Mr. B

You moved into the middle class exurbs of the 4th largest city in the USA and actually believed that there wouldn't be strip malls and apartment complexes? That it would be all new, highly ranked schools and people who edge every Saturday? Where the kitchen help at the Taco Cabana just sleep in the back of the store, or bus in from somewhere else?

Here's a news flash. Getting up enough in the world to buy a $300,000 spread in the burbs is not enough to separate yourself from the unwashed. Not anymore. Work a little harder and move up to the 7 figure range, then try again. And try not to be so gullible next time.

Wow. Now I understand how builders and developers own the state of Texas. People actually believe the marketing.

How do you know when I moved here ?

When I moved here it wasn't the burbs in the 4th largest city in the USA. When I moved out here there was nothing here and Cinco Ranch consisted of one small section along with Katy being a blip on the screen. Most of my coworkers considered I just as well live in San Antonia. Everything else was merely fields and more fields. Didn't come for the schools and yes all the people out here do edge Saturday or Sunday. As for the help at Taco Cabana they might live in my same neighborhood for all I know. Here is a news flash for you I don't own a $300,000 home and not even close so I guess by your standards I am still part of the unwashed.

Here is another news flash for ya there are other people living out here that don't own $300,000 homes but come from apartments and hard work to get here but we still haven't made it from that unwashed stage to the washed. Guess what they don't want the apartments either, but they just have to make the best like everyone else.

Gullible !! you bet I was as a first time home buyer.

The developers and homebuilders own the state because the city and the state allow them to. There are no rules or anything in place to make them accountable. They basically can do or say whatever they like.

Typical for someone to just say they would prefer to not have apartments built and all of a sudden become snobs !!! But its usually those people that have the last laugh because they somehow have experince firsthand in some fashion of what is to come when huge quantities of apartments show up.

I know this thread is somewhat old...but I am new to the site...so here it goes...Yes to the last poster...I will be voting for McCain...as for the rest of you folks that have this NIMBY attitude..the folks that live in those apartments take the jobs our kids will not...last time I checked none of my neighbors were sanitary engineers...little Johnny and Susie do need to work...but the problem is we have all raised a bunch of spoiled brats that don't think they need to learn how to earn a dollar...they just go ask daddy...lol...yes...it seems everyone does the same mindless things...purchase the boat.the guns..the gas guzzling cars, etc...wow, what a concept...I work hard I spend my money on the things I like...which comes back to our homes...we are fortunate to live in a country were we can own property..and get to chose where we want to live...but like the old saying goes...we can pick our nose...we can't pick our neighbors...my little enclave I live in has gone down hill recently..the neighbors on my street are all great...they take care of their yards...keep the cars off the streets and such..when we move, i would love to take them with me...they're that good to live around..onto the next point about those dredded apartment leaches...the folks living in the apartments do pay school taxes....just in a different way...the apartment owners pay property taxes just like you and I do...so a portion of their rent does go to school taxes...so anyway...now that I have given my opinion...let the bashing begin...lol! BTW...I have lived in Katy/Katy area my entire life...I cut rice and bailed hay for many of my youthful years and played in Cinco Ranch before it bacame your home you so proudly admire...get over yourselves people...you are not as important as you think you are....so as you drive down your little ant paths and admire how much you have...think about the vast majority of people out there that can't afford the luxury we all can...sometimes people take themselves too seriuosly...you want to do something come with me to the thanksgiving day feast...and see what you are missing in your lives....RANT OFF......

Oh my a do gooder troll.

Rant On: Try to stay on subject instead of bouncing all over the place. I'm not voting for McCain or Obama or for anyone as it is a complete waste of time. They will do what they want to do along with there chronies regardless of what you think your voice carries (Can you say (Bush/Clinton/Bush). Anyhow that is not the subject here. Am I one of NIMBY folks you are talking about ? Yes I am. I have lived in Apartments for many years and held those same jobs you are talking about until I was able to move on up so to speak. I moved out here because I moved up from apartments and did not want to be around that setting any longer. When I moved here and was told of all the lies about how there would only be houses and schools with no strip malls or apartments, etc, etc. this is what I was looking for. The City has caught up and so have the things that come with that type of growth. Nothing I can do about it at this time but wait and see. As I stated in my earlier post we can only hope that the owners and HOA keep things nice and on top of the renters.

I do not feel empowered or above anyone else because of my choices of where to live or my reasoning I would rather not have apartment complexes near me. So please don't go stuffing all of us into that catagory you seem to have put all the people out here into just because they want something different. So you cut rice, whoop de doo, I harvested Cane when I was younger to make money when others didn't want to do it and that includes the low lifes who would rather leech the government or some other way of getting money instead of taking something to make an honest living.

As for your playing in Cinco Ranch when you were a kid, well that was when you were a kid and now that we are grown up and I got money I bought a piece of your playground which is now my home and my preference would be to not have apartments around my area.

B

First, what small town in South Louisiana? Second, Walmart coming to this area won't be the same as the South Louisiana town. It's mostly chain and big box stores out this way anyway. Especially on a main highway.

Plaquemine, Donaldsonville, other towns.

I agree with you that Walmart will not affect an area such as this as drastically as it did smaller towns. But I still find it odd that they have basically formed themselves into a triangle so to speak of not much more than 10 miles or so. Kinda like squeezing out the Targets and anyone else they can.

Many people like Walmart and ok by me. Just to much bad blood I guess with me to give them my money. That store will put a hurting on many smaller businesses close by though.

Well I can tell you first hand about Walmart destroying towns.

I grew up in a small south la. town that was thriving at the time full of mom and pops, etc. Walmart approached the town about locating there and the people were just ecstatic over the fact they wouldn't have to drive to get stuff and Walmart would be great. Walmart came and within a few years the town started to decline. Store after store could not compete with Walmart and eventually shut down. The one's that tried to hang on didn't last long as Walmart only slashed prices or started offering things they offered which Walmart normally didn't offer. Slowly they drove them down and soon became the only game in town. All the people that ran stores, etc moved and tried to make it elsewhere's but nothing much other than McDonalds, and a few other places opened and stayed open.

The town became a shell of itself when the core people moved. The people that moved in behind them for the cheap property, etc well you can guess what happened next. I still get there occasionally to visit the few people I know still there but its basically crawling with drugs, etc. Funny how the older folks who are still there wish so much for the town they used to have and all I can tell them is you all bit hook, line and sinker to Walmart and now all these years later they are crying wishing they never would have let them build in their little town.

I know you will think that Walmart had nothing to do with this but I disagree cause I can look back exactly to when the town started to go wrong and it was when they let Walmart in.

This same scenerio played out in many other small south la towns soon after as these little towns were all withing 15 or 20 miles of each other. They too are all in the same situation after all these years.

So I have no use for Walmart and I guess that is a little bitter on my end but I have reason cause I saw what they did and it was cold, calculated snuffing out of business after business until they were the only thing available.

Interesting I wish I could remember whom told me this but the lady (I think she was a realtor) about 2 or 3 years ago said that there would be an apartment explosion in all areas of Katy. They were expecting it and she said so many would be built it would alter things in this area dramatically and not for the better.

Seems the process has started.

With all the entry level and other types of jobs that will come with all the hospitals, etc the people that are willing to take those jobs will need some place to live nearby. That is the element that will probably rub many people the wrong way in this area.

To be honest I don't want to see them mainly because every city area I have ever lived in where mass apartments came things went down within a matter of years. So I don't hold any illusions that the same might not happen in Katy but guess only time will tell if the HOA, etc make these complexs keep there standards up.

Hell with the housing market like it is right now and possibly in the future there may be a lot of people in houses that will need to move to apartments with them being mortgaged beyond recovery.

B

To heck with Best Buy put in a danged Fry's our here.

As for the rest well wasted space as most of those are right up the road on Mason or in the surrounding Cinco Ranch area.

B

Welcome to the group.

Went to Chin Won this evening based on your recommendation and enjoyed it. We normally go to China Wall which I also think is quite good, but geared to take out. Would be interested to hear any other recommendations that you have in the area.

As in my other post Rocco's and Pulcinella are really good for Italian and for Barbecue I always go over to the little joint next to the Midway Supermarket. The 829 Bistro is nice. For Breakfast we love Snappy's but bring your appetite. Used to frequent Texas Borders quite a bit but only go occasionally now as it seems to have morphed into something else now, but the food is still good.

Some of the places we used to frequent have closed down now.

Well I have been in the Katy area going on 12 years now and years back it was great with the mom & pop joints scattered around. But they have all dried up mainly because of all the new people moving here over the years giving them no support.

Places like Rocco's, Chin Won, etc have empty tables many nights while the Chili's and other cookie cutter places with so so food are lined up out the door.

I moved out here because it was different and all these years later as the one poster put it I believe Gymboree family's have come and are succeeding in there mission to turn Katy into "Just like everyplace else land"

Also for the poster whom said there needs to be an authentic Chinese Resturant out here. Have you bothered to step foot in Chin Won. They are from China and while the food is more Chinese/American style mainly because of the people they feed it is fantastic food. I doubt most people could even handle a truly authentic Chinese Resturant.

So yes bring back the Mom & Pops (I know this won't happen due to lack of support) and less of the cookie cutter joints.

Another Walmart (lets see that makes what like 6 of them in a 10 mile area). Just what we need. I'll give my money to Target.

B