Re: Is Houston getting more violent
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:18 pm
I don't know if it has anything to do with crime rates, but I have never seen a place, other than Harris County, that has such lackadaisical zoning regulations.
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You are so correct. Most of us can chose where we live. That part of freedom is one of my favorite parts.Hoosier Daddy wrote:Freedom. Some people like it. Some don't.
It's not that hard to buy a running car for $500 or less in Houston, if you don't care about AC or how it looks. A lot of the illegals don't buy insurance so that helps keep the costs down.RocketSurgeon wrote:The link to bus stops could easily correspond to the following statement:
The only place I have ever personally seen a pistol fired in anger was late at night in the '70's near Six Flags over Texas, a man drove off without paying for gas and the owner ran out and fired the gun in the air. I came in for directions and decided not to stick around, I would get them some where else. So I don't have the same view of Dallas.fulano wrote:IMFMO
I worked in Houston for 16+ years. Eight of those years I lived there.
I lived and worked in Dallas for 20+ years. I compare the two.
I had many many personal incidents in Houston. License plate thefts, two. Registration sticker theft (scraped off the windshield), one. Car vandalism, three. Car "breaking and entering, two. Personal threat situations, two. Witness to a reported crime, two. Other incidents I avoided, many. I carried in Houston before GWB signed the law....to protect my life.
My apartment was in the Galleria area and was gated with a 24 hour attendent. I had stolen mail, vandalism, breakin in this apartment and nobody knew nuttin'. In Dallas metro area, I've lived in Farmersbranch, Garland, Denton, Plano, and Dallas and have never (knock on my PM9) been threatened, been witness to a crime or vandalized here.
You don't want to hear it but.....The Dallas metroplex is segregated financially and through zoning. Everyone..that's everyone, knows the "bad part of town". In Houston, the whole city is glomed together with good neighborhoods and bad ones only a block apart and the ease of the gangs and crooks to cross from one place to the other is irresistible; and they do.
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