westguy76

The entrance to our neighborhood is a grand four lane street with an esplanade. The street is about 1/4 of a mile long and has landscaped trees similar to many Sugar Land neighborhoods. Every day I watch at least a hundred kids cross over FM1464 from Bush High into the neighborhood, only to have to walk into the street due to no sidewalks. Dozens of kids also walk down FM1464 to get to neighboring subdivisions. So many walk in the ditch that there is a beaten foot-path visible from the road. Oh, for those that don't know the area, FM1464 is a two lane road with ditches on both sides.

Rediculous.

Since this topic has been bumped, I think in Jeebus's neighborhood, if I am not mistaken, that sidewalks are now installed along the boulevard in his community, also 1464 is finally being widened and will include sidewalks in this portion.

I live in Cinco Ranch and I must say it is just not true that we do not have sidewalks that and the trails along bayous and through landscaped pipeline esmts are some assets of living out here.

I love the conservative Blow hards, and I love that you guys hate them. I listen to Rush, Hannity, and Michael Savage occasionally, when I am not listening to sports talk radio or Cspan on the way to and from work.

Really I am just glad these 3 I mentioned are on the air. I really can not listen to them spout on for long other than Sean Hannity he is a little more mainstream it seems and has a little more humility than the other two I mentioned.

I also have enjoyed listening to Joe Pags lately although I do not agree with him all the time he is entertaining and I can tolerate this show a little.

I love the conservative Blow hards, and I love that you guys hate them. I listen to Rush, Hannity, and Michael Savage occasionally, when I am not listening to sports talk radio or Cspan on the way to and from work.

Puma, you are a child.

By the way, I live in Cinco Ranch and there is a Barnes & Nobles Bookstore 10 minutes from my house.

There is some light industrial to the east and north, but there are also a lot of trees, including a densely wooded tract just to the east. The neighborhoods across Orange are from the 70s but they don't seem all that rundown to me. I would in fact lean the other direction. Several other nearby houses just to the west are large, new, and on large lots. There are some pretty substantial mod-inspired houses just to the other side of that wooded tract, and I think the front yard is quite lovely. True, the railroad track is half a mile away, but that's true for all the houses in the area. True, there are some pretty squalid examples of rural blight to the north on Mykawa, but it certainly seems well buffered by all the trees and land. It's a working class neighborhood but I don't hear a lot about crime there.

Yes, there does seem to be one other house close by. There are also several outbuildings and sheds and what looks like a swimming pool. Those seem like good things to me. I used to drive by every day because it was on my way home and it never seemed like a bad, or even ugly, area. Quite the contrary.

I agree with pretty much everything you said here marmer, I used to drive this are pretty frequently. I will say though that I would be worried about potential development around these houses. I think it is prime land for someone to come in and throw up apartments especially just to the east. And that would be a disaster, I am afraid Pearland, alot of it, is falling prey to the new flight from southeast and south west Houston and it is not better for it.

You are correct. Popularity doesn't make it bad. Serving overpriced frozen fish instead of cheap fresh fish is what makes it bad. I didn't say Kemah was a failure, I said Landry's ruined it. Why should I like Landry's for taking something good and making it bad, even if they make a lot of money in the process?

Your opinion not withstanding...

Others are saying it is not worse. I tend to believe they did not get to experiance the restraunts that were there before. They were cheaper and better as I remember them. But, that was a different time and you know how we tend to wax nostalgic about the past and memories do tend to fade. There are still places to go to find the good seafood there on the other side of the bridge or down the road in San Leon.

If the masses knew of all the good places, they would not be the same anymore.

Of course it is all subjective.

Sirius/XM tried to eliminate repetitive radio formats but ended up gutting some stations that were independently loved by their subscribers (Backspin, the Hip-Hop oldies station, comes to mind) and so after numerous complaints, they've brought back some of those channels they eliminated right after the merger.

The main problem, however, as was mentioned earlier, is that their costs are still out of control. I believe they charge $30 / month or so for a subscription but the satellite licenses/operations and such are expensive.

No No, the subscriptions start at 9.99 a month with the most popular plan at 12.95 a month. Only since the merger have they introduced a plan that is the highest ever 16.99 a month, for every thing on XM and the best of sirius

I have had XM radio for 7 or 8 years and it didn't come with either of the cars I have had in that time period. I paid 10.99 a month initially, but got my dad on my plan and I paid 6.99 a month for the second radio, eventually he took over the payments. . Rate has never changed I guess we are grandfathered in as I understand they have gone up. I really enjoy it on road trips, but I miss some of the channels that I lost in the merger.

Times are tough my friend? Get real ...Nobody should be stealing a basketball goal from a street, yard, anywhere..This is a crime and those two should be in jail. Quit sticking up for criminals.

How can you accuse them of stealing it? Did they not say they thought it was heavy trash? Did they not leave it and move on, when told it wasn't? Was this not in broad daylight? I would think based on what I read they thought it was at the curb for trash. Who knows what state the goal is in.

Frankly I am amazed the OP poster was able to file a police report!

The reason I responded to this post is because it struck me interesting. Yesterday I noticed after coming into town from being out this weekend that a neighbor down my street had put some furniture out to the street. I drove by by that way on the way to the mailbox just to check it out.

They had a leather recliner a leather ottoman in good shape layed out. and a large (what appears to be teak patio table with three benches.) I got my mail and then went back and loaded all three teak benches in my truck and took them home. I left the table as it was a little damaged and I already have a table of similair design and material, but I took the benches and they are great.

The fact that these men had a truck full of rubbish further supports the idea that they were picking up people's unwanted items. Or so they thought.

Well let me the first to say that I would miss Saltgrass, the other brands.... I can think of alternatives I enjoy more.

QUOTE (westguy76 @ Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 @ 1:45pm)

"Population density and lot size are not exclusive to suburbs and are not the only definition of suburbs, just the two that you are picking."

They are the most objective. What criteria are you using?

common sense

Sounds like a couple of enterprising people to me. How can you be certain they did not think you set it out for trash. People do it all the time. A person could make some decent money going around and picking up things people set to the curb and reselling them at a yard sale I'm sure. It sounds like the goal was at the street. Times are tough my friend and people could very well be resorting to recycling people's percieved trash.

It's the old "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

This is the first time I clicked on this thread. I am dissapointed there are no pictures. So yes thread is useless.

I think we can agree that the reason this thread has so many views is that people came to it to see if their were comparison pictures.

If this thread is going to continue to exist someone needs to get off their arse and post pictures.

5'8" ish), hispanic male wearing a black sweatshirt with a hood over his head.

I swear I saw a guy that fits this description just the other day at 10th and Sheperd....I know it could be one in 1000, but definitely about 5'8, black hoody,hispanic guy....

Didn't you know all hispanic males are 5'8"ish.

On another note. I am thinking about buying a 45 APC with my tax refund while I can still afford to.

If I lived in the Heights I would already have one.

I guess we lived in Greenway. one block north of Joplin on Greenstone Drive.

As I stated earlier my mom bought my clothes 90% of the time from the Penny's catalog. I had a lot of bugle boy clothes.

That or I got my brother's hand-me-downs.

I do remember going into Gulfgate and buying some shorts and shoes from Vision Street wear. sort of skater clothes.

Skidz LOL

I suppose you also probably do not know about the light rail line that will run through the area, connecting Second Ward and Third Ward to downtown. Just think of all the brown people! They will no doubt inundate your neighborhood with poverty, crime, and other such terrible things that are intuitively correlated with melanin.

You should sell your home immediately and move to an insulated suburban enclave (or West U or Bellaire). I'm positive that you will find many like-minded NIMBY friends there. And then you will never have to worry about the dynamism of a growing city ever again.

Wow!, Where did this come from? This was way out of line and uncalled for. Did Ducky mention race, or did I miss something?

Welcome to the HAIF board Ducky. Sorry about the locals.

They may have been ignorant about some things going on in the neighborhhod but that doesn't make them racist or even NIMBY people. Ease up

Population density and lot size. River Oaks, Southampton, Crestwood, Meyerland and Willow Meadows/Bend all still fit any reasonable definition of suburb based on population desity or lot size. An old suburb is still a suburb.

Population density and lot size are not exclusive to suburbs and are not the only definition of suburbs, just the two that you are picking.

I'm glad some folks agree that it's hard to vote on a "best suburb" when there is not really a true suburb on the list. My favorite exurb is The Woodlands followed closely by (parts of) Sugarland.

My favorite SUBURBS are: (by decending budget): River Oaks, Southampton, Crestwood, Meyerland and Willow Meadows/Bend.

What are your favorite suburbs?

I believe you made some good points about a lot of the areas in the poll being exburbs but I believe it is also at the least confusing and potentially erroneous to call the areas you list above as suburbs any longer. These areas, (River Oaks, Southampton, Crestwood, Meyerland and Willow Meadows/Bend) may have been suburbs 30 to 50 years ago but you have to give consideration to the growth of the city of Houston as it stretchs to the bounds of it's metroplex. As the city infills and development expands to these past suburbs how can we still call them as such. As industry and jobs have spread out so has the average commute this seems to me to be a natural progression of growth and I don't understand some people's unwillingness to acknowledge it and why they are so bitter about it.

To each his own.

I am interested in trying out the steak and sushi place, but I don't have any budjet this month for eating out, I hope it makes it if it is good.

There are lots of rings places , has anyone been to the one in the Villagio development? report?

I am glad to here that the place is being rebuilt this was I took my wife the night we were engaged. Prayers going out to the family injured.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5916632.html

Astros get reliever Hawkins in deal with Yankees

I'm happy for Hawkins. He's an individual who wants a job. He got one, good for him. But on a business side, there's a reason no team wanted him.

What is Ed Wade doing? Seriously, he's turning our rep into a complete joke. I'd like to hear him explain this one away.

I was questioning this when it happened too, holy crap look at Hawkins now, and Randy Wolf!!!!!!!!!!

About the Texans today, O-line was horrible, which made Scaub put up Carr like numbers. Flashes of 2005. Defense against the running games was awful too. I still am hoping for 9-10 wins. It's past time to draft a running back in the first round for God's sake. Bright note? The Colts are losing late in the night game and Jacksonville lost too. Bad news, Vince Young is hurt So the Titans might actually be better.

Dang 4 is overkill!

I am used to seeing these site plans at my job. Ususally the developer has several footprints for these pad sites that they throw on to these plans early on. Often they are not representative of what will be the final product. Sometimes they will develop the property and the parking lots with the main tenants in place and grade out the pad sites to be built in the future so they can go pretty far along and not have that lease filled.

So in short they could be a sonic or a jack in the box just as well as a bank branch.

I wonder if this sporting goods is an academy, I'm hoping so. I realize it is real close to the one at I-10

what other sporting godds stores do we have? I think sports authority is pretty worthless.