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04-14-2009, 10:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Richmond, Tx
Moto: '10 Tuono Factory
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reasons to live in houston
http://www.houston.org/economic-deve...ngs/index.aspx
Houston #1 Top Metro in the Nation Site Selection Magazine - March 2009 Best City to Live, Work and Play Kiplinger's Personal Finance - July 2008 Best U.S. City to Earn a Living Forbes.com - August 18, 2008 Best City for Your Job BusinessWeek - June 12, 2008 Best City to Buy a Home Forbes.com - July 14, 2008 Best City for Recent College Grads Forbes.com - June 26, 2008 Nation's Healthiest Housing Market Builder and Hanley Wood Market Intelligence - February 2009 Hottest Labor Market Bizjournals.com – September 8, 2008 Nominal Job Growth (01/08 to 01/09) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment – March 2009 Lowest Cost of Living Among Major Metro Areas ACCRA Cost of Living Index - Third Quarter 2008 Largest IT Service Economy Onforce, Inc. (VoIP Monitor) – December 5, 2008 Top U.S. Manufacturing Cities Manufacturers' News Inc. (as reported in the Houston Business Journal) - May 30, 2008 Most Accessible City for the Disabled The National Organization on Disability - February 14, 2008 Top Local Government Green Power Purchaser Environmental Protection Agency - July 2008 America's Best Hospitals - Cancer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center U.S News & World Report - July 2008 Highest Population Growth in the Nation U.S. Census Bureau (as reported in the Houston Business Journal) - July 10, 2008 Houston #2 Fastest Job Growth (01/08 to 01/09) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment - March 4, 2009 Nation's Top Export Markets U.S. Department of Commerce - July 14, 2008 Houston #3 Green Jobs Global Insight – October 2008 Best Cities for Young Professionals Forbes.com - July 09, 2008 Number of Fortune 500 Headquarters Fortune - April 21, 2008 Nation's Most Charitable Cities Charity Navigator's 2008 Metro Market Charitable Analysis Study Houston #4 Cities Where Your Nest Egg Goes Farthest Forbes.com - October 2008 Best Big City for Business Inc.com - July 2008 Top Ten Up-and-Coming Tech Cities Forbes.com - March 10, 2008 Top Cities for African Americans BlackEnterprise.com - September 17, 2007 Best Value in Private Institutions - Rice University Kiplinger's - February 2009 Houston #6 Top U.S. Real Estate Investment Markets Urban Land Institute (as reported in the Houston Business Journal) - January 10, 2008 Houston #7 Best Cities for Jobs in 2008 Forbes.com - January 10, 2008 Houston #10 Top Ten Cities for Green Technology Innovation SustainLane - March 2007 Top Ten Cities for Hispanics Hispanic Magazine - August 2008 Texas #1 Nation's Number One Exporting State U.S. Department of Commerce - February 2009 Fortune 500 Headquarters Fortune Magazine (As reported in the Dallas Morning News) - April 2008 America's Top State for Business CNBC.com - July 2008 Most Favorable Business Climate in the Nation Development Counsellors International (DCI) - "Winning Strategies in Economic Development Marketing" - July 2008 Best State To Do Business Chief Executive Magazine - January 2008 U.S.'s Top Exporting State WISERTrade - February 2008 2008 Gold Shovel Recipient Area Development Magazine - June/July 2008
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04-14-2009, 10:59 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Central NY
Moto: 2003 SV650S
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top reason for not: Ed likes Houston.
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Wanting to Go Back!!!!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: North Louisiana
Moto: A Twin
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04-14-2009, 11:13 PM
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WERA Yellow Plate
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Moto: 2003 Suzuki TL1000R, 2002 Honda CBR 600 F4i
Posts: 660
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Racer X
"Best City for Katrina Refugees to take new home - Houston" The fellow CF'ers in the room will remember that one. |
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04-15-2009, 08:25 AM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 11,022
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Forgot to mention the local FD will come and let you in your house if you lock yourself out
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04-15-2009, 09:20 AM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Feb 2008
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04-15-2009, 09:22 AM
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Hold mah beer!
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 80 Miles South of Moto Heaven
Moto: 08 R1200GS
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#1 reason never to live anywhere near houston: Katrina Refugees now reside there.
My dad has lived all around the world. The middle east, China, south america, the north slope alaska to name a few and worked with all sorts of nationalities that are too many to name. The places he has lived in have been some of the worst conditions you can see in this world. With that stated, he absolutely refuses to move to Houston where his company's HQ is based. He hates the place and the people. He would rather work in a shit hole like China, the frozen isolated tundra of Alaska, the social restriction and desert of the middle east than ever go to this place.
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04-15-2009, 10:35 AM
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Sham WOW
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: ATX
Moto: 2007 Ducati 1098
Posts: 2,741
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Austin is way greener than Houston. Houston fucking smells. Crime rate, anyone? Riding in/around Austin > Riding in/around Houston. We have Moira.
Oh.. and 6th street is where it's at, bitches. 
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04-15-2009, 10:48 AM
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AMA Supersport
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Sydney
Moto: '98 Honda Fireblade
Posts: 3,696
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I have no words.....Houston just.....is the worst city I can imagine. Literally.
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04-15-2009, 10:48 AM
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Vrooom
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: 06 ZX6R
Posts: 4,427
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I'd go Austin over Houston BUT take what I say with a grain of salt because I've never been to either - a situation I'm hoping to rectify within the next year.
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