SukiSukiNow Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Yes, I'm moving to Houston for a year in August... I don't know a single person out there. Do any of you guys live in Houston or know anything about the city? Any useful and ligit info will be appreciated! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 I lived there for 22 years until I moved to Austin a couple of years ago. Click the email button and drop me a line - I'll answer any and all questions you have. I clicked your email, too, as I've had trouble receiving emails through 12oz previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 yous wish you were dis flyyyy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted July 19, 2004 Author Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by Poop Man Bob I lived there for 22 years until I moved to Austin a couple of years ago. Click the email button and drop me a line - I'll answer any and all questions you have. I clicked your email, too, as I've had trouble receiving emails through 12oz previously. ahhhhhhhhhh!!! life saver!!! email me!!! sookigirl@aol.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Do you have AIM? I added you based on your email address. Hop online and we'll throw down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OcToBeR Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 i stay in Houston for the time being...i can help you out, as much as i can ask away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted July 19, 2004 Author Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by OcToBeR i stay in Houston for the time being...i can help you out, as much as i can ask away... do you have aim? or email me ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 is there a higher percentage of hicks, or spics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teh0wnz Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Sooki, don't smirk at Texas... you'll learn to love it here.... I'll do my best to visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T=E=A=S=E Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 hmmmm, houston huh? maybe ill come visit when i go there to see my familia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 good luck on that move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarzAbove Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 H-TOWWWN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIPPINJUICE Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Originally posted by ARCEL is there a higher percentage of hicks, or spics? spics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh-rye-won Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 hmmmm, i always wanted an excuse to vist texas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krs702 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 dallas houston lacks complete zoning, but i like that about the city. now if you're into seperation of poor and rich dallas is for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test pattern Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 i live in houston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I45_TEXAS_I45 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 The traffic sucks and the heat iam sure u will love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krs702 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 very humid, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test pattern Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 you can't forget about our wonderful smell in some parts. what side of town will you be on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEka Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 i live in houston what part do you live in test pattern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 I was born in Houston and left several times back in the day, but I've been here since 1989. It's HOT and HUMID, but there are some good things about this city too. You'll probably need a car unless you move close to a bus line. Houston was a shit-kickin' cowboy city when I was a kid, but these days everybody likes to think of Houston as an "international city." Houston is 50% black, about 25% Latino, 15% white and 10% Asian or "other." It's what is called a bull'seye city, with a mostly black/Latino city center surrounded by wealthier, mostly white suburbs and "gated communities." In the last five or ten years, a big push has come to revitalize "downtown." A new convention center was built (they tore down block after block of low-rent hotels, now the poor people are homeless), a new baseball stadium was built (first called Enron Field, now Minute-Maid Park,) a new convertible football stadium (Reliant Stadium--named after the local electric utility), the baseline surface-level METRO Rail line was built running between downtown and the Texas Medical Center (7-1/2 miles) tied into the bus lines. They are beginning plans to begin adding branch lines now, eventually it will provide service to both airports, Bush International Airport and Hobby Airport. Houston has several universities--University of Houston, Rice University and St. Thomas University, as well as branches of the University of Texas Medical School, UT Nursing School, Prairie View A&M and a bunch of community colleges--Houston Community College, San Jacinto Community College, Wharton County Junior College, North Montgomery County Community College, etc. The economy is doing pretty well, lots of jobs, especially if you are in health services. RNs start at about $25 an hour ($50,000/yr), and up. One friend of mine works at Ben Taub Gen Hosp and is making $31 an hour($62,000/yr.) Pediatric ICU--$36/hr ($72,000/yr.) Most experienced clerical and office positions start around $12-13 an hour, same for jobs like welders, truck drivers, machine operators, etc. Low-end jobs, like McDonald's or groundskeeper start around $8-9 an hour. I don't know anybody who is unemployed who wants to work, but most of my friends are older, in their late thirties to forties and have to work to make house notes, car notes, etc. Housing is kind of expensive. Low end for a one-bedroom apt is probably about $500/month. A decent apt probably $750-800. A two bedroom house in a relatively safe neighborhood around $900 and up. I'm buying a house, four small bedrooms, in a so-so lower-middle-class neighborhood, and my house note is about $785. Houston has a lot in common with Los Angeles or Atlanta--lots of freeways. The climate is almost exactly like New Orleans. It rains a lot. It's hot and humid, and we get hurricanes. It snows in the winter a little bit about once every ten years. We have "bayous" coursing through the city for drainage (it floods here bigtime.) Before you buy a house or rent an apartment, you need to check out the boundaries of the last big flood. I drive a pick-up truck. Never been flooded out, but every time it rains hard I see scores of little Hondas, Nissans and Geos and whatnot under water. Small, low-to-the-ground cars are a BAD IDEA in Houston, in my opinion. It floods a couple of feet deep on major thoroughfares when it rains hard. NEVER drive through a flooded underpass here in a hard rain. It might be fifteen foot deep water under there, but of course if other cars are doing it, you could too. (Every time it floods, somebody drowns in their car in a flooded underpass.) Enough about Houston--I'm giving myself a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted July 23, 2004 Author Share Posted July 23, 2004 Gosh, thanks for all the input... ^^^ makes me even more scared about moving to Houston. Hurricanes??? Floods??? WTF? I got a small one bedroom in the Montrose area, I had to be near the gay boys. I also bought a small business in The Woodlands. Yeah it's a drive but I'm used to driving from LA to Orange County everyday. Traffic? Can it be any worse than helL.A.? It's only for a year, I have to keep telling myself that to save my sanity, then I'm moving back to good old San Francisco. Does it ever cool down in Houston??? When will it start cooling down? I just got back from a business trip to Chicago and it was hot and humid there, I thought I was gonna melt and suffocate! It would be nice to meet some of you who live in the area =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 you will be missed in los angeles. good luckz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pilau Hands Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 i'll see you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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