why are houstonians fleeing Houston like somebody just outlawed the word y'all within
the city limits Texans can put up with a lot but getting rid of y'all might push some of
them over the edge so why are people leaving it's a good question Houston is almost always gained
in population like every single year 2021 and 2022 is one of the only times in their history
they have seen back-to-back drops in population minus point seven percent in 2021 and minus 1.1
percent in 2022. that doesn't sound like a big number but it is it's kind of shown a trend in
the last two census the city has gained less than 10 percent which has only happened three
times since 1850 with most decades seen growth around 30 percent and up now when
you get down and look at the numbers you could see that people are still moving in from other
states at about the normal rate it's just the long time residents are leaving Houston faster
than ever before most the houstonians leaving the city move to other Texans as Metro areas
Dallas San Antonio Austin and Beaumont after that they're moving out of state to Denver
Atlanta and Los Angeles so why is this happening why are more and more houstonians packing up and
moving on that's what we're looking at today the reasons people leaving Houston gave in
a survey as to why they wanted a new place to call home got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 the weather yeah a lot of people don't like the weather in Houston and I've been there
quite a few times and I gotta agree with them the weather sucks in Houston especially in the summer
Houston is known for its hot humid weather which can be uncomfortable and even dangerous during
the summer months according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the
average temperature in Houston in July is 94.5 degrees Fahrenheit with a whole bunch of humidity
if you've never been to Houston and you're just imagining Houston is like West Texas it's not West
Texas is like a desert Houston is like a swamp if you're one of those people like myself that likes
a little cool weather you're not going to get much of it in Houston the winter does get kind
of nice and a little bit cold now and then but the summers are brutal along with the mosquitoes
that go with them it's just kind of harsh and on top of that you got the extreme weather events
hurricanes flooding Houston's had their fair share of them they've also seen a few tornadoes
and some serious thunderstorms the flooding seems to happen every year then I don't know
every 10 years or so a major hurricane blows through that place and just upsets the whole city
but there is one amazing thing about houstonians when that happens I've never been there for one
but the news is just filled with people helping each other out they get through it together so you
gotta like that but yeah a lot of people they just can't take the weather and they bail on Houston
number nine the traffic the traffic in Houston is getting worse every single year maybe the
fact that they're losing some people might change that but they've been grown at such
a good pace for so long that the infrastructure's really not been able to keep up it's almost like
the city planners are watching how the city is growing and think you know what we need a
new four-lane Interstate right here and we'll you know have it do this and this and this and
then when they finish it eight years later they'll you know we should have made that
eight Lanes each direction I've been stuck in Houston traffic about three or four times it's
not as bad as Los Angeles or let's say the Bay Area San Francisco but it's pretty close
number eight social issues now some things kept popping up and I thought each one was
important but they weren't important enough to have their own spot on this list so I kind of
clumped them all together social issues a lot of people complain that they feel socially isolated
despite its size Houston can be a difficult place to meet new people and build a social network
some residents feel isolated and disconnected from the community there's many complaints on
how it's really hard to date in Houston and there's a few reasons for that one of them is
there's more women than men now if you're a person looking for a woman to bump uglies with this is a
good thing you have more choices than you might other places like in Alaska where it's like one
woman to every five guys or something like that Houston's not that bad but it's enough to where
it's noticeable I've seen different stats for it but it's usually something like if you take 100
people in Houston there's 55 women for every 45 men some of the problems with this is if you're
a woman and you're looking for a man your options are limited years ago I did a video and brought
this up and I remember reading this article and this one woman in there said don't move to Houston
if you're married because some woman will try and steal your man put in parentheses men are in short
supply in Houston so that could be a problem you also have diversity Houston is a very diverse City
but some residents may not appreciate the cultural differences or feel uncomfortable in Multicultural
environments now whenever you bring up diversity on any kind of video and you're talking about
social things and you'll have a bunch of comments in the comment section about diversity is not a
good thing just enjoy those and get a good chuckle out of it they always try and include fake stats
number seven pollution Houston has high levels of air pollution due to its large
size and petrochemical Facilities that basically surround the entire city according to the American
Lung Association Houston ranks as the 12th most polluted city in the United States for year-round
particle pollution basically air quality sucks here on top of that when you have bad air quality
that usually leads into you got bad water quality now their water is not dangerous but I've read a
bunch of things where it tastes bad you're moving from out of the area you'll move to
Houston you'll taste the water and you'll be buying bottled water from that point on side
note Los Angeles has the same problem I never knew how nice water out of a tap tasted until
I left Los Angeles but believe it or not the air pollution and water quality really bothers
a lot of people it's bad enough when it's hot humid and then you just suck it in some exhaust
number six the crime Houston's got some crime actually it is the worst when it comes to Crime
of all the Texas Metro areas they've got both property crime and violent crime they
say their property crime is 85 percent higher than the national average which sucks but where
they're really putting the extra effort in is the violent crime rate that's about 224 above
the national average that's the 2022 numbers in 2020 they were only 211 percent above the
national average so if you're worried about crime yeah you could look at those numbers
and probably want to leave Houston every time I've been to Houston as I've driven
around I thought wow I bet there's a lot of crime going on around here why doesn't that
car have any tires I actually saw a guy stealing the chain link fence it's not like he worked for
some company this was strictly off the books and he was taking that chain link fence home
I believe because most workers don't use a shopping cart to transport parts of a fence
number five limited public transportation yeah Houston's public transportation system sort of
sucks it's definitely not as extensive or reliable as some of the other cities
of the United States Houston's not even in the top 25 and on top of that it's ranked
really low when it comes to walkability Houston is a sprawling City that's not
really pedestrian friendly which can make it challenging to get around without a car
so the public transportation sucks and it's too big to walk around who's in charge of this city
number four limited job opportunities Houston has jobs it's not like they're really hurting
for jobs they just don't have a wide variety of jobs they have a strong economy and it's home to
many major companies in Industries such as oil and gas health care and Technology outside those
Industries it could be a little dicey and a little limited so if you work in I.T great you probably
get a job Healthcare probably oil and gas sure R-rated magician at a retirement home maybe not
now whenever I talk about this subject right here there's a few cities in the United States that
are like this actually there's a few states that are like this they're heavy in a couple different
Industries but not a bunch of different Industries like California you could find anything just about
any industry is well represented in California it's also in Dallas Dallas is pretty good Atlanta
has a strong Market in different Industries but Houston's just a city that has a lot of
jobs in just a few different Industries that's why a lot of people listed career
change as the reason they left Houston probably changed careers and didn't find a new one there
number three high cost living this is something people put down a lot it's at the number three
spot the statistical reality is Houston's not that bad when you compare it to other
major cities in the United States but I have a theory on this one that I have no proof of I'm
just assuming Houston is down there in South Texas near Louisiana so it's Southeast Texas
Louisiana's dirt cheap and after Louisiana you have Mississippi which is I don't know
what's lower than dirt cheap and a lot of the people that do end up in Houston let's say for
a handful of years for work or whatever come from Louisiana Mississippi Alabama matter of
fact after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 a lot of people from the New Orleans area and really
all of Louisiana moved to Houston but it's not just after a hurricane that people start heading
to Houston Houston has been in the top 10 list for people relocating from Louisiana since 1996.
I'm sure before then but that's how far back the list goes Houston's the biggest metro area outside
Louisiana so it only makes sense it's no brain but yeah that's my theory people that are coming from
Louisiana and parts of the Deep South they get to Houston and they get a little sticker shock
number two it's poorly planned most cities have a rhythm to them they're planned out
properly you know what to expect you're in a residential area you expect homes maybe a
condo maybe an apartment building you go to an area where there's a bunch of apartment
buildings you'll find a bunch of apartment buildings maybe a house or two drive down
a main strip and you have a mini mall maybe an office building Houston's got their own agenda
this right here is a perfect example you have these nice duplexes or whatever they are like
condos and directly across the street they just built like a 25-story office building that's a
residential street back in 2018 I did a video about Houston and I found out this is one of
the biggest complaints people from Houston and people moving to Houston pretty much everybody
complained about but back to that giant building that residential neighborhood even if half of it
or all of its apartments and not just an office building it's too big for that neighborhood
another complaint people have about Houston is lack of green spaces they don't have a lot of
parks and they don't have any you know like wooded areas with hiking trails they just don't go into
that if they did and knowing how they planned out their City you might be on a five mile hike into
the woods and find a Starbucks all by itself round the bend and you might find the last
pager dealership in the country I miss pagers it was so much harder to get a hold of me back
then I've been paging you for like three days huh I didn't get the page I don't know what's
going on yeah but that's one of the biggest complaints people have is the city's confusing
all right before we get to number one if you're looking to move to Houston or any
place in the United States there's a link for a website called home and money they
have all kinds of tools for people looking to buy a new home get you in
touch with a real estate agent all that good stuff all right on to number one
and number one political polarization politics has become very toxic here in the United States in the
last handful of years it's a real problem in Texas this was the number one complaint people had about
Houston in that survey people don't worry about crime as much as they worry about having to listen
to someone and their political views I think part of what plays into people responding like this is
the friction that they have between Texans and Californians moving to Texas Houston doesn't
get nearly as many Californians as Dallas Fort Worth and San Antonio does but they get enough
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other