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Old 07-25-2019, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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This is a sad news

WalletHub based its rankings on statistics from the cost of living to real estate taxes to the property crime rate. Houston totaled 46.72 points, ranking 97th in the real estate market and 258th in quality of life.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-w...e-buyers/5564/

Who should be responsible to effectively increase home affordability, particularly for first-time home buyers?
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Old 07-25-2019, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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This is a sad news

WalletHub based its rankings on statistics from the cost of living to real estate taxes to the property crime rate. Houston totaled 46.72 points, ranking 97th in the real estate market and 258th in quality of life.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-w...e-buyers/5564/

Who should be responsible to effectively increase home affordability, particularly for first-time home buyers?
It's interesting that no Houston suburbs are listed at all. Did none of them make the list, or were they not even considered ?
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Old 07-25-2019, 01:57 PM
 
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Who should be responsible to effectively increase home affordability, particularly for first-time home buyers?
No one. This is how markets work, and housing isnt any different. I was priced out of the inner city neighborhood I grew up in. You cant applaud the city's growth, and then complain how it affects affordability. The most desirable parts of Houston lost the cheap label a while back.
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Old 07-25-2019, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Houston(Screwston),TX
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Wow, kind of shocked to see Houston at the bottom of this list. Looks like Quality of life mixed with homes becoming less affordable is the reason it's so low. When Houston was much more affordable you could over look some of the negatives when it came to the quality of life. I'm assuming according to this with the rising prices it's just not worth it anymore for first time buyers.

Even more shocking is not one Houston suburb made it to the list yet DFW has multiple ones on there with pretty good scores. Even with DFW generally having more expensive home prices it seems that the metroplex fared better than Houston metro. Hell, Atlanta cost of living is higher than Houston yet they were pretty high on the list.

Interesting.
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Old 07-25-2019, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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Wow, kind of shocked to see Houston at the bottom of this list. Looks like Quality of life mixed with homes becoming less affordable is the reason it's so low. When Houston was much more affordable you could over look some of the negatives when it came to the quality of life. I'm assuming according to this with the rising prices it's just not worth it anymore for first time buyers.

Even more shocking is not one Houston suburb made it to the list yet DFW has multiple ones on there with pretty good scores. Even with DFW generally having more expensive home prices it seems that the metroplex fared better than Houston metro. Hell, Atlanta cost of living is higher than Houston yet they were pretty high on the list.

Interesting.
It really didn't surprise me that DFW fared better.
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Old 07-25-2019, 07:30 PM
 
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Houston’s quality-of-life score got smacked by high crime, oppressive heat, and horrible traffic.
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Old 07-25-2019, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Houston
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It really didn't surprise me that DFW fared better.
There is no legitimate objective claim that Collin County is preferable to Houston suburbs, sorry.
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Old 07-25-2019, 08:29 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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There is no legitimate objective claim that Collin County is preferable to Houston suburbs, sorry.
I'm thinking they grouped all the Houston burbs into a single market or for some reason didn't consider them at all.
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Old 07-26-2019, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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There is no legitimate objective claim that Collin County is preferable to Houston suburbs, sorry.
Come’on you're kidding right? Collin Co is on another level. Outside the city of Houston (witch isn’t even good) is nothing but a hogpod of crappy developments with subpar infrastructure in unincorporated land. The fact that we’re paying higher taxes due to MUD is comical.

Katy, Woodlands and Sugarland are great compared to the standards down here. They would be considered average up there.
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Old 07-27-2019, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Unplugged from the matrix
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Wow, kind of shocked to see Houston at the bottom of this list. Looks like Quality of life mixed with homes becoming less affordable is the reason it's so low. When Houston was much more affordable you could over look some of the negatives when it came to the quality of life. I'm assuming according to this with the rising prices it's just not worth it anymore for first time buyers.

Even more shocking is not one Houston suburb made it to the list yet DFW has multiple ones on there with pretty good scores. Even with DFW generally having more expensive home prices it seems that the metroplex fared better than Houston metro. Hell, Atlanta cost of living is higher than Houston yet they were pretty high on the list.

Interesting.
Yeah it's pretty interesting and something Houston area officials need to look at improving. Houston is like an acquired taste. It's apparent oncr you live in ither areas how poorly Houston is planned. Just a little here and there earlier on would have made all the difference. Right now it'll take too much work and the ETJ bill didn't pass in the latest session again.
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