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Originally Posted by JManc
There are two Houstons. The booming one with a lot of wealth and development and one that is a borderline third world city with rampant poverty, chickens in the road and barely functioning infrastructure but they aren't geographically isolated. I'm in a pretty nice upper middle class suburb but barely a mile north of us and it's straight out of Deliverance.
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Seems like that has always been Houston, but I've never lived there and haven't visited in over 25 years. There were complaints about Houston in the 80 oil boom years about tacky billboards, unorganized growth, oppressive weather, terrible traffic, and all kinds of bugs. Then it collapsed and they showed whole neighborhoods with empty houses. The general thought was that perhaps it had grown up too fast and lacked basic infrastructure needs of a city that had managed its growth over decades. It's surprising to hear about Houston being just as bad, if not worse, after all of these years. I would have thought it would have gotten its act together....I am not sure any of the big metros (top 10) have really improved in livability over the last 20 or so years. It seems like the smaller ones that have grown steadily, like the KC and Indy, have done better.
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