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I lived around houston from late '86 until summer of '16 but never in the citiy limits though I drove there nearly every day. It was a long long time in what I consider to be America's most undesirable city. In one way it was like Midland, surrounded by lakes at least 150 miles in any direction. Houston is land locked. You have to drive at least half a day to get to anywhere remotely interesting and then everybody in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worthless has had the same idea.

It is impossible for me to run out of reasons to denigrate houston. There is just so much about the whole region that sucks. The Allen brothers sold one of the biggest frauds in the history of the country. Build a city in a swamp? Just why? With ground water withdrawal the flooding will continue to get worse by the year. There is no remedy for it. I moved to the far NW side and the city followed me. Hardly anywhere to go but NW or far north even beyond Conroe. There is a mild escarpment on highway 290 just NW of Cypress. That marks the edge of the Galveston Basin. Inside that you flood. Gain 90 feet or so and you don't.

I can't feature what downtown became like after covid. One of my former clients office complex downtown became as little as 5% occupied and I don't think it has gotten much better with loaf from home still in effect. I used to work weekend duty downtown and you could shoot a cannon down the streets without fear of hitting a thing. It was almost spooky.

I had a townhouse uptown for a bit where I would live during the week. The 50 mile commute that included nearly an hour to the bus stop and then another hour or sometimes 2 and as much as 4 hours was killing me. That is each way folks for an average of about 3.5 or more hours on a good day each day. I tried walking to work from the townhouse, just six blocks or so from just south of 610 on the south side. Gave that up quickly. Just too dangerous any time of day. I'm sure it is worse now.

No matter who runs it, houston SUCKS. Anybody that says differently is either daft or just trying to put a smile on a bad situation and cope. Good for them. I stayed until I could leave. One bucket for money and one bucket for crap. When one bucket gets full, you go home. I did.