what is it like to live in houston, texas?

Question

me and my family are gonna move to houston, texas soon. and i wanted to know what it was like there. if its a city, or country. and how the high school life is like. and what kind a people do you usually see there.

particularly cypress city. in houston.

i am going to live in cypress. i want to know if it is ghetto over there. or is it white. or all mexican??? i want to know what you can do over there. cuz i dont know. i used to live in georgia. so yeah its all ghetto over here.

Answer 1

Cy-fair school districts are very good. From the parent's point of view, they're great for all the eduction reasons. From the student point of you, it can be hell or heaven depending on what crowd you blend with. Judging by the stylish earrings on you avatar, you should be fine, hun. there are alot of "rich kids" in the area. And they make some of the most valuable friends in the long run. they are not a snobbish as some people might think they are. so be easy, relax, and enjoy.

Answer 2

Houston is huge (over 600 square miles... Greater Houston is larger than some states). I moved here in 1977 as a high school junior, and there was a bit of culture shock then. Some things have changed since then.

A lot of life here is like any other city or suburb. About the only difference you'll see is that we don't talk funny here. You see all types of people as Houston has been a city of immigrants. Over a hundred languages are spoken here (English is still the primary language).

Our climate is both good and bad. We have short winters where the temperature may dip below freezing a few times. This is usually mid-December to mid-February. Spring lasts from mid-February until the beginning of May. Beautiful weather, mostly dry and comfortable, but bad if you have plant allergies. Summer runs from the beginning of May until the middle of October. It is hot. It is humid. We occasionally get hurricanes. Autumn starts in the middle of October and runs until mid-December. Leaves start changing color around then and start falling off trees just before Thanksgiving. We get a lot of ran here, typically over 50" per year.

Houston has bad traffic, not quite like Los Angeles or New York, but pretty bad. Everyone drives here (if you have a license).

There is so much to do here that I couldn't even begin to start. That would depend on your interests.

EDIT: Saw that you are moving to Cypress. The area is mostly white, and affluent now. I have friends who went to high school out there 30 years ago, and it was all rednecks. Fifteen years ago there was nothing there but pastureland, but now there are high end subdivisions springing up all over the place. I visited Black Horse Ranch (subdivision) last Sunday, and I was impressed. Pity it is 37 miles from my office. The area is still growing, so you may have to drive a bit to find entertainment.

Enjoy it here!

Answer 3

Cypress is a northwest suburb of Houston, although you can't really tell where one begins and the other ends, other than watching for road signs. That area has grown exponentially in the past few years and is still booming--some of the best high schools in the region, lots of stuff to keep you occupied, good weather in the winter (most of the time--it was 72 and sunny this afternoon), inexpensive food/clothing, lots of megamalls nearby (Willowbrook Mall is a short drive from Cypress). It's also an ethnically mixed area--a little bit of everything (amazing how many Thai restaurants we have here), and Cypress runs the gamut from rich to poor in terms of family income (probably more middle class/upper middle class these days, judging from the size of the new homes).

I've lived here since 1983 and have also lived in Chicago, St. Paul, and Baton Rouge, and Houston is my preference. Don't fret about hurricanes--we haven't had one since 1983 (before I got here).

Answer 4

I live in houston texas.
Its the fourth largest city in the country, it is kinda big. You see all kinds of people depending where you go (some parts of downtown are filled with bums/drug addicts) There are a lot of suburbs around the edge of the city where people live away from the center of the city.
Houston prolly has some tourist site i dunno about but whatever. There are night clubs bars paintball places several malls, parks, stuff like that. After having lived here all my life for seventeen years the thing that i like the least about houston is the roads. Whoever designed the road layout in houston should be put in jail, i swear every single intersetion is unique and unpredictable.
The city is beutiful in some places but most of the time i think its kind of ugly. Houston is a port city so it basically exists for the businesses and trade. Not much in the way of sightseeing but its nice here i guess.
Also i dont know where youre moving from but you'd better get used to the heat and 85 percent humidity. :)

Answer 5

Howard Hughes is buried here. Anna Nichole Smith is from here and used to live here. Also, every NASA astronaut lives in Houston Other people who grew up or is living in Houston include: Sports: Roger Clemens A.J. Foyt Tara Lipinski Andy Pettitte Nolan Ryan Entertainment: Debbie Allen Clint Black Walter Cronkite Hilary & Haylie Duff Shelly Duval Beyonce Knowles Lyle Lovett Dennis and Randy Quaid Dan Rather Kenny Rogers Jaclyn Smith Patrick Swayze B.J. Thomas Tommy Tune ZZ Top Members

Answer 6

I lived in Houston 8 years, and I won't be going back. It is a good city. There is plenty of city oriented things to do. It is very cheap to live there and companies pay pretty well, so it makes it pretty easy to make a living.... It's a very easy city to be comfortable in.

Everyone is relatively nice, I went to High School in Dallas so I can't comment on that in houston.

However the things I did not like, and why I wont move back. Humidity is a killer... tropical storms/threat of hurricanes is no fun.. None of my interests are near by (camping/hiking/snow skiing) I want a winter and there really isn't one in Houston.

Answer 7

it's both the city and country. Houston is the country version of New York City. It's the largest city in the south. very diverse with a large black and hispanic population. it has the best of everything- city life and country life. Cypress is a suburb so it will be typical suburb living there.

Answer 8

Houston is Hot...literaly...well i mean after 17 yrs u get used to it..

but its a cool place to live...very diverse...

where ur moving isnt in houston its just north of houston and its not Crypress city...its just Cypress, Tx...its like just outside houston...but ill give it 10 years b4 its right in the middle...Houston is HUGE....

but its great

Answer 9

ive lived here for a few years. and it's preety interesting each time i explore something. i learn some thing about houston almost evrey other day. once you get to know houston, i think youll have a lot of fun. sometimes it gots reallly hot. and some times itll get some what cold. i really like it. its a great place to live. but they also say that houston is the city with the most resteraunts (sp?). that's why most people are big. i dont blame them. i blame the people who make other people fat and big. alot of the people are nice once you get to know them. it's a great place to study unless if you go to HISD. cy fair is one of the best school districs there is. that's what i think of

Answer 10

I was born in Houston so it really not bad living in Houston but it's the neighborhood you live in. I live in a pretty decent neighborhood . High school life is pretty decent so far. I see all kinds of people everyday.