Moving to Corpus Christi

[Dutchess]

Christian ass?? WTF????? more than likely we are BOTH Catholic which is even worse ,, we could have just as easily been friends ,,,,, it is people like you that cause things to just turn to crap ......dumba$$

[Dutchess]

Beachy wrote:

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You are a what?? Carribean? You mean Caribbean? I am 100% sure your skin pigmentation is of dark chocolate, eh? It's obvious you are a jealous little coconut who wishes to look like native american? Hispanic? Lets worry about your central part of your country and not worry so much about ghetto Corpus Christi. I guess Corpus Christi is more interesting than seeing your people drink their lives away! A hispanic YOU ARE NOT!

You must be the ranchero/ranchera that my friend in Mexico tells me you are,, jealous , spitefull and vain,ignorant you really need to go back to the 8th grade you dropped out of to that you can learn that a hispanic he IS.

One thing though ,, Scooby and I must have touched a nerve for you to trip like this ,, YOU are the racist/fascist here

[Shinoda]

Corpus Christi is a shit hole with shitty people to match it, dont even think of moving to this town, its garbage.

[Dutchess]

I am glad you said this ,,, I had an embarrassing ridiculous day . I am finally ready to leave . This time I wont be coming back like I have done many times before .
In my husband profession ,it you have to use "headhunters" to place you,which takes longer than a week usually . Otherwise id be down at U-Haul getting my boxes....

[Granny]

Kandace wrote:

Karen my husband and son in elementary now are moving to the area from Virginia. We are originally from north TX and excited to be coming "home". With my husband in the military it will be our second move. I have similar questions about what it is like in south TX. I have done some research and found Portland a small town north of Corpus has an exemplary elementary school-East Cliff. Also the houses you can get for the money compared to here are really nice. I am just wanting some opinions on the area of Portland to know if I am on the right track. On avg. what would I have to pay for tax purposes on a house from 120,000 to 150,000 a year?
Thanks for any help.

Portland is a wonderful town with excellent schools and a good police department. The only problem is that is too close to Corpus.

Besides the beach, fishing and golf, in Corpus you can count on trash, gangs, vilonce, shootings, welfare moms at 16, taco stands on every corner, no shopping, graffit every where. I would go back to Dallas in a minute and never come back. There is much more crime than the liberal rag the Caller Times ever begins to report. No night life unless you are willing to give up your life.

If you never leave Portland, you will be pretty safe. You do have to leave Portland for a hospital and major shopping. I advise Austin or Houston for shopping. The selection is better.

[Guest222]

Corpus Christi*** I dont live in Woodsboro..

[Crash of 08]

More fuel to the fire wrote:

Check it out, Corpus Christi is listed as one of the 10 worst places in the United States to raise a family. When will people wake up?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24713234/

Fuel, Thanks for the heads-up on this story. I missed it. Corpus Christi is on the bottom of every list made. I guess you could call Corpus Christi, "The Worst of the Worst." Jobs, careers, roads, schools, environment, technology, all of it, bottom or near bottom. Property taxes, city services, utilities, insurance, everything is sky high and in many cases twice to three times what you would pay elsewhere. You can pay .20 or more for electricity now a KwH. It is insane here.

The local economy here is messed-up and getting worse each day. I would hate to see this place in a couple of years with $8.00 or $9.00 a gallon gas. Here businesses are getting whacked big time. The economy is welfare based, so when times start to get a little hard places like Corpus Christi are the first to go to hell. The city recently wanted to cut trash collection to once a week, without a reduction in what we pay to the city I might add. If you only knew how dirty and trashy Corpus Christi is with twice a week service you would understand why it would be insane for the city to pick up trash once a week.

People here are idiots and they are all stuck with gas hogs like Escalades, Suburbans, Explorers, Hummer and H2, Chrysler and Jeeps. It is really funny and we laugh when they pull into a gas station to fill those things up. They should pass out stool softeners with each fill up for those dumb people. You can buy any of them for almost nothing here. Housing is crashing here too and you can find houses for sale, rent or lease everywhere. A recent development is commercial property everywhere is now up for sale too. Stupid people who invested in a place like Corpus Christi.

People here are screwed. They are too fat to walk, ride a bike or take a scooter, maybe even fit in most small cars. They take up several bus seats when they use that form of transportation. The SUV is their only option and now they need to decide on potato chips or gas.

They opened a Starbucks here recently. I wonder if they make enough business to pay utility bills and taxes on that building. We laugh at people who go there.

Some of the places on SPID still do business and I don't know if it is peer pressure and credit cards that keep them going. Who is going to tell your friends that you can't afford to go out to eat and that you are ready to lose your home, car and job when you have that plastic card in your pocket? I give that about 60 days at the max.

In a year or two I think Corpus Christi will be 20 times worse than it is now.

[All Downhill]

More fuel to the fire wrote:

Check it out, Corpus Christi is listed as one of the 10 worst places in the United States to raise a family. When will people wake up?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24713234/

What's the matter MSNBC? Don't you want your kids to have brain damage and other birth defects from the polluted air, water, and streets? If its good enough for our elected officials, then brain damage and defects are fine with me!

I like my kids to glow in the dark. It is easier to find them when I dump them off at the mall.:)

It is true that Corpus Christi is at the absolute bottom of everything that is good, and at the top of every list that is bad. It is one of the dumbest cities, has some of the worst streets, bad place to own a business or work, bad schools, major brain drain, and it used to be the most digital city, but they got hip to what is going on here and that they were duped and this city fell off the rankings all together in just one year.

Some people said that Portland is a good place. At least you don't have the likes of Loyd Neal at Nueces County raising property taxes when the floor and prices of homes have dropped out and continue to fall. Then you get a property tax bill from Nueces County to find out the value of your home has gone up! What do they smoke at the county tax assessors office anyways?

Many people in Portland are looking to get out of that mess. The commute between places like Portland and Rockport is a killer with the current gas prices. I read today that an OPEC official thought gas would go up to $175 and I think that would mean gas at around $6 by the end of the year. Someone said that electricity is 19 cents and hour and many companies now charge as much as 27 cents an hour. They said deregulation would help the consumer! It helped the pocketbooks of the politicians!

If you want to move to Corpus Christi you must be crazy. Don't buy a home! If you opt for Texas find a city that has excellent public transportation and a responsive local government. When you find a place like that in Texas please let us know so we can pack up and move there!

[Hoops]

Crash of 08 wrote:

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Fuel, Thanks for the heads-up on this story. I missed it. Corpus Christi is on the bottom of every list made. I guess you could call Corpus Christi, "The Worst of the Worst." Jobs, careers, roads, schools, environment, technology, all of it, bottom or near bottom. Property taxes, city services, utilities, insurance, everything is sky high and in many cases twice to three times what you would pay elsewhere. You can pay .20 or more for electricity now a KwH. It is insane here.
The local economy here is messed-up and getting worse each day. I would hate to see this place in a couple of years with $8.00 or $9.00 a gallon gas. Here businesses are getting whacked big time. The economy is welfare based, so when times start to get a little hard places like Corpus Christi are the first to go to hell. The city recently wanted to cut trash collection to once a week, without a reduction in what we pay to the city I might add. If you only knew how dirty and trashy Corpus Christi is with twice a week service you would understand why it would be insane for the city to pick up trash once a week.
People here are idiots and they are all stuck with gas hogs like Escalades, Suburbans, Explorers, Hummer and H2, Chrysler and Jeeps. It is really funny and we laugh when they pull into a gas station to fill those things up. They should pass out stool softeners with each fill up for those dumb people. You can buy any of them for almost nothing here. Housing is crashing here too and you can find houses for sale, rent or lease everywhere. A recent development is commercial property everywhere is now up for sale too. Stupid people who invested in a place like Corpus Christi.
People here are screwed. They are too fat to walk, ride a bike or take a scooter, maybe even fit in most small cars. They take up several bus seats when they use that form of transportation. The SUV is their only option and now they need to decide on potato chips or gas.
They opened a Starbucks here recently. I wonder if they make enough business to pay utility bills and taxes on that building. We laugh at people who go there.
Some of the places on SPID still do business and I don't know if it is peer pressure and credit cards that keep them going. Who is going to tell your friends that you can't afford to go out to eat and that you are ready to lose your home, car and job when you have that plastic card in your pocket? I give that about 60 days at the max.
In a year or two I think Corpus Christi will be 20 times worse than it is now.

You seem to have predicted the markets well. Down almost 360 in a day. What a hit. The Corpus Christi City Council I would imagine is dreaming up ways to rob the taxpayers of whatever money they have left.

Does anyone think that bankruptcy is in the city and county's future? If people can't afford to pay taxes after they are out of work and the city and county raise prices on everything as you know you can't get water out of a stone.

Has everyone noticed how everything is for sale and nobody is buying a thing? The housing market is being crushed and this may be just the start of bigger problems. I hate to think of what the future holds for Corpus Christi. It is bad enough now.

[Jimmy]

I drove to Portland today and nobody was on the bridge. They have a Starbucks and I think it is on Wildcat Drive and there was nobody there. Everywhere you go places are turning into ghost towns.

It will be tough for places around here to pull visitors here with the high price of gas and I heard on Bloomberg that it may get higher really soon. To visit places here you need to drive out of the way to get here. When you get here the beaches are not the best. Not the worst but there are better beaches South Padre and Brownsville or over to Galveston near Houston. If people are putting the money it takes to drive to the gulf they will visit those places not here. Corpus was always a draw for cheap tourist like college students wanting a place to get drunk on break. Now that group is flat broke and they will not be coming for many years to come. Businesses in the area are on their knees and everyone is hurting bad and I fear it will get much worse.

[Steve]

It is really creepy in Corpus Christi. Very little traffic, few visitors around, nobody buying things in the stores like they used to. It is July 4th week here and things look dead. It is really spooky if you ask me.

Corpus Christi is a sprawling city and it take a lot of miles and a lot of gas to get from one place to the next and a lot of money. People who live on the Island may travel over 30 miles one way to get to their jobs and if you are using a gas guzzler it will hit you in the pocketbook.

If you want to move here homes are for sale everywhere and people want to get out due to the high taxes and poor city services. It is dirty here.

The things that people do are now paid for with credit cards. I see them used at markets, gas stations, fast food restaurants and they may be in for a big surprise because credit card companies are cutting back on the spending limits for people like that. Can't wait to see this sparkling city in a couple of months when it really hits the fan.

[Dutchess]

I do use my VISA everywhere ,like you are seeing , but the reason I use it is in case I get robbed here they cant take any cash before I can report it stolen and if I am forced to go to an ATM machine , my daily limit is only 300 out of the machine.

This place is so dangerous that I havent carried cash or carried a check book with me in years.

I write a check for the rent and at the feed store and that is it.

Like you said , it is so expensive to drive around here that is costs me almost 30.00 to drive downtown and back to the island and I drive a VERY old Mercedes that gets excellent gas mileage . It is so expensive that I really dont know what ALL of us are going to do . The bus wont come out here, Id take it if it did .

[Amex MC Visa]

Dutchess wrote:

I do use my VISA everywhere ,like you are seeing , but the reason I use it is in case I get robbed here they cant take any cash before I can report it stolen and if I am forced to go to an ATM machine , my daily limit is only 300 out of the machine.
This place is so dangerous that I havent carried cash or carried a check book with me in years.
I write a check for the rent and at the feed store and that is it.
Like you said , it is so expensive to drive around here that is costs me almost 30.00 to drive downtown and back to the island and I drive a VERY old Mercedes that gets excellent gas mileage . It is so expensive that I really dont know what ALL of us are going to do . The bus wont come out here, Id take it if it did .

You are one of the few people in Corpus Christi who uses a credit the way you do. If you pay the balance off I don't think you have a worry. I know a couple of people who work in banks here and they told me that a lot of people in this city are going to be screwed over in the next couple of months. Ever wonder how those jerks in the big SUV's drive all over and fill their carts at HEB? Credit card debt and charging everything when they don't have money to pay. My friends tell me some of these crazy people have $25,000 and more credit card dept. Imagine! The banks will start cutting these people back because they can't pay and they are living a lifestyle they can't afford. These types of people are all over Corpus Christi. They will be crushed when they take their plastic away and the city will follow them down the drain. Have you heard anything about suicides being way up in Corpus Christi? I hear that people can't afford to pay the mortgage, credit cards, taxes, car loans and the gas prices are killing themselves off at a high rate here in Corpus Christi. Have you heard anything about that?

[Dutchess]

No,but I believe it, people are living wayyyyy beyong their means here , my card is both a credit/debit and the only difference if I choose credit is that the money will be taken out 2-3 days later instead of instantly , so I never have a balance to pay , I use it like cash.

People always comment how pretty my ancient Mercedes is and you know I payed 2500 in cash for it from Ed Hicks , it never breaks and it looks gorgeous after 30 years and will probably look gorgeous in another 30 , This is my second really old mercedes and I did it on purpose for this reason. I dont like looking bad just like anyone else but KNEW I couldnt afford a new car every other year.The people at Ed Hicks had it parked back in the storage lot and could NOT understand why on earth I would want it and kept trying to get me to buy a new isuzu or s new mercedes , I told them I had 2500 that was IT and they could let me see it or I was leaving PERIOD. I have a BIG chevy 1 ton turbo diesel that hasnt been driven in over a year ,I have had 12 years , so I have no car payments.

I sold my house/ farm in Rockport years ago and only rent now, I can rent far more than I could ever afford to buy , with taxes and insurance and HOA I am actually saving more over 30 years if I continue to rent .... It is not easy but it is for the best .

[Anonymous]

How can the average person have a $25,000 credit card limit?!

Looks like gross negligence on the banks part to me.

But then one doesn't have to accept the credit or spend like there's no tomorrow...

Amex MC Visa wrote:

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You are one of the few people in Corpus Christi who uses a credit the way you do. If you pay the balance off I don't think you have a worry. I know a couple of people who work in banks here and they told me that a lot of people in this city are going to be screwed over in the next couple of months. Ever wonder how those jerks in the big SUV's drive all over and fill their carts at HEB? Credit card debt and charging everything when they don't have money to pay. My friends tell me some of these crazy people have $25,000 and more credit card dept. Imagine! The banks will start cutting these people back because they can't pay and they are living a lifestyle they can't afford. These types of people are all over Corpus Christi. They will be crushed when they take their plastic away and the city will follow them down the drain. Have you heard anything about suicides being way up in Corpus Christi? I hear that people can't afford to pay the mortgage, credit cards, taxes, car loans and the gas prices are killing themselves off at a high rate here in Corpus Christi. Have you heard anything about that?

[the truth]

dont move to corpus it smells like a big fart.

[Up2Here]

Anonymous wrote:

How can the average person have a $25,000 credit card limit?!
Looks like gross negligence on the banks part to me.
But then one doesn't have to accept the credit or spend like there's no tomorrow...
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They have higher limits and $25,000 is nothing. Think about it, they give kids in college credit cards with limits of several thousand $$$ and they have no income.

I read and I think it was in the Wall Street Journal that credit card debt is about ready to unravel here and will make the sub-prime mess and the housing crash look like and evening dance.

All of this is the same thing that happened in the 1920's and the great stock market crash. People took out loans to buy stocks called buying on a margin. It works out great as long as the stocks are going up but when they fall and the margin called. Oooooops! No money? Crash and burn.

Our economy is built on loans and credit. Why you may ask! Our tax laws punish savings and reward credit and debt. Simple as that. Credit card companies and banks have extended credit and amounts to people they shouldn't have given it to. It all works as long as people have the income, pay off their debt and keep their jobs. What if our economy takes a big hit and people can't do this? Our economy will crash and burn worse than it did in the 1920's.

[Jeff]

Jimmy wrote:

I drove to Portland today and nobody was on the bridge. They have a Starbucks and I think it is on Wildcat Drive and there was nobody there. Everywhere you go places are turning into ghost towns.
It will be tough for places around here to pull visitors here with the high price of gas and I heard on Bloomberg that it may get higher really soon. To visit places here you need to drive out of the way to get here. When you get here the beaches are not the best. Not the worst but there are better beaches South Padre and Brownsville or over to Galveston near Houston. If people are putting the money it takes to drive to the gulf they will visit those places not here. Corpus was always a draw for cheap tourist like college students wanting a place to get drunk on break. Now that group is flat broke and they will not be coming for many years to come. Businesses in the area are on their knees and everyone is hurting bad and I fear it will get much worse.

It is really freaky in the Corpus Christi area. The economy is really falling apart down here and the newspaper and television stations ignore all the problems. Homes are for sale and the foreclosure rate is up, up, up.

Things were horrible here in good times. Now that the economy is bad this area is turning into a ghetto and fast.

If you can afford to move or visit a place this area is not worth it. You'll be stuck like a rat on a glue strip.

[Dutchess]

Thats what i am afraid of . I am not sure if there is another city of similar size in such dire straits.

[Shelly]

Dutchess wrote:

Thats what i am afraid of . I am not sure if there is another city of similar size in such dire straits.

It is hard to figure out what to do. If you live in the country it will cost you a million dollars to commute to work and to go shopping. If you live in the city you will be with a mass of people if things fall apart like in New Orleans.

Corpus Christi last saw good times, if you could call it that, in the 1950-1960 era. Now Corpus Christi is stuck out of the way and a long way from 77 if you are traveling south from anywhere. Friends tell me (and they don't report this) that hotel occupancy is way down and everything that you can spend money on is down. I don't mean down a little bit. I mean down to the point where businesses will close or go bankrupt. Workers will have no jobs and the business owners will lose everything they invested if things do not turn around.

When I go out traffic is light and it was surprising to see that after a big payday a few days ago. Some families still go to the store and malls and I never see them buy anything.

The city had a big mall in the works called the Crosstown Mall and I don't see how they will get the money to finish something like that. So much of these shopping center and mall projects were based on cheap gas so everyone could hop into their big cars and shop their brains out. People can't afford the gas here and people can't buy or shop for anything. The economy is far worse than I think anyone is telling us.

How can the price of gas not cause people not to go shopping? If you pay three times and in the next years four, five or six times the price that you paid for gas a couple of years ago how can it not hurt you? Has your pay in Corpus Christi gone up even twice what it was a couple of years ago? See what I'm telling you?

Maybe there is no place to go. If you are going somewhere I don't think Corpus would be a good place to move to but your mileage may differ.