Why 5 stars? Because we're so happy to call this place home…read more
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This is Review #3,000 for me, so I guess that means I've punched my ticket to the Yelp Hall of Fame. In following the tradition of #1,000 and #2,000, it's a significant one: our home.
If you had told me a couple of years ago, that I would be living in Montgomery, Texas, I never would have believed you. I grew up in Friendswood and had spent the last 15 years in Tampa. My wife grew up in Spring and moved to Tampa one year after I did. We met in Florida and both thought it was just the greatest place ever. Every time we'd come back to Houston to see family over the holidays, we both complained about it the entire time. When we'd like back at TPA, we'd breathe a sigh of relief. For years, we would try to convince our family and friends to join us, but no one ever did.
And then we had a child. And then my wife joined me in the remote work force. Suddenly, we needed a larger house. And we wanted to live in a neighborhood with amenities for our son to enjoy. We looked in the Tampa Bay area for months, but just couldn't really find a good fit.
So we, reluctantly, considered Houston. I took a trip to drive through every corner of the metro and look at various neighborhoods. We considered Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress, Kingwood and the Woodlands.
My wife then took a trip of her own, and discovered Woodforest. It was hard to gauge from afar, because most of it is not available to see on Google Street View. And we weren't too keen on it because most of the neighborhood does not feed to schools with great ratings and it's wayyyy out in the suburbs. But after she checked it out, she knew it was the one. And from everything she told me + the photos/videos she sent, I agreed. We zero'd in on it and then I took a second trip to check out a couple of houses, one of which, we eventually came to call home.
Other than the aforementioned location being so far away from humanity, living here is great. I think there are like 17 parks, most of which have playgrounds. We pretty much live at the pool all weekend in the summer. It's of a similar quality of a resort hotel pool with multiple water slides, volleyball, basketball, etc. There's also a lap pool next door and they are building a third pool to open in the summer of 2023.
I walk the dog every day and the scenery is so pleasant with plenty of tree coverage. I do wish that all of the houses had sidewalks so we never had to walk in the street, but I'm sure our taxes would be higher if they had to put in sidewalks. But there are plenty of sidewalks all throughout the main sections of the neighborhood.
The neighborhood events are pretty lackluster compared to what we envisioned when we moved here. But to be honest, we have enough things to do as it is.
Overall, we love living here and would recommend it to anyone. Thanks Woodforest for copying all of the things that were done so well in the Woodlands, but with a much newer and more modern style!
