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My favorite is the underwater hotel. I didnt see it in the links I checked out. My wife and I still have paid for tickets to Dubai, hope to use them this year.

Underwater Hotel Link

Like they said above Memorial Bend has the best schools in Houston. Rummel Creek Elem is hard to top. There have been a few sales in the $250 range for the 3 bedrooms closer to the Beltway lately.

There are mods scattered thoughout many of the neighborhoods in Houston. You may be able to find something nice in the area just north of Westheimer, outside Beltway 8 or west of gessner just north of I-10 (I forget the names of both these neighborhoods).

Portions of the Heights are as you say. But not all of it.

I actually really like Glenbrook. Came really close to buying there. But private schools would be a must.

Good Luck.

When your house gets termites, it REALLY gets termites!

Befriend a few woodpeckers and you got yourself some real discovery channel material right in your own living room.

Fun stuff:

Discovery.com Link

I bet he has Ewok posters in his bedroom.

I think the point really was that the area/neighborhood is a destination, not the building itself. Many people can get off the trains in GCS and walk to their ultimate destination.

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dont get me wrong, I'm down with this. I just see a big difference in use and therefore a weak comparison. I doubt I would try walking to the Spaghetti Warehouse from there, mush less to any of downtown's commercial towers.

The thing that this seems to be missing is it being a major teminus itself. It is just a place to transfer from one transport mode to another. Not like Grand Central where it is an actual destination. Maybe if it was closer to downtown or any of the major business centers around town... but north of 10?

Excellent. That is just a few hundred feet from my front door. I'll have to go give it a look see now that it is back.

I have the same issues at home. Try out the Low-Fi version. Not as sexy but gets the job done.

props to Michael Brichford and Lottaliving.com

I'm not sure how many of you have seen this but the Kimberley house was bought the other day (fell off HAR). And it is now back on the market yet looks completely different and costs $700k. Anyone suprised?

Ezra used to play at Trumpets on the Strand when I worked there back in the early 90s.

I attended each Galveston Mardi Gras from 1988 to 1994 and I just got burned out on the blatant mob mentality. I usually held a balcony throwing beads and the like. One year I saw a mob grab a topless girl off her boyfriends back and dragged into a dark alley across the street from me. There was nothing we could do. Her boyfriend was held back from making it to her because he was indescriminately punching people in the crowd trying to follow his girl to the alley and the crowd faught back at him. I'm not sure exactly what happened to the girl but that soured the whole festive trade of beads for flesh thing forever for me. I also saw a guy shot right in front of me about a hour after the strand was closed to partygoers. I had just gotten off work and was walking home and a caddy pulled up and someone inside shot a guy in a apron closing up his food service tent.

I went once again years later but just to attend some of the parties. I want nothing to do with the street activities... at least on the strand.

Very nice. Had to add a few comments to their site. Not sure how much exposure something like this will see outside of Houston but it has given me some ideas of things to do with my family in the next few months.

What would you like to do?

photo from RPS's Glenbrook Valley website: http://glenbrookvalley.com

Listening to a demo album of a local band called The Dimes. Very Pixie-esque.

No McHard and Cullen do not intersect. That area is pretty fubar'd in the morning. I use the BW8>Cullen>518 route alot.

The only alternate north of 518/Broadway is take McHard to Smith Ranch South to Hughes Ranch East to Stone North to Brookside East. A bit convoluted.

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I saw my own version of "Bum Fights" the other night at Waugh and Allen Parkway. I was out of there pretty quick. They were fighting over the real estate.

If you look at Gulf wide satellite imagery you can see that alot of the sediment is still in suspension from the Louisiana sources. Wave action in the nearshore keeps is suspended and drift carries it west and south. There is definately a local component as well. One of my college projects was to collect samples of the suspended sediment and try to seperate it by source river.

I work for a small company with offices in Houston and Oslo, but we are expanding into Dubai and KL (Yes, actually into Petronas Towers!). I was offered Dubai but turned it down due to legal issues with my daughters and thier biologicals (long story). Anyway, Dubai did look very attractive. It is unfortunate that Americans are the only people living there that pay taxes (to the US...grrr). My only advise from all the information I heard about it was to live/stay where you plan to work/play. Driving is a mess (highest teen/motor vehicle mortality rate in the world I believe) and the courts there will always rule in favor of the national (thats not you). Alcohol is a bit screwy. Often you end up drinking some damn weak stuff.

On a related note, I know that the Children's Museum is supposed to expand by quite a bit soon but I cant figure out which way. Dont they cover the entire block? Perhaps to the parking lot across La Branch?

The natural dynamic of the barrier island is to breach anyways. By stopping that you are hurting someone down current of you. Namely San Louis Pass and beyond.

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Fiscally Conservative - Liberal by all other counts

Put a roof over the inner loop and toll all entryways to smog emitting vehicles to pay for air conditioning.