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Well since we have a topic posted on New Orleans, i thought i would make one for Houston, where i live. I have lived here my whole life. Please lets not mention things about how its the #1 most polluted city or things like that- i dont want any cut downs about my city please!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Well i guess what i want to know is if anyone has been here, and did you have a good time, what did you do, etc.? Plus has anyone ever been to the galleria- dallas has one too. For those who dont know- its a three floor shopping mall with restaurants on all three floors, some of which are really high class, and a skating rink on the 1st floor. Its a great place!!!

[This message has been edited by bucutie02 (edited November 14, 2000).]

I've never been there, but a wonderful guy I was dating moved down there this past fall to work at NASA!!! ::sigh:: So I've wanted to go visit ever since then!

you should come down one day, i dont really like Nasa, i think its too boring, but its great he works there. Going to see Nasa, and working there are two completely different things! I think you would like it! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

I've only been to Denton (it's outside of Dallas), but I love Texas so much!! I'm moving to Dallas when I get out of school!(May 2002)

wow your moving to Texas? how awesome http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif I havent lived anywhere else but houston and i always hear how friendly the state of texas is. Although i have met some unfriendly people, i think that overall it is a "nice" state, glad to hear other people agree! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

I think there needs to be a correction about the Houston Galleria. This place is not just high class, were talking it's nothing but class! It's the kind of mall that I get dirty looks at for wearing jeans http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif But eventhough I can hardly afford anything I absolutely love the shops.

Really Allison? I love going there also, but i dont feel that way when im there, and i certainly dont go all dressed up. I think some people need to realize that the galleria is JUST a mall, with a few extra things added to it and stop being so snotty, right Allison http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif The main reason i like going there is because it has all my favorite stores in one place, unlike other malls that have a few stores i like and then have to go to another one to just get something from ONE store. Plus it has better places to eat than your average mall, but over priced i will say! I live in houston and havent been there in a LONG time. My best friend is coming home for christmas, so we are definitely going to there soon!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by bucutie02 (edited November 16, 2000).]

I've never been to Texas at all, but my fiance lived there for 3 months. I don't know where though, it might have been Houston. His uncle lives there now, but we can't afford to go visit him. Most people never visit my state (West Virginia), let alone a city here, so I don't really know what it's like to live in an area that gets a lot of tourists.

Mikki, I cant believe how much you have to pay on tolls in your state.

The best thing about Houston is that its only a 6 hour drive from New Orleans..lol.

Yes the Galleria is a nice place to be, except during the holiday rush!!


Hi,
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I will be in Houston on business at the beginning of January. Any recommendations on what I should see while I am there?

ZetaAce

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My family moved to Houston my second year of college. I live in San Antonio, about 3 hours away. About 30% of the kids I went to school (college) with were from Houston. Great place to visit, just don't raise kids there. Messes 'em up something terreble. Must be the heat. For those of you old timers on here, You know who is from there - PROVING my point. Anyway, we are doing the holidays in Houston this year. I had avoided it till now. Not that I totally hate Houston, it's just hot as all get out, the traffic is really bad, I mean really bad, (4 million people and like 2 freeways between them all), anyway, and the town is full of racial strife (the cops there are all about the racial profiling). so you can understand why when my parents told me they were moving there I was like, "no, please, anywhere but there." Think I could get a job with the houston chamber of commerce? Anyway, it is great to visit, just don't go in the summer. I'll end on a positive note, there are 1,000,000 different things to do there as well. Sorry bucutie02. I have had some good times there!

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Been to Houston TOO many times throughout my life. My sister and her family lives there...SW Houston

I probably will be there next week!

Well lifesaver, i cant win 'em all! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif I am sorry to say you dont like houston as much as I do. I know you were trying to be sarcastic, or maybe not, but there are definitely a lot of highways here which means more than two. I guess I am used to living here and think its a great city. I rather have to deal with traffic and actually have somewhere to be afterwards, than be stuck in my dorm room with nothing to do.... my memories from waco!! And yes it is VERY hot here in the summer and then some but I do believe that this year some parts of our country were getting extreme measures of heat too! The racial strife? I dont agree on that, houston is a very diverse city with all sorts of people, and i really dont think that people are all about racial profiling. The part about the cops, well maybe i agree with that but it doesnt just apply to houston. If you ask me, i rather have this racial diversity than live in a small town where everyone is exactly the same. Anyway, dont think I cant take criticism because I am not upset, but you know... thats my city and i have to protect it. Thanks anyway for your opinion, its nice to hear what others think of it! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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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
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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: )