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Originally Posted by TexasPlaya
And I lived at Graustark and Richmond until the garden style apartments got replaced with a large wrap around then I lived near Richmond and Alabama until moving to Austin.
I don't know what to tell you, a broken sidewalk or having to walk around a small parking lot to the entrance of an establishment were inconsequential inconveniences to me. I won't sit here and say Richmond and Westheimer don't need serious repairs, sidewalks and streets, but I never had any issues getting around by foot or bike. I would also always own a vehicle, regardless of living in central austin or central houston. Most people don't spend their lives within a quarter a mile of where they live.
It was the first one. And walking around in business casual clothing was pretty sweltering on a late April evening. However, going out and walking his dog along Buffalo Bayou with Yetis full of Tito and soda was very doable.
Since you also mentioned the Kirby location, we've taken an uber to Upper Kirby and bar hopped between the new mixed use developments. The Kirby district has done a great job of upgrading and maintaining sidewalks.
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Had a small house off Mandel before things got super crazy expensive. I couldn't afford to live there anymore. The small bungalows (highly taxed for their land value) are being replaced with $2M+ homes that look like big gray boxes. Townhomes are deed restricted on my old street.
I specifically moved to that area of Houston because it was the most "walkable" neighborhood, and because Richmond Rail was supposed to be constructed near my home. Of course the rail got cancelled. I also attended city infrastructure planning meetings around 2007 to discuss the bad conditions of the roads and sidewalks, and as of the time I moved away (2019) basically none of the recommendations or promised fixes had materialized. Many of the same sidewalks that were broken 14 years ago are still broken.
I now live in Buffalo. The large Houston complexes built on parking garages may add to the city's population density, but add nothing to an area's walkability. The difference in walkable density between the 2 cities is astounding, even though Houston has many times the number of people.
Lucky Burger was our go-to joint, and I thought it was a real loss when it closed.