Posted on 07/01/2014 11:00:20 AM PDT by blam
Emmie Martin and Max Nisen
July 1, 2014
When you think about Houston, Texas, you probably picture massive oil refineries, oppressive humidity, and a sub-par baseball team — a far cry from one of the nation's most up-and-coming cities.
But you shouldn't dismiss Houston so easily; the Bayou City is an economic juggernaut.
It's by far the country's No. 1 job creator and home to 26 Fortune 500 companies. A paycheck goes farther here than anywhere else in the country, and it has a medical center larger than downtown Dallas.
Add a thriving restaurant and cultural scene, and you've got a winning case for Houston as the best city in America. Here are 18 reasons you may want to pack your bags and head south.
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As the Sally Kellerman’s character said in the movie A Little Romance. “Houston? We’re moving to g-d damn Houston?”
My last USCG station was Galveston which was quite nice. Houston, not so much.
I heard a good joke in a comedy club in Houston.
The comedian was from So. Cal. He got caught up in a frog strangler while trying to negotiate Houston’s freeways.
He said that the wipers need a third setting.
Low, High and Houston.
In Texas but not of Texas!
Yeah, that was true in 1966 too when I used to go to the games in the Dome. They had some good talent like Joe Morgan and Rusty Staub--both traded away.
Comments on the traffic and heat here take me back to that time. The traffic wasn't quite so bad then but the heat was horrific. You hustled from one air conditioned setting to another. Weekends in Galveston helped.
One thing not mentioned, rats. Saw one outside a downtown bar that could have passed for a possum.
It was a boomtown then and a third the population and not yet overrun by the illegal brown wave and blacks weren't as hostile then either.
traffic was still a bitch even then
the heat is no worse than anywhere on the coast from Wilmington to Jaxville o Mobile and New Orleans etc
typical SE coastal plain summer
the weather improves markedly if you travel in to Austin or Hill Country...a bit drier
Lotsa a girls...that was what I liked and back then it was not yet overrun by Northerners...so it was just another big southen town
I lived Dairy Ashford and Westheimer...when Katy was outta town
I still have kin all over suburban NW Houston near woodlands and further out
I lived in Dallas as a boy...I prefer Dallas myself...still have kin their including a Cowboy cheerleader
I love Yexas and most its folks...I feel at home there
the indigenous culture i Dallas and Houston is the warmest you will find in any big city...Atlanta too to be fair
I lived in Beaumont working pipeline river crossing job for my dad then...we subbed from Brown...lol...didn't everyone back then in Texas?
the people in that SE triangle were a lot more clannish and kinda hostile to outsiders...especially over women
and hell I'm Mississippian...not exactly foreign or Yankee
I had an affair with a separated older gal who had been terrified of her ex
one night i opened his closet to get her something and there hanged a Klan robe....swear by all things sacred...this was north Beaumont....not Vidor
anyhow....she was like a scared little dove
the old Palace cow barn north of town towards Lumberton was a get your ass whipped sort of bar...wonderful..lol
I ended up Godfather to a child there and still contact them all to this day...shes a teacher in Lakeways near Austin
anyhow...I love Texas and their women...really really
but SE Texas...aside from a job...not my cup of tea but God love em...
I fear they have lost their town to outsiders with no culture commonality
I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS IT! I LOVE TEXAS...MY FAVORITE STATE.....MY AUNT AND UNCLE AR STILL IN PRITCHETT WE GO THERE AND DALLAS TO SHOP EVERY YEAR IN FALL BREAK
You can keep Houston and all its garbage.
Houston crime statistics report an overall upward trend in crime based on data from 12 years with violent crime increasing and property crime increasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Houston for 2014 is expected to be higher than in 2010.
The city violent crime rate for Houston in 2010 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 144.29% and the city property crime rate in Houston was higher than the national property crime rate average by 71.87%.
In 2010 the city violent crime rate in Houston was higher than the violent crime rate in Texas by 118.98% and the city property crime rate in Houston was higher than the property crime rate in Texas by 33.66%
Remember when the schools weren’t air-conditioned, managing classrooms of 30 to 35 kids under those conditions must have been tough, and two a day football workouts are probably still tough.
Texans lean towards being tough, Sherman was wrong, Davy Crockett was right.
Houston also has leftist politicians running the place
Propaganda bs. I see most sane people think almost as little of this SH as i do
From my personal experience, the most spontaneously friendly people live in Houston.
Have you ever thought of going into advertising?
I've occasionally thought of moving back, but every time I visit, the heat wears be out. I simply do not understand how the hell I used to ride 30-40 miles a day on my bicycle most every day when i was young. It's only saving grace was that the only hills were overpasses.
Actually, being a one-man industrial complex, I do a bit of ad work from time to time. However, given the results to date, I should probably hire that task out to somebody with a bit more of a knack for it. ;-)
Compared to Houston, are you kidding? Totally a good thing.
I thought the Aeros left at the end of the 2013 season. I remember watching the old Aeros with Gordie Howe and his sons in the WHA when they played the Indy Racers.
Despite no hockey, I enjoy visiting Houston. Mrs. henkster’s family was just here last week, so now we’re already planning the trip back in October or November. I don’t mind the long drive, but Mrs. henkster will insist on flying. We went to our niece’s wedding three years ago at the beginning of October. Flew in Thursday, went to the wedding Friday at a converted 1914 era fire station, on the beach at Galveston Saturday, and a Cubs/Astros game at Minute Maid on Sunday. That’s not a 3 day vacation; it’s heaven.
You can have it, all of it
I am sorry but 99deg and 99% humidity 99% of the time is NOT my cup of tea.
“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.”
Yup...I do too. I miss Texas.(All my exe's live there, lol)
I lived about half the time in Bellaire and the other half out west in Richmond
I got there in 1975 and left after 20 years at TI in 1995.
Dang, I guess that is why we didn’t see the groupon coupons this season...
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