It may be better for you, but it's not for me. The only thing Houston offers someone like me that BR doesn't is likely better job prospects. All the other problems BR has (crime, traffic, bad schools, high housing prices, shitty weather) Houston has in spades with almost none of the benefits (your family close by for holidays, all your favorite restaurants, your social group in close proximity, connections with social and professional groups, knowing literally every other person around you because you grew up with them, etc.) There are big advantages to being near where you grew up, and I damn sure am not going to give those up unless the place I'm going to offers some seriously big and unique advantages of its own. Houston doesn't offer that. It's just a giant hot-arse, spread-out, traffic clusterf&%k with pro sports franchises.

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Posted by TH03

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Posted on 4/30/19 at 1:05 pm to kingbob

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It may be better for you, but it's not for me

I don't live in Houston.

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The only thing Houston offers someone like me that BR doesn't is likely better job prospects. All the other problems BR has (crime, traffic, bad schools, high housing prices, shitty weather) Houston has in spades

Texas has no state income tax. You can very easily avoid crime and high housing prices while also having some of the best schools in the area. Public schools, mind you.

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your family close by for holidays, all your favorite restaurants, your social group in close proximity, connections with social and professional groups, knowing literally every other person around you because you grew up with them, etc.)

Some people don't want to stay and die in one little bubble. And that's a strange overall priority list outside of proximity to family.

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Houston doesn't offer that. It's just a giant hot-arse, spread-out, traffic clusterf&%k with pro sports franchises.

Lol baton rouge is this but smaller with no pro sports. The only advantage there is nostalgia and family reason.

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Posted by NIH

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Posted on 4/30/19 at 1:06 pm to kingbob

Houston is a pretty solid place to be a single, mid 20s-30s professional. Can’t say I see any similarities between it and Baton Rouge if you are being specific to the inner loop area

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Posted by Louie T

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Posted on 4/30/19 at 8:00 pm to kingbob

It can definitely be hard to move away from friends and family, which is why I'd consider going back depending on what my life situation looks like further down the line.

Houston sure as hell isn't a bigger Baton Rouge with sports teams. Giving up all of your favorite restaurants in BR would be traumatizing I agree lmao.

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