Anyone else want to leave Houston after Beryl?
Houston was bad enough already but now it's a third world country that's becoming unlivable. The "energy capital of the world" doesn't even bother to invest in it's own infrastructure and can't make repairs after a small gust of wind knocks out the grid.
Many of us lost power during the derecho in May and it took forever to get restored. Then after this CAT 1/Tropical Storm, the entire grid is annihilated for weeks. I can't imagine what this place would be like after a real hurricane. Employers don't care and expect you to be in the office the day after landfall. Forced to drive around floods and navigate the city with no traffic lights. Using PTO to deal with the aftermath and spending thousands on hotels and fleeing the city to get power. I've never experienced anything like this. Many are still without power almost a week later in 100 degree heat. It's an official disaster and the governor/state doesn't give a fuck.
O&G brought me here. I wasn't present to experience the freeze but if I were, I'd take the first opportunity to get me out of Houston and Texas entirely. I haven't even been here very long but after Beryl it's a strong sign that I need to work on getting out. Everyone is acting like this shit is normal and it's ok to go without power for days/weeks every other month. Anyone else feel the same?
ignore title, aso2 in chicago after doing my analyst days in houston. If you want to go a2a then pretty much every bank will let you go to a diferent location, I wanted chicago. I hated houston aswell. If going pe, then you gotta bet on an NY PE offer in infra or energy. The only people who stay in Houston are people from Texas or people who failed to get out.
How do you like Chicago? I've considered moving there. Seems better than Houston in a lot of ways.
10x better. I got pigeonholed to Houston due to where I went to school. Just take a stroll on gold coast and you'll understand, it makes houston look and feel like damp shit. COL is similiar and you'll live a similiar but maybe a tad bit more expensive life compared to Houston, still nothing compared to NYC or SF. City is 10x nicer. Girls are better especially if you like all American white girls. People are nicer. Housing is much nicer. Suburbs for later on in your career are much better. Culture is much more laid back compared to Houston being a complete sweatshop. Chicago is 90% of NYC at 50% of the price, imo the best place to be long term unless you're gunning for the very very top finance positions out there which most wont ever reach anyways. I used to cope about Houston when I was there but man life is just so much brighter outside. You wake up different in the morning when you get out of that shithole.
Don’t really understand the “houston is a shithole” mentality. I feel like this just comes from people who don’t know what to do in their free time besides drink at bars / go out.
I agree there are better places than Houston but everywhere has its pros and cons. Isn’t a horrible place to spend Analyst years as you’ll likely have considerably more money saved vs your NYC co-workers / friends.
As mentioned in this thread, very easy to move to another city if u get bored / tired of Houston by just moving internally in at ur bank.
I do agree that we need to fix Houston’s weak infrastructure but aside that and the heat, can’t think of much that makes houston a “shit hole”. Im able to save / invest 50-60% of my take home pay and there’s a decent amount of things to do (if u really try and search around). Also is Latina heaven if that’s ur thing, and the Mexican food is unmatched.
Anyways just my ¢2, sorry u guys hate it so much lol
- sincerely,
A Houston IB analyst
Which shitty bank are you at if they didn’t pay to have you stay at a hotel while your power is gone.
Agreed - my bank put me in a hotel for the entire week until I got power. Also didn’t have to go in as to the office downtown was almost impossible to access for most of the week
I’m not gonna cape tor Centerpoint, they’re a bunch of dumbasses who repeatedly screw up. To say that the power goes out with a little wind (or whatever else you said) is not accurate. Let’s have a little perspective here, there were sustained 70ish mph winds throughout the 4th most populated city in the country for hours with gusts in center town that were as high or higher than the derecho. Above ground infrastructure is not meant to handle that type of sustained force on it.
There are trade-offs of living in Houston that you have to be comfortable with, big storms is one of them. As someone who was here through Harvey, Uri, etc, it isn’t fun and CNP continuously tripping over their dicks is the worst part. But as someone who isn’t from here and can/would move if needed, it’s also not the hellscape you make it out to be either. It’s not for everyone so best of luck finding something else
Im also gonna call bullshit on a couple more things because I’ve had a few. There was no real flooding with this one and there sure as hell wasn’t on Tuesday and I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any downtown at all. It was also like 92 at its warmest this week. I normally sweat through my shirt walking the dog just about every day from June to September and I only did I think Tuesday. It was unseasonably comfortable (like one of the coolest weeks in July I’ve ever experienced) but I’m sure it was miserable with no AC/power. Unfortunately it could be much much worse.
Adios snowflake!
Texan pride forbids anyone badmouthing their energy dominance. All the talk about how independent Texas would be while a predictable/routine/annual hurricane will bring it to its knees. Again, typical Texan politician who just happens to be away during major disasters
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