Cypress, Sharpstown and Pearland (Houston, Sugar Land: apartments, insurance, crime)

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by Novamax

Sharpstown is kind of the new Westbury --sb0.

Uh, no it's....

Edit for dropped phone: ... Not


Lol LIT! I drove too close to Lee's Sandwich

[Lost_In_Translation]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Uh, no it's

Oh no, someone killed EA before they could finish!!! Must be posting from sharpstown,

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by 14Bricks

Have you not been paying attention to the media that's last 5-10 years? Journalism in this country sucks now! They either spend all their time cheer leading the president, or waste all their time doing TMZ gossip celebrity news. The days of who, what when, why, how are gone. I don't even think journalist know how to do research/investigation anymore.

Agree 100%. Unfortunately, I have to deal with the press from time to time, and they are some of the laziest, least detail oriented people I have ever met. They will print or report something that is completely false because they are too lazy to do old-school reporting.

[nana053]

Originally Posted by Novamax

I am a reporter with a Houston-based magazine and I am working on a story about Houston's hottest neighborhoods. What can this forum tell me about those three neighborhoods? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these three? (They don't need to be compared against each other, but you can if you want.)

Which offers the best investment potential? Which is the best for families? What type of person should think about each of those neighborhoods?

I know nothing about the other neighborhoods, but here is what I would list for Pearland.

Advantages:

Diverse neighborhoods with great people.
Lots of children in the neighborhoods and the kids play outside a lot.
Amenities are convenient - you can find just about anything you want to find locally and there are local merchants as well as chain stores.
Good restaurants - both chain and local.
Good schools in general with some better than others, but none are really bad.
Homes have a good range of prices.

Disadvantages
East/west divide - politics can get quite heated
Commute can be pretty awful depending on where you live and where you work. Hopefully, the park and ride which is planned to open in 2014 will ease that on 288 at least a little bit.
Some racism is still evident unfortunately (we had an incident in one of our neighboring subdivisions here about two months ago).

[Nick_tx]

Originally Posted by nana053

I know nothing about the other neighborhoods, but here is what I would list for Pearland.


Disadvantages
East/west divide - politics can get quite heated
Some racism is still evident unfortunately (we had an incident in one of our neighboring subdivisions here about two months ago).

Could you elaborate?

[DJboutit]

Meyerland Willow Meadows Willowbend Westbury & Maplewood are all hot right now

[crbcrbrgv]

My aunt continues to hold onto her house in Sharpstown. She lives near the golf course. I'd say the consensus in her neighborhood is you still have a good 10 years to go. Sands Point isn't nearly the issue it once was. In fact, some of the condos (and especially retail spaces) are booming relative to what they were worth before.

Chinatown is helping tremendously. Hopefully, they can clean up the Gessner stretch (where they have High Times and such). In the long run, location will turn Sharpstown around as you really do cut a lot of your commute if you are coming from Sugar Land or Richmond. Also, it's pretty obvious that a lot of people moving here are foregoing the burbs to move ITL but are being priced out westward.

I mean, really, who thought 10 years ago that St George's would pop up and people would be paying 600k+ to live in townhouses with yards the size of a portable urinal? That neighborhood by Big Woodrows that used to be St George's was pretty crappy looking.

Sharpstown won't turn into St George's Place, but it will turn into something nicer in the long run. It just has too much going for it.

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by Lost_In_Translation

Sharpstown is a hot neighborhood? What have the hooligans lot on fire now? And Pearland may be expanding from all the expansion in the medical center, but cypress, what crazy fools are moving up there, masochists that can't wait to get stuck in the 290 expansion disaster?

ROTFLMAO! This is just what I was thinking especially about Sharpstown.

[crbcrbrgv]

Originally Posted by DejaBlue

ROTFLMAO! This is just what I was thinking especially about Sharpstown.

Have you driven through Chinatown lately? That part of Sharpstown is booming. But the parts that are bad....yeah.

I don't understand anyone living on the NW side either. It's probably safer to walk along Bissonnet between 59 and 8 at 3 a.m. than it is driving on 290, well, pretty much any time.

[Cbink]

I live in Copper Lakes (border of Cypress/Houston) and love it here. Yes, 290 isn't the greatest road but a lot of my neighbors also commute down it. I manage it by going in early and coming home early which halves the time a rush hour commute would take me.

Whilst Hwy 6 is slow I would disagree with the poster who said it takes an hour to go 2 miles.

I love it here because you get more for your money house/yard wise than closer in. The newer neighborhoods are mainly professional families and the schools are good in Cy-Fair. When 290 is eventually finished I can only see house prices in Cypress going up.