For some ex-Texans, Seattle has become a haven. Victoria Scott, a trans woman and freelance writer, lived in Houston working as a programmer at NASA after college in 2018. After coming out as transgender, she said that she found both Houston and Texas hostile. Scott moved around and lived briefly in Reno, Nevada, before settling in Seattle with her wife at the end of 2023. In Seattle, Scott found the foundation she had long needed.
“It’s done more for my day-to-day lived experience and mental health as a trans woman than basically any other thing I’ve ever done,” Scott told Chron.
The Montrose area of Houston used to be one of the safest and liveliest Out LGBTQ communities in the country. It still has a large gay population, but the inflated real estate prices and over-development has driven lots of low income people elsewhere.
The traffic certainly sucks. But idk what you mean beyond that. Westheimer has a ton of cheap apartment housing and a huge multi-ethnic community of young professionals
It’s a great place to live when you’re straight out of college