HellRaiser
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These replies are so confusing. It had it listed on one page where you can read them all, now it jumbles them up on one page where I cant see what is the most recent reply.
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Interesting topic. After spending the last few days with my new coworkers (who are from all over -- Olympia, WA, central Oregon, Rochester, NY, and Richmond, VA), it's interesting to hear their take on our lovely city. Overwhelmingly, they love Houston! One (Richmond) has never been here but is dying to come see the city and has always considered it almost a "dream" destination. Oregon has a sister here and loves the urban nature of the city and beautiful older neighborhoods inside 610. Rochester loves great dining and shopping and considers this to be a fabulous destination for both. And Olympia thinks it's just a fun place to be.
Then there are the Canadian contractors in my training class. The two from Montreal act like civilization starts to disappear when you cross the Quebec border, and is gone completely when you cross into the US. At lunch the other day Rochester and I were discussing the great Chinese and Vietnemese restaurants here and one of the Montreal people was absolutely shocked to learn there was a Chinatown in the US that's not in New York or San Francisco.
It was interesting though to hear multiple people from diverse backgrounds and different parts of the country have such positive things to say about Houston. It does make me wonder how much of our *perceived* negative image is of our own creation. I only encountered one person while in Pennsylvania this last week who had something negative to say about our city, and he was someone who was about as exciting to be around as a pile of dirt. I'm not sure he could be excited by very much in this world anyway.
Yes, this city has it's faults. I'm right up there with 27 when it comes to bugs, heat, and humidity. However, those are by no means universal to Houston, and fortunately we have the air conditioning to deal with our summers. I've been to a lot of places in the northeast that are just as miserable in the summers but don't have lots of AC, so when you go inside it's still warm. Much of the midwest is the same way in the summers.
Ill get back with you on that amigo.
Thanks for all the positive replies from the rest of you. It raises my confidence.
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Sorry to lose you Hellraiser.
I think it sucks when someone runs from a challenge rather than standing against it and fights it. Run for office or something if you feel that strongly.
Well...... I dunno.
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All of the "points" brought up by Hellraiser (heat, humidity, traffic, lack of zoning) have already been brought up and discussed numerous times before on this board. However, there is a fine line between insightful criticism and blind bashing. and when that's crossed, it can cause some agitation.
You MUST be a native!!
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I really don't know why some are so pissy with you, Hellraiser.
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enjoy your nothing to do wide open spaces as well!
"Well said my freind. Like I said, im not saying this to be mean to anyone here, you all seem like a nice crowd, and partiers on your spare time when youre not sitting in the crazy traffic congestion. You all have jobs to do. You all have to make a living as well as others, and again I deeply respect thoes, and congraduate thoes who are taking a step up. I know i came on harsh, i know my name is not inviting, but I yes want the newbies to feel at home as though when i go to my new place of home as well. "
I'm not a partier I can tell you that. Normally after 12 hours of work I'm too tired to go anywhere.
BTW, tell me when you find some clubs up in Montana worth partying over too.
Whatever.
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Hellraiser, i have been down here in Houston for almost a year now attending college and i can see how this place after beingere for so long might start to get one annoyed in frustrated. My biggest problem is the heat, humidity and air. But honestly, i can say that anywhere you go, you're going to run into something about it you don't like.
This board is a board to where you can speak your mind but i guess people on this board want to look at the fact that Houston is slowly but surely improving. It won't be long before it actually gets well known as a major destination place. It's really not that much different from places like Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, or any other of these large cities.
I wish Houston would kind of glitz itself up a little more esp in downtown at night. If they did that at both street level and on the skyscrapers, i bet they'll see a more surge of retail. I know because storeowners want to be in a place where it seems lively and somewhere they'll be noticed. Not having any lit up signs definitely runs the risk of them being overseen.
I also wish Houston would stop with the freeway expansion and start using that money and putting it toward lightrail expansions and improvements. Houston already has a sprawl problem like Atlanta. I guess that is the thing that frustrates me the most here.
Well said my freind. Like I said, im not saying this to be mean to anyone here, you all seem like a nice crowd, and partiers on your spare time when youre not sitting in the crazy traffic congestion. You all have jobs to do. You all have to make a living as well as others, and again I deeply respect thoes, and congraduate thoes who are taking a step up. I know i came on harsh, i know my name is not inviting, but I yes want the newbies to feel at home as though when i go to my new place of home as well.
The heat, YES... It should be a law to have a working air-conditionair here. The freeways need yes a alternative solution... Ok. I wanna breif you ppl on somthing else I enjoy also on my spare time, its too long to explain here, so just go here, scope it out when you get a chance......
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I love exploring open roads and doing research and history on them. Like US HWYS 90,290 and 75 were once wagon trails that followed the railroads here to help build this city. The railroads PERIOD built the city and lots of others...Id love to see the rails rise again, because im a mega train fanatic as well. But they are too busy being at the time pilots and making interstates rise. Just go to this site here, tells all about it, VERY facinating....
I just wish Houston would ORGANIZE its zoneings and plans more carfully. PREPARE to build the roads and expand them to handle traffic before it starts getting too busy.
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you hate it here that much, LEAVE! My gawd, some of us like it here, some of us don't, but you know if you don't like it here, no one is forcing you to stay. You want country living go out to the midwest and enjoy your tree-hugging self.
You are finding EVERYTHING negative to say about Houston and its pathetic. I don't like Houston but I don't hate it either but you know what its my home city and I will defend it.
I guarntee you go somewhere else for a while long enough to hate it and come back here after the city is developed and we'll see what you have to say.
No city is perfect, they ALL have their problems and almost any major city you go to is going to be full of traffic. (wasn't that discussed?)
You want to bring down this city b/c your miserable in it. You know we're not missing much by you hating the city anyway.
I lived here for almost all my life (5 years in El Paso) and I couldn't wait to move back. El Paso was quiet BUT OH SO BORING! You want mosquitos? You try living with scorpions hiding in your clothes, in your house, up your walls, in everywhere you turn. You try living with 100 degree dry heat hot enough to fry a sidewalk, you try the dust storms that blow through, the endless traffic there, manuerving around Mountains, the endless unfairness of people who don't speak spanish can't even get a job there (well unless your billingual, you won't be able to get a job in El Paso. My mom didn't get a job she wanted b/c she couldn't speak spanish) you try the endless illegals crossing from Mexico into El Paso and the American's paying for the welfare of the illegals who DO Have their children over the border OR buying houses here and NOT paying Taxes!
There is an insight to one city that had nothing to do but travel to New Mexico for faires that happened out that way.
"I could NEVER work a 9 to 5er and live lets say around, yes Cypress, and have to work in downtown, and sit in dreaded un-nessasary crap hole we call traffic"
My brother travels downtown to Sugar Land (that's why he bought a Satalite Radio) AND from Sugar Land to the Galleria area working NOT a 9-5er but a more 4 AM-4 PM job and then about a 6 hour job at his other work. Now you want to talk about driving downtown in traffic?
"Im sorry, been dealing with it too long, as I said, I will NOT miss it. Everytime I get in my car and sit a congested intersecion with my brain baking from the heat "I WILL NOT MISS THIS PLACE, CANT WAIT TO GET OUTTA HERE!" All you proud newbies who are for some reason immuned to it can have this ever increasing MADNESS."
Stay away from NY, NJ, Las Vegas, L.A. -there is madness in traffic!
oh and let's see...
not sure what the vermin is like in certain areas but
Las Vegas-Scorpions (dangerous)
L.A./San Diego (Coyotes/Mountain Lions that eat your pets)
So if you are so unhappy WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?
If you are unhappy here, don't let the door hit you on the way out!
Well if you have a problem with the way I wanna air out my frustrations about the place... COME SAY IT HERE!... No registration required!! I just like to let off steam about a place thats driving me insane, and how other people "Love it!"......
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Its just like some people LOVE WALMART!..Love to work at it! But some, or alot think it TOO sux! And want to air out their feeelings about it as well... Like right here.....
http://forum.walmartsucks.com/
Im going to be working on a protest video, on the results of LACK of zoning laws have done to this place. Again for starters, look at all the Albertsons!! What a waist!!! And I know alot of other people who have lived here as long as me also stand by me on that!
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Where are you moving to?
This will explain it my freind......
http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st=entry23534
My parents who have also inherited a house in Louisina, cant wait to leave this place behind as well, because of increasing property rates and taxes killing them, thats what they tend to do when my mother retires after also dealing with the stresses of Houston's everyday crazy,crowded and cancerous growing commute that places like 'Bridgelnads' tends to do by making it WORSE!
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Hellraiser, in the thunder and heat
Hellraiser, rock you back in your seat
Hellraiser, and I
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I wish fire departments just let you transfer so I could do the same. Once my wife gets her masters, I know she'll be offered jobs in other cities.
I can't take this heat & the mosquitoes in the summers. I don't mind everything else. My body just isn't good with heat (how ironic considering I'm a firefighter..). And I absolutely "F"-ing hate that buzzing around my ears & the constant slapping & scratching it brings.
Im with you on that. I worked for a VFD. Im moving to where I inherited some land in Montana, a place where zoning laws exist, and theyre not build,build,build crazy. Thats another thing to add, I wont miss the heat, and dreaded humidty.
Im just sick of all the worsening 'PUSH AND SHOVE' envoriment. tierwestah, ill bet your a newbie from points elsewhere that has to reply with that kind of comment. Ill be glad to get away from people like him too, who take PRIDE in getting around in rubberneck / horn-honking,accident prone conditions. Pretty soon this place is going to be another China.
And yes, thats another one of Houston's problem, NO mass transit. How many of you peole have taken a tour ALLLLL the way from north of Aldine Westfield Rd. to as far south it goes? Not a pretty place down there, slum central. Certainly not a place to bring up a yuppy family. They need to figure out ways to renovate crap holes like that, instead of building OUT which = more traffic, more congestion, and build once again around closer to the source.
I could NEVER work a 9 to 5er and live lets say around, yes Cypress, and have to work in downtown, and sit in dreaded un-nessasary crap hole we call traffic. I would make an effort to live by my job. I remember when FM 1960 and 249 or at the time was FM 149 were 2 lane roads. It was also nice when Barker Cypress was nice, quiet 2 lane road..but it happened, the tree trasher ((INVASION!)) Now Its a NASCAR raceway.... It seems each 10 years or less they now need to widen 1960... Because the progress invasion has made everything all((((ROIOIOIOAHHH!!!)))). FM 1960 is a constant risk of a accident waiting to happen. I avoid it at all expense.
Im sorry, been dealing with it too long, as I said, I will NOT miss it. Everytime I get in my car and sit a congested intersecion with my brain baking from the heat "I WILL NOT MISS THIS PLACE, CANT WAIT TO GET OUTTA HERE!" All you proud newbies who are for some reason immuned to it can have this ever increasing MADNESS.
Im not saying this to be mean folks. I congraduate thoes who are moving a step up, because I tend to also. I was in a accident not long ago on 249 in dead stop traffic. Somone pulled out in front of me. I dont know how many other close calls i have come to from there on. Ill be glad to get away from that too.
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I love this town.
You can have it. Im ready for a change by moving on.
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Im sorry for my abruptness, I understand that these people have to make a living also. But if they would just DO more preperations and planning out at what its going to do in the long run as far as traffic and tree-trashing (these people here dont like it either http://treesforhouston.org/ ), Id be more mellow about it. It really raises my anixety level, and gets me a clusterphobic situation. My dad owned a television and applance store off of Hilcroft for 14 years, the bldg was already 10 years old when he bought it, but he went oout of busniess due to rival compition. Well for the newbie business ownwers, may the force be with them
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Well so much TURMOIL!! Im not going to be around to see it go up (fixing to move AWAY!! YAY!!), and make this place more of a "PUSH AND SHOVE" enviroment than it already is. But I would think they should make Katy Hockley Rd into it, and merge it from there into FM. 2920 (The big question how to bypass Tomball) from Yes, I-10 to I-45. Or maybe even make Bouderux Rd into it, then Spring Stubner. Roads that DO need to be modified from the 2 lanes anyway from CRAZY, INSANE Grey HAIR making traffic.
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I want to know how many of you LOVE the insane growth around here, thats rueining the enviorment, making the communte more,and more INSANE. Why? I have 10000s of reasons WHY I cant WAIT to leave Hou- I mean Hell-ston.
1, is the crime. 2 is the crowds. 3 is all the ripping of the trees to build more JUNK that will be a empty, vacant building, and more trees to be ripped up to build more crap, and make the roads that they wait until the last minute to upgrade to be congested until people like me are red in the face from siting in UN-NECCESARY traffic.
How many of you are northerners? Ill bet quite a BIT. Newcomers that havent been here more that 5 years. Well wait until you have lived here like me for 35. You will get sick of it REAL fast.
I just want to say, im sick of seeing the country like in quiet Cypress rapidly disapear and turning into crazy, HORN HONKING, LAND TRASHING, progress pushing, MAD MONEY making CRAP!!!
I tell you, I wish the state would come in and enforce a solution to ease congestion, and overcrowding and envoirment easing... ((ZONING LAWS!!)) Quit opening up these businesses and having them go vacant. Limit the amount of building, widen streets before they BUILD!!! I can understand that people have to make a living from this, but in the process, it drives natives like me insane. Oh wait, im fixing to move!! Cant wait. Yall can have this "Houston is such a swell place." LIFE!!!
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listen, let me tell you somthing!!! A TREE TRASHING BULLDOZER HIT MY CAR, TRING TO CLEAR OUT LAND TO BUILD MORE CRAP!!! IM GOING TO SUE,((SUE)),((((SUE!!!))))... Thats my applogy!!
*snaps his fingers!* I hate Houston LIFE... Simple!! If you have a real problem with that... dont say it...bring it HERE!.......
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