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Post by puppydog on Apr 27, 2024 6:11:46 GMT -6
Seen people type it several times. Where is the bubble?
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Post by Tweety Bird on Apr 27, 2024 6:41:58 GMT -6
My interpretation of 'the Bubble' is Kingwood proper.
Kingwood is surrounded by some very poor areas, yet Kingwood and a few extensions not actually called 'Kingwood', remain affluent. Housing and businesses in the Kingwood area are more upscale than those in Porter, Humble, Deerbrook, Summerwood. Following Northpark down to 1960, is one of the extensions I'm talking about.
The businesses, strip centers, apartment units, parks, etc are more upscale than when you get to 1960, where you suddenly seed a more iffy-ness to the area. I think Atascocita use to be a more upscale area, but when I was seeing patients there 12 years ago, it was very unkept and not so nice area. You could tell the homes use to be like those in Kingwood, but the area changed.
Cador grew up in this area, so he can correct my assumptions of where the iffy-ness begins. But Kingwood "Bubble" is holding it's desire for people moving to the area. I do think that New Caney and beyond is going to become the new bubble - it's growing like weeds. Drive west down 242, 2920, 99, even 105 --- new subdivisions cropping up everywhere. Some of subdivisions of brand new mobile homes, but others are gated communities. 1314 and 1485 are still the same, but go on down to the New Caney area and it's growing.
But the Kingwood area is still appealing and will remain 'the Bubble' for a long while, unless Harris County & the CoH screws it all up. People don't want to live in a blue area with high taxes, inadequate services and incompetent politicians.
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Post by fallon on Apr 27, 2024 7:42:36 GMT -6
I think it is also the lakes and rivers around form some sort of weather pattern that most other places don't have. It can rain in the front of kingwood and not the back, it can rain in one village and not the others. We have rain storms coming in strong and then just go around Kingwood. It is like we are in a bubble sometimes with the weather.
I agree with @tweety Bird on this too.
People in Kingwood have a reputation of being snotty, and thinking they are better than others. Never knew that until I went to some office parties with my dh. If you don't live her, people hate on Kingwood pretty strongly.
A generalization is that we have great schools, nice homes and this is a clean safe area. That is reality to some degree. The police and firemen that work here all feel they won the lotto getting to patrol here. Lot of people move here and aren't used to how nice people are or friendly. Sad that is the case, but that is a Texas thing for sure too.
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Post by nycoil on Apr 27, 2024 8:22:24 GMT -6
Kingwood is full of people who think they live in The Woodlands. The snobbery is so over the top and laughable. I remember seeing it when my son was in cub scouts....OMG, what stuck up bitches, all thinking their shit didn't stink, all the while driving beat up old suvs.
Depending on who you ask, the Kingwood bubble is Kingwood proper - the Villages that makeup Kingwood, Kings Manor is not a part of that, neither is Oakhurst or Forest Cove. East of 59 between Northpark and Kingwood Drive. Personally, I feel the Kingwood Bubble is any of the neighborhoods in this area that are zoned to Humble ISD (this includes Forest Cove, but not Kings Manor or Oakhurst - they go to New Caney ISD).
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Post by Paine on Apr 27, 2024 8:27:19 GMT -6
Agree to both of those definitions. It was a quiet, sleepy little safe burb/bubble with good schools. Convenient for everything tucked away in the woods. Church on every corner.
But definitely a bubble for weather too. I watched the radar many a time where a front/storm would get right up to KW and just split or dissipate. Especially when you wanted the rain!
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Post by Paine on Apr 27, 2024 8:32:58 GMT -6
Not sure on the weather but this is definitely a hidden away very nice bubble. You would never know this is just outside Shreveport. I would retire here in this community if it wasn't in LA. yourprovenance.com/ |
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Post by fallon on Apr 27, 2024 14:02:21 GMT -6
That is a beautiful place. Agree it is a shame it is in LA.
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Post by Paine on Apr 27, 2024 14:32:42 GMT -6
That is a beautiful place. Agree it is a shame it is in LA. I'm telling you it's like Mayberry, fun to visit, eat, listen to music. Who knew. |
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Post by EmmyLou on Apr 27, 2024 18:55:32 GMT -6
Not sure on the weather but this is definitely a hidden away very nice bubble. You would never know this is just outside Shreveport. I would retire here in this community if it wasn't in LA. yourprovenance.com/What's wrong with Louisiana? |
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Post by EmmyLou on Apr 27, 2024 18:58:21 GMT -6
Not sure on the weather but this is definitely a hidden away very nice bubble. You would never know this is just outside Shreveport. I would retire here in this community if it wasn't in LA. yourprovenance.com/Speaking of Shreveport, we ALLLLMOST turned around this morning from Natchitoches and went back to the Blind Tiger for lunch! LOL |
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Post by Paine on Apr 27, 2024 19:22:10 GMT -6
Not sure on the weather but this is definitely a hidden away very nice bubble. You would never know this is just outside Shreveport. I would retire here in this community if it wasn't in LA. yourprovenance.com/What's wrong with Louisiana? It's just a no for me. Been there done that as a kid in Lake Charles. I loved it as a kid. The fishing/hunting paradise, the food!, alot of the people, low costs..We visit quite a bit but no on living there. I need that community to duplicate itself in NW Arkansas. But it ranks the worst in so many categories....education, healthcare, crime, corruption, flooding, cancer rates, poverty, the damn roads, and the many nasty critters. |
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Post by Paine on Apr 27, 2024 19:24:12 GMT -6
Not sure on the weather but this is definitely a hidden away very nice bubble. You would never know this is just outside Shreveport. I would retire here in this community if it wasn't in LA. yourprovenance.com/Speaking of Shreveport, we ALLLLMOST turned around this morning from Natchitoches and went back to the Blind Tiger for lunch! LOL They're good. This is way better though. frankslakitchen.com/ |
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Post by fallon on Apr 28, 2024 14:34:40 GMT -6
Yeah Shreveport is just not a place I would live, it would be like moving to Beaumont. The yuck vibe is real.
Hard to describe the ways I absolutely love LA and the people there. It gets in your blood. Some of the kindest people, some of the most amazing food on earth, the best best best traditions anywhere you could live. Bonfires on the levee for Papa Noel, the holiday markets, the festivals, Mardi Gras, the recipes you wont find anywhere else, cake pulls, and a ton I am forgetting.
It is just as hard to describe the ways that the state is just crap. The corruption and crime are at a DNA level. You are never super relaxed, you have to be 100% aware of where you are and who is around you, at all times. The biggest thing that struck us when we moved was how this isn't normal. It isn't. Even with today's crime, even downtown in Houston, I haven't felt like I did there for 10 years.
The roads are hell. Not some potholes, more like craters. The billboards spell out a lot of it for you if you notice them as you drive along. They are all over about not walking out in front of cars and pretending you were hit, then suing, because that is illegal. Never have seen that in any other state we have been to. Not one billboard either, they are all over. Can't go a mile in BR and NO a not see them. Education there is archaic. Public schools are not an option. Medical care is not great either. All the things @paine said.
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