I woke up to this lovely story about a shootout between pimps at the McDonald’s located less than two blocks from where I work. I never realized that the motel by us was a big hooker hangout. It doesn’t look exceptionally seedy from the outside or anything. I’m extra glad my company recently installed a good security fence around the perimeter of our building and parking lot.
Bissonet and the Beltway!? Damn…Isn’t that near a couple of Golf courses/country clubs? Still, it is near 59 too…
It’s right up 59 from Stafford/Missouri City/Sugarland, which is very upper-middleclass suburban, but in this immediate area it’s older and rougher. I guess it’s a result of the lack of zoning that it’s all right next to each other.
Ah yes… No Zoning. I tend to forget that little bit of the equation the longer I’m gone from Houston. I was remembering a fairly upscale area, but the SouthWest Fwy always seemed to bring problems, like moths to the flame. I was surprised to see (while visiting my bro) that even parts of Katy were beginning to look pretty urban.
Houston, it’s like a whole other planet sometimes. (Can be read as good or bad. Or both.)
Oh, I hate it here. Give me Austin any day.
There’s no separation between Katy and Houston anymore. I remember 15 or 20 years ago when it was still a nearby town, but now it’s a suburb like all the rest. Eventually every town along I-10 west will be that way, and Houston will stretch for 100 miles in every direction.
Crap! I used to live mere blocks from there.
I used to live in Austin. It’s doing the same thing, just on a smaller scale. I can remember when the intersection of 183 and 620 was a flashing light with nothing around it.
I still recall that sad, sad day in 1986 I think it was, when the news came on KIKK/FM and told us that heads of people now outnumbered heads of cattle in Texas.
We cried and cried and cried, then went to Gilley’s.
It’s true, Austin is expanding rapidly too. The expansion isn’t why I hate Houston though.
Cows, nothin’. They just announced last week that whites are no longer the majority in Texas, which really surprised me because I thought that had been the case for years. One of the things I do like about Houston is the diversity we have here. I grew up in San Angelo and all we seemed to have were whites and Hispanics. We had a very small black population (maybe 4 or 5 percent, I remember hearing) and there was pretty intense racism against them if you ever saw them at all. No chance of that here, thank goodness!
They still got ya on combined IQ!
