Survey: Houstonians eyeing relocation
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Recent polling by the US Hobby Center reveals 57% of Houstonians have considered moving, with severe weather being a significant factor.
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Where do they expect the water to go if it’s all concrete we hardly have trees anymore it’s all stores now
When they started 288, I knew that was gonna be a problem, because that area is all bayou, and they layed concrete over it.... Just dumb...
Houston needs better drainage system.
What drainage we cant drain water when we are the water bro
The lack of trees and open spaces is shocking for you aren’t from the area.
@jstark9148 no drainage system in the world account for paving over wetlands, praries and swamps. We're called the bayou city for a reason. The resvoirs built in the 30s and 40s never meant to have whole neighborhoods next to them. Too many people moved here without knowing anything about the topography of this place.
This was only a Category 1 storm and it took us offline for days. Can you even imagine if we got hit with a Category 5?
Can I imagine?
Yes.
Do I want to?
Oh heeee///// naw!
It was more than a week for us…
Not ‘if’, ‘when’.
It’s was a cat 3 when it hit 120 mph were reported
Y'all are going to..... and I won't be here. Sold everything and am moving to the Pacific Northwest.
It’s not just storms, it’s the terrible roads, it’s the constant building of more freeways. It’s the inability of making better mass transit..
Yeah but the coup de gras here is the storm. C’mon man
You know what that’s so true! Some neighborhoods are looking like 3rd world country neighborhoods. Roads and freeways are extremely dirty! Not only that but dangerous to drive, some potholes can seriously do damage to your car. From dead dogs (which is triggering to witness!) to trash, debris etc. I’ve been to other states and trust me the roads and highways are not as bad as Texas. I just don’t see that in other states 🥴
@@cindyl760 So true, also why do we have so many ditches in the middle of the city lol? Ditches in front of houses and businesses? It’s so odd and crappy looking. Can’t they just build a sidewalks over it lol?
@@cindyl760it is a 3rd world country. How many white people do you see on a regular day in Houston.
😂 even chicago is better
They didn't mention terrible schools that have been featured in several national documentaries
Abbott is determined to DESTROY the public school system.
Not to mention all of the reality shows filmed in the Medical Center which normal hospitals would deem unethical to involve their staff and patients in
Yeah, uh-huh, even if they mentioned the schools, would they have mentioned their decline started right about the time half of New Orleans was relocated to Houston after Katrina?
Evacuees become refugees when given a $10k debit card.
You can blame Abbott for that as well. He is out to destroy the public school system !
Blaming schools when schools is a building to teach and learn. Not a babysitting club. The schools are terrible why? Because the teachers don’t want to babysit and tolerate bad kids that don’t want to learn and get 💩on by kids that don’t have discipline or manners. And if a teacher disciplines a kid is the teachers fault. Blame the parents and society in general on why the schools are terrible.
Left Houston area 16 years ago after living there 14 years. Weather, traffic and air pollution were major factors in me leaving. Live in the country by a lake now.
Something I plan on doing soon.
TRUCKERS PASSING THROUGH HOUSTON VIA I-10 STARING AT THE LARGE SKYSCRAPERS EN ROUTE TO BAY AREA
People told me not to move here, but I didn't listen 🤦♂️
@@JonnoPlays Yeah, the whole state is horrific. Why anyone would leave the West coast to move to Texas is beyond me. 2-3 years in and everyone regrets it. I moved away over 20yrs ago because it was getting bad then. I cant imagine what it's like now.
@@ToddBacon The grass is always greener on the other side. I am in Cali considering going to Texas.
@@mrtopcat2 The only thing that's better is that theres no personal income tax ...that and there's no annoying environmental laws like with the gas powered weed eaters and crap like that. Keep in mind the weather is horrific and so is the crime. Also, almost ZERO culture in Texas in general. I'm talking about Houston but all the cities suck now.
@@ToddBacon Thank you for taking the time and sharing your perspective. To me, and I am on the west coast, in Texas it seems like middle class America is still prospering and there are less restrictions of many type and so people have more freedoms, which is course very important. In addition to what you have mentioned, my concern is what am I going to do there for fun? I am not into fishing, boating or hunting. But other than a whole lot of empty land, I don't see much nature parks or similar in Texas. Texas has Big Bend and the big skies and that can be beautiful as well, but on the long run, I think if may lose it's initial appeal. However, the west coast has really nice areas to see and for hiking. Plus, I as energy costs are seemingly set to keep rising, I am also concerned about AC costs and insurance costs as well. Best I know, insurance costs are about double in Texas compared to California. So Texas might not offer that big of an advantage economically after all.
@@mrtopcat2 I'm looking into Richmond ....i wouldve never thought of Richmond prepandemic but it looks ok.
My family moved to Houston when I was little in 1970. I can handle the weather, but not the congestion and crime. It keeps bleeding further out to 'safe' suburbs. I'm ready to move. It's not the same city I once loved.
Yes it's the increase in newcomers and border madness. This is the sentiment most Native Houstonians have. But my friend lives in NYC and she said it's horrible there so there is no perfect place.
@@god563616 Very true. That's my dilemma... I don't know where else to go.
There are no safe areas on Houston. Criminals travel. We don't have those issues in Central Texas. Also, owning land is a thing. Hard to do that in Houston.
😢
@@DIVISIONINCISION What area is good? I used to live in San Marcos & Austin for a few years in the late '80s, but it's grown sooo much!
Leave ! Houston is overcrowded already lol
Chicago is still the 3rd largest city in the U.S
I don't get why so many people either from out of state or out of the country always want to move to Houston. WHY?!
Moving to Fort Bend does nothing, you need to move out of Centerpoint coverage/responsibility area.
Exactly…I GTFO out, the entire area is total trash.
The northern suburbs are under Entergy
@@vollstewrlcome to fallas
Yes! Houston has always been the armpit of the nation. Cars Concrete and Crime is all Houston has to offer
At this point if you're a houstonian and you have the ability to get the heck out of Houston, my advice is All hands abandoned ship. I repeat all hands abandon ship. Because trust me folks it's only going to get worse from here.
Yep
Bye
Right on 👍
I left a yr ago after living their 7 yrs
My health is better, I’m happier, and my son is in a better school district.
@@misscynthia32that’s because of you lol not Because of Houston
Harris County has gone downhill since Hidalgo got put in charge. Cant fix stupid people voting... MOVE!
People have moved from Chicago to Houston, and in five years, are saying not worth it.
Exacly chicago is still the 3rd largest city
I would rather shovel than live in Texas!
Then go back to Chicago…. Simple
@@jessewilson8660 and take the taxes you pay and invest in Chicago… are you going to foot their bill?? Chances are no
@@sab3295invest for what??? We're booming up here!
I’m out in September! Bye Texas
I feel bad for you having for you having to wait that long. I got one more week in this crap hole
The letters FO apply.
Where you going
Buh bye!
September? But that's just when hurricane season starts getting fun!
We are planning on moving to another state in a year. Cant wait!! ❤️ Houston is so ghetto now, and its expensive everywhere anyway.
I grew up here and agree 100%. Where is a good place to move? I'm ready!
@Wishpool Colorado! We are looking at Denver or Colorado Springs
It is hard to find a good place that has it all. Bend, OR seems interesting. It has mountains and lakes and a river nearby and it is a booming town. Some famous silicon v company has it's data center a few miles NE. Too bad home prices are already through the roof.
😅@@emmethherrera278
@@Wishpoolcheck out North Carolina. Beaches on the east side, hilly green forests in the central part and beautiful mountains on the western part.
Not only did i leave Houston, I left Texas. Almost 8 years ago, and not looking back. Went through two major lay offs in Houston. Last one, not one company would offer me the salary i had . Ridiculous. And after Allison and all the unnamed floods before it and then after, i was done.
Wages have been pushed down by corporate greed and immigration problems. My wife and I know plenty of people with no papers working decent positions and the companies have been able to benefit from turning a blind eye.
You're a traitor.
@@lamontjohnson5810 That attitude is what gives us Texans a bad image 🤡 be better, how about lament not antagonize like a child
If it's not the weather then it's the liberal influence ruining cities like houston
@@_Eric._ Yeah. Blame the liberals for all the problems in the world. You have such a simplistic, hypocritical mindset and yet call me childish? Go figure.
@@lamontjohnson5810leaving Texas is traitorous?
Please move!!!!!
You first Frankie😅
@@cuppa2023 ha if you not from here be gone!
Born and raised man.
We are tyring... dealing with cleanup from flooding at the same time .... this is the worst experience trying to prep for moving ... ever
@@furemerestenshadow5578 lol be gone
Why clean just sale it as is there is much better places! Bless your heart.
@@frankbrubicon5299 lyetally we woke up with three inches of water around us,,, i sleep on the floor due to my epilepsy.... WE are not wealthy fixed income... and a lot of stuff we lost.. books, art sets... the wifes yarn.... so as i m trying to pack she is cleaning trying to sort what is lost what can be recovered.... I have heat triggered seizures .... so we were trying to move when the storm hit and flooded us... My wifes mother has been pushing us too stay so its been a slow painful process ...
Since 2017 we've had 3 bad ice storms, multiple tornadoes, 2 bad hurricanes, multiple hail storms, a terrible drought, and a bunch of run of the mill terrible storms that we always get. I've lived here since 1995 and I'm fed up. This place is atricious. Add to that 110 degree summers and 3rd world immigrants and crime and the ONLY reason to live here is you either have family here or you make a shitload of money. That's IT.
Exactly. Makes no sense to live here.
The ready availability of good jobs has always been the ONLY reason to live in Houston.
I don't miss my hometown even a little bit.
We can’t control the weather…
@@StillLivinginthewoods sure about this one? Apparently, we dont pay very well 🤷
@@StillLivinginthewoods
I moved away over 20yrs ago. Live outside D.C. now. Yeah, 100% agree with you. I dont understand all those people from Cali moving there. It's not much better if any than L.A. (i lived there too in the 90s)
Yes any who wanna go....PLEASE go! Let us have our freeways back (now it looks like 5:30 pm traffic at 3:30 pm weekdays)....
Yes!!!
That how I feel. They talk all that about Houston, but it's the outsiders that came and effed it up. I hope they all go back to where they came from. Especially California people, and Atlanta.
Less concrete and gas guzzling cars and trucks and more trees and better infrastructure planning. Eventually y’all all be swept in the ocean otherwise.
The problem is the people that dont even live in Houston the reason its packed is because people live far and come into Houston hence why theirs more cars than people if you pay attention its more cars leaving than coming.
@@jacob5058Yes that’s true , all the exits going out of Houston are always more congested than entering Houston
I wanted to move to Houston but then take into account that the state of Texas has its own grid that we saw can easily fail and then flooding, it’s a nightmare.
Please not to dallas
Yes, DFW is next.
😂
I would rather live in Houston than Dallas
@@seansingh4421 Why, Dallas has over 130 miles of rail. You can get to both Airports by train. and the weather is less humid.
How about Austin?
Houston has everything and is a good place to start a family and make good money. Besides that it's fucking hot, full of traffic, people, shity electric grids, and bad weather. It's becoming very expensive unless you want to live in the hood. But hey we got cheap gas right?...
It's a miserable place to make money. No one is hiring and the only people that are are minorities that prioritize minorities, and because the mexican population is so out of control you have to speak Spanish to get anywhere here. It's not habitable here anymore.
Plenty of "hoods" too. Unfortunately it's every where. My apartment complex is actually nice. Considering is on southwest. But no matter how nice a place is if u rent to garbage people eventually that nice place is the hood. And I'm a blk dude . Imagine fitting several stereotype and being totally opposite of it. I appear to be hood but totally opposite. Believe it or not I don't like the exact same stuff other don't. Loud kids ,DOGS!! LOUD TALKING ARGUING, YOU KNOW hood behavior. 😢😢😢
Houston is a shell of its former self. Hurricane Harvey secured the deal, and the infrastructure cannot keep up
Gotta have one or the other 🤷♂️ unfortunately no city offers both in this country
@@byinyang7060because it’s like a game of Monopoly.
I'm out August 31st at the latest.
Where ya off to?
Congrats!
I am old and so poor like a rat. i cant go anywhere😢
Memphis
@@jogmas12I’m off to Detroit to buy one of those 1 dollar homes.
Bye bye 👋
Those "low taxes" and "business friendly" culture have a cost.
57% leaving how great that would be,,,
How great would that be? Are you ready for a bankrupt city and double the taxes?
Amazing, wish it was true 😂
That would be awesome!!!! But I wouldn't hold my breath on it. It's just the media hyping us up for a highly implausible scenario! 🤣🤣🤣
That would make the housing in Texas affordable again
Please go😇
57 percent of Houstonians aren’t from here. Let em go
I was going to say they're probably from Cali.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
A lot of them aren't from this country, u should tell them to go back...
Are your parents from Houston? Or maybe Mexico?
I said the same thing I say 85% of people that stay in Houston ain't from Houston I remember back in early 2000 I could drive from the north side in acres homes to the south side to sunny side to 20 minutes tops now it takes almost a hour and that's on the weekend yeah so let them move out
Two words..... public corruption.
... which makes storms?
@@craigrussell7542 May I suggest doing an internet search using the terms Houston TX corruption? Storms have been hitting Houston for hundreds of years and the city kept growing to the size it is today. Houston is infected with the cancer of corruption and is her own worst enemy. That is why many "want out". Perhaps the new mayor can root out some of it, but, I'm not holding my breath.
People that have lived in Houston their whole lives know there’s way more people here now than there was 7 years ago. Home builders won’t build vacant houses my man. They build new homes everyday here by the hundreds.
So if what he’s saying is true, and Houstons population hasn’t changed…….
then we have an illegal immigrant problem… because if they were legal the numbers would show how many people are ACTUALLY in Texas 😂
You mean the census lol they are not even considered illegal to the rich let alone human to them they are cheap labor to exploit 😂
ya they keep building houses BUT are they making improvements to the infrastructure ie the local grid??? or making streets wider??? or updating the water and sewer drainage???? you keep packing more people into aging systems they are going to fail.... thats happening right now in the area i live in...
@@furemerestenshadow5578they are making improvements to widen roads but it is very slow. They can’t keep up with the population boom.
@@jamescash887 ok so ive lived here around 15 years.. what i ve seen is lot of building.. developers stacking as many town homes per lot as they can....clear cutting a draining large lots for housing developments ie wiping out the water drainage and water shed.... in both cases by the time the people moving in realize they are hosed .. the developers are vanished...
Your missing the point, within the city boundary is not the same as the broader metropolitan area. The broader area and county maybe growing, but the city itself may have not changed population.
Leaving was a great decision for my mental health. Love the food and diversity of Houston but the negatives became too much for me. We have serious issues in America and they are all magnified in Houston
What kinds of issue?
@@pohanahawaii The crime, road rage, lower class people, and lot of uneducated in the populace. And, I live here, but I can't believe the Problems that I've seen.
@@PoeLemic : 1) When you say low class, do you mean large number of intentionally uninformed Republicans, or newly arrived non English speaking migrants from South of the border and those from Asia like Vietnamese? 2) What do you think of Austin or Dallas?
@@pohanahawaiiis it worse than Los Angeles? I don’t think anything can get worse than LA.
@@pohanahawaii a lot of the ghetto blacks, Latinos, and whites who gave lived in Houston for a long time are extremely ignorant. They love living in filth and ignorance. They never hold city leaders accountable because they’re basically dumb sheep
Houston is a great city to live, thrive, raise a family, direct travel internationally or state side, money stretches further than other places. We will be happy to host a good ol departure party for everyone leaving Houston. My commute would be a lot better & more vacate jobs. I will enjoy shopping at HEB on Sundays again 🙂👋🏻
Yes I so miss Houston of the early 2000s when I could drive on 610 on the weekends without all of this traffic
@@Jamal-n9z yes it was definitely less of a tourist city. I miss those days ability to drive to a location hanging out then go to another spot without worrying about parking 🅿️ violations & adding extra time lol 😂
@@Jamal-n9z Mayor Bill White ruined Houston after letting all the Katrina refugees settle here. Politically the effects are still felt as Harris hasn't been purple swing district since then so he got whatbhe wanted out of it at the expense of Houstonians.
What rock did you crawl out from under? I can name many places in Texas that are more inexpensive than Houston with less crime and better freeways. Keep believing that propaganda! I don't even visit Houston! It's basically Chicago South.
I’m moving but it has nothing to do with the power. I’m moving away because of the high taxes, the fact that I have to wait on hold when calling HPD for help, the fact that I was assaulted at work by a violent felon who was out on bond after killing another person, the fact that our local politicians and other government officials keep getting caught in corruption scandals, and because there are a network of license plate reading cameras that are spying on Harris County residents 24/7. I’m moving back to Galveston County at the end of the school year. I just don’t get how a county can have so much income, how residents can pay so much in taxes, and we still get such a low quality of living. It’s insane to me that I felt safer and felt like my government did more for me in an area with a combined 1.7% tax rate than I do in Harris county, with a 2.78% tax rate.
I'd be more concerned with the crime rate...
It’s a package deal. I’m moving out soon.
What is the crime rate ?
How high is it compared to other cities ?
Houston is in TX, thought TX was better at putting criminals in prison.
@@gund89123 Houston, Texas has a higher crime rate than similar-sized metro areas, and its violent crime rate is higher than the national average. And Houston is a liberal city regardless of it being in Texas.
That is exactly what I was thinking!
@@gund89123Then they get pardoned...that's if you lean right and worship the governor.
My wife's sister and brother in law live in the area and I can tell you why we won't move to Houston. Weather is a huge concern both the flooding and the extreme heat. Crime is also a major concern. And lastly, affordability. There are just too many better deals out there.
My issue is the heat actually. I’m originally from Denver, and this heat and humidity is ridiculous. The flooding is the reason I won’t buy a house here though.
I’ve been saying Houston has a weak electrical grid. It goes out over the slightest touch.
I’m moving, as soon as I can, but that’s before the hurricane.
Good. We don’t need anymore extreme leftists here. Bye bye you won’t be missed.
What did you expect?..😂 Houston has tropical climate...nothing like Denver..
We have been in the upper 90’s the last few weeks here in Denver, and have had the worst air quality in the working world.
If 97 is hot at sea level, imagine it at 5000 feet above sea level.
It’s like we live in the sahara.
@@Pwnag3Inc you still don’t get it nowhere close to Houston. You might get those temps for a few weeks but not all summer. We get 95-100° heat into October.
@@jamescash887 My father said, every time he was going to step into the garage for a tool, bolt or screw, he would first concentrate where it was, then quickly open the door and get it, to avoid being drenched in sweat. He said May to October the heat is pretty much unbearable.
Dont come to Dallas / Ft Worth. We have enough problems with the present residents. Last thing we need is 57% of "Houstonians"
I came here to say the same thing. We are full.
Houston is more full then Dallas…
Too late. LOL
😂😂
A ton of people are moving out of Dallas. We don’t want you Dallas people in our communities. No thanks
I don’t flood and I consider moving away from Houston every summer because of the brutal heat and humidity. Right when I start getting really serious about it, the weather cools off in the middle of September and I a good until the next summer. Building homes in the flood plane should not be allowed but the builders have the politicians in their pockets.
I left Harris county 9 years ago. Best decision of my life. Centerpoint is a disgrace. My family still lives there. Hopefully they get out soon! God bless!
Centerpoint is horrible. Crime is horrible. Weather is horrible. Congestion is horrible. I've been in Houston forever and I am tired of it all!
Born/grew up very poor in New Jersey. My parents were farming folk from Georgia. One day I sat down and thought to myself: "I live in the most advanced First World nation in the most advanced civilization in history... why do I not have power 100% of the year, every year? In the 21st Century? No excuse. So I bought a Generac generator, two 500 gallon propane tanks and piece of mind. I'll never have 0 power ever again until the day I die. This isn't Caveman Times.
Everyone who moved to TX or FL are getting a big kick in the B-U-T-T
Im DEFINITELY GETTING THE FK OUT OF TEXAS!!
California too expensive and they have strict smog check requirements
@@jogmas12 AZ or NM for me
@@jogmas12y’all hate California so much that you couldn’t wait to attack and he didn’t even say he was going to California. You just jumped to conclusions 😂 obsessed
My ticket is booked for August 2nd and I’m never looking back❌
Beryl was a hurricane of category 3 or 4. The authorities lied about the category to prevent evacuation mess and nationwide spikes in the price on gasoline because, you know, elections are coming. Cat 1 does not uproot big and strong trees out of the ground the way Beryl did.
yet here i am in austin, from houston. i feel blessed that i missed those two storms
Might just join you in Austin tbh. They make more $ too than Houston.
@@trustyoungpierre9959🤑🤑🤑🫡 respect!
@@trustyoungpierre9959More money but the cost of living in austin is outrageous
Austin looks like trash. Homeless ppl everywhere, rampant drug use and graffiti everywhere
@@trustyoungpierre9959I wish that was the truth but it’s all the Cali plants that make all the money and keep their remote Cali jobs and get paid a Cali wage. Austin for a Texan making a Texas living is really hard sometimes bro…
Don't come here. Crime is so bad, and im from Houston & still living in The H and there are a million homeless people everywhere
Blame Democrats.
LOL. Have you been to LA? Seattle? Phoenix? Those cities homeless problem makes Houston look like a resort for yuppies. I couldn't believe how little homeless there is here in Houston compared to LA when I first moved here two years ago.
@@lamontjohnson5810 I was shocked when we visited San Francisco for a football game the amount of homelessness there was the worst I've seen and I've traveled to many places.
Exactly, Phoenix Arizona has less crime compared to Houston Texas.
Just sold my house in Houston. I'm outta here. Heading for the Pacific Northwest
Lucky you. I dream of spending a summer there. I hear they have the coolest temperatures in the US
oregon or seattle sounds great
Washington is beautiful
@@ActionJackson420txSeattle?! Heck no that place is super high in crime. Outside Seattle okay.
congrats and wish you well
PLEASE DO, especially if you come from Louisiana
Every time i see those license plates so annoying contributing to the traffic especially Florida i don’t know why they drive all the way over here they are always here
Oh shut up
Lowsyanna
Seems like Houston has gone downhill since Katrina...I'm speaking from the outside looking in so maybe I'm wrong
@@rtre_870 you are absolutely right. Bunch of animals running around untamed over here. I’m not talking animals.
I loved living in Houston but these Hurricanes & power outages often has worn me out. My son was gonna move to Houston once he retires from the Army in a year - was looking for houses and everything but this latest mess has changed his mind and he's moving to Dallas and ill follow him! Yall can have this sinking ship, also I see the smart comments about let the people not from Houston move. It has nothing to do with shitty power outages and bad weather which you will continue to get even if a million people move out
Hurricanes every year? Houston hasn’t had a hurricane since 2017 (Harvey). That was 7 years ago.
@@jamescash887 yeah yeah yeah I made my point
@@1Blkkato Dallas is just as hot and gets tornados. I swear some of you are just soft. It’s like you feel a little bit of pain in life and the world is ending. Just goes to show how privileged we are in this country. In any case, please leave. The more people we get out of here the better.
@@jamescash887 so long Mr feeling comfortable talking stuff online but would never run his mouth in person
@@jamescash887 that’s not true, we just had one and we had in 2021, hurricane Nicholas.
I don't think weather is the only factor, crime also, the city with the most road rage incidents nationwide
Receipts on that road rage stat? 🧾🧾🧾
Too many crime people in Houston.
correct, road rage is horrible here people are nasty drivers here. Very aggressive and clueless. No consequences, no law. People drive however they want here.
God bless Houston Texas ❤🎉🇨🇱🕊️❤️🇨🇱🙏🙏
Yea baby 😊😮
I moved from Houston to Arlington Texas almost a year ago. The main two reasons were the weather and traffic. But mainly because of the weather. Crime has gotten worse over the years especially with car break-ins. But the only reason why i miss Houston is because of the fishing. Other than that, I'll never move back.
Where is the crime coming from
Yea those bayous have some nice fish in them 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Corpus Christi has better fishing than Houston, without the crime, weather events and high housing costs. I like DFW, but too expensive.
Fishing in Houston? Where?
The 57% that aren’t from here? Sounds like a plan.
70%* LOL
@@lamontjohnson5810People like you are the reason why this city is such an ugly dump..you don’t want things to get better but you get upset when people want it too? You people man….
@@lamontjohnson5810People like you are the reason why this city is such an ugly backwards dump..when people want things to get better, you criticize them?
@@LivingAwake You and people that think like you are so ignorant. Instead of holding city leaders and politicians foot to the fire for allowing this city to be a dump you basically defend them. No wonder your people love living in filth and ignorance.
@@lamontjohnson5810 you fkn sissies reported my comments lol…
Why do people continue to live in flood areas wetlands and then expect other people to rescue them for their bad decisions
Well, there’s these things called jobs. Some of us are here for work. Also, I’m not asking for a rescue.
Hey not so fast, jerk. There is an underpinning structure of politics and business that allows it. It is not simply a “bad decision” issue.
Laura can’t wait to see the video of your house floating away! 🤣
There's this new thing called ports.
@@RebleGreyWarden No one should be wishing misfortune on anyone. Karma can be a real b#tch.
Moving back to Cali
I’ve lived in Houston my whole life with 5 hurricanes under my belt , this is home
Houston lifer also. I moved outta state for 4 years, then came back. I live way outta the city now past Livingston, but my entire family is in h-town. My family is a big reason we can't back, this IS my home. We pay our taxes and we deserve leadership who will allocate them properly instead of passing benefits and subsidies to every dipshit developer ripping out all our trees for rental homes and strip malls. We deserve better urban planning and a functioning GD power grid.
Lyle Lovett has some awesome songs about Texas. I like his music a lot.
There are better places to live down on the Gulf Coast. Houston is not one of them. Corpus Christi over Houston all day long. Laidback, beachside, no crime.
@@DIVISIONINCISION Interesting. Thank you for chiming in with that info. Being closer to the border, I would have never thought Corpus Christy had low crime. Good to know. I should visit in person to check it out. I think it may become a booming town, if it hasn’t already. I heard about that bridge project that they are building, but that is now in hold for various issues. But someday it will be built and ready.
@@mrtopcat2 I was on vacation in Corpus during 4th of July week, first visit. If you go, visit the Lexington US Navy museum, the Art Museum and Corpus History Museum. They are all right off the beach.
I’m definitely getting the hell out of here first chance I get.
Where ya going?
Leave
@@broadcastmyself77 eat a 🍆
@@jogmas12 Portugal
See ya. Don’t let door hit you on way out.
Houston is not the city it one's was. We have to deal with bad weather, horrible traffic, crazy crime, expensive cost of living, and bad pay. It's time to move for us
all of you move to a new place and then run up the cost of living in that city/state. Then you complain and do it all over again. Like a bunch of locusts.
@@jamescash887 born and raised in Houston Texas you know nothing about me fool
@@jamescash887lol exactly I seen Houston isn’t prefect but it cool city…
@@inotek1991 Don’t know any other large city you will find a lower cost of living …. But everything else, spot on.
Once*
As a native I'm moving away permanently
Bye 👋
Come to California if you want. We’d welcome you with open arms and the best Mexican food on the planet. Get ready to party every weekend tho haha.
Bye. You won’t be missed.
Dont Texas my California
@@covidisascam4556 lol don’t worry true Texans want nothing to do with that overpriced, crime ridden, sh*thole
My home insurance went up 1200 and I haven’t made a claim since Harvey
what!
Fkn everything has shot
Up over the last couple years. It’s not ok.
To many newcomers.
It’s funny how people go from “I will not leave my home” to “please save me from the water” to “I am done. I am out”. It’s just so obtuse. They think they can defeat things far far bigger than them with will and passion. It’s just so beyond me.
The weather is the Achilles Heel of living in Houston non stop Raining and this has been going on for years and years and is the reason I moved to Arizona and I missed Ike and Harvey and bad weather fatigue is really a major stress and I regret moving back here and I am ready to go back to the desert
We ain't gonna hold you neither. Bye.... Houston was cool until y'all came anyway.
Arizona is safer climate-wise, but dry heat is dangerous. Less crime in Arizona, but it depends on where you live. I would never live in Houston to begin with, so no clue what you were thinking.
I lived in Houston in the late 80’s. The Texas people are great, but that humidity and 8 month summers, traffic, crime etc…..
I lived in Houston over two decades ago and they are still working on the same freeway.
If it’s a typical survey, they asked 1,000 people if they were thinking about moving and 570 said yes. It makes a good headline and ensures clicks, but 57% of a 1,000 people does not represent Houston.
I’ve lived in Houston all my life and generally love it. I have a lot of family here, for instance. But of late, I’m really exhausted from the all the heat and mosquitos. It’s nearly impossible to be outdoors for any length of time without applying bug spray. 😣
Of all the deterrents from living in Houston, you're picking out the bugs. Crime, flooding, the drivers aren't a problem for you?
I’m North of Dallas, my neighborhood is on a ridge, my house is on a pad with nice swales on each side. Good newer infrastructure here it can handle the weather.
Didn’t the residents vote no several years back on a $50 billion dollar infrastructure project to mitigate this kind of damage? It costs WAY more to fix things after a problem than before it.
That went into the state politicians pockets.
Thank God!!! Let them leave!!! We're so full in Houston ever since all the outsiders came here
@@SantosTorres-hr4kw You and people that think like you are so ignorant. Instead of holding city leaders and politicians foot to the fire for allowing this city to be a dump so you basically defend them. No wonder your people love living in filth and ignorance.
OH BS people leave areas because of HIGH CRIME
Look at the whole state of Florida……. MOST OF THE INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE PULLED OUT OF THE STATE!
I left Florida for this reason. They make insurance cover the coastal investment properties owned by our of state (often Russian) criminal organizations.
So you wind up subsidizing thieves insurance!!
Good grief if this poll actually had any reality to it Houston would have been losing thousands since Alicia. Where are they gonna move to? There are no jobs, cost of renting is horrific everywhere, inflation killing us, buying a house is out of the question, etc. Natural disasters have been one after another for years now. Flooding is everywhere, fire outbreaks, drought, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, blizzards, polar vortex, etc. Which state is without something going on most of this year? Yes, we do need better electric infrastructure, but D.C. hates Texas and we have had that rainy day fund for years. I can see alloting a bit, but not the whole thing and once someone gets into it this will be come every politicians lil slush fund for anything until they drain it. Also those people who can MUST become self reliant. With power, food, water, emergency supplies. We need to learn after the last 2 decades the gov't cannot come to save us 24/7/365.
Great post!!
I agree. Some will move. Tons are blowing a lot of smoke. Plus a lot of new people are coming in, many of whom just left somewhere they hated for a # of reasons and think of Houston as a refuge, even with its problems. Those of you who think you're going to leave some big gaping hole in Houston, you're wrong lol.
Texas hung itself with stupid DEREGULATION and greedy politicians that want illegals to clean their yards. Glad I left.
Agreed. As soon as you find that "Last Great Place", then it will get mobbed with newcomers and become unaffordable, have high crime, terrible traffic, etc. Those who remember it 20 years ago will mourn the loss of what that place once was. This problem is nationwide.
Some people I know want to move to the Pacific NE and Idaho. They have volcanos up there that are making noise already.
I am one of those moving. Already laying the ground work, it looks like Virginia and i have been here 20+ years
Good, this city was getting too crowded
Damn, we were keeping y'all there for a reason
ya my family was already planning on leaving, medical reason we got caught in mid move .... worst moving experience ever .. house flooded , weeks of stress, panic, clean up which is still going onbe while i mtry8ing to move..
I wish I never bought my house. In few years, once I'm done with repairs, I'm selling my house and moving to Chicago! I'm sick of this place.
Lol, to Chicago.... Ya that should fix your problems.
Are you awake. The alarm didn't go off? 😂😂😂😂
Chicago? As in the city where it was reported that 100 people got shot on 4 of July.
Better than Houston. Hurry it’s getting expensive here.
@@english7451 really? Ok good. Go to where they have more illegals than Houston, and we're closer to border, and don't have that man illegals. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. That's why we shipped them off to, so run, but ya can't hide.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ever since the COVID lockdown, I left and never came back. Been here for 30 years and I had enough. It's too sprawling. You have to DRIVE everywhere. I mean, god forbid I can walk or take a bike for some errands. Growing up here, you're on house arrest until you're old enough to drive. Cops are petty and harrass you. Not to mention the freaking flooding, non-stop construction AND hurricanes.
I'm mulling over heading up north toward the hill country. Sure, they have tornadoes, but at least hurricane season isn't a factor. There's only so many hurricanes a person can take. I'm done with this city.
Houston , is an ocean bottom , gonna get wet ! Why aren’t you guys on the national electrical grid ?
It would be nice for Houston to decline from 6 million back to about 4 million. It would play hell with real estate prices and the tax base tho.
where did you get those numbers? Houston has officially about 2.8 million, neck and neck with Chicago. LA has 4 million, NY has 8. Be accurate or be still.
@@hermit6501 it has much more than that. Not all people here are "official". Plus, you have to remember that the overwhelming majority of Harris county, Brazoria, Ft Bend also work in Houston.
The entire houston metro/greater metro is around/maybe over 7 million.
@@hermit6501 Houston plays games with what land it annexes and what land it avoids. It has a long tentacle out to Willowbrook Mall, for example, that ignores all residential areas around the mall and on the path to the mall.
So you need to look at the Houston metropolitan area to get a more accurate idea of how many people are in Houston.
Some are truly in outlying areas like Conroe, Tomball, and The Woodlands.
But *millions* of people live just on the other side of arbitrary lines. The only way you can tell you are "out of the city" is the color of the street signs and perhaps the quality of the roads.
Houston basically is all of the valuable parts of Harris County these days except for residences.
@hermit6501
That is just incorporated Houston City Limits. Texas has incorporated and unincorporated city limits. Unincorporated are places that Houston has annexed, but doesn't recieve Houston City Services. They have Constables and their own HOA with water, sewage, and trash pick up.
We got to our new home in South Carolina with our seven Dogs and three Cats exactly 30days before our house in Pearland was washed away by Hurricanes Harvey I loved Pearland back then but it’s turning into a Minnie Houston.
@@georgemichael9106 moved to pearland just after Harvey. It seemed ok then but over the last 5 years it has certainly become an extension of the ghetto.
Wow you made it! Thank god! You’re not missing out on Houston. This is my hometown but idk maybe I might move again
@@cindyl760 I have KTRH -740 on as we speak just like I did for the twenty years in Pearland Michale Berry Clay&Buck,Sean Hannity,Michael Berry,Mark Levin etc etc I’m up to the minute what’s going on in Houston. I’m glad we moved to South Carolina but I’ll always be a Texan. Stay safe and I’ll be thinking about y’all. PS I hope Texas done with all this destructive weather.
@@user-ks2uo3qh7i Pearland it’s huge now compared to when we moved there in 96.
Pearland is going to sh*ts
Houston has been hammered by the weather!
I got a job offer and just moved out of Houston two weeks ago, the day after the storm hit. So much happier in Tucson so far. Houston has become ghetto and run down, the traffic is terrible, and the drivers are borderline clinically insane.
Tucson is mild compared to Houston, but Arizona is completely different. The culture is mostly Hispanic there, not many blacks. Economic climate is worsening in Tucson, though. I was there back in February. Phoenix offers more. Too bad you couldn't get a job there.
@@DIVISIONINCISION Wouldn't want to be in Phoenix. The goal was to get away from big cities.
@@triplenalysis If you wanted to get away from big cities, you woudn't have taken a job in Tucson. Second largest city in Arizona. Look at areas like Casa Grande and Coolidge if you want to get away from the city and have a lower cost of living.
@@DIVISIONINCISION Houston is the 4th largest city in the country. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country. Tucson is the 33rd largest city in the country. That makes it a mid-sized city. Big difference. Tucson is big enough to where you have everything you need but not big enough to where you ever have to sit in traffic for 2 hours. I appreciate the advice but I'm not looking for anywhere else right now. Like I said, I just moved here and I'm very happy with my decision.
God bless Houston Texas ❤️🙏🕊️🇨🇱🇨🇱🙏❤️🕊️🇨🇱🇨🇱
We were already struggling in Houston then Katrina happened then the Katrina refugees flooded the city with crime, it would be nice if the ones leaving are those ones.
I remember coming home from work listening to a talk show on the radio. Houston's then mayor was welcoming the New Orleans Katrina refugees with open arms. People from Louisiana were calling into the talk show telling Houston -You'll be sorry,you're getting the worst of New Orleans people. Another caller said good riddance,glad Houston's getting them.
Mayor White did that to empower the Democrat party in Harris county with welfare recipients. It worked. Harris is no longer a purple district since then. It embodies exactly what the Democratic party has done to this country to remain in power by any means necessar.
A large majority of them went BACK to NO years ago.
They are not ... the ones leaving are the ones that can 'afford' to leave !
Hey I from Louisiana calling us refugees say that too our face I promise you wouldn’t make it…
Moved out a couple of Months ago and am so happy I did.
People leaving Austin, now Houston... where ya going? Florida? lol
More than likely Memphis or Nashville since they don't have state taxes either
We are moving to Florida at the end of the year. We have family there and we lived there about a decade ago.
Mostly the suburbs for Austin with the combination of extremely expensive housing and a district attorney that allowed property crime to get out of control.
@@andrewsnyder9262 florida has worse hurricanes
@@MoHi-cx8py i don’t know about worse. Both areas are susceptible to powerful hurricanes. And we aren’t just running from hurricanes. We have family there and Houston is a sht hole.
I know a lot of people considering moving. I do t blame them
It’s not the weather it’s too much growth for the lay of the land , it’s basically flat so it used to rain and water would slowly run to the bayous and out to the gulf, now you have subdivisions everywhere more concert than dirt and they dig huge drainage ditches to drain the subdivisions witch floods the bayous too quickly and now the water can’t go anywhere so it floods with only a two inch rain where it used too take 10 inches to do the same
I was thinking of moving there but after this how they handled the grid, the dam with the hurricanes, it seems they’re incompetent in handling and managing the city
the people of Houston have been traumatized to the point of "the grass is always greener" syndrome. All logic and critical thinking out the window. Every place has its own troubles all it takes is time to find that out...and by then you are just older.
Moving away from Houston is logical.
Nonsense. I’ve lived in a number of places and Houston is by FAR the worst. Every place has its problems, and Houston has bigger problems. We’re out next spring.
@@Mavmode Can't blame you at all. Where you moving to? I live near Lake Livingston, north of Houston, and I'm moving as soon as I can. Tired of the tropical storms and Hurricanes, even here we are too close to the coast. With Beryl we were 2 and a half days without power. Hurricane Ike was a 7 day outage, and Rita was 10 days. I looking at Missouri as a prospective place to move, no threat of Hurricanes there.
Houston is a mess, I lived there for a few years, the streets flood at the drop of a hat. There's one weather crisis after another. In the short time I lived there we had several major flooding events. I couldn't go to work one day because the whole town was flooded. A friend of mine who catches the bus down town had to wade through waist deep water. You're right, it is the worst.
@@nocturnus6amen. We have been impacted by six weather events in the last nine years. We lose power often, even on a good day. The infrastructure of Houston is commensurate with that of the developing world. I was born and raised in Oklahoma, not exactly a stranger to weather phenomena, and I have never experienced anything like this. We are planning to move to Dallas, continue saving for a few years, then back to Europe. To hell with this. What about you, where are you moving to?
Houston is a blue city. No wonder why the incompetence is through the roof.
I'M SICK AND TIRE OF HOUSTON BULLCRAP, I'M MOVING BACK TO CALIFORNIA !!!!!!!!!!
Bye, and spread the word to those that came with ya. Take as many as you can with you.
it’s beautiful 😻😻😻✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️ BYEEEEEE LMFAOOOOOO MFS YALL YHE REASON 45 NORTH IS MISERABLE
🙂👋🏻 please don’t forget to vote Blue in Texas before the move though
GO ALREADY! Bu By.
@@AT-zl6dkbuy a rope capable of holding your weight while you hang from the neck
Please leave. Give us back our space!
If they move it will alleviate some of the traffic around town. Move on..
Yea I’m looking to get out of this area as well. Been here about 30 years and have been eyeing Alaska. It’s becoming way too overcrowded. Crime is getting worse. This humidity and heat is so annoying. It’s getting more hot every year!! You can’t even do anything outdoors from May-Sept. The beaches here are pointless with all the raw sewage/chemicals.
Alaska milk in villages $20. Vanilla flavoring is $21. Weather is below 40 degrees and 180 days of darkness with three months of 24 hour Sun. Think very seriously before considering any time in Alaska for cost of living, lack of entertainment, lack of diversity, and slow growth with very little infrastructure allowing for transportation of goods make Alaska not a place of ease if you decide to fly back to lower 48 it is not a swift solution. No solid Healthcare providers and few mental health resources. Rethink Alaska.
Alaska is expensive and remote. Crime is also high there. You'd better do your research.
I don't understand the complaint of his comment. Unless you were trying to place blame I. Someone else and not take responsibility for your part of the lack of preparation and infrastructure on the government side.
Yankee here. Not taking responsibility is a generational southern thing, bless your hearts.......
Just a question out of curiosity....how many people from Louisiana moved into Houston via Katrina,& did the influx have an impact on Houston's crime rate?
To anyone who'd like to respond. Thx
it did. They also tore up San Antonio and Dallas, too!
@@gregorriusadolphus2729 ahhh ok
Moved from Houston to Austin last yr. Only bad storm I've seen here was a crazy Hailstorm back in September of '23 that nicked up alot of cars and structures. Other than that, I do not miss the consistency of Houston's unforgiving weather.
I was born in Texas and lived on the gulf from Port Arthur to Corpus Christi, that was back in the 60s. In the 90s I visited Houston and it was horrible, so congested and the heat and humidity was worse than Florida! Never want to go back there, I feel sorry for anyone who wants to leave but can't afford to.
High crime rate with not enough police and DA s not willing to prosecute thefts, vandalism, crime is worse than the weather not only in Houston but in other Texas cities
I doubt you even go to the courthouse. It's packed with people being prosecuted
Retired 3 years ago. Moved away. Didn’t want to be “older” and constantly dealing with significant weather events and the total rot that Houston has become. Crime, Roads, sidewalks, floods, storms, hurricanes, pollution, dripping sweat. Houston had little to offer me.
Everyone that moved here should move again
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Also do not forget out of control house taxes in Harris county
Property taxes are out of control all across TX, because they use it to make up for the fact that there is no state income tax.
Government is like organized crime.... they're always going to get "their cut" one way or the other.
TEACHERS they will treat you with respect. Move north.
I do business with a very specialized company in Houston, Texas. It is become constant disruptions that impact business horribly, every time there’s a storm. And the storms seem to be more and more frequent.
been here since 87, storms are getting worse and more frequent. Houston is a very flood prone city, my flood ins. in 2010 was 125.00/yr, now it's 795.00/yr. Never made a claim, never needed to buy it either, but a bayou is behind my house. Can't take the risk. I keep looking for other places to move to.
People buy cheaply built homes not made for the weather Texas brings. Not one newly built house has a storm cellar. Sure, they look fancy and bougie. But think about buying a new home that was snapped together and built in a random field with a poorly constructed foundation. We live in a generation where people think strong storms in Texas are a new phenomenon.