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Originally Posted by Shasta
You aren't the only one. Exxon will be leaving Houston city limits and moving into an unincorporated area that used to be a native pine forest. The plans call for 3,000,000 square feet of office space in a sprawling campus that will pretty much require everyone who works there to drive to work.
If you're a young petroleum engineer right out of college, where would you rather work, Hess Tower downtown or Exxon's new campus?
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I agree that it would be far better just to renovate their existing Greenspoint buildings, Shasta. But to answer your question about where would a recent graduate rather work, it's a tough one. Downtown's not exactly the first place most new graduates would prefer to live (lack of housing first of all, lack of nightlife and streetlife secondly), and The Woodlands actually has good housing (including some urban-style lofts and flats), and a very good amount of restaurants and shopping, much of it walkable from many of the newer apartments/lofts/flats.
But your point still stands.
Aaron (Glowrock)