LAbeathustla Member since Jan 24th 2004 33858 posts
Wed May-04-16 10:48 AM
13. "this is true...i remember this spot right next to emancipation park" In response to Reply # 10
its was like a membership strip club...you get a card on your first visit...small spot with a gang of bad hoes tho...had them rooms in the back for fuckin...
19. "every club in Houston got them back rooms" In response to Reply # 13
Read the paper and the white clubs get busted and shut down for it more than blacks clubs
On slow nights soon as you walk in the door chick will hit you up for $60 head or $100 whole than Except for v-live If u don't throw a stack soon as they sit on your lap they gone
5. " Houston is an acquired taste" In response to Reply # 0 Wed May-04-16 10:31 AM by final_prospect82
because honestly there isn't anything to do.
Let me clarify that, there's shit to do but it all feels staged and pretentious. From the museums to the plays to the art galleries....on and on.
It's like karaoke Ice Cube "It was a Good day" vs the real thing
Constant construction. on it's face it's a good thing that Houston is keeping up it's infrastructure but it's excessive and they seem to keep working on the same bridges'roads
Houston is a big energy market (the majority of the energy funds are there) and this drop in oil prices is hitting the entire state of Texas hard and specifically Houston very hard
Add to that there isn't a natural body of water unless you drive out to Galveston, the bad traffic, and underwhelming food, and places closing at 2am.
Lastly, the flooding sucks. Let it rain hard for a half day and shit will get backed up
Pros: with all that being said, I want to move back within the next 2 years. I've met some really great friends that I now consider family in Houston.
It's an very diverse city and it's great for broadening your social circle
a shit load of bars and lounges
Relative closeness to other major cities: 3 hours from Dallas for a change of scenery. 1.5 hours from Austin (which a great live music city). 6 hours from New Orleans.
happiness is a mediocre standard for a middle class existence - S. Williams
I don't not like you because you have dumb ideas about the world, I don't like you because you have other people's dumb ideas about the world. - Rjcc
18. "I didn't feel that way at all when I left, but I could see some tinges. " In response to Reply # 5
Like how critical mass went from 50 people to 500 How Saturday at St Arnold became SATURDAY at ST ARNOLD How the famous gay bar (Sally's) and lesbian bar (never went) of westheimer got painted over How they opened a cocktail bar right next to Boondocks and took away all of the parking Taxi taxi gone The Mink gone Speakerboxx Thursdays never came back Starbucks museum parties stopped being fun.
I ended up back there two Decembers ago and you're right, it felt soulless.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
33. "I did Houston from 2007-2012" In response to Reply # 25
It was great. A huge place that managed to feel small and welcoming. I still haven't found a DJ party like Speakerboxx Thursdays at the Proletariat. I've never been to a brewery event like when St Arnold was really getting off the ground.
These things and others were high quality stuff that was managing not to be too trendy but also not too barren. They were always ON but not always the place to be seen.
I feel like social media and gentrification hit Houston hard. No bar or clubs last. But when rents went up, old staples went right out the wayside. And when something that's cool enough to be fun and low key can be hash tagged, it's not gonna stay low key too long.
Burb used to spin at a place regularly, The Flat I think, I used to kinda like that place. I wonder what it's like now.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
38. "The flat still pops today" In response to Reply # 36
Although last time I went they had this wack velvet rope thing going on where you couldn't enter thru front/main door but thru the side patio gate And they was holding the line!!!!!
Burb and paid n full is at some jazz spot in 3rd ward
I heard Maceo of De La spin in the flat and a couple other top flight djs in the last six months there
LAbeathustla Member since Jan 24th 2004 33858 posts
Wed May-04-16 10:44 AM
11. "ha! i can remember when they started the Woodlands.." In response to Reply # 6
we took a field trip there in elementary school a couple years after they began that shit...they always made it out to be some rich cracka utopia...lol..im sure theres some minorities out there nowadays....but in the 70s and 80s...all white...
16. "I mentioned housing/taxes below" In response to Reply # 12
If you want to start a family with a good woman with a head on her shouldrs... COME ON DOWN!!!!! Houston is filled with black women that are looking to be married with kids but local dudes be on BS and transplants like myself get scooped up quick.
Houston is the prefect place to raise a family that's why me and my wife chose here (her hometown) over San Diego (my hometown) A 300k home in Houston would be over a million in SD
27. "don't sleep on dallas..." In response to Reply # 12
keep in mind I'm not talking about Ft worth or arlington..Dallas. and to be more specific, Addison
I used to be against Dallas just because of the Cowboys but I've never had a bad time in Dallas.
The driving can suck tho. That metroplex is too big to drive from end to end. Those Dallas to Ft Worth and back drives takes away your joy. I compare it to the Irvine to Hollywood to Irvine drives.
happiness is a mediocre standard for a middle class existence - S. Williams
I don't not like you because you have dumb ideas about the world, I don't like you because you have other people's dumb ideas about the world. - Rjcc
30. "^^^Dallas better. we had to go there to see Fela! the musical" In response to Reply # 27
My ppl are in oak cliff/south Dallas so I'm up there once every two months or so Dallas scene is just more pippin than Houston Feels more grown up and "elegant"
I want to move there but my wife don't like Dallas
14. "Houston has been my home for the last 3 yrs" In response to Reply # 0
Flooding... I can throw a football from my bedroom window and hit The Galleria so I'm not so affected by flooding But I have clients in The Woodlands (where I'm at now) and Katy so flooding prevents me from visiting them. No biggie. I just telecommute.
Summer heat/humidity...
By the third summer you're uses to it
Oil crises... I don't work in oil so I haven't been affected nor seen the effects thus far with so much money still being thrown around. I do HEAR of a lot of layoffs. Just ain't seen none.
Housing. ... Houses are hello cheap down here
Income tax/property tax... Since housing is cheap and there is no state income tax, they rape you on property tax at like 3.5% Your 300k home costs an extra $800per month in prop taxes alone
Insurances... Home insurance is dumb expensive cause were in a hurricane zone and maaaaany places in Houston are in flood zones
Food... If u like southern shut you'll be in heaven Also Ox Heart chef was a James beard finalist the last 3 yrs or so
Travel... Spirit air got $29 fares to a bunch of places I've been on a dozen of them in the last year Went to Costa Rica for $120 on spirit From downtown houston to Austin is a 2.5hr drive Dallas is 3.5hrs Nawlins 5.5hrs
If you're single... The women are just plentiful Not as polished as ATL/NYC but they good country girls
Houston is a big small town It don't have that electric vibe like atl or Miami or DC soon as you step off the plane
It's hello conservative with all the wypipo being staunch red Cruz supporters
You need to own a gun or be comfortable around them
The city is flat and dreary and ugly It all looks like south central LA in the 80s
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42. "where you coming from?" In response to Reply # 0
it's hot as fuck here
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