread and milk (but you have to dress up!)

You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a low of 29 degrees.

You have a Roach Story: You opened your flatware drawer to find a roach the size of the Taco Bell chihuahua. He stood up and looked you in the eye. You closed the drawer, bought new flatware -- and stored it in the oven.

When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, you don't think he's won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes; you know he just stepped in a fire ant bed.

The name "Bud Adams" makes people snarl, and "Bum Phillips" doesn't mean a bad screwdriver.

"Luv ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out of town.

You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth Wonder of the World.

You come to work in short-sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a "blue-tailed norther" has blown through, and the temperature has dropped 40 degrees in a matter of minutes.

Your neighbor's Christmas yard decorations look like a re-creation of the gunfight at the OK Corral, complete with a ten-foot tree decorated with boots and cowboy hats, and a Santa Claus who looks a lot like Wyatt Earp.

You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs because they're written in Asian characters instead of English, but you don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer merchandise there.

You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two cross-dressers on roller blades, holding hands.

The "Killer Bees" are not stinging insects.

You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to window-shop.

You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your father's failure to practice good dental hygiene.

You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more than one person.

For a Chili Cookoff, you'll use anything from armadillo to frog's legs, but you know that the only GOOD chili is made with chopped -- not ground -- beef, and it has NO beans and NO tomatoes.

Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the year.

Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair, and faces that have gone east, west, and north rather than south.

You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still haven't left the city limits. (During rush hour, you haven't left your neighborhood.)

You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under-construction -- and you've lived here for 20-30 years.

If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a good hair day.

You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile transmissions.

"The Dream" is not a fantasy.

The only real Mexican food is Tex-Mex.

A 747 with the Space Shuttle riding piggyback has actually flown low, right overhead, and nobody paid any attention to it.

You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more than the U.S. Treasury has.

You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but you'd rather that they keep the title of "Smog Capital."

You see nothing unusual about an 80-something former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses, mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and screams, "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, EYE-witness news" into a television camera every night.

[Splash Jackson]

I am a big Houston supporter, but if Houston is the second least expensive major US city, which city is Number 1?

[zetec]

D/FW is the fourth largest metro area in the US.


so nyah.

[DaveFireDancer19]

haha i have a coworker who lives in westchase....she really doesnt care for the car jackings and gun shots...but hey if you want to live next to work! haha go for it...

I personally love living inside the loop...its fantastic...and theres hardly traffic because we are always against it wherever we go...except 610 and westheimer and 45 and 59...it just sucks there regardless

I just wish I could afford to live in one of those 500K condos that i live next door too...

[chook]

I am going to be sitting in the Airport there for three hours on Sunday. If anyone wants to eat give me a ring!

[theIncredibleEdi...]

D/FW is the fourth largest metro area in the US.
so nyah.

Are you talking largest by distance or by population? If you're talking population, keep guessing....Houston is the fourth largest in the US (source: the 2000 US Census). Dallas ranked 8th...I dont think that in 7 years Dallas has been able to jump up by 4 spots.