WALKIN HTX #4 Crazy $hit Only People From Houston Texas Know [CAN YOU HANDLE THEM!]
How can you handle some crazy things? The top question is can you handle them? In episode 4 of Walkin HTX we are going to talk about Crazy $hit Only People From Houston Texas Know. Hear it out loud!
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In todays episode I do a deep dive into Crazy $hit Only People From Houston Texas Know. How do you handle craziness? Today we are talking about what those Houstonians know that US outsiders have no clue about. What is it like to live in Houston, TX and just Texas in general. It's such a different culture. I always describe it like its own country. There's just things here that they just completely throw you off guard. Yes, it's amazing. I love living in Texas and the people here and every day is just a surprise. So I want to kind of take you down from the perspective of somebody who's not born and raised Texas. The first thing I want to discuss is when you move here and start driving, you're going to notice quickly that since everything is 2 hours away going 85 in a 65 is almost going too slow for Houstonian. I am a slower driver. I'd like to go the speed limit and when you hit that Beltway and the speed limits 65 or 70, I'll go touch over 4 miles an hour or so, I go way too slow for these people. It's crazy you will go 4 miles hour over the speed limit and it's like you're standing still. These people really drive fast in Texas. One thing is the power bill here I've talked about this in my channel a few times and the only reason I bring it up is because I've just never heard of this. I used to be a journeyman lineman so I worked on power lines and worked with power companies and everywhere I've lived. Before you pay the power company each month right for you for your bill. When I got here, they let you choose your power and I'm like what do you mean choose my power like don't I just pay the power company? Yes, pay the power company but there's other companies that deliver the power and flabbergasted. So you have to go and do all this crazy research. Chose Texas power com and you start shopping and then you'll spend like 7 years trying to go through all these plans and you have to download all the PDF's and read all the small print, the fine print and you might see one right off the gate. That's $0.12 a kWh and that's the cheapest you find. But you look at the small print and that's only for the 1st 500 kilowatt hours and then 500 through 1000 goes to 15 and it's this escalation. And if you got a big *** house like. You know 3500 square foot in a pool and some are in AC. You're running like 2500 watts a month. Like yeah, your bill is going to be outrageous. Trust me. My first bill was through the roof.
Now it is about flowers and trees. We got a lot of deciduous trees that lose leaves and they grow again and I never really was that affected by allergies like I'd never have been a kid who's like never really got hit with allergies that hard. This year especially was really bad. But each year around April or so, when we really start getting that that bloom here, the oak trees and everything just starts going, you're going to see this yellow film, they call it like the Houston snow. The pollen is so thick that you can physically just see it like a cloud and this year was the one of the worst. I keep getting these little mini ear infection type things and if they're nasal infections they hit my ears. They hurt for a day or two. I've just never experienced that and the you will really get hit with Paul in here and then. African Sahara dust or something this dust that comes up through the Gulf from Africa and and it's another one so it's not like it kills you. The next thing is the bugs. I mean everybody talks about it and you hear them. The snakes and cockroaches, I'll be brutally honest when I move here because I am deathly afraid of snakes. So when I moved here, I remember walking around and I was always looking at the ground I thought like Oh my God, I'm in Texas, there's gonna be snakes like everywhere I look so I would like walk into things because I was like that scared of it. Now I'm gonna probably jinx myself but knock on wood it's not like that. The only time I've actually seen snakes there is some bayous right around us that we go fishing in and you'll see we're just water snakes out there. The other little silent killer is these microscopic little fire ants. They come out hot and heavy. You don't even know they're on you. Next thing you know it feels like your foot's on fire. Again, what they do is they'll they'll bite you and you get this little red bump and then, like a day or two later, it turns into a pimple. It has a white head. The property taxes can be really, really high comparative to a lot of different states. Some states people are like that ain't blah blah, but for me it was a big shock. But there's a few things you can do to kind of mitigate or lower the property taxes because every year it goes off in appraised value, and then there's a tax rate. So obviously we don't have state income tax and so it's a way that they're getting taxes for roads, schools all that. There's certain cities that have lower tax rates. Sometimes you just got to be where you got to be, and and you take it on the chin. Kind of, but. Every year what they do is they do this kind of just general appraisal on your house and what they're going to do is take kind of comps in the area and just assess your home value.
In todays episode I do a deep dive into Crazy $hit Only People From Houston Texas Know. How do you handle craziness? Today we are talking about what those Houstonians know that US outsiders have no clue about. What is it like to live in Houston, TX and just Texas in general. It's such a different culture. I always describe it like its own country. There's just things here that they just completely throw you off guard. Yes, it's amazing. I love living in Texas and the people here and every day is just a surprise. So I want to kind of take you down from the perspective of somebody who's not born and raised Texas. The first thing I want to discuss is when you move here and start driving, you're going to notice quickly that since everything is 2 hours away going 85 in a 65 is almost going too slow for Houstonian. I am a slower driver. I'd like to go the speed limit and when you hit that Beltway and the speed limits 65 or 70, I'll go touch over 4 miles an hour or so, I go way too slow for these people. It's crazy you will go 4 miles hour over the speed limit and it's like you're standing still. These people really drive fast in Texas. One thing is the power bill here I've talked about this in my channel a few times and the only reason I bring it up is because I've just never heard of this. I used to be a journeyman lineman so I worked on power lines and worked with power companies and everywhere I've lived. Before you pay the power company each month right for you for your bill. When I got here, they let you choose your power and I'm like what do you mean choose my power like don't I just pay the power company? Yes, pay the power company but there's other companies that deliver the power and flabbergasted. So you have to go and do all this crazy research. Chose Texas power com and you start shopping and then you'll spend like 7 years trying to go through all these plans and you have to download all the PDF's and read all the small print, the fine print and you might see one right off the gate. That's $0.12 a kWh and that's the cheapest you find. But you look at the small print and that's only for the 1st 500 kilowatt hours and then 500 through 1000 goes to 15 and it's this escalation. And if you got a big *** house like. You know 3500 square foot in a pool and some are in AC. You're running like 2500 watts a month. Like yeah, your bill is going to be outrageous. Trust me. My first bill was through the roof.
Now it is about flowers and trees. We got a lot of deciduous trees that lose leaves and they grow again and I never really was that affected by allergies like I'd never have been a kid who's like never really got hit with allergies that hard. This year especially was really bad. But each year around April or so, when we really start getting that that bloom here, the oak trees and everything just starts going, you're going to see this yellow film, they call it like the Houston snow. The pollen is so thick that you can physically just see it like a cloud and this year was the one of the worst. I keep getting these little mini ear infection type things and if they're nasal infections they hit my ears. They hurt for a day or two. I've just never experienced that and the you will really get hit with Paul in here and then. African Sahara dust or something this dust that comes up through the Gulf from Africa and and it's another one so it's not like it kills you. The next thing is the bugs. I mean everybody talks about it and you hear them. The snakes and cockroaches, I'll be brutally honest when I move here because I am deathly afraid of snakes. So when I moved here, I remember walking around and I was always looking at the ground I thought like Oh my God, I'm in Texas, there's gonna be snakes like everywhere I look so I would like walk into things because I was like that scared of it. Now I'm gonna probably jinx myself but knock on wood it's not like that. The only time I've actually seen snakes there is some bayous right around us that we go fishing in and you'll see we're just water snakes out there. The other little silent killer is these microscopic little fire ants. They come out hot and heavy. You don't even know they're on you. Next thing you know it feels like your foot's on fire. Again, what they do is they'll they'll bite you and you get this little red bump and then, like a day or two later, it turns into a pimple. It has a white head. The property taxes can be really, really high comparative to a lot of different states. Some states people are like that ain't blah blah, but for me it was a big shock. But there's a few things you can do to kind of mitigate or lower the property taxes because every year it goes off in appraised value, and then there's a tax rate. So obviously we don't have state income tax and so it's a way that they're getting taxes for roads, schools all that. There's certain cities that have lower tax rates. Sometimes you just got to be where you got to be, and and you take it on the chin. Kind of, but. Every year what they do is they do this kind of just general appraisal on your house and what they're going to do is take kind of comps in the area and just assess your home value.
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