Posted on 08/27/2022 5:37:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ve lived in Houston for most of my life, and there’s never been a time when I’ve reasonably been able to walk anywhere. Houston is practically the poster child for American urban sprawl — the landscape is dominated by spread-out neighborhoods with single-family homes and massive “stroads” (street-road hybrids with the worst aspects of both) lined with strip malls and expansive parking lots, connected by miles and miles of highways. It’s an environment designed to be solely traversed by car, not by foot.
That had a dramatic effect on the friends I could make, especially when I was younger and based in the city’s outer suburbs. Both of my parents worked, and without a car, if I missed my school bus home, I’d have to make the one-and-a-half-hour trek by foot under the hot Texas sun — forget easily going to the mall or the movies with my classmates.
College was eye-opening. I attended Texas A&M University, and spent most of my time in a denser, walkable campus environment that made it easy to meet and get to know people. I could start my day going to classes, then move to a dining hall, then the green space in front of my department building, and finally, the library — all without a car. It was easy to bump into friends, old and new, intentionally and by accident.
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I threw up a little in my mouth.
I like my machine shop I keep in the basement. That would be a real problem to take up to the 22nd floor.
Muizz Akhtar. Foreigner.
Lol. I hear ya.
I own a considerable amount of property back home, and hope to start a Second career if I get to “retirement” age. A nice pole barn in the backyard would be convenient. 👍
Indeed
Los Angeles = Sardine City
The Soros district attorneys have made living in many cities too dangerous for law abiding citizens.
This author obviously doesn’t live in the human connected area of Houston just outside the convention center.
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