Asian Life in Houston | Asian American Poll

ASIAN LIFE IN HOUSTON
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:14:20 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which Houston area offers the best environment for Asian Americans?
Katy/West Houston | 26%
Sugar Land/Ft Bend Cty | 32%
Westside Chinatown | 7%
W Univ Pl/Inner Loop | 24%
The Woodlands | 11%

What's the best thing about living in the Houston area?
No Cold Winters | 3%
Many Good Asian Restaurants | 32%
Reasonable Cost of Living | 54%
Southern Hospitality | 11%

What's the worst thing about living in the Houston area?
Hot Muggy Summers | 56%
Pollution & Dominance by Big Oil | 25%
Rednecks in Outlying Areas | 19%
Asian Community Political Squabbling | 0%

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H-Town Azn Pride:
People like you are making southerns look bad. Dont you know, you can not be disproving the negative stereotypes of southerns, when you make your ignorance glaringly apparent?

"There has been continual growth in new commercial construction in the Houston area as well as residential construction."
Like I have said before, residential constructions in ALMOST ALL major cities in the US are increasing...its called urban sprawl. This phenomenon has bred many problems (environmental hazards, misuage of open space & land, traffic problems/pollution, 'sameness' of communities, etc). As a matter of fact, most major cities have started to revitalize their downtowns as an effort to reduce urban sprawling by attracting residences back into the city. The point is that the increased in residential construction in surrounding cities are not a result of increased population...its a result of a modern (materialistic) subculture desiring to live in new and larger houses in the most economical manner. Houston population probaly has increased over the years, but urban sprawling isnt the outcome.

Earlier I stated that dallas populational growth in the near future is evident with the new commericial building constructions. In houston, the commercial areas are in or around the inner loop. However, dallas commercial areas include downtown/uptown dallas, plano, las colinas, and addison. The difference between these two cities in this case is SPACE. Unlike dallas, business areas in houston are concentrated within the innerloop. B/c you have proved to be a moron who lack comprehension skills, I'll have to reiteriate what I've said in the last post. These areas of concentrations in houston have CONTRIBUTED more to the city than not -- the liveliness of the city, the stronger communities, and better living qualities.

"I'm not saying Dallas isn't having economic growth too, but you do seem to be implying that Dallas is this economic powerhouse while Houston is in decline."
You misinterpreted (what a surprise). Dallas economical and populational growth does not imply houston's decline. As a matter of fact, houston has been able to maintain a competitive edge b/c of its diversity and stronger communities. How many more times do you need me to repeat this?

The real question is what determines economic growth? Dallas has the space for growth/expansion and its one of the hubs of art and design (aside from NY, Chicago, and San Fran.), hence creativity and culture. Houston is much more vibrant and diverse with stronger ethnic communities. When a company seek a new home, which city presents the most benefits and more skilled workers? I do not know the answer, but all I can say is that I see more new commercial building constructions in dallas than houston.

Also, austin's economic development in the past few years have surpass that of dallas's and houston's. Is it b/c of its advancement in the hi-tech industry, or something much more?

"Yes, Enron is located here. However, one Houston-based company going bankrupt doesn't mean that the whole city is now in recession, everyone is losing their jobs and heading up I-45 to Dallas for work."
When, where, and how did ENRON ever become the topic of economic growth? Of course, ONE company will not put a large city into recession. Who said enron's former employees are heading up to dallas?

"you've bought into the lies that all the snobs in the Park Cities want to tell about Houston being full of crack-houses and gangbangers but want to ignore South Dallas and Oak Cliff (which IS in Dallas) full of plenty of crimes, gangs and guns to keep the entire DFW area under siege for many years to come."
Lies about snobs in park cities? Houston being full of crack-houses? Hahaha...my response is -- WTF??! First of all, when did crime become a major factor of economic growth? Secondly, what are you proving by going off in tangents? Thirdly, if you want to put words in my mouth, be smarter about it. This is a written forum...the evidences are only a click away.

"Meanwhile, we're going to get Yao Ming on the Rockets, the Olympics in 2012 and the Houston Texans are going to kick the Dallas Cowboys' BUTTS in the preseason and in the first regular season game this fall."
When one's agruement fails, resort to egotism? Way to go!!! I'm sure there's a lot of INTELLIGENT houstanians out there...how unfortunate it is for them to have you as a representative.

Laughing Asian Houstonian:
The biggest cowards are those who only speak out when they know they can hide. Too scared to use your usual name? Maybe next time you should use a more appropriate name...'laughing asian chicken'. Who's laughing now?
be Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 18:17:16 (PDT)

According to NBC NBA analyst Tom Tolbert's (former Golden State Warrior) reaction to the Rockets getting the number one pick and the possibility of them drafting Yao Ming........it seems Houston's international image as a diverse city is still suspect.

Tolbert said something like, "The Chinese government wants Yao Ming to go to Golden State or New York but now he might wind up in some place called Houston."

Both Tolbert and the Chinese government might be presumed to be pretty IGNORANT of the modern Houston which has a pretty large Chinese population, and a huge Asian population at that.

It mightily sucks that Houston still has that severely outdated image of being made up of cowboys and cactus (when it is really made up of ethnics and palm trees).

Yao Ming will certainly have a good Chinese connection in Houston.

These national media people are the ones who are outdated when it comes to commenting on Houston.

But all it takes is for some good knowledgeable civic reps in H-town to take Tolbert and the Chinese government officials a tour of Houston............and they'll think twice.
worldlyman Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 05:43:20 (PDT)

H-Town Azn Pride,

The Texans are gonna suck for a while. Get used to it. The Boys are gonna kick their expansion ass all over the place come game time. Kent Graham? Get real. David Carr can only wish he can be as successful as his hero.

Cowboys own Texas Friday, May 24, 2002 at 14:09:23 (PDT)

Be:

There has been continual growth in new commercial construction in the Houston area as well as residential construction.

You do not have good information on Houston with regards to its economic growth and strength. I'm not saying Dallas isn't having economic growth too, but you do seem to be implying that Dallas is this economic powerhouse while Houston is in decline. That is false.

Despite what the folks at Lorimar want the rest of the country to believe, Dallas is not where the largest concentration of wealth, jobs and growth is in Texas. It has been consistently the Houston Metro area first, the DFW area second with Austin fast approaching DFW and about to overtake them.

Houston has had lower unemployment rates than Dallas during the past decade, a lower than the national average rate of unemployment and has had more new jobs created there than Dallas during the past decade as well.

Yes, Enron is located here. However, one Houston-based company going bankrupt doesn't mean that the whole city is now in recession, everyone is losing their jobs and heading up I-45 to Dallas for work. Most of the workers with Enron were hired by other energy companies, as well as other corporations and are doing fine.

While a comparison between Houston and Dallas is fine on this board, I think that you are a bit of a Dallas myopian--you've bought into the lies that all the snobs in the Park Cities want to tell about Houston being full of crack-houses and gangbangers but want to ignore South Dallas and Oak Cliff (which IS in Dallas) full of plenty of crimes, gangs and guns to keep the entire DFW area under siege for many years to come.

Meanwhile, we're going to get Yao Ming on the Rockets, the Olympics in 2012 and the Houston Texans are going to kick the Dallas Cowboys' BUTTS in the preseason and in the first regular season game this fall.
H-Town Azn Pride Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:47:08 (PDT)

Hank Lewis,

Kailee Wong's father is a Chinese-American who grew up in Hawaii and his mother is part German and Irish.

I've followed him all the way thru his years at Stanford.

LA yonsei Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:37:15 (PDT)

I gotta hand it to be--she is pissing off people on more boards than Matt Johnson!!!
Laughing Asian Houstonian Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 11:12:14 (PDT)

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