Is Houston a nice place? I'm thinking of relocating there.?

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Charles H

Actually Houston is not that bad a place. As has been mentioned, it is hot and humid in the summer and there are not a lot of outdoor activities, but there are also many good qualities as well. The cost of living is very low for a city the size of Houston. With the exception of high property taxes (house prices are cheap though), everything else is cheap and convenient. Houston has a diverse range of people and restaurants. It also has two good sized airports with one being the hub for Continental, so you can get cheap direct flights to most anywhere. Houston is also fairly centrally located so you can get to either coast in about 3 - 4 hours, as well as Canada and Central America. The Houston housing market is one of the few places that is still growing and unemployment is low as most of the energy companies have their headquarters in Houston. If you want outdoor activities, you can drive to the beach in Galveston (heard it is not that nice though), or if you prefer the mountains, Austin is a few hours drive away and has hills (maybe not quite mountains) and also many cultural activities (think Austin City Limits). Hope this helps.

Pondering Pam

I grew up in Houston. It's a lot like Los Angeles now. A TRUE melting pot.....in more ways than one!

It's humid. It's fast. And it's a crazy ride.

All in all, a terrific experience. If you have kids, look to the outskirts for better schools....(Kingwood, Friendswood, etc)

Kilroy

Its pretty cool. You have Galveston Tx with beaches 45 miles away.There are places you don't want to be caught in at night unless heavily armed.But the weather here in Tx is strange when its 90 its HOT..We had snow in april but 2 days later it was 93, and we had never ending rain in june and july..In Texas if you don't like the weather wait 30 minutes it will change.Think I am lying check this link out when it snowed on the beach in Galveston..http://www.bayreef.com/snow/snow.htm

Maverick

come on down but get ready for some freak'n HOT summers !

sweetmommy

I moved here from NYC 13 years ago and have learned to appreciate it. People are friendly and the cost of living is low. Great restaraunts & shops. Yes, summer is hot but there is a/c everywhere you go. Pretty much the same weather as Miami. It's laid out alot like LA, you have to have a car as everything is spread out. Try finding a place inside Loop 610 to make life easier.

Houston is a great place to live.

Cost of living is cheap. You can get a nice 3000 Sq FT house for $200K easily. Compare that to California, which can cost you at least $1 Million. Food is cheap, both at home as well as eating out - so we are among the fattest city.

People are friendly. People here have the Southern Hsopitality mentality - and we show it. I love to be able to be anywhere in Houston and just talk to strangers - and people don't mind.

Houston has lots of great entertainment - from sports (MLB, NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLS), musics (huge rock venue), classicals (one of the best opera companies and ballet companies in the country), theater, as well as driving distance to Galveston, San Antonio, Austin, Louisiana, Dallas.

Houston also has decently good weather if you don't mind heat, good access to the world through huge airport system, world class medical center, not too bad school system with excellent colleges.

I highly recommend Houston.

newyorkgal71

My hometown, I love it, even though I live in NYC.

If you like the feeling of yourself baking in the sun then yes. It's SO humid year-round. But it's near the beach so it's fun to go to in the Summer.

Mocha M

Houston is the last place in Texas I would relocate. The weather is oppressive and the city has very little flavor. It is not very refined or sophisticated compared to other cities, even though it is so large. The pollution and traffic are also trying.

Man of Gold

To the above poster, Houston does not have Six Flags anymore..............where have you been?

Personally I would pick San Antonio or Austin over Houston. They are a lot more fun. Houston is just a city with no zoning, too spread out, no true outdoor activity, horrible pollution and is just not that fun.

The only upside to Houston is its ethic diversity, work opportunities and restaurants but everything you can find in Houston, you can find in any other big city.

carissa m

I live in Houston right now and I am desperately trying to find a way out! True unemployment is very low and so is the cost of living but the humidity is HORRIBLE! So is the pollution from the chemical plants. It is number 9 or 10 for most polluted cities in the U.S. It is a big city so there is a lot to do but who wants to leave their house when the it is 100 degrees outside with a humidity of 95%! I guess it just depends on what you like.

Colt's all da way

i don't think so, it's humid and there's not much 2 do there.

residentevilchess

If you don't mind blazing scorching burning place like houston, go ahead knock yourself out.

Richard A

Houston has a famous six flags park called Astroworld!!!

alex g

YEAH ITS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE THE POLLUTION ISNT ******* BAD ITS ONLY BAD NEAR OIL **** NEAR THE COAST IN THE HOUSTON BAY EVERYTHING BELOW WILL SHOW U HOW GREAT HOUSTON AND THAT FACT TEXAS ARE.

ANY HOW FOR MORE INFO GO TO WIKIPEDIA AND RESEARCH TEXAS THEN ITS CITY AND HOUSTON TO.

AND WELL UM ITS NOT REALLY SPREAD APART ITS ALLOT OF **** IN A BIG AREA. THATS IT. KNOW SUMMER WEATHER SUCKS BUT THERE HOTTER PLACES ON EARTH AND FLORIDA ANOTHER GREAT STATE IS HUMIDER.

ANY HOW ITS NOT AS BAD *** LOS ANGELAS OR CALIFORNIA SHITTY 4 MOST POLLUTED CITY IN AMERICA ITS NOT BAD ONLY IN THE BAY AREA THING AND IF AJ LETS GO ANSWERS IGNORE HER SHE THE VILLIAGE IDOT AND IS ******* CRAZY.

Why do so many people say cali tight and then never been there?
california is beautiful and is nice but here this dude joe m hit the nail on the head so i copied and pasted his comment and i have many things i typed like this . so here u go his then mine

CALIFORNIA IS THE WORST STATE BY FAR! HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF WHY: MORE NATURAL DISASTERS THAN ANY OTHER STATE, THEY HAVE SOMETHING(FIRES,EARTHQUAKES,SO... ATLEAST EVERY OTHER MONTH. OVER-PRICED, OVER-CROWDED, OVER-CRIMED, DIRTY, TOO MANY MEXICAN-AMERICANS(DIFFERENT THAN IMMIGRANT MEXICANS) WITH SHI**Y ATTITUDES LIKE YOURS. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY SO ROTTEN, AND MAKES THE REST OF THE WORLD HATE US. I KNOW I WAS IN IRAQ WITH OVER 100 PEOPLE(AND I USE THE TERM LOOSELY HERE) FROM FRESNO. THEY WERE NOTHING BUT CRIMINALS. BESIDES, IF CALIFORNIA IS SO GREAT, WHY DO ALL THE CALIFORNIANS MOVE TO ARIZONA(KINGMAN/PHOENIX MY HOMETOWNS) AND JUST RUIN THOSE USED-TO-BE-LOVELY PLACES? WHY DON'T THEY STAY IN CALIFORNIA IF IT'S SO GREAT? IN FACT IF MEXICO IS SO GREAT WHY AREN'T THEY A WORLD POWER? WHY ISN'T THEIR GREAT ARMY HELPING TO SUPPORT THE WAR IN IRAQ? WHY? I'LL TELL YOU WHY. FOR THE SAME REASON THIS JOKE WAS MADE. WHY DOESN'T MEXICO HAVE AN OLYMPIC TEAM? BECAUSE ANYONE WHO CAN RUN, JUMP OR SWIM IS ALREADY IN AMERICA. SO DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND GO BACK TO YOUR GREAT NATION OF MEXICO, AND GET THE F**CK OUT OF MY COUNTRY!

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alex g
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in california one of the worst freaking *** places ever well compared to the ******* freacking *** rocking universe. or the united states i rank cali as 5th best state. after like maryland. In this order TEXAS< FLORIDA< ILLINOIS< GEORGIA, MARYLAND. CALIFORNIA for most people its is nice weather this be true.

and a nice place but **** west coast. last thing till japan.

most people havent been to cali and some people for some reason say they would want to live there . which i find odd.

know i see great weather and u can see snow in one day then desert that is tight,.

but then the freacking economy okay. and the people then the freacking natural distaters. wildfires, outrageous home prices. crappy goverment i think. to many liberals 4 of the most polluted citys in america. know earthquakes and like every thing. okay then the in los angelas. the huge ghetto shitty almost everywere. there many few beautiful places.

exspensive homes i mean to get something desent it like a million. and because it has been established as high prices plus like celberities. then LOS ANGELAS smog, partical pollution, the worst. worst traffic, a huge illegal population

After decades of mass immigration, California is no longer able to absorb a constant flow of immigrants and still maintain a decent quality of life for its residents. Currently, one in ten Americans is foreign-born, with about a third of the foreign-born population arriving in the past 10 years.

Since California receives about 25 percent of the nationâ€™s flood of immigration, our stateâ€™s numbers look a little different, with an astounding one in four Californians being foreign-born. In addition, nearly all of our stateâ€™s growth is now due to immigration and higher-than-average fertility rates among new immigrants.

If current legal and illegal immigration trends continue, an estimated 60 million people will call California home by 2050.

There are an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens currently residing in our country.
All of the 9/11 hijackers were in the United States legally, having entered on temporary visas.

California is home to at least 3.2 million of those illegal aliens.

Illegal immigrants who take low-paying jobs don't pay enough in income taxes, if they pay at all, to reimburse taxpayers the $5,000/per student annual cost of educating their children.
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of California $10.5 billion a year for education, health care, and incarceration.
Illegal aliens constitute 15 percent of our stateâ€™s school population.
Between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals were forced to close from the financial burden of providing free health care for uninsured illegal aliens.
Illegal immigrants who enroll in the University of California system are charged in-state tuition.
Each year the Border Patrol makes more than a million apprehensions of persons unlawfully crossing U.S. borders to work and to receive public assistance, often with the aid of fraudulent documents. Such entry is a misdemeanor, and if repeated becomes punishable as a felony.
Illegal aliens from Central America have been allowed to remain in the United States so long that their homelands have grown dependent on the billions of dollars a year they send home in remittances.
300,000 people who have been ordered deported are still in the country because their deportation orders were not enforced.
Census Bureau estimates say 115,000 people from terrorist-sponsoring Middle Eastern nations live in the United States illegally.
Some illegal aliens from terrorist nations pay as much as $50,000 each to be smuggled into our country.
Approximately one-third of all foreign-born U.S. residents are illegal aliens.
Over half of all Mexicans living in the United States are here illegally.
In the last decade, 80 to 85 percent of the flow of Mexican immigrants has been illegal.
A strategy of attrition through enforcement could reduce the illegal population by as many as 1.5 million illegal aliens each year. Currently about 183,000 illegal aliens per year depart without the intervention of immigration officials, according to DHS statistics.

IT says if u read most of californias population increase is do to illegals. who suck the **** of of tax payers and watever. for the poor californians makeing it so exspensive./
so better to live there poor.

know so many people moving from exspensive citys of cali florida and texas for cheaper and more resonable life style.

know okay los angelas hey i think of tight graffiti from awr, msk, nasa crew, tko, know i am know toy and dont care for west coast nut awr, and msk , took **** to the exstreme. okay.

and i think of tight rappers such as dr dre. snoop dogg, tupac and nwa.

know east coast rap better orgial and there first.

SO STUPID PEOPLE ONLY SOME< Lots of gay liberals and high crime, in some areas. run down areas.

high prices and shitty traffic i think of one of the shitty citys with some exseptions. in a nice state but know shitty and over run with illegals problems legal stuff. high pollution and crime. and just to many damn liberals and crappy health care, and crappy school systems

ONE GOOD THING OF LOS ANGELAS GREAT SHOPPING FOR GIRLS AND HUGE MALLS. AND FOR MY STUFF AS A GUY. AND WELL THE CLIMATE.

AND THE NIGHTLIFE.

OTHER THEN THAT AN OKAY PLACE TO VIST JUST FOR A COUPLE DAYS.

BUT EVERY CITY HAS MALL AND NIGHTLIFE LA HAS SOME OF THE BEST THOUGH

ONLY GOOD THING

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