re: Tell me about The Woodlands, tx

I haven't mentioned one restuarant or the mall I rarely go to, but good job assuming. I'm fine with Morton's, Tommy's, Perry's, Americas, Tailgators, Uni, and many others. If I have an itch for Coppa or Ox Heart I'll head south.......but, my family is damn safe and I'm not surrounded by trash. My village HEB is pretty sweet too.

If you were trying to offend, it failed.

Lived there over the summer. Great place to raise a family from what I could tell. Everyone I met there had nothing but good things to say about their neighbors; good communities and whatnot. Lots of parks, >160 miles of paved walkways, a good bit of active people.

In my opinion, it seemed to be lacking a definite culture though. The only time I got a somewhat "local vibe" was eating at Crust off of Gosling(which I highly recommend). Other than that, it felt very...I don't know...forced? It's a young city, and I'm sure it will come into it's own soon enough. The more local restaurants and shops that open up, the better. Also, the first generation of kids raised in The Woodlands should be raising their own kids now. That'll help hopefully.

I'll be working in The Woodlands full-time next year, but I plan on commuting from Midtown. It might just be my age, but I didn't feel like The Woodlands was right for me quite yet. Beautiful area though! If you like good looking houses and expensive cars, you'll have your fill. The locals are extremely nice as well.

Yet carry yourself in a jaded/bitter fashion. But, hey, at least you fancy your coolness


Wait......you live in Denham fricking Springs and are talking shite about the woodlands? Oh fricking puhleez! Thank god you don't live here.....

I've been living in the area for about a year now and love it. The bars on waterway and market street are pretty nice. Baker Street is usually a lot of fun with a younger crowd. Crush and Cru are pretty fancy wine bars. 1252 Tapas is kind of a Spanish style place. Papa's ice house isn't bad either, they have karaoke Wednesday through Friday if you like that kind of thing. It really depends what you like. Hubbell and Hudson has some great food along with Perry's, Kirby's, and Flemings. They also have a Brazilian steak house that is pretty good. The prices in the area are a little higher than you'd probably like but nothing that unreasonable. I've ran into several LSU alums up here and they all seem to enjoy living here.

Yeah, I have so many single friends through work who push for the heights over the burbs because it's "cookie cutter". A nice comfortable house in a well kept neighborhood with great schools and community facilities goes a long way in my book. I'm married with a kid on the way. I don't need to be in the hip neighborhood with the 20-something professional types who pat themselves on the back for drinking their craft beer at the coolest new tavern. I like houses with character, but I'm not going to overlook all the negatives to have a house that looks cool. Those neighborhoods are the same as the ones with "keeping up with the jones's" reputations, but for a younger crowd with different tastes.

Not trying to put down people that do, but when people start bringing up "lack of culture", it's laughable. You aren't getting off of work and stopping by art museums and taking in an opera before you head home. And even if you are, it's only about a 50 minute drive for someone to do that in the burbs if they wanted to. That's close enough for the two times a year I'd do that sort of thing anyway.

Just don't commute to and from Houston during rush hour- it's brutal.

In the same boat. I find the lot sizes are small b/c of property taxes. So if ur not an OT baller then u have large houses on postage stamp lots. The whole area is less than 30 years old so there is no "garden district" kind of area. Subdivisions are thrown up by big builders at an alarming rate with the whole subdivision having 5 different styles of houses, all pretty similar.
And the primary architectural feature on most houses is the freaking garage.
But still it is safe and there are things to do and places to go.
And the pavilion is a lot of fun if u like music.
And houston is full of people from everywhere. I grew up in BR and have run across one guy I went to elementary school with, someone I went to high school with and a couple of guys that went to LSU with my old man.
You really want to find out where you work and find something around there because you don't want to fight I-45 traffic for an hour everyday if you don't have to
And you get to mess with all the aggies

If you are going to be working in Houston downtown area (thought I saw that mentioned) why not look in the Oak Forest area or closer to the galleria in woodlake/briarmeadow?

Both those seem like cool areas. We are fixing to move into the briarmeadow area. Previously were renting in montrose area.

Been in The Woodlands area for 10 years. I am in The Falls in Imperial Oaks. Absolutely love it. Great place to raise kids and there is something to do for everyone!

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That's Spring huh?