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Corpus Christi - What Happened?
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:32 am
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:32 am
I recently spent the night in corpus christi for a concert. I drove through downtown and it seemed like a complete ghost town. Boarded up high rises, tons of beat up buildings, streets way too big for the amount of people there, etc. Was this a bussin town back in the day and now just a ghost town of what it used to be?
I will say the places that I did go to were fun and lively and I think the night life in Corpus is pretty good, but overall the city just feels empty.
I will say the places that I did go to were fun and lively and I think the night life in Corpus is pretty good, but overall the city just feels empty.
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Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:50 am to Fishinguy3527
My parents were stationed in Corpus 30 years ago.
This was true back then. Drive by shootings done from bicycles, greyhounds from the track being dumped on the streets and killed, etc.
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tons of beat up buildings, streets way too big for the amount of people
This was true back then. Drive by shootings done from bicycles, greyhounds from the track being dumped on the streets and killed, etc.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:49 pm to Fishinguy3527
my first job out of college was in Corpus in the brand new Texas Commerce Tower. Beautiful building. I had an office overlooking the port bridge and the bay as a snot nosed 21 year old. Streets in downtown were always super wide. I have no idea why.
Corpus has always been a dead town. It's a Navy town, a deepwater port, and has some oil and gas companies. Otherwise it has nothing much. The locals always claim it's about to take off, but it never does.
Kids that grow up there and go off to college, do not come back.
On the positive side if you like to hunt, fish, sail, hang out at the beach, and eat Mexican food then it's a decent spot.
Corpus has always been a dead town. It's a Navy town, a deepwater port, and has some oil and gas companies. Otherwise it has nothing much. The locals always claim it's about to take off, but it never does.
Kids that grow up there and go off to college, do not come back.
On the positive side if you like to hunt, fish, sail, hang out at the beach, and eat Mexican food then it's a decent spot.
This post was edited on 12/18/25 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 12/18/25 at 3:54 pm to Fishinguy3527
Yeah I had the same reaction when I was there for a conference a few years back. Had really high hopes and kinda lame. I did enjoy visitng the Kings Inn an hour south.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 7:22 am to Fishinguy3527
It will never change. An extreme leadership void, and a clique of upper middle class whites want to keep it that way: a town of haves versus have nots.
The city is 60%+ Hispanic, generational poverty rate of ~ 25%, very high property taxes, and highly corrupt local government.
It could be the SanDiego of the Gulf Coast, but that would require a huge paradigm shift in demographics and leadership, and it ain’t gonna happen.
It’s a cesspool. I live there, and we will retire in Florida.
The city is 60%+ Hispanic, generational poverty rate of ~ 25%, very high property taxes, and highly corrupt local government.
It could be the SanDiego of the Gulf Coast, but that would require a huge paradigm shift in demographics and leadership, and it ain’t gonna happen.
It’s a cesspool. I live there, and we will retire in Florida.
This post was edited on 12/19/25 at 7:23 am
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