From the journal
You made it to Houston. Now you have to figure out how to live here.
From getting a Texas driver’s license and setting up utilities to understanding toll roads, finding your new routines and figuring out what people actually do around here, Settle In covers the practical—and sometimes surprisingly complicated—parts of making Greater Houston home.
Because relocating doesn’t end when the moving truck leaves.
Pumpkin patches, Friday night football, festivals, haunted houses—and the first morning that finally feels like fall. If this is your first fall in Houston, I should probably get one thing out of the way. September is not fall. Not really. The calendar may say otherwise. Target may have pumpkins. Your neighbors may have mums on…
You don’t need to know where to start. That’s kind of the point. Maybe you’ve accepted a job in Houston. Maybe you’re still considering the offer. Maybe the HR rep told you, “A lot of our employees live in Katy.” A future coworker suggested The Woodlands. Someone else insists you need to look at Sugar…
If you’re moving to Greater Houston from almost anywhere else, the toll system here will genuinely surprise you — and not in a good way if you don’t set it up right from day one. This isn’t a minor annoyance. Real families have ended up with bills from two different toll companies for the exact…