ZetaAce - there is seriously something for EVERYONE in Houston. It's hard to name off just a couple things!

The Zoo and museums are phenomenal. The Space Center (NASA) is really interesting if you are into that sort of thing. Spindletop is a restaurant downtown that rotates for a view of the whole city (especially nice at night when you don't have to look at the smog). Downtown has been completely re-vamped and is now the trendy place to eat and drink and see and be seen.
The Galleria has been mentioned, but is so cool for shopping and people-watching... and be sure to check out the huge Water Wall fountain behind the Galleria, which is super for pictures. Be sure to eat some seafood while you are there, which of course comes fresh in from the Gulf everyday...

whew! That's all I can think of in 30 seconds. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Texas Alum (edited December 27, 2000).]

I was looking at old threads out of boredom and thought I would bump this thread. There are some really cool things said about Houston. :)

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What I like about Houston
(as written by a New England Yankee transplant)

1) I don't miss snow nearly as much as I thought I would. No one ever had a heart attack shovelling heat out of the driveway.

2) Fall colors in late November, but it's still warm enough to have Thanksgiving dinner outside on the patio some years.

3) If you work in biosciences or medicine, you will *never* be without a job unless you're not looking.

4) Ditto construction. (Yeah, I know downtown is shredded--I was referring to the new building construction in the Medical Center)

5) Bellaire--Mayberry-type small town in the middle of a major metropolitan area. (I'm biased--hubby and I just moved to a home there this year). I'm actually getting comfortable w/ the idea of walking around at night and feeling safe.

6) Fine arts. We get season tickets to the Houston Ballet every year. Their latest production of "Giselle" w/ Lauren Anderson left every other company eating their dust--and yes, I HAVE seen it performed by ABT and the Bolshoi.

7) Minute Maid -- not just the new ballpark, but my husband's living. <G> Just pointing out that you don't have to work in oil or medicine to be comfortable here.

8) Small downtown. Sure there's traffic and gridlock, but it's a cakewalk compared to Manhattan.

9) TWO Chinatowns!

10) Being a huge gardening fan, I love the varieties you can grow here. Boston isn't exactly known for huge bushes of bouganvellia (sp?) or hibiscus.

Wow, my morale is better already!
Adrienne
:)

My college roomie lived in Houston for a while, so I used to visit quite a bit. This was years ago, but we had been out clubbing and we were on the way home. The traffic was bumper-to-bumper on the Gulf Freeway at 3 a.m. I just couldn't take the traffic, but to be fair, I really hate to drive in traffic anyway.

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Definitely a very portrayal of what Houston really is. I hated Houston when I was there for school one semester, but I am missing it now more than ever. :( Perhaps one day I will return.....

I've been to Houston once...it was with the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center when I was a camper there in eighth grade. It was a lot of fun and we got to a lot of places that the general public never gets to go to. I got to walk aroudn and in space station mockups back in 1996! I also got to eat dinner sitting acrose the table from Astronaut Jeff Ashby, who was the shuttle commander on STS 112, which was the last mission before the one that just went up on Friday.

Now as a counselor for FATP, I'm hoping that I'll get to go down there this up coming summer with the group. FATP is the only student group that goes to Johnson Space Center on a regular schedule with the type of access that we get. It's really cool b/c several of the former counselors are now engineers with the various contractors down there, so as time as gone on the program gets to view a wider variety of places. I'm really hoping to get to make the trip, but first I have to get rehired!!!1

Mi Famila lives there. I am gettign used to it. And its growing on me. They love it there, and there is always cool shit to do there. I saw the Impressionest exhibit there in 2001 (spring) and it was amazing.

I went a month ago. About half of my chapter is from there.

Houston
 

We have a problem.


I hate NASA. They are everything that is ruining this country. STupid Nasa, landing their shuttles in Houston. If I was in Houston, I'd declare war on NASA. NASA, yet another to hate Florida. And Houston.

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Do we even need to point out that the shuttle does not actually land in Houston, but on one of about half a dozen airstrips around the country?

Sleep it off, dude.......

Ick, I hate Houston. The traffic is hell, the weather sucks, the air and pollution suck, it's ugly, it takes forever to get anywhere, and the people are super-pretentious.

Don't even get me started on the old "Dallas v. Houston" debate....:D

When I graduate, I will make a wish that I never have to go back to the Houston area!!

But, it's not like Galveston is any better!!

(note: I am slightly grumpy due to the PMS and the LOUD construction thats been going on all morning in front of the Mr.'s apartment....:mad: )