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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Anyone been there?

All I know is its a huge "Spring Break" destination for college students.. and that about half of the population is Mexican.. and that real estate is really affordable there.

Wonder what it would be like to live there.. (buy real estate, etc.). Hmm.. Cool

Anyone have some first-hand impressions of the place?

desultude · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: Corpus Christi, TX

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Darn! All the GI's get the best cities!! Much of Hawaii, Virginia Beach, San Diego, Corpus Christi.. Confused

Whats up with that anyways?

Virginia Beach was another very affordable market.. and saw that the mean income there was 4th in the nation! Great as its also a much cheaper place to live than most other desireable major cities! But I'm sure the average mean income is because of the military base once again.. Confused

I gotta try to find one of those websites on military bases in the U.S. to find what percentage of the residents are from base.. that might help me out more here.

guangho · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

CC and Galveston are both surrounded by water and are close to Houston. Houston itself is a pit but the suburbs (and satellite cities like Galveston, Christi, Ft. Bend, Sugar Creek-Tom DeLay's hiding place) are quite nice and expensive.

southeast virginia- norfolk, va. beach, tidewater, etc., is an odd mix of gi's college students and some smaller spots that feel like the Mississippi delta almost. It's nice and despite Falwell and Robertson having set up shop there the political/cultural climate is downright tolerable.

How much money do you have? How much can you borrow? How much do you want to borrow? And how much do you want to make? Decide that and then look at areas accordingly. I heard you are also looking at Kentucky and WVA- sort of the polar opposites of Galveston and Tidewater.

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

I lived on Padre Island, which is the long buffer island between C.C. and the Gulf. for 4 years from 82-86. My parents had our house built, while we stayed in a condo on the island. They made a buddle of cash when they finally sold it about 5 years ago after years of renting it out to young Navy pilots, of all people. I think rent was, like $1,200 a month for a two story, 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2,000 square foot, with deck, hot tub, canal and dock. You get the picture.
The whole island is sand, yet was considered an affluent community away from C.C., about 30 minutes drive away. This was were the spring breakers go. Beaches, sand dunes, and you can (could at least) drive on the beach. Most houses have canals, that connect to Laguna Madre, the 4-5 foot deep salt water flats between the island and the mainland, running all along the Texas coast. GREAT FISHING!!! GREAT MOSQUITOS!!! and I think we had to board up our windows once due to a hurricane.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

I liked South Padre Island and also Brownsville when I was there. South Padre Island used to be a big spring break destination; not sure if it is anymore.

guangho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

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guangho · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Corpus Christi, TX

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khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

my mom went down there to meet an "internet friend" (WITH my dad...).
The guy they knew was rich so everywhere they went was pretty ritzy.
Does that mean the whole place is ritzy? dunno.

there is a dulcimer factory there though (And that's where i got my dulcimer)!

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

been there, borring town, used to be a big naval port but thats been shut down. Towns only claim to fame now is it was where Latino star Selena was murdered about a decade ago.

It is though the gateway to Padre Island National Seashore which is some of most unspoiled beach left, it goes for like 60-100 miles no roads, no nothing.

99% of the spring breakers go to South Padre Island which you can only accees via the Brownsville area, that has become a high dollar tourist resort. Just don't go there now

plokiju · Joined: 15 Mar 2005

I would not recommend moving to Corpus. I was there for 3.5 years going to university and just graduated. I was so glad to get out of there.

Aside from the beach there's really nothing in Corpus. 2 Malls and 2 movie theatres and everything seems to be concentrated along this one freeway (SPID). The beach was nice though and cleaner than beaches around Galveston I've heard. The weather was usually nice. A bit too hot for a Canadian in the summer though and really humid. The cost of living is low. I read it was the 5th lowest in the nation somewhere.

I don't think I ever really gave it a fair shot but I've never heard of anyone loving it. I heard several local people refer to it as the armpit of America. Also Houston's really not that close (4-5 hours), San Antonio is about 2, Austin-3, and Dallas 6. I think my main problem was the people though. They were just too religious/conservative for me. Also, don't expect to find many people who know a lot about the world. As far as they are concerned the world ends at the Texas border. It might be a nice place to visit but a whole other story living there.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

How about this question:

DO MANY PEOPLE WEAR COWBOY HATS & BOOTS in Corpus Christi?