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I dont know what Houston was like before Katrina, but post-Katrina this place is a shithole with way too much crime. In the last few months it feels like I have seen every crime possible outside of murder.
Friend was held at gunpoint at work and had his car stolen (despite an officer being present on location).
That same friend was also mugged a week prior
There was a shooting on my college campus (nobody died)
Cars broken into, including mine last night.
Everybody drives like shit 15mph over the speed limit. Always. I am sure the police dont give out speeding tickets anymore because there is just too much other crime to deal with for them to bother wasting time.
The amount of shit that happens here on a regular basis is absurd. Avoid Houston like the plague if you ever consider moving to Texas. Go to Austin. Or Dallas. Almost anywhere but here.
 
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View from the street and how far up the driveway they would have to go to even check if there were valuables inside. Only had my backpack in the back seat (but it did have my laptop in it, and I dont normally leave my backpack in my car).
http://i.imgur.com/N1cZXvv.jpg
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Damn, that's commitment, all the way up the drive
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On April 03 2013 00:15 ReignSupreme. wrote:
Damn, that's commitment, all the way up the drive
Right? Who the hell does that?
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well shit. Any damage done to your car? Hopefully not.
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Sounds like you and your friend were just unlucky. I lived in Houston all my life before going off to college, and I never had any incident like yours.
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On April 03 2013 00:36 OmniEulogy wrote:
well shit. Any damage done to your car? Hopefully not.
Broken window, other than that no.
On April 03 2013 00:37 aznheat80 wrote:
Sounds like you and your friend were just unlucky. I lived in Houston all my life before going off to college, and I never had any incident like yours.
I think that crime is just spreading like crazy now. If you dont live in the woodlands/tomball/sugar land your odds are way worse now than ever.
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It didn't seem to be that bad when I lived in the woodlands. Of course I just drove into Houston, I didn't actually live in it.
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You made me curious and a quick check shows that statistically Houston is safer than a grand total of 5% of other US cities... I never realized it ranked so badly. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Is insurance covering the window for you at least?
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On April 03 2013 00:55 OmniEulogy wrote:
You made me curious and a quick check shows that statistically Houston is safer than a grand total of 5% of other US cities... I never realized it ranked so badly. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Is insurance covering the window for you at least?
I have a $500 deductible on comprehensive, so I am probably just going to pay out of pocket. I am more pissed that I am out of a laptop and the entire semesters worth of notes for school.
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On April 03 2013 00:49 Coriolis wrote:
It didn't seem to be that bad when I lived in the woodlands. Of course I just drove into Houston, I didn't actually live in it.
Yeah The Woodlands are pretty far out lol :p. I lived in a "not-so-nice" area of Houston, but crime was something that was never a big dead there, there are a lot of shitholes in the city though.
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sounds like a great place toliveif youre considering a life of crime
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Even West U (where I lived for a LONG time) and River Oaks have relatively bad crime. Katrina didn't help, but it was bad beforehand.
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I think having to deal with our people is the ultimate revenge against the rest of the country who didn't help us enough after Katrina over here in New Orleans. A lot of our people went to Houston after the storm, they suck don't they?
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On April 03 2013 00:58 TheRabidDeer wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2013 00:55 OmniEulogy wrote:
You made me curious and a quick check shows that statistically Houston is safer than a grand total of 5% of other US cities... I never realized it ranked so badly. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Is insurance covering the window for you at least? I have a $500 deductible on comprehensive, so I am probably just going to pay out of pocket. I am more pissed that I am out of a laptop and the entire semesters worth of notes for school.
Should've made cloud backups, many have learned that lesson.
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On April 03 2013 02:01 MattBarry wrote:
I think having to deal with our people is the ultimate revenge against the rest of the country who didn't help us enough after Katrina over here in New Orleans. A lot of our people went to Houston after the storm, they suck don't they?
Didnt help enough? Not my fault tons of the ghetto people in NO opted to spend their relief money on a new chrysler 500 with $5000+ spiked wheels and a killer sound system instead of their house. I dont know about every victim, but these people had enough to spend like 50 grand on a car.
1.4 billion in improper/fraudulent money was handed out to katrina victims. Also, how can it be revenge against the rest of the country when it is FEMA's fault in the first place?
On April 03 2013 02:08 Disregard wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2013 00:58 TheRabidDeer wrote:On April 03 2013 00:55 OmniEulogy wrote:
You made me curious and a quick check shows that statistically Houston is safer than a grand total of 5% of other US cities... I never realized it ranked so badly. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Is insurance covering the window for you at least? I have a $500 deductible on comprehensive, so I am probably just going to pay out of pocket. I am more pissed that I am out of a laptop and the entire semesters worth of notes for school. Should've made cloud backups, many have learned that lesson.
I really wasnt that worried about losing my laptop, so I never bothered (this was one of maybe 3 times that I left my backpack in the car overnight in the last year). I have all of my notes on a USB drive, not the HDD itself so I was even less worried about hardware failure.
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Damn I feel for you dude 
On the bright side, the Rockets are doing pretty well at least .___.
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On April 03 2013 02:19 TheRabidDeer wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2013 02:08 Disregard wrote:
Should've made cloud backups, many have learned that lesson. I really wasnt that worried about losing my laptop, so I never bothered (this was one of maybe 3 times that I left my backpack in the car overnight in the last year). I have all of my notes on a USB drive, not the HDD itself so I was even less worried about hardware failure.
I've had more USB keys die on me than hard drives. Please get at least 1 off-site backup (dropbox, crashplan, or both is even better).
It sucks that your laptop got stolen
BTW nice house on the picture!
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Yes and no about the crime. Yes its bad depending on where you live(just like anywhere else in the world). And no at the same time. I have lived here since I was born and never once had anything stolen or been held at gunpoint or anyother point for that matter. Yes houston is bad and no houston is not bad. Just do your homework on where to live. Jersey Village area is probably your best bet for a good price(as long as its not in the jersey village neighborhood because thats old money and expensive)
did this little shpeel while ingame, so excuse me if it... sucks.
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Houston isn't all that bad. I ahve lived here my entire life and have never had any really issues and i lived on the northside greenspoint area.
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