Pearland Texas | PROS and CONS | Everything you need to know about Pearland Texas (2023)

Introduction

This video discusses all the pros and all the cons of living in Pearland Texas. Pearland Texas is downtown Houston's closest suburb outside of the loop. It sits directly south of Houston, and is a very nice bedroom community for those needing close proximity to downtown or the med center. With convenient access to Hobby airport, it's also a great location for the frequent traveler. Pearland Texas has all the amenities one could ask for in a suburb. It contains tons of nice restaurants and shopping areas, as well as all of your other modern day conveniences. It also has some of the more affordable housing options for a Houston suburb. Check out what we think of Pearland!

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So you're thinking about moving right here to Pearland Texas, well, in today's video, we're going to tell you all the pros and all the cons of living right here in Pearland and we're, not going to hold back we're going to do what we always do and we're going to be honest and tell you what you need to know in case, you are thinking of moving here, we're going to walk you through some of the reasons you might not want to live here.

And then as always we're going to touch on all the Hot Topics we're going to touch on the schools, the amenities and the housing right here in Pearland Texas so let's get after it right now.

Okay.

So we're gonna dive straight into the pros and cons of living right here in Pearland.

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Now, my name is Kyler, Ferris, I'm, Mike Gorman.

And we run the living in Houston Texas team.

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We want to give you not just all the good things about Pearland.

We want to give you the cons, maybe some reasons as to why you shouldn't live here, because every suburb is not for everybody and so I'll.

Let Mike kick it off with what do you think of the uh, the biggest Pro here in Pearland is yeah.

So the biggest Pro in Pearland is definitely going to be location.

Yep, when you look at other suburbs around the Houston area, one thing you'll notice is the commute to downtown is going to be anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour.

Pearland is situated just 20 minutes south to downtown.

And so it's, really your best opportunity to get affordable living have a yard have a regular house and still be within 20 minutes of downtown.

Whereas your only other options really is to live in the East downtown or the heights, yeah, where they have to build up there and you're, not really blessed with the yard up in those areas unless you're in this probably seven eight hundred thousand price range.

Yeah.

So Pearland is going to be the closest suburb.

So if you don't want to be in the urban kind of dense living space, you want that yard, then then like Mike said, I mean, the Woodlands is about 45 minutes with no traffic to downtown and there's, always traffic you're, looking Katie's similar.

Yeah, about an hour.

Sometimes during the high popular areas, yeah.

And then I would say two, one thing that's, really nice about Pearland so it's, directly, south of downtown it's also directly south of the med center.

And so we see a lot of people that work in the medical field that have to be within a certain commute to the med center center, it's, a requirement by their jobs.

They choose Pearland because it's, really their only option I I sold a home to some clients that their job required them to be within 20 minutes, they're exactly 20 minutes.

They get to live here in Pearland.

And all these other suburbs, wouldn't be an option.

So really good choice for them what else on location.

So also location, you're closer to the to the coast.

So you can be down in Galveston in about 45 minutes, whereas for me and Katie it's, a solid two-hour Drive, sometimes that's, the difference between a day trip and no day trip exactly and then speaking of day trips.

So like if you're just going to a Texans game or an Astros game, if you're in some of these other suburbs, that's a whole day day trip like you said, yeah, whereas here in Pearland, if you can just scoot over there in 20 minutes, uh, catch a game, be home before it's even dark.

Yeah, I want to save it.

I mean, I like to say that I would probably go to more games if I I wasn't quite as far out of Houston, uh, I do feel like that would be a huge Pro to living here in Pearland is everything's a little bit more approachable, I mean, it really cuts it in half.

Yeah.

And a highway 288 I just came from downtown.

And it was there was no traffic.

In fact, there's, uh, there's, two, big, HOV lanes.

Now this airplane noise is making me think of one other thing, too.

So one other great thing about the location here in Pearland is going to be its proximity to Hobby Airport.

So you're, really about 15 minutes from the airport here and so it's, a straight shot over.

So if you are going to be commuting, Southwest has their Hub there.

And so we we both you're a Southwest lover, we're, both Southwest lovers.

So Delta and American I believe also fly out of there and hobbies is going to be the smaller airport.

So if you have the choice, uh, it's, actually way more convenient I, actually just dropped somebody off at the airport before this video at Bush and there's, just so much construction and everything going on over there.

It was a night nightmare.

So, yeah, so if you travel a lot, and you have the option of who to fly with hobby is a great airport to be near one other Pro to the location I would say, too is just going to be the suburbs here on the south side of Houston, all kind of butt up next to each other.

And so even though I mean, if you look around, if you haven't already, go watch our Vlog of Pearland, we really show you all the shopping and all the amenities here you don't need to leave Pearland to go find other amenities.

But if you get bored of this shopping area, and you want to go head over to Friendswood like Baybrook Mall or or the Town Center over or the city center over in Sugar, Land, uh, it's, really not that far of a drive so you're kind of in between two other really good suburbs.

So to use everyone's amenities, basically, yeah, okay, uh.

What would you say that the cons are going to be to Pearland? The con biggest con would be the lack of new construction options.

Um pearland's, basically, built out.

Yep, if you want new construction, you got to go a little South like in the Manville there's, some great neighborhoods down there.

But overall in Pearland, maybe, uh, you might see people rebuilding on Lots, but you're, not going to see any like fully new construction neighborhoods like you would in some of these other suburbs.

Yeah, that was that was one thing when when we were looking with my clients, we had to go down to Manville to get new construction, which isn't that far I mean, it's, literally like three exits from here.

So, uh, it's, not bad.

They've got some really nice master playing communities there, but you're not going to be like technically in the middle of Pearland.

Now one thing that Pearland does have though is it does have some really nice established Master playing communities that were built 15 20 years ago.

And so as long as you're, okay with a resale home, that's, a really nice touch.

And then you had mentioned something earlier when we were talking about this about the the housing prices here.

Yeah.

So there is a very small discount here living here as compared to some of these other suburbs, I think I did the math on the last 30 days, it's about ten dollars per square foot.

So if you're buying a 3 000 square foot, home, it's, probably going to be around thirty thousand dollars cheaper here than it would be up in the Woodlands of Cyprus or Katie, yeah.

And you're still getting, you know, a comparable amount of amenities you're closer to downtown, absolutely, um, one con to one more con to the location, uh.

And this one's, not a big.

One you're, like we said, you're, 45 minutes away from Galveston.

So you're, definitely not right on the coast, um, you know, but anything on the south side of the Houston.

Obviously, the closer you are to the coast.

If we ever do get hit with a big hurricane, uh, there could be, you know, some some more damage on the South Side than the North side that being said, a lot of the Hurricanes that hit the Houston area other than right along.

You know, Galveston Island.

Most of the damage is rain it's flooding.

You know, if you heard about hurricane Harvey at the end of 2017, there wasn't a lot of wind damage, but there was billions of dollars in flooding damage because it just it hung out and flooded.

So overall Pearland actually, didn't get hit as bad as a lot of the other suburbs.

But just know, I think if you're south of I-10, your insurance premiums a little bit higher.

Yeah, so you know, but it's, nothing, crazy, maybe 100 bucks, um, not not too nothing to keep you from from living here, but something to know, yep.

Another Pro, here would probably be the schools.

Yeah, we don't get into much on the school ratings.

But if you go to niche.com and look up Pearland you're going to see a lot of a ratings, yeah, which is very important to a lot of families moving to this area.

And just to clarify.

The reason we don't dive too much into schools is because there are rules as Realtors, um as to steering clients, the wrong direction.

So we like to provide you with the right resources, uh, everybody has their own opinion of what good schools are.

We find that a lot of our out-of-state clients where they're moving from public schools, aren't even an option that's, not the case here, we're, usually comparing I mean, the worst schools we're looking at in all of the suburbs that we cover are like I don't even know if we've seen any c, pluses I'd say, everything like a B, minus would so you're, yeah, you're comparing like bees to A's.

So overall great Public, Schools, there's, also, private school options here as well and all throughout the Houston area.

Uh, one pro I would say in Pearland, Pearland I would say is like a slightly above medium-sized suburb.

You know, I would say it.

It it's got all the things you would need here as far as shopping.

Yeah, I would say like the woodlands out does it a little bit more in shopping Katie? Probably out? Does it a little bit more? Maybe somewhere in the Cypress range? Uh, as far as you know, overall amenities, go.

So uh, there's, definitely no shortage.

Here, I would say not a pro not a con everything you would come to expect.

The other thing that I like about Pearland is even though it's built out there's, not a lot of new construction.

All of the actual like commercial spaces are clean.

They're.

Newer feeling, there's, not power lines hanging everywhere, it's, aesthetically, pleasing we're actually out at the Town Center we're on a little Turf area, they're setting up Christmas behind us.

So, um, so that's, the other thing there's plenty to do up here, too.

They've got like town events up here.

So yeah, um one of those in our Vlog one other con, of course, you're going to hear this in any suburb really is with the amount of people that have been moving here.

There is a lot more traffic in the town area.

So pack your patients.

I.

Guess if you're planning on if you're planning on moving to Pearland area, yeah, but you're going to hear that anywhere, yeah, that's, not a con specific to Pearland by any means, uh, what else that's? The majority of any big cons, they need to know about not really I mean.

It all kind of just comes down to where you want to live proximity.

Wise, yeah, you're going to see very similar Builders, very similar neighborhoods in all our suburbs.

Yeah, there's there's, little it's.

The nuances that are what make all the the difference.

Yeah.

So and who you want to live next to if you have people that you're friends with or family here, how far do you want to commute from them? How far do you want to commute to your job? That's that's? What it comes down to one other thing, I'll say, the geography down here is going to be different than the North side of Houston so you're in the coastal plains.

Here, it's all flat, uh, not a ton of pine trees on this side of Houston, you're still going to have your Hardwoods there's, still trees.

In fact, unfortunately, there was a freeze.

They had to cut them all down, but you're actually close enough to the coast where like palm trees are kind of more prevalent down here, but uh, but it's.

Not till you get in the northern suburbs like the woodlands or Conroe or Montgomery or Tomball, where you start to end up in like a Pine Forest, it changes completely.

So that is a little Nuance that that makes a difference.

Some people prefer that some people, uh, you know, right now is the time of year where all the pine needles fall.

And you have a pool.

My pool is full of pine needles and my wife's upset.

So you know, nuances tough life.

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