livincinco Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Sealy is in Austin County. Austin County is a part of the Houston-Baytown-SugarLand metropolitan area. Sealy is about 4.5 miles from Brookshire and only about 9 miles from Cinco Ranch and other parts of the greater Katy area. It is most definitely a suburb.Sealy is actually 12 miles from Brookshire on I-10 and about 20 miles from Pin Oak Road, which is close to the end of development in Katy. It's really a stretch to call it a suburb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Sealy is actually 12 miles from Brookshire on I-10 and about 20 miles from Pin Oak Road, which is close to the end of development in Katy. It's really a stretch to call it a suburb.Not to mention that if a town located 20 miles from a suburb is a suburb, then Columbus (located 20 miles further) also fits those criteria, meaning that it is also a suburb of Houston. Ditto Schulenburg. Ditto Waelder. Ditto Luling. Ditto Seguin. And therefore San Antonio is a suburb of Houston. After all, it's even located within a common geographic boundary as recognized politically and by the U.S. Census Bureau. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK123 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 One of the things I've seen on HAIF is an animosity toward the suburbs (especially on the "How do we make Houston better" thread, despite the jest, I could see some dislike). Unfortunately, I can't really see where the hate is coming from. I can think of a few good reasons why inner-loopers may hate the suburbs and suburbanites:1. Mostly rich white people.2. Mostly McMansions.3. Fine dining means (fill in chain restaurant)4. They add traffic to the roads.5. They think inner-loop Houston is crime-ridden and gross.I wonder if the same suburb-hating people have similar animosity for other enclaves of wealthier-than-average families and good public schools, such as 77024 and even 77079. I'd like to see what would happen if a developer tried to get state funding to build a new low-income apartment complex on vacant land in those zips now. I'd bet money would talk and it would be stopped. In Sugar Land, it was 100% a grass-roots effort and hard work of concerned citizens; any financial greed involved was that of the land seller, real estate agent and developer. It's something of a double-standard here and on other local forums if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 I used to live in 77079. In general I didn't like it.I live inside the Loop now and there's at least two low income housing projects I can think of in close proximity. It doesn't bother me. Nobody from those have ever bothered me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK123 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 I used to live in 77079. In general I didn't like it.I live inside the Loop now and there's at least two low income housing projects I can think of in close proximity. It doesn't bother me. Nobody from those have ever bothered me.I used to live right next to one in 77042. It didn't bother me then either. In fact it's not the people or the structure that bothers me; it's what almost always inevitably ends up happening to the schools when there is too much super-cheap housing in one area. Back then I didn't have kids; now I do. Priorities change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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