Home owners insurance in Houston is extremely high, so is property tax which includes mud tax and school tax. Your auto insurance will also be extremely high. It gets extremely hot here so you will have to run your AC almost 10 months of the year. Then it gets extremely cold so heater for at least 6 weeks. Utility cost is extremely high. Take caution when you come. Schools are 6A in most of these community, which means competing is extremely high. Getting into the top 5-10% in high school will be extremely challenging, that goes with sports, AP students, band, anything.
Austin is much better city to live than Houston area. Watch out for the crazy driver in Houston area.Gasoline is cheaper. Electricity cost is very high here. Car insurance is more expensive here. There also lot of mosquitoes In the summer time.