[efields]

> The place is almost hostile to having a family or to anyone not in the upper middle class.

See also the other 49 states.

> Housing is ridiculous. Utilities are ridiculous. Political issues are rampant. Homeless and crimes everywhere. Owning a car or anything bigger than a bike is a hassle and full of cost and regulations. Racial and political ideologues are everywhere including in schools and they have tremendous influence. One can lose their entire livelihood if they were found to have "wrongthink" by these ideologues.

Owning a car in most of the US is a socially-mandated hassle you must impose upon your life to succeed. I'm sitting in a car service lounge typing this, in fact. You can lose your entire livelihood in the US very easily by opting out of car culture, or losing your license, or missing certain payments.

Everything else mentioned is increasingly everywhere in the US. One person's ideology is just another person's god-given natural order of course (PaRenTal rIGHTs).

[galaxytachyon]

In Houston, owning a car is pretty simple. I pay a registration and insurance online and I am done. Car has problems? There are a hundred car shops around that fix it in a day or two for a fraction of the cost a dealer asks. Gas price is fine. No problem with break in or theft either in the ten years I was in Houston.

And maybe because it is Houston, but there is no problem being LGBTQ here or having progressive ideals. The local government is left leaning but the state is right leaning so they kind of balance out imo. I actually saw true diversity and freedom of expression in Houston compared to the SF's version of it where there are certain types of topic everyone has to tiptoe around. In Houston, even truly controversial opinions are still allowed because for better or worse, there are some people in power who share that opinion, no matter if it is far left or right. IMO, that is better but I understand this can be subjective.

[finite_depth]

"There is no problem being LGBTQ here"

Yeah, famously no hostile laws against queer people in Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/25/texas-transgender-ki...

[galaxytachyon]

Nice selective quoting. I said in Houston repeatedly and you still try to skip it in the exact same sentence you quoted. If you have to take things out of context to make a point then don't make it.

I said the state government leans right and the local government leans left and they balance out. Which is exactly the case why there is a lawsuit right now which they may win.

Your dishonest argument is just pathetic and honestly made the cause you support looks like trash.