Saw lots of knowledge on Greenspoint thread so I would like to talk about Conroe and surrounding area nearby. I've noticed lots of people on this bbs taking jabs at conroe and I was curious to get to the root of that. Isn't the west side of I45 in Conroe not so bad? Seems like lots of good places near lake like april sound and walden. My wifes family is in Panorama village and that seems nice enough too. What makes conroe so bad? Why the hate? csb- I don't live there and am out of state, but there is some possibility due to wife family and work that I may need to take a residence in conroe or near there.
To me, this is a microcosm of Conroe... To be fair, I grew up in The Woodlands. My view might be stunted a bit.
My wife went to Conroe high school. From her perspective, Conroe was full of racist white people who were either nouveau riche or white trash. Low class regardless of wealth. For the record my wife is as white as fresh snow so she wasn't discriminated against and still has some childhood friends who live there.
haha yeah I went to the wal mart in conroe and it was quite a show. Woodlands huh? Yeah I like the woodlands a lot..but ends up being a bit of a drive if having to commute to conroe area. So racist white trash is the issue? Seems like that would fit most of East and NE Texas (huntsville,tyler etc)
Its a different dynamic than east Texas, because of the country club crowd. Snobby low class white people.
In conroe, it's "the walmarts". rockbox's assessment is spot on. I had friends there and my mom worked in a couple of schools in Conroe. The club soccer team I played on was mostly conroe kids who's family was of the faux rich/white trash types and extraordinarily racist. How exactly is The Woodlands a long drive to commute to Conroe? You'd be going opposite of traffic and it's like 2 exits north.
Growing up in the Klein area, and having to play those guys in soccer (and being Indian myself), I can say that they were DEFINITELY racist. And like others have said, it's the lower-middle class type of white trash racism that was most prevalent. Sure, you have your really exclusive neighborhoods, but for the most part, the people there were really low-brow.
I was in Magnolia this weekend working. It looks like any other Houston suburb now. (this town is huuuuge)
I work in Cornrow, and it's not too great. Definitely last on my list of the greater Montgomery, Magnolia, Woodlands, Willis, Conroe metroplex area. I probably would hate it or like it a lot more if I lived there
My dad works up in Conroe. It's really nothing different than any other suburb on the city. The construction is really annoying, though. But the lake is fantastic.
I used to work at Moran utilities, anybody remember this? At the time, the ethnicity of the meter readers were 1 black, 1 white, 1 Hispanic, 1 asian (me). The black guy was in charge. But then again my uncle lives in conroe and he is most definitely racist.
I also work in the Conroe area, it sucks because now I hate, not hate, but strongly dislike a large percent of minorities. On the other hand if it's not some ghetto trash black, hispanic ect it's even more ghetto white trash. Conroe is everything that's wrong with the South in general.
3rd post because I hate Conroe so much, Leroy is spot on, if you're white and not living near the lake, that picture is exactly what everyone looks like. It wouldn't be so awkward if those types of people had a bit of humility, but that seemed to go the way of hygiene. They're all so loud and as a matter of fact simply embarrassing, and I don't think it's that they know it, I think that's how they think they should be.
4th and probably not the last one. Reminded me of an instance about 2 weeks ago, I had to make a run to pick something up, used a couple of backroads to get there and the place was less than 2 miles away, in those 5 miles of driving, and this is no joke, I almost got hit 4 FOUR times by other drivers. I almost lost it, it was either not stopping at stop signs, stop lights, backing up into oncoming traffic or not yielding when you're making a turn across oncoming traffic. It was simply amazing, and not a single one of them looked or acted like anything was out of the ordinary.
