Who does the internal accounting and taxation audits for a drilling program? Roughnecks in Midland? Where are all the offsite engineers working? Midland?
Production doesn’t happen without the cubicles.
If my taxes in The Hoodlands go up 5X I’m gonna need another job just to pay them. Or a second Sugar Mama.
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There are far more lower income people paying for HISD than there are wealthy. While wealthier people pay more in taxes, it doesn’t necessarily cover the entire costs to keep the entire district afloat
A few years ago you could a single family house with a yard in my inner loop neighborhood for under $100k. Now you’re looking at $200k. Not exactly a million bucks.
If you want a brand new townhome with no yard, you’re looking at $200k-$300k.
Not close to a million bucks.
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Sure. The cubicles could be literally anywhere, though. To the extent that Houston is paying to subsidize roadways for Katy and Baytown and League City, so was San Ramon, CA for a half-century.
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What neighborhood are you referring to?
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It doesn’t even matter.
Houston is still near bankrupt, and people in suburbs still depend on infrastructure that’s funded by all people.
Suburban property taxes cannot sustain suburban infrastructure without perpetually increasing property taxes.
And even more unsustainable, is for Houston to depend on a finite revenue source, especially post Shale-boom, to fund its infrastructure.
This is along McGregor heading into UH (notice how the prices are creeping up):
…and the other side (notice UH in the top right corner):
UH is in the bottom right corner
HOUSTON IS NOT A CHEAP CITY!
3rd Ward brings up a good point, the Suburbs get a lot of subsidies, especially historically from TxDOT, it negatively affects inner city homeowners like myself
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Dude is near sighted. You don’t think other cities have problems? Ummm, I’m sure you put New York City in high regard? Their mayor just got arrested among other things. You guys just have an inferiority complex and are projecting it on UH. That explains your views.
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Well, when you’re basically running two school districts for the price of one, yea, it takes its toll.
Agree, there are expensive properties in the area. My point is, there are still affordable properties inside the Loop.
They’re not comparable to River Oaks or West U quality, but they’re a good place to start. Some young people want to start on 3rd base, but most of us have to hit a single first.
The area I’ve been in for the last 20+ years is 77021. This is the general vicinity:
What do y’all think about UH record enrollment? Record number of first time in college freshmen and total students.
Its awesome.
Anywhere in the loop is going to continue getting more expensive, so you won the lottery by staying in your home that long.
The problem is that the neighborhoods between the beltway and 610, have all been abandoned by the middle class & above (with exception to West of 610/Galleria and Bellaire), and so all of that tax revenue sprawled further and further outward, which is largely why HISD declined so badly.
Essentially, it’s the inner loop that holds the wealthiest people (excluding the renters and townhomers), and then the outer most suburbs that are typically the wealthiest suburbanites. Everyone else in between is a mix of wealth with the lowest being closer to the city core.
There’s eventually going to be a time where the entire paradigm shifts, where the current demographic of people that live in outer suburbs will eventually price out everyone that lives closer to the city, including between the Beltway and 610. The outer suburbs will eventually be the poorest.
The only reason this hasn’t happened yet is because our economy still incentivizes urban sprawl. But if you look at a map of Houston, is really running out of sprawl space. And if we continue down this road, traffic, heat, and most of all, liability costs, are going to keep getting worse
No limit to sprawl when things like the energy corridor pop up.
Well oil & gas companies aren’t the ones that are going to fight against urban sprawl, because urban sprawl require cars and car infrastructure, neither of which is possible without oil & gas
Memorial Villages have entered the chat.
That’s why I said with exception to west of galleria
In other news UH welcomes record sized Freshman class.
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