Neighborhood Recommendations

[newlymarried]

This is great! Thank you!

[Mr. Football]

Check out the Longwood & Coles Crossing area If you would like great schools, nice neighborhoods, green space, low crime and access to the Energy corridor. Roughly a 30-minute commute (mornings) 45-minute (evening).

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by Mr. Football

Check out the Longwood & Coles Crossing area If you would like great schools, nice neighborhoods, green space, low crime and access to the Energy corridor. Roughly a 30-minute commute (mornings) 45-minute (evening).

Why recommend north of 290 when they will commute to the south? My coworker commutes to our office in the EC from Cypress north of 290 and it's not infrequently hellish. The neighborhoods south of 290 are just as nice and tiny difference in school test scores are irrelevant, yes? Unless you're absolutely determined to have pine trees...

[fnh]

North of 290 by the beltway, Jersey Village area, is much closer in than Cypress with schools and neighborhoods much nicer than those south of 290.

[haudi]

Wait, are you are saying JV has schools better than the rest of Cy-Fair that is south of 290?

Originally Posted by fnh

North of 290 by the beltway, Jersey Village area, is much closer in than Cypress with
schools and neighborhoods much nicer than those south of 290.

[fnh]

Originally Posted by haudi

Wait, are you are saying JV has schools better than the rest of Cy-Fair that is south of 290?

No, I'm comparing to the Spring Branch neighborhoods/schools south of 290. Jersey Village area (77040, 77064) offers good combo of schools, location and price on the northwest side.

[haudi]

Ah ok.

Originally Posted by fnh

No, I'm comparing to the Spring Branch neighborhoods/schools south of 290. Jersey Village area (77040, 77064) offers good combo of schools, location and price on the northwest side.

[fnh]

In a way I am also comparing to the Cy-Fair schools south of 290 but in the same general (southeastern) area of Cy-Fair. To find "better" schools than those in the Jersey Village area, you have to go much further out northwest (to beyond highway 6) or much further south to below I-10. And while I call this "Jersey Village area" technically Jersey Village is only outside the beltway. We live inside the beltway east toward Fairbanks N Houston (hence my user name) but we are zoned to JV schools to the west.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by fnh

In a way I am also comparing to the Cy-Fair schools south of 290 but in the same general (southeastern) area of Cy-Fair. To find "better" schools than those in the Jersey Village area, you have to go much further out northwest (to beyond highway 6) or much further south to below I-10. And while I call this "Jersey Village area" technically Jersey Village is only outside the beltway. We live inside the beltway east toward Fairbanks N Houston (hence my user name) but we are zoned to JV schools to the west.

You're discounting Cy-Ridge? Why?

[fnh]

Eh, Cypress Ridge earns an underwhelming C- (below average) grade from Children at Risk. I hear you and personally agree that the differences between public schools is not as great as people need to believe, but that is the majority perception nevertheless. (The reason I often put qualifiers like "better" in quotes.) That said, even I would probably stay away from D or F scoring schools unless I felt super confident an initiative like Hogg's Learn Local is already on solid footing.