Depends on where Amazon ends up. We definitely are weak on public transportation but have a couple of international airports. With 600 square miles of area, it

Depends on where Amazon ends up. We definitely are weak on public transportation but have a couple of international airports. With 600 square miles of area, it's tough to have a single metro system serve that entire area and frankly with our weather few people choose to stay outside and wait on transportation unless they just have to. Which is why you see things like Exxon's move to the Woodlands. There's enough local infrastructure and housing to support their corporate HQ. Unless Amazon decides to buy an inner-city coporate park here they may end doing the same by going to Clear Lake, Sugarland, etc. Houston is sort of like Austin in that it's an oasis of less conservative politics but the even so the bathroom bill didn't pass. There's plenty to do outdoors here: I regularly play disc golf, cycle and kayak in the summer. But you do need lots of sun screen, water and to acclimate to the heat. Otherwise you will suffer. I don't think it's any different that living in the South West. You need to know how to deal with the heat.