Reply #27: We moved to Houston in early August of last year.

[Igel]

My brother-in-law and I loaded up my family's stuff in Rochester, NY, and a week later I unloaded it all by myself in Houston.

Temp: 98-99. Humidity: 70s or so. I thought I was going to die.

So far this month, it's been mid 90s, give or take a few degrees; high humidity. Lows at night in the mid 70s. And for the last few days, afternoon thunderstorms. Which do nothing but add moisture to the air (and ground).

If you're buying, have fun with realtors, *but look up the flood plain maps ahead of time*; they're newly revised, and on the web (don't ask me where, I looked at them last June when I was a contract worker for a company here). And it's possible to find block-by-block reports for crime in Houston on the web. If you're interested in renting, there are folks paid by large apt. complexes to help scout you out a place. You don't pay them, but the different apartment locator services have different apt. lists, and a lot of apts. don't go through locator services.