Houston Options

[cmac]

So lets say I live in New York and need five things. I need a cat litter box, 20lb box of cat litter, wireless USB adapter, a large plastic toy truck, and a carton of milk and some sliced ham (this shopping list was a reality a couple days ago for me). Can you honestly tell me that you believe it would be more convenient for me to walk out of some loft apartment into the streets of new york, get all of these items, and return in less time for less money? Please. I'd like to see someone hop on a subway with all this shit in their arms.

i see this daily. probably twice as much. i can take a picture if you like. i can see how it's more convenient to drive to the grocery and throw all the stuff in the car and drive home, but it also wastes fuel too.

[cupcake]

So lets say I live in New York and need five things. I need a cat litter box, 20lb box of cat litter, wireless USB adapter, a large plastic toy truck, and a carton of milk and some sliced ham (this shopping list was a reality a couple days ago for me). Can you honestly tell me that you believe it would be more convenient for me to walk out of some loft apartment into the streets of new york, get all of these items, and return in less time for less money? Please. I'd like to see someone hop on a subway with all this shit in their arms.
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you schlepp it! you have one of those folding dolly hooyahs that they sell everywhere in the city and bungee that shit up!

you also go to the corner grocery more often than you hit the supermarket with the tahoe and $300 worth of groceries.

you can also have the shit delivered for a nominal fee.

[Melanie]

houston is 2nd on my crappy cities in the US list. right after san antonio.

What's wrong with San Antonio?

And I f'in hate Houston. I just do. The city is a shithole and I refuse to drive through it when I go gambling in Lake Charles. 5 million people live there because they can't get out. Houston reminds me so much of Mexico. A crapload of lower income places, and some wealthy areas.

[impala454]

I drive 2 miles to the wal mart & back... 4 miles total. My truck gets 17.5mpg. So I'm using .114 gallons of gas. Roughly 30 cents worth. IMHO 30 cents of gas is worth the amount of time saved.

[impala454]

A crapload of lower income places,

you're defending san antonio and then saying this about houston?

[Testm0nkey]

my dads commute from Kingwood (north houston suburb) to sugarland area is under an hour in rush hour traffic. ive made that drive several times myself.

my dad used to take the bus from kingwood to downtown when his building was there. never heard complaints i think it just took an hour

i love houston weather!

houston has a TON of parks. ive found most people (even native houstonians) dont even know where they are

you have to be smart enough to live in a city thats that big and sprawling. dont live in a high traffic zone, work downtown, and expect to get there in 20minutes in the mornings. change where you are looking at for real estate and youll be fine

lack of culture? maybe you should have tried to look around

dont ask someone from a small town their thoughts on houston. they will either love it or hate it. and most probably hate it. its hard to move from a place where you are related to everyone to a place where theres so much diversity

i love houston, hate NYC, san fran is okay but pretentious, love LA, hate seattle. houston is so much different and really a much more unique culture

if you are looking for theater places and hanging out at the miller outdoor or something... yeah thats going to be old people

what i hate the most is people talking smack about houston and they seem to have never traveled around it outside of their suburb, or respective side of town, the galleria and work. ill talk to someone mention a totally awesome place and they go "really? i never heard of that place"

[Melanie]

you're defending san antonio and then saying this about houston?

San Antonio only has a few. We have about 1.3 million people there and have no major problems with street cleaning, drainage issues, and we actually have some middle income areas, which is the large majority of san antonio. Every city has section 8, I'm well aware of this, but Houston does a horrible job at integrating the buildings with the other homes in the area, which San Antonio does really well at.

I'm just saying I don't like Houston. People that like Houston, that's their thing. I just don't like it. Some people love Dallas, whereas I would rather eat a frog that was peeing in my mouth than live in that city.

[impala454]

houston has a TON of parks. ive found most people (even native houstonians) dont even know where they are

totally agreed... I hadn't done much near downtown growing up, but I went with a friend to memorial park to walk last night, and wow it was neat... tons of people down there walking/jogging, at 9 PM at night. I couldn't believe there was so much foresty area that close to downtown.

you have to be smart enough to live in a city thats that big and sprawling. dont live in a high traffic zone, work downtown, and expect to get there in 20minutes in the mornings. change where you are looking at for real estate and youll be fine

bingo

lack of culture? maybe you should have tried to look around

double bingo

[impala454]

I'm just saying I don't like Houston. People that like Houston, that's their thing. I just don't like it. Some people love Dallas, whereas I would rather eat a frog that was peeing in my mouth than live in that city.

That's cool... but why knock it or make blanket statements you don't know shit about? I know I always seem defensive to you guys (probably because I am a kind of defensive person ), but when it comes to my city that's where I'm the most defensive

"Slimey! Mudhole!! My home this is!!"

[cupcake]

impala and testmonkey are totally gonna hook it up over their houston lust...

lack of culture? maybe you should have tried to look around

um, houston isn't my first rodeo and believe me I did. I personally found it quite vaccuous.

but then again, I like lubbock...so there you go...

[Testm0nkey]

i really want to go to Bush park (pee on the sign) but its supposedly the second biggest in houston.

and i cant remember the name of the park where my family used to go but its also a nature preserve. they have petrified trees, natural swamp land thats BEAUTIFUL amazingly enough, really nice paved and natural trails with bridges over the water and through the hanging spanish moss. its creepy, eerie, beautiful and actually feels pretty nice since its so shady

[cupcake]

"Slimey! Mudhole!! My home this is!!"

[cmac]

What's wrong with San Antonio?

san antonio is worse than mexico. everything hartman said about houston. it's dirty.
the people are the dumbest in the entire world, but don't know it.
ridiculous drivers in slow breaking down vehicles.
it's worse than detroit. or juarez.

[Hartmann]

I'll reply to the entire thread later but the mercury comment was not just state, it was for the entire country and Europe. I'll find the link.

Also, testmonkey, during rush hour traffic, it is impossible to make it from Sugar Land to the loop in less than half an hour. Maybe the story is different on the northwest side, but I doubt it, so I have no idea how your dad drives that route that fast.

As a test, I am going to leave my house tomorrow at 7:45am and drive to work the fastest route (59 north to the south belt westbound) and see how long it takes me. It's approximately 13 miles.

Oh, and for the record, I've made my way around this city (a lot). I go out of my way to find cool places to eat (Montrose has a lot) and on that end, Houston has some great food if you are willing to trek the traffic and try and find a parking spot.

Boston is one of my favorite cities, next is Chicago (minus winter), Philadelphia (those who think it's just crime have never been), and San Francisco (the hills kill me).

[Testm0nkey]

houston culture is definitely there but theres a DEFINITE sense of it being "underground". when a lot of scenes cease being that way people typically complain that they suck. so i think thats a good thing but its EASY to stumble into.


1 question: how many of you houstonians that complain about it ever toured the theater/museum district? a field trip in 8th grade to the MFA doesnt count. its AMAZING. 3rd best in the country (arguably the 2nd)

i have made the trip from kw to first colony in under an hour at 7am several times. several times = every time i drove that trip. it was bumper to bumper once for less than 5 minutes around the medical district exit
(i dont have any traffic complaints about 59)