Can anybody tell me about Addison or The Woodlands, Texas?

I don't know about Addison but I can give you my pros and cons for The Woodlands.

Pros:
- Beautiful area
- Great golf
- Close proximity to Houston

Cons:
- Relatively expensive place to live as far as Texas goes
- People are sometimes snobby because it is such a rich area in general
- Not a ton of activities to do around town(with Houston so close this isn't a huge deal)

I know The Woodlands well.

It's a suburb of Houston but almost becoming its own city. It's probably at about 120,000 and there are several large companies headquartered there (Anadarko, Chicago Bridge and Iron, Exxon is building a massive office complex just south of there right now).

Pros: the schools are very good. There's quite a bit to do for a city suburb because of how it was designed, there's a little bar area that's pretty fun on the waterway and plenty of shopping at Market Street and the Woodlands Mall. There's also the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion which is the primary outdoor concert venue in Houston. It's gets almost every big name act making a Houston tour stop and is located right next to lots of restaurants and bars. The Houston city center is also only 30 mins- an hour away depending on traffic if you want big city stuff.

Cons: real estate prices are always relative, but by Houston suburb standards they are pretty high in The Woodlands. The real estate market there is on fire right now because of the Exxon offices and houses are being snatched up in a couple days. The Woodlands is also a master planned community so everything has kind of a forced feel to it. There isn't much character or history.

Overall it's a fantastic place to raise a family though. There are some very wealthy people but I never felt like it had the snottiness of some of the old money neighborhoods like River Oaks or Memorial. Because it's home to a ton of O&G companies it's also crawling with Ags we are literally everywhere in that town and it was designed and created by one of our former students. Not sure if you see that as a positive or negative

Good luck with the job I'm sure one of the DFW posters can tell you about Addison

Fantasy Plaza is where all The Woodlands ballas go

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Pro for the woodlands: we can hang out and do blow off of a strippers tits whenever I go to houston

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I'm 24 and single. I'm not worried about schools yet

I commute about 45 mins to and from work now. How far is Houston?

Yeah I figured. I'd like to avoid something like that if possible. It sucks

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I'm 24 and single. I'm not worried about schools yet

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based on this, and my stereotype of Ole Miss students, and the fact that you are in banking - the Addison option is a no-brainer choice imo if it's totally up to you

Addison profile is mostly 20 something professionals. There aren't any dive bars and so as RC rightly points out, it's not as comfortable a scene as Deep Ellum or Greenville/Knox/Henderson. But if you normally hang out in oxfords and khakis like I assume , you'll like Addison a lot.

Addison is really pretty central too. You can live a lot of different places and work there. I'd probably suggest the Village area (Greenville and Lovers) and that's about a 15-20 min commute but it's relatively cheap and near a ton of good bars.

And rather importantly for long-term aspirations, DFW has a lot more mortgage opportunities. BOA, Chase, Citi, Comerica and CapOne all have major hubs (Chase, Citi, and BOA all have their mortgage div hq in the area). Houston doesn't have the same sort of opps really (in banking, other industries are diff obviously).

I grew up in Conroe for about 7-8 years as a kid and its unbelievable how from 1987 to now how the Woodlands blew up. It originated as a upper middle-class subdivision, off I-35 surrounded by miles and miles of woods to now it's basically it's own lite city. Just amazing. Lake Conroe is virtually the same as well, damn.

Oh, and realist-- it's ALL aggie country out there too Horn fans are sprinkled in, but it's like a 50-1 ratio