[HiTech RedNeck]

the fly in the ointment... gay mayor and obnoxious gay pride celebrations.

i guess they really wanted to punk those straight redneck cowboy hicks.

[re_nortex]

...a sub-par baseball team...

The Texas Rangers can well understand that.

[wyowolf]

HOT HOT HOT HUMID MUGGY.... pass. sweating to death every day isnt my idea of “fun”...

[DannyTN]

uh...NOT!!!

[Fast Moving Angel]

Isn’t Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston?

[Dr. Sivana]

I would maintain that some of Houston’ “growth” is due to the city gobbling up adjacent territory under its own name. Other urban locations (e.g. Phoenix, Chicago) have nearby suburbs that catch a lot of the growth. Houston’s land mass is so large that doesn’t happen there.

Now, how’d it get that confused mayor?

[Romulus]

Best of all, it’s less than six hours from New Orleans.

[Red_Devil 232]

No one is mentioning the Damned Traffic!

[jsanders2001]

Forgot to add “for Mexicans” in the title...

[Milton Miteybad]

Houston is inhabited by nothing but bloodthirsty rednecks. And we have mosquitoes the size of flying chihuahuas here. And it's hot and humid. With enormous billboards and no hills or any other scenery. It's illegal to ride around in anything other than a pickup truck with a minimum of four feet of ground clearance, and you can be jailed for not wearing a bolo tie. Even if you're female.

Stay away. I hear Appalachia is nice. Try there. Thanks.

[justlittleoleme]

I lived in Houston for a couple of years.
oh the humidity.
If you live in Houston you have two seasons.
Summer and Yuck

[yetidog]

I will say this (and not regretfully) that all college classmates that I knew who flocked to Houston some 40 plus years ago are today multi-millionaires. I am sure this does not hold 100% true considering I did not know all my classmates.

[Jewbacca]

It’s like a muggy suburb of Hell.

[henkster]

OK, so everybody is bashing Houston here. I have family in Houston and farther down the coast; we go visit two or three times a year.

Climate? Yeah, it sucks. Unless you go there from November to February.

“Undesirable” people? Sure, but you could find them on the far side of the Moon. They’re everywhere.

Gay Mayor? OK, but you can find that in Chicago, it’s been in San Fran, and most other big cities have communist mayors anyway.

Crappy sports teams? Hey, I’m a Cubs fan. I was born with low expectations. No hockey, though. That’s a big black mark.

On the upside:

Plenty of shooting ranges. Having guns isn’t a problem. If you know someone out in the country, you can go hog shooting for the hell of it.

Nice BBQ.

And for the real reason:

JOBS. Follow the money. Houston is a boom/bust town. If you drive through town you can see the boom cycles in the ages of the neighborhoods and the commercial development. Right now, it’s booming.

Go get yourself a piece of the action while you can.

And however bad you may think it is, it’s not North Dakota.

[Uncle Chip]

and one fact the other way — FIRE ANTS

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

LOL, this was the Onion! I knew it!

[The KG9 Kid]

I landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in the middle of August, walked through the air conditioned terminal towards the rental car transport buses, and when the double sliding glass doors opened up to let me experience Houston's outside temperature and humidity it was like the gates of Hell opened up in front of me with the dark lord himself standing outside laughing and waggling his tongue and making the heavy metal 'devil' sign with his fingers as flames erupted around him.

Only indication of how bad the weather would be was when deplaning from the aircraft into the terminal jetway and I felt the oppressive heat leaking through the narrow gap between the plane and the boarding ramp like escaping radiation from a meltdown fission reactor's core.

I had a brand new rental car with AC/Delco air conditioning and it did next to nothing even at full blast at highway speeds. Only place I've ever been where I experienced *hot* rain.

At home they asked "How was the weather in Houston?". I said "Absolutely satanic. Like living in a hot shower for a week."

I don't care if Houston's streets are paved with gold. No way I could live there.

[South40]

Houston ranks #7 in the nation with the worst air pollution.

http://www.stateoftheair.org/2013/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html

[VerySadAmerican]

19. You get to watch Dominique Sasche read the news every night. mmmmm!

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Anq2MUc2iD77sqBfqavPtNCbvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=dominique%20sachse%20bikini

[Zippo44]

All lies! Stay away! You’ll hate it here!