Are we neighbors? I can walk to Harris County or Galveston County from my house...........in Brazoria County.
live and work inside the city, but outside the beltway this area of town is still suburbia in some senses....but that's changing rapidly. this neighborhood is over 40 years old now...and the growth this way out west is just ridiculous. i grew up in this area, and it's changed a ton.
Lived my whole life in Clear Lake. (I think I know where Meowgi's house is - hahahaha ) I'll probably move out to Alvin or some place a little more "out there country-like" if I stick around this area.
outside/outside you can keep all the bad parts of being in town(traffic), and Ill take advantage of the good parts (close to just about anything I want to do or see) of being outside of said town. If I had my druthers, I would move to CL (nice area except for much more traffic than here), but until we can justify a new house, Im stuck out here in BFE. oh and btw, you inner-loop snobs can kiss my suburban posterior region.
Hmmm, that's interesting. Where do you live? I mean, what is your physical address? And alarm code? And where do you keep your cash?
good stay away, we are happy with the way things are here. Oh yeah what bad parts do you mean? I always heard it was scary outside the loop.
Not to be snobbish, but my experience having grown up in the burbs (Champions area) and spent enough time in other burbs (Sugarland, Katy, etc.), is that suburban traffic is equally bad, though in different ways.... depending on where you live
absolutely. the traffic around the katy area is every bit as bad as it is in-town...and i don't mean on the freeways. i was in arlington a few weeks ago for a red sox/rangers game. the traffic in that little suburb is a joke.
sugarland, katy, champions all of them NOT on the east side (where I live) the only east side traffic nightmares I know of are on the ramp from 610S to 45S inthe afternoons, and in the CL area on Bay Area.
I used to live in the burbs then I moved closer into town. I bet the majority of people who are complaining about living in the city have never really experienced it. 713>281
yea, I know that area on Bay Area (I added that in an edit) and in the area right at 45 are nightmares in the late afternoon. So I try to stay away from there if I can help it.
It's getting really bad. There is now equal (probably more) flux into clear lake from downtown at rushhour as flowing out of NASA. The Hwy3 bottleneck is unavoidable no matter what route you take. Hopefully that Nasa 1 bypass will help, but I doubt it, seeing as there are too many internal vehicles driving from the NASA area too other parts of CL, and the fact that alot of subdivisions are significantly north of the bypass.
I don't live in the Houston area anymore (I'm in Austin). However, I grew up in your glorious Kingwood. That place was like a living prison camp of sorts (1981-1989). Sure, we had all the drugs we wanted, but the "cops" (this was before annexation -- they were Kingwood Constables) sucked our wills to live. We escaped to downtown Houston at every available opportunity. I moved to the Montrose two weeks after graduating from KHS (1989) and then moved to Austin in 1991. I will never live in the 'burbs again. I would certainly never subject my child to that upbringing. City or country for me... (I live in central Austin, by the way.)
is that what that construction is on NR1 at 3? it goes all the way over to 45 by Frys. (one of the few CL stores I visit frequently) Im kinda fortunate that my job allows me time to make runs during the day, thereby avoiding the late afternoon clusterf*ck.
yeah, massive bypass similar to the texas city one. funny story actually. Houston wanted to fix up Nasa Rd1 back in the day, and asked webster to please do the same with its section (from 45 to Hwy3). Webster said, no - you can pay for it if you wanna do that. Houston got pissed and fixed up the areas in houston city limits (really nice actually) and got a bypass agreed to that basically circumvents all of webster. Webster accordingly said "oh **** there goes our businesses on the nasa drag" and fixed it up as per the original plan. too late. Now there is a bypass going up. multi-multi-million dollar pissing match.
that's actually a ridiculously sad story. people are so freaking selfish and stupid. sorry, but i'm real glad i can walk or take a subway anywhere i need to go.
