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<blockquote data-quote="iluvatar5150" data-source="post: 77650298" data-attributes="member: 313046"><p>While I generally agree with the points of the article, using Houston as a model is just.... yikes. Yes, the housing may be affordable, but that's partly because Houston has subsumed many surrounding communities and, as a result, has a lot of empty land on which to build. According to the article, it's not "all sprawl," but IME a lot of it is sprawl. The times I've been to Houston, it's mostly been on the southeastern side around JSC and towards Galveston, and the area is just a sea of highways, strip malls, and parking lots. Sure, you save on housing costs (which are depressed, in part, by high-ish property taxes), but how much extra are you spending on transportation because the road system is a mess and public transit is non-existent and entirely unfeasible?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iluvatar5150, post: 77650298, member: 313046"] While I generally agree with the points of the article, using Houston as a model is just.... yikes. Yes, the housing may be affordable, but that's partly because Houston has subsumed many surrounding communities and, as a result, has a lot of empty land on which to build. According to the article, it's not "all sprawl," but IME a lot of it is sprawl. The times I've been to Houston, it's mostly been on the southeastern side around JSC and towards Galveston, and the area is just a sea of highways, strip malls, and parking lots. Sure, you save on housing costs (which are depressed, in part, by high-ish property taxes), but how much extra are you spending on transportation because the road system is a mess and public transit is non-existent and entirely unfeasible? [/QUOTE]
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