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Originally Posted by bilbao58
Which is why I laughed at the "beautiful southwest Houston" part even when the commercial was new.
BTW, last I heard, that guy was developing properties in Phoenix.
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I'm not familiar with Houston, but I've always heard that the westside of Houston is the upscale side. Is Gulfton just an exception to that rule? Or does the rule only apply to the portion of Houston inside the 610 beltway?
This led me to check the Wikipedia article on Gulfton. It was a pretty extensive article. Pretty impressive in its detail and pretty much an indictment of how this part of Houston got developed and then eventually declined economically.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, two leftish pundits, recently came out with a new book called "Abundance," which is in large part a critique of the way Democratic-ruled cities have been managed in the post-1960s era. They cite Houston as a model of how to do things right because housing is easily built and housing costs have stayed reasonable as a result. But Gulfton, to me, is a case study in how cheap housing can have its costs. I guess in Houston's favor, though, is the fact that rents in Gulfton are relatively cheap, which isn't necessarily the case in similar neighborhoods in urban Southern California.
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