Looking into moving to the Houston Area this fall. It will be a new place for me and my family so I want to make the best of the transition. What areas do you guys recommend for? There's a ton of questions I would like to ask. Please be upfront and honest to better help me in making a good decisions.


Buying a home?
Opening a rotary/fabrication/ auto paint shop.

Raising a family?
Good schools for kids?
Industrial businesses area?

Booming economy?
military friendly city?
Avg home pricing for a 4br 2ba 2car garage?

Low crime rate?

Car scene and road/drag/drift tracks?

 

I'm in Montgomery County (Conroe/Montgomery), very nice area about 45 minutes from Houston. Still rural in places but growing quickly.

Really depends on what you are looking for and what you want to do....

Housing up here gets into the $85-120 per square foot. Cheaper can be had but rare. Mobile homes are available in the area too if that's your thing. Home prices are going up quite a bit due to Exxon, Anadarco, Shell, etc moving in or expanding and bringing a bunch of people to the area.

 

Really depends on your area. Each pocket of Houston varies dramatically in terms of crime, housing costs, etc. Car scene is good and varied. It's a very big, very metropolitan (and very humid) city!

 

East side of the city is mostly industrial/chemical, most pollution. Older area.
North side older with mixed residential and industrial.
West and south sides are more residential.
This is from the center to partially out to beltway 8 from the 610 loop.
Inside 610 on the west 1/2 is nice but expensive.

Further out the north to west to southwest are the newer modern areas.
This includes the Woodlands, Katy, and First Colony areas.

Contact me when you get here as I am retired and could show you some of the city.

 

^^^ Chuck is old and will just wanna take you to Bingo games or somethin. He lives in the Hood anyway.

Living IN Houston pretty much sucks *****. Personally, I prefer the classier Alvin area just South of Houston. Some of the houses don't even have wheels on them!

 

I recommend my area west/ north west near i10 and beltway 8..
Good school districts, close to generally everywhere you want to go in houston .
No shortage of nice neiborhoods, jobs, restaurants , hospitals and so forth.
Homes are on the mid-high price range but worth it for the area and convenience .

 

Also take a look at the Sugar Land area. Great schools for the kids plus there is focus on a lot of new construction.

 

I live in one of the best areas due to modern growth, and access to most of the major roads.

Meadows Place:
(1) just south of beltway 8 at the SW corner where it goes north and east
(2) just west of 59 south
(3) just north of HW 90
(4) within a couple miles of Scott's (7dust) current or is it ex girlfriend.

 

Your always welcomed in Alief

 

Whatever. Meadows Place is just Stafford Lite.

 

If you don't want your kids to end up dead, in prison, or drug addicted, OR pay for private schooling you'll end up in a more expensive suburb.
Woodlands, katy, parts of Sugarland, parts of clear Lake, friendswood, Bellaire, and of course the exclusive Alvin Texas.
There are other good areas, but there are more bad ones.

And in terms of military friendly there's a huge VA hospital in the medical center, and extra wide parking spots all over the city.

 

Houston sucks *****! j/k, I hear Katy is nice and close to everything.

I have to ask, Why Houston from so-cal? And why would you want the headache of a rotary shop? You know us Mazda guys are extremely cheap and like to blame the builders/shops when something goes wrong.

 

Memorial area/Energy Corridor is the best part of the city to live imo.

 

 

Yes the city is military friendly majority wise. I know this well due to my job along with the school districts. Housing is up to you. Houston is checkered but I'd recommend northern houston. Feel free to hit me up if u need help.

 

With a name like alex rodriguez I bet he is a bad *** puertorrican rotary builder.... that's why he's into rotaries.... its a PR thing...

 

Any good rotary guys besides rx7_nut here in houston. All the guys I know are too busy lately and I need to get my car running properly. Can someone please help. 88 gxl n/a turbo

 

Sorry, I only work on FDs.

 

Thank you guys for the advice and comments I will be out there in October to do some reconnaissance.


Here's the beast get used to her you will see her at the tracks and meets near you.

 

Definitely move to the north side! Spring woodlands area is pretty awesome. Plus I need someone close to help with my rotaries.

 

Also, if you decide to come up to the northside, look up Brooke Rosas (Slay) for a realtor.

 

awsome thanks

 

hit it right on the nail bro!

all of the above is correct and true

 

Made me think of a baseball player

 

Is your shop going to have a dyno?