Do I need to be worried about being an asian living in conroe? I would be adding to the .9% living there currently. Census Link
There is a data center between Conroe and Montgomery that used to be a nuclear bomb/fallout shelter. From Wikipedia "Ling-Chieh "Louis" Kung, the nephew of Soong May-ling, built an underground bunker in Montgomery, which was completed in 1982. Kung took money that he made from the success of the Westland Oil Development Corp. in the 1970s and used it to build the bunker, since he feared that the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China would launch nuclear weapons towards the United States. Kung bought hundreds of acres of cow pasture on the outskirts of Montgomery and secretly began building the bunker. The two story, 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) bunker could house at least 700 people; Kung intended to have the bunker house his employees, their families, and others in case of a two month emergency. Melanie Trottmann of The Wall Street Journal stated that the bunker "was a source of intrigue and gossip for the town of Montgomery." After the oil bust in the 1980s, Kung lost the title to the property; Kung died in 1996. Trottman said that the bunker "sat frozen in time" until a group of investors bought the property. In 2003 the investors hired Westlin Corp. to head efforts to convert the bunker into a rental site for data storage. Trottman said that the interest in the storage space was initially "lukewarm" when the owners of the bunker began leasing space in early 2005. The aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita prompted many companies along the Gulf of Mexico to find space for emergency data storage. By 2006 the number of tenants went from around 25 to 50. Continental Airlines became the largest tenant in the facility; Continental decided that it needed a safer place to manage its flight operations in case it has to evacuate Continental Center I, its headquarters in Downtown Houston. The other tenants include Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and several medical companies from the city of Houston and the state of Louisiana." More info: http://www.westlandbunker.com/bunker.htm From http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/05/12/story2.html "The shelter has a 27-inch concrete roof with rebar for protection. Gun turrets line the pagoda entrances, providing additional security for the bunker." "The bunker was also equipped with 14 sound-proofed conjugal rooms. There was a full hospital, complete with medical supplies, an X-ray machine, an operating room and a morgue. "We found body bags down there -- boxes of them," Goff says."
I work in Conroe and live near there. Not sure where so many of the negative opinions are coming from. I am going to assume many of them are just stereotypes of country living. 1) You will get more bang for your buck living in Conroe, mainly in the way of tax savings. For what you will pay in the Woodlands, you can get a nice house on an acre and save about 1-1.5% on your taxes. There are A LOT of nice neighborhoods in/near Conroe that are just as nice as The Woodlands. Stay west of 45. East of 45 is where it gets a little "country". 2) You have quick access to shopping in the Woodlands, about a 10 min drive down 45. They are getting close to being done w/ construction on 45 so it should be nice flow through there when complete. There is a lot of shopping in the area, as far as major retailers. You can find anything you need pretty much.
Conroe is a magically place - make sure you check out the hot springs and crystal clear spring fed streams in Montgomery.
And where might one find these addicts? Strictly for a research project me and my associates are interested in.
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Why? Thats what Sugar Land is. Heartless and cold and boring. Its like a College Station with even less purpose.
City Hall area is pretty nice. You have the mall a few bars and restaurants.At least it isn't ghetto.
+ 1 Sugar Land is a sterile, soulless place with zero character. Miles of strip mall shopping centers, chain restaurants, and big box retailers.
You're comparing it to a city like College Station. Sugar Land is really a suburb... arguably the best suburb in all of the Houston metroplex.
I'll give my insight having lived in Conroe for 7 years now. Conroe is essentially split in two by 45. West of 45 is definitely nicer and most of the stereotypes that exist in this thread are non-existent. Every city has its bad parts and east of 45 is conroe's. To be honest though, unless you need to hit up the post office or something specific like that there's nothing the east side offers that the west side doesn't have. As for the argument that there's nothing to do in conroe. I would argue that it really doesn't matter when you have the woodlands less than 15 minutes away. If it's really an issue there is plenty of housing off 242(north side) which is technically conroe, but exists within the greater woodlands area. In the end it's a life decision. Drive out here and check it out, I wouldn't base my decision on countless posts based off stereotypes from people who have probably never spent more than 10 minutes here.
