Family moved to Baytown when I was two. Spend pretty much all of my childhood there, although my first 2 1/2 years of high school were at a boarding school up north. I don't know if I'd call myself a native Houstonian, since I didn't really know where stuff was in Houston until I got a Metro map during my freshman year at U of H in '97. Just figured downtown, the Summit, the Zoo, Galleria, TSU, Astroworld, the Tunnel, the Med Center, Museum of Dinosaur/Imax/Planetarium, Ferrari dealership which you can see from Highway while visiting Dad, Jones Wortham Alley Center Theatre Hall, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Town & Country, Sharpstown, Westwood, Deerbrook and Baybrook Malls, and both airports were just all kind of together. I didn't definitively know there were multiple sets of big buildings in distinctly different parts of town.
born at rosewood hospital, lived in alief until i was 3, katy until i graduated (with about five months in cali/illinois).
5th generation Texan from my dad's side; born-and-raised 1st generation Houstonian at Memorial-Hermann Hospital in 1975.
Greater Houston metro area. 1 actual year in Houston (2 years old), plus I was born in another state. Lived only 2 of the past 13 years in Houston (area). Currently in California. But Houston will still be considered home. If I coulda built back tolerance for the weather and mosquitoes I'da maybe been back already.
Born in John Sealy. 281'er and a 99'er. Your poll lacks the category of those who were born and raised and moved on.
I think if you live somewhere else you fall outside of the people he was asking to answer the poll when he directed it: To Houstonians.
Born in Salt Lake City Utah moved to Houston in 1982 lived in the Alief area graduated Alief Elsik High School 1n 1992 moved to Albuquerque New Mexico 2001 still there and no I am not a Mormon. Always have been a Rockets fan Never liked the Jazz.
Spent the first 11 years of my life here, then various towns around lake chuck, la until Sept 2007 when I moved back. I still don't really know anyone here.
I was born and raised in Houston. I don't know if I count as first generation because my mother was not born here but did end up here in elementary school (although I think there was time in DC, too - her dad was a judge and politician). After HS I have lived all over the place - Dallas, Atlanta, Paris, DC, but I have been back in Houston since '03.
Why must everyone of your posts contain a name and city drop ? Elementary school does not count -- sorry.
My mothers family has been here since the 1800s but my moved away to shreveport whenever i was born and i live there for 7 years till we came back here.. been here for the past 18yrs...
not a "native". Born right outside of Hannover, Niedersachsen. I don't consider myself to be anything less than a Houstonian or a Texan.
