[Rant]You freaking 281ers need to shut up about

I'll take the 2500 square foot house I live in with a pool/jacuzzi, game room with pool table, three HDTVs, the NFL Sunday Ticket, the NHL Center Ice package, poker table and theatre room with surround sound for $500 a month in the 281 any day of the week.

Not to mention, I can have sushi, Cuban food, Cajun food (as well as non-chained Mexican, American, Chinese, etc.) and my choice of at least three good bars without having to drive more than three minutes from my house.

And I'm not a complete douchebag acting like my choice of living is somehow better than someone elses. Different strokes and all that.

 

Pasadena and the 2nd Ward has much more "character" than Montrose and The Heights.

 

Bingo!

The city is getting overrun with the same old corporate crap that people complain about the suburbs for. I have seen a ton more mom and pop restaurants in the suburbs recently than in town.

Also, for people with kids, the suburbs just make more sense.

 

Then again places like Fairfield give me the willies / heeby jeebies.

 

don't be dissing on a-town drummer boy!

 

What no League Pass? NHL? Are you freaking Canadian?

 

I'm not sure, Desert. Many like to say it's museums that help give an area some character.

I've read that most Houston museum attendance comes from OUTSIDE of the loop. I would also venture a guess that 95% of Midtown's residents fail to visit the museums close by on any regular basis.

Midtown Townhome Dweller: "Oh they're nearby! They give my area character! What? Me go to the museum? Uhhhhhhh, let's just go to Red Door again - they have some really old pottery on the roof! Margaritas at Cyclone Anaya's first!"

Now, if they were to open up the "Museum of Vertically Striped Untucked Shirts" in Midtown, THAT would go gangbusters. Fatty might have his own wing there.

 

I don't care what any of you say. If you want to live in a city with character, you have to live in the 504.

 

and most of the people who go to the louvre probably aren't from paris, so what's your point?

the vertically striped untucked shirts is spot on, though.

lets just all agree that the suburbs are for losers and/or homosexuals who are probably too poor to afford living in the cool parts of town and move on.

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Hip does not equal cool.

 

Trying to label coolness at all when you're over 18 does not equal cool either. And that's not a shot at you.

 

What's funny is this argument usually starts off:

Houston>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>dallas

which usually devolves into:

Houston>>><<<>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<><>>><<<<><><<<<>>Austin

now we have:

Houston>>>><<<<>>><<><><<<>>><<<<<>>>><<<Houston/Suburban Houston


geez...

 

Cool is just cool.

 

Midtown has character because along with the new developments, it is still intertwined with a lot of old buildings and sites that are anywhere from 30-100 years old. To me, that adds character, not to mention the bums everywhere.

 

Lower crime rate/better schools/lower property values and taxes >>> "character"

Sorry, but I'm not real concerned about "character" when I've got a mortgage to pay. I guess I'm just not hip enough to give a frog's fat ass about it.

 

I thought I knew traffic until I had to drive from Irvine to downtown L.A. on a random Wednesday for a client meeting.

Took ... me... 3 ... hours.

The whole way I had to pee. Finally when stuck in gridlock about 5 miles (and 1 hour) from downtown L.A. - i whipped it out and pissed straight into my empty Juice It Up 32oz. cup that formerly held a Power Pro smoothie.

 

Say what you want, but even my parents, who are tearing down their old home to build a new one (they've lived in Bellaire for 20+ years) are planning on living in a high-rise downtown to see if they'll enjoy living downtown (should they like it better, they'll just sell the new house they're building)

Don't get me wrong, if RM95 is correct, a $2500 sq. ft. home with a pool for $500/month sounds much better.

But unless he lives in the middle of nowhere, or has roommates, he isn't. I've been to properties and houses in the boonies before. (my ex roommate a few years ago had lived near Westheimer and hwy 6, and made me look at properties over there before I made him move to Bellaire.) Unless you live in a trailer, you're not going to find much anywhere for $500/mo. these days.

 

I did that once on a trip to New Orleans. During mid-pee, I noticed I'd punctured a hole in the bottom of the cup. Luckily, it wasn't my car, so I didn't really care.

 

30-100 yr old buildings = character?




chuckle

 

I've mentioned I have roommates, just not in this thread. I couldn't live in nearly as nice a place with or without roommates in Midtown/downtown area.