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  1. KatieDidIt
    Oh its just a nickname we personally call the 90's style. Bright red brick house, with a two story front door area that has an Islamic shaped arch, and a tiny little hanging lantern. Yes, but many suffer common Houston stick built problems, and the fact people let the landscaping go over the foundation line. Mold and settling (sometimes a total failure) in many of them. Not a ton of craftmanship in comparison to earlier homes.
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    I just think its becoming to darn expensive to buy the new construction, even for the moderately wealthy. "Dream homes" start closer to 2 million now and are on smaller lots. We bought a Georgian style built in the 60's in West Memorial, relandscaped and cleaned up its curb appeal and did a lot of underwear work on the inside. The people behind us razzed their English style and are building a hideous west Texas limestone and siding/David Weekly looking thing. The house needed updating, but it was a good sound house that most people would have been happy to live in. From a traditionalist standpoint, guess which one look's better and fits in the neighborhood.
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    I agree danax. Its very a cheesie style. And the furnishings they put in the "showcase" homes are the worst fake, repro garbage. The velvet drapes and gold, resin candle sticks make us giggle. I don't like the type of house you can label being from a certain decade of production building. Driving through most of the suburbs you can literally say "Built in the 80's, oh that was the 90's Islamic Sugarbrick style, oh and there is the Millennia Tuscan style." When a house is built well the most you can say is "oh that's Georgian or Ranch or Colonel or Tutor or Modern." You might have a idea when it was built just by its location, but there is nothing that seems to decade brand it.
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    Why are they bringing suburban architecture to a place like the museum district?. Garage in the front stuff KILLS me.
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    It doesn't bother me when people razz the 60's ranch or modern. Its tract trash anyway. ( I can say this because with the exception of a few years we have always lived in 60's construction) But when they go after these old 20's and 30's charmers I feel a twinge. Some of the ones they have taken down lately most people would only dream of owning. They were actually built with craftmanship and style. My big fantasy is to find a creative and skilled craftman and have him do all the wood work in the house to make it sing.
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    Not really digging the new format. It will take time to get used to all the clutter. I do like the foreclosure search. It really supports my theory that a majority of the "Houston" foreclosures are out in the out laying suburbs. However I was stunned to see the number of highrises/lofts getting closed on in the Galleria area. I wonder if they were purchased on speculation or for flipping.
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    Yes but is this actually Houston, or does this include all the suburbs out in Katy, Spring, Pearland and all the other little towns that over built tract housing? If you notice many of the top cities listed suffer from sprawl. Finding foreclosed home inside the beltway is a little harder than this list would lend you to believe.
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    Post a disclaimer in order to protect people from the item put in place to protect people on the track? This is nanny state. How about a disclaimer on the park? "If you are alive, you could die or be injured." The park is fine the way it is.
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    Yes, its beautiful. You can also lease horses for your children and take lessons there. But like anything exclussive, it comes at a high cost. I can see someone suing the city for tripping over the posts and cables.
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    Its still on there construction website to be coming Fall 2008. A Wild Oats, of course it got bought out by Whole Foods but its still up on it. Of course this site is notorious for saying really neat things are going to come, and then it folds. <just looked at the site again> And now its not listed.
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    290 has been horrible for over 15 years. I don't feel sorry for the commuters, they chose to live there. With all the suburbs in this town, they could have picked an easier one to get to.
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    Kent & Kent
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    I actually think there is a higher probability of getting hit by a Cat 5 than there is getting hit by a flying SUV on said corner in Memorial Park. Just think how broke this government would be if we constantly ran around fixing things and protecting people from situations that might possibly happen. Oh wait..........
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    Its in those big puffy letters that girls used to put on their notebooks in Jr. High. But right next to SPY9 are several other "markings" claiming this is "My ditch *itch" So it looks like tagging and counter tagging. Maybe its considered art in Brazil, but this isn't Brazil.
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    No, I'm just saying there is no reason to protect people from perceived risk rather than actual risk. If 10 cars had plowed into joggers in the past 10 years, I'd consider it. But since its never happened I don't see the point of putting up ugly metal barricades in a park just because there is a possibilty it might happen to one jogger 20 years from now. Yeah, THP is outside the loop, outside the Beltway even, in West Memorial. Too bad, its worth the trip you Looper you.
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    Bummer, this is one of the easier locations to get to and find parking. I noticed they don't have anything listed for the Woodlands. I thought they were getting one up there.
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    That might be it. I think Centerpoint is building a hub on that side too. Might be a little west of this, but that was my other thought.
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    I know they just bought Wild Oats, so maybe they are restructuring. From what I've heard, its still a go.
  19. KatieDidIt
    Thus in modern terms, "The Nanny State." Try running Terry Hershey. No cars, big parking lots at the end, no exhaust lots of nature and rolling hills. It might be a better option for you. Its like you are not even in Houston anymore.
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    Has is ever happened before? The park and the trail have been together for a very long time. Surely if this is a real problem it would have happened before.
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    Has this happened before? I've never heard of a jogger going off the path into Memorial before. Not to be mean, but do we really have to constantly live in a nanny state?
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    I agree. There are a lot of elderly that drive in this area. They hate change and often defy it. They will be driving and walking right into these trains.
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    Now, just imagine this thing running down Post Oak BLVD. It will become fatality central.
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    HAR.COM says its going to be "All New" on the 14th. I hope they improve the open house search. Hates it. The old one was better.
  25. KatieDidIt
    Um no. Most of us want witnesses if we are going to get attacked on a pathway. I never liked those dark and dense pathways in the burbs. No witnesses, no possiblity of help.
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