re: Police Officer Killed in Cypress, TX

I grew up in Cypress (or as it was called it then before they adopted the trendy name "Cypress": Katy north of I-10/Bear Creek/Addicks.

It was nice back before all the farms were bought up around the turn of the century and turned into mega-super-cheap tract housing. Back when Gerland's was the only grocery store and Copperfield was for "rich people".

It's fricking awful now.

I'm sure peripheral neighborhoods like Blackhorse are still nice, and Bridgeland probably too, but everything else west of Eldridge, north of 10, south of 290 and east of 99 is a new thing I call a "suburban ghetto".

When gentrification occured at the same time that the government started pushing what would otherwise be Project-Dwellers into really cheap houses that could only be built way far out on what had been empty land, you ended up with what had been an inner-city problem for Houston and, formerly in many cases, New Orleans, tossed out into Cypress and what few good neighborhoods there had been were summarily surrounded by ghettos and ruined. Ironically, as a lot of inner-city neighborhoods became much nicer and whites moved back in, formely nice suburbs like greater "Cypress" got trashed.