we just left bellaire (small community completely surrounded by houston just south of the galleria) for the hill country outside san antonio.

if you're only looking at home prices, you can buy a lot for your money but you will also get little appreciation over time unless you buy in bellaire, west university, river oaks, memorial, or a few other small, desirable areas.

the weather sucks, hot and very humid summers. only about 2 months of really nice weather in a year. lots to do, great medical facilities, etc but i like living outdoors and you can't do that in houston most of the time.

awful mosquitoes, high taxes (about 3% in harris county) so you can pay for all the illegals who choose to live there and all the social programs you and your family will never benefit from, etc.

we cut our taxes by 1% by moving to the most beautiful part of texas.