I'm half assedly contemplating moving to Corpus Christi.

I've only visited twice for an evening each time. Tell me about it.

Especially if you're not from Corpus but have lived there before

Don't everybody speak up at once

The silence should tell you what you want to know

Like any decent size city, it's got it's pros and cons. Big issue is the crime rate----one of the highest in the State

Like any decent size city, it's got it's pros and cons. Big issue is the crime rate----one of the highest in the State

Great if you like outdoors stuff -- hunting fishing going to the beach camping bonfires etc. Nightlife is hit or miss but really has been stepping up lately with decent bars.
The biggest thing I miss from Dallas is the food. Theres not as big of a selection of decent food that isnt a chain restaurant but still ok and getting better.

It has a very laid back culture -- not a lot of stuck up people.

I have never had an issue with crime (knock on wood) just try stay out of seedy areas.

People either hate it or love it here. I've found a lot of people who hate it are the ones who are stuck here and have no other options and don't like the outdoors.

Also, the biggest draw back is offering decent jobs 1) because big companies don't come here bc of location -- its kind of the end of the road. and also education here isn't the greateast although A&M Corpus is starting to get better programs. Everything seems to be improving in my opinion and more and more younger folks 20's and 30's moving down as I've found through a few organizations in town. The city admin's are pretty crappy and has a reputation of being corrupt in the past so it slows progress of the city down -- i guess as part of the laid back culture.

I've lived here my whole life (minus the 4 years I lived in College Station). I really like it. But again I've lived here my whole life. My whole family is here.

Definitely pros and cons. Also depends on where in the city you want to live. Some places are really nice and some are quite the opposite. Cost of living is pretty low down here. Similar to that of College Station. Way cheaper than most big cities.

I can't stand big cities and everything that goes with them. I prefer small to mid-sized cities like Corpus Christi and College Station. I guess it just depends on what you are lookng for.

Learn to habla espanol! We went to the aquarium there in July, and I swear we were the only people in the place whose first language was English!

I'll be first: racist.

Funny because I promise more people in the Dallas area speak only spanish than in Corpus. Some reason corpus has A LOT of hispanics that know English -- imagine that?
Of course I imagine that depends what area you are in an the sheer number of people in Dallas.

I was talking about Corpus Christi, not Dallas. I imagine that more people speak Spanish in Mexico City than in Corpus, too.

What I'm saying is corpus has surprisingly a lot of English speaking minorities for its proximity to Mexico. I hardly think you have to learn the language in the least bit to move down but I'm sure you were being facetious.

As a CC native (Flour Bluff actually), I can tell you that if you are single, there aren't many single women to find in CC.

Where are you moving from?

If you are looking for a metropolitan city w/ lots of diversity and cultural events, CC is not the place to be.

Some decent bands pass thru every once in a while, but nothing too special.

CC Hooks (Astros AA club) is fun to go watch and is the only sporting event in the city.

The summer is fun, REAL fun, if you like the beach, fishing, and boating. The city kind of goes into hybernation between October-March.

It's a lot of the same stuff/different day after a while.

Granted, the cost of living isn't very high, it's rarely cold (but often hot/humid/windy), nothing is too far from you anywhere in the city. You live on the coast and the spring/summers rock. People are pretty casual, not at all like the Austin/Dallas crowd.

Me, personally, for the right job would move back (i live in SA now)...but I'm from there and know people there.

So, take that for what it's worth.

Pretty much listen to everything lazuras posted. Spot on assessment.

If you do move there, find a place close to the water. I would say for the most part stay north or east of Staples if you live in town. South Flour Bluff is cool, as is the island. Avoid Flour Bluff north of SH 358 (SPID). Lots of meth in that area. Learn Spanish anywhere else in town.

One last thing... the drivers are horrible and 50% of the town does not carry insurance. Make sure you have full coverage.

Thanks whiskey.

I agree if you want to live "in town" I would do southside which is basically south of saratoga and east of everhart/staples.

Island living is pretty solid as well.

+1 living on the island..i grew up in the bluff as well...spent all my time in the water. when i visit now friends/family we usually end up at some of the bars on the island, which seem to be picking up. same as everyone else, if you like the outdoors its hard to beat. layed back people for the most part...

would also like to move back, but my opinion of the city is it is not growing fast enough and can not keep/bring in college grads due to lack of big companies. for what its worth.

If you have a boat or plan on getting one (which you need in Corpus to enjoy it), then look at a place in the Bluff or the island for easy boat ramp access.

I moved to Corpus in 2000 after College Station.....love it.

It's a run down crap town now

If you want to feel like you're living 20 yrs ago, Corpus is the place to be. Growing up there, not much has changed since I left. My parents are still down there, so I make it back once or twice a year and 2-3 days is plenty.

There are some good people, but lots of old grumpy people who don't like anything to change. They just recently redid the harbor bridge (big bridge downtown over the port) to put in a bunch of lights and make it a centerpiece of downtown. It took a small miracle to get it done and you still read plenty of letters in the paper about people *****ing about it.

Not much will change and there won't be any growth. If you're used to a lot of options, Corpus isn't for you. There is one mall, one Best Buy, maybe 3 or 4 decent bars, and 4000 "mom & pop" mexican food restaurants.

^the mom and pop mexiacan foods blow big mexican food establishments out of the water everytime. I'd rather eat at alcapulcos than any fancy mexican restaurant.

Everything else you said is spot on.

i grew up in Corpus and my parents still live there... I hated living in that town.. Every thing is dirty and there is trash everywhere.. There is not much to do unless you live near the water. I didnt, I lived out in Calallen.. Movie theaters are garbage and have rats and murders.. very few nice restuarants to eat at. Im glad I got out of that place

I guess it is all a matter of what you are looking for or already have.

The crime rate here is not that bad and much improved over thirty years ago when I was a prosecutor. You hear about it because the local no news media doesn''t know how to cover anything that is not served up to them by the government. Though, truth to tell, at Christmas time they do give a lot of coverage to Santa visiting the mall that buys advertising and neighborhoods that turn on christmas decorations and tree lightings and other important stuff like that.

Car wrecks and shootings on the west side are their meat and potatoes. So don't move to the west side.

The rest of the town is quiet for the most part.

The education issue is interesting; if you have kids, you might want to be cautious about the neighborhood you move into or get them into one of the several fairly good private schools.

Del Mar is a huge trade school with lackluster academics. AnM CC has a good student base because they intentionally charge higher tuition than other south Texas schools and have admission standards. The faculty is heavy on Ph.Ds and mostly from good schools.

The bar scene does not match Dallas or Austin or Houston. What a shock. It is adequate depending on your age. And whether you know anybody. Lots of my friends grew up here and so it was no problem developing a network after I met a few people. That was a long time ago but I understand it is still that way.

In addition to the oil field and refinery professionals, there are the people from the college and the Naval Air Station here and in Kingsville and that is about it in town but there are lots of people living out on the island now and that is a newer scene that some of the older hands may not be familiar with.

I note you work on golf courses. They need some help around here. Two have shut down in recent years and one is being downed from 18 to 9 holes if the rumors are true. That leaves half a dozen in the driving area and only two are very good.

As for the movie theaters, I have never seen any rats but there are only two multis and a dollar one that maybe does have rhodents---some of its customers bear a resemblance.

A key thing to remember is that it is not one town with 300,000 but several towns of 100,000 mas o menos. And learn that last phrase, you will learn to lean on it often.

And one last point: traffic;; there is none. I can get from my house to my office in under five minutes and that is if I have to stop at both lights.

Most of the time you can get across town end to end in fifteen minutes.

I don't even go to Houston or Austin anymore. If I want to shop for something I can't get here or go see a foreign film or a sporting event, I get on I 37 and I am in San Antonio in two hours. Which has also improved vastly in the last thirty years.

Not one reference to the stray dog population?? Corpus, more specifically, Leopard St., is Bob Barker's worst nightmare. Though one shouldn't be on Leopard St. unless your purchasing construction supplies or buying a tranny-hooker.

I love CC merely for the fishing and the beach, but have since moved to the Tine.

My main goal in life is to find a beer as cold as a woman's heart

Its what you make of it. I live in Austin, but we have friends with a condo on the Island. We visit often and have a blast.

I grew up in CC and can say, little has changed, but that has more to do with the people in charge than the folks who live there.

My wife is from El Paso and thinks CC is very Tex, more than Mex - for what its worth.

Better than Galveston

Born and raised there. Rusty...just one question, who did you piss off?

I live in Victoria, or Helltoria as I like to call it. I'd move back to Corpus in a heart beat.

I couldnt wait to get the hell out of there. The worst city as far as driving; stay off of the freeways around the first of the month. The weather can be chitty in the fall and winter. The plus to living there is spring and summer.

Why the first of the month?

I grew up in CC in the 50s and early 60s. It was a very decent city. Emphasis on Was.

The medical facilities such as Spahn and Memorial are first rate and I would put them above Houston anyday. My wife was transported to CC after a very bad accident and she is alive today b/c of the care received.

Domingo Pena is dead so I don't know what KZTV is doing about that. Worst TV stations in the nation with Victoria TV stations a close second. I grew up on the west side and it was tuff back then so dont give me grief about what I think. I carried a switchblade then and now still do. I am meskin to the core and will still cut your silly gringo asses.

GO MELLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

M M M E L LL LE R MELLER


Got me a Hot white Wife Escaped the Barrio

Huishe you suck!!!

I just moved down here for a golf course job and I love it. Right now I live right of Oso Bay on the Corpus side and will probably move out to the Island when my fiance moves down. I love fishing and warm weather and living by the water so I'm a little prejudice. Its not as clean as some of the other Texas cities, but there are plenty of good people if you notice. If you are looking for fine dining, then you will probably be disappointed, but if you love seafood or good mexican then this is the place. The Hispanic culture has made it very family oriented and there are good neighborhoods to balance the bad. Its no Dallas or Austin; its a cross between San Antonio and Galveston with much better water, scenery and fishing.

What golf course? What do you do?

quote:

---

The medical facilities such as Spohn and Memorial are first rate

---

It makes me happy that you feel that way. I work at Memorial, which is a part of the Spohn system.

What I really like about CC is being able to drive ten minutes to the beach, and if I go early enough I can let my dog run loose out there and not have to worry about anything but jelly fish. There is always stuff to do, if you like the ocean. And we're less than two hours from San Antonio and about three to Houston. I'm looking at buying a house out on the Island within the next year.

Sea Pony


7& years ago my wife was lifeflighted to CC Memorial and I was told that IF she survives she wiil have memory, learning and paralysis and be a living vegetable.

My first inclination was to get her to Houston.
The doctors took me aside and said leave things as they are b/c if taken to Houston she will have her head cracked open and literally become an investigative experiment. "You are in the best trauma unit in the US, every day we bring in gunshots, border crossing individuals etc.(car wrecks ie the mexicans in CC really know how to party)

She was on life support for 3 days. Nothing but meds for swelling of the brain via IVs and a tube down her throat. On the 4th day she awoke a miracle.

A year later her Neurologist said "you are not to be here, you are a Miracle.

I have been truly blessed and Sea Pony you are a member of a great care team. God Bless you.