hello,
i understand this is a kingwood board, but figured i would ask?
Does anyone know about the new section of cumberland crossings, in porter?
good, bad, opinions?
we are considering a house there.
thanks 

funny you ask, and glad you did. We took my MIL there over the holidays to house hunt. Those new ones look nice, small yards but nice homes. I hope someone knows :) 

We used to live in Cumberland, right across the highway. I've been into CC for business lots of times.

Pretty nice neighborhood, pretty crummy town.

That second part will cause some people on here to get their back up, but I know things that they will never admit to and they don't know as much as they think they do. 

the older cumberland looks like it went downhill fast. I just hope the new one doesn't.. hope they just get the downtowners that want to live in the burbs. 

pretty crummy town. i for one dont agree.lived in new caney and porter for 20 yrs and moving back in march.. yes some bad areas but i am telling you they are everywhere.. good schools too.. trust me This i know. 

Yay funmom! We have to get together when you are back this way!

I like New Caney/Porter...I didn't want to move to Humble ISD. 

I moved here from Clear Lake 7 years ago. I live in New Caney in Roman Forest but my husband and I own a business in Porter. We basically live here. We know thousands of the local people and have known them and their families for years now. There are lots of good, honest, hard-working people in this town but there are also a few that aren't so good. They don't make up the majority of the people but you know what, funmom is right. They are everywhere you go. It really depends on who you hang out with and who you keep as company. But the people here are great. They really are. I don't care what anyone else says. This is my opinion after living here and working here for these number of years. 

good schools too

Now THAT I will give you; academically.

I loved NCISD's curriculum, especially the math when compared to HISD.

What I didn't like was the school staff having to concentrate so much of its energy on foul, ragged, dirty little kids who talked back to the teachers and bullied the other students constantly. Their parents weren't bathing, dressing, or teaching them decent manners. Instead the kids were learning how to behave by WATCHING their trailer trash parents, then carrying it to school. The school staff was so overwhelmed by them that I had to start teaching my 6 year old daughter Taekwondo so she could handle them herself. The school principal once even lamented to me how many "90-day students" she gets: It takes 90 days for a landlord to fully execute a legal eviction, so that's how long the poor kids ever stayed at one home or school.

We moved to Kingwood because we didn't want our kids going to school with people like that one minute longer.

Now I'm pretty disgusted by HISD's lack of accountability and horrible academic standards, so my kids may end up in private school anyway, but that doesn't improve the community in Porter/Kingwood.

People who live there know their immediate neighbors, their personal friends, maybe the members of their congregations or other organizations. Whatever the case, you get to choose the company you keep and you can't judge a community by that. It's a little bubble that is not a genuine cross-section of the community.

Some sections of Porter and New Caney are nice (and I know exactly what they are) but speaking generally those towns are no more worth setting foot in than your average low-rent trailer park. The nice neighborhoods are like the nice trailers they keep up at the front of the trailer park to make it look good. 

Cumberland Crossing is a very nice neighborhood. I live across the street but have friends in CC. Everything always looks clean and Christmas time alot of houses decorate!The only drawback for some is that they do not have a community swimming pool. So thats a good excuse to build your own! :)

My son has grown up in NCISD and I have been verrrry pleased with his education! 

Well after living in this area for more that 34 yrs, growing up in atascocita.. i can say that all areas can have their down fall.. my mom's neighborhood used to be nice but has quickly gone downhill and the same goes for bf's mom's neighborhood in humble.. she lived here 40 yrs and is wanting to move from her home.. " trash" can be anywhere.. i live now in the woodlands and my next door neighbors would make some white trash ppl look like royality.. my neigborhood is nice and well taken care of but some of the ppl there have no class..

i have no problem with New caney and never have.. i moved due to be closer to work but my moving back is a money saving decsion for us and i have no issues with it.. yes some of the neighbors where we are moving are what most call " trash" but the land we are moving to and the house are paid for so what we are saving i can build a big fence and ignore them LOL 

we lived in Kingwood and moved to Porter 22 years ago. i love where i live. there is land and no one living on top of us. 

there is land and no one living on top of us.

I see that a lot in Porter/NC.

People stake their dogs down with a 6' chain in the middle of a field and then never mow it so it grows up to 2' and 3' and more around a poor animal left out in the weather year round with no shelter as they fend off parasites and snakes. They don't get fed if it's raining or too cold and it's dern funny if the water freezes and can't be drank or the poor creature gets tangled in the chain... 

i have not seen any of that around where i live. i am sure that happens in lots of peoples back yards where people can not see anyplace you go. i have heard horrendous things about peoples back yards every where!! 

lol.

misguided people who make sweeping generalizations and profess to "know" things...

crack
me
up 

I didn't say the back yard.

It's usually in the front, actually.

I'm not talking about anywhere but Porter/NC right now. Yes, there are crappy people everywhere.

Porter and New Caney have far and away exceeded their quotas, so people can just stop comparing them to the people next door. I do believe the people next door in the Woodlands or Kingwood can also be trashy.

Do you think it's an accident that home values, property values, and taxes are so much higher in Kingwood and the Woodlands than they are in Porter/NC? 

Do you think it's an accident that home values, property values, and taxes are so much higher in Kingwood and the Woodlands than they are in Porter/NC?

prob not an accident since one is Mont County and the other Harris. 

Them wife beatin' child abusin' animal whuppin' inbreds is good folks and yer just plain ignerant!

OK. I know better.

Yes, there are good neighborhoods in both Porter and New Caney, but not many. The one OP was asking about is a very nice one.

Enjoy your hellholes. 

i think it is all about where you want to live.. me i love the country i dont like having a house right on top of me so i know all my neighbors business. i loved the schools in NCISD so that was the area i chose. i love the woodlands too but i wont pay the prices to buy a home here and rent is going up 20 % due to all the new companies coming... i work here so it was nice to be close but i am a realist.. i will be living on land with no one able to build behind us that is paid off so i can help our kids in college and then save and travel and save to retired and not have to worry about a morgage.. it is a win win.. unless i had a serial killer next door to me i am okay with minding my busisness and going home and not worrying about what my neighbors are doing. 

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Do you think it's an accident that home values, property values, and taxes are so much higher in Kingwood and the Woodlands than they are in Porter/NC?
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prob not an accident since one is Mont County and the other Harris.



The tax rate is actually 14% higher there than it is in Kingwood.

Cumberland 3.32
Kingwood 2.92 

So please enlighten me :) I grew up in NEw Caney (woodbranch). My parents still live there and we bought property 2+ acres in New Caney 2 yrs ago to build. I changed my mind quickly once looking into the schools as my 4 yr old is getting closer to school age. I love the land, would love to be close to my family. But honestly would rather have my children in better schools. So we will be moving to a bigger house here in Kingwood or Montgomery school district. We are leaning towards Montg. Just b/c we are more likely to find the land we want.
But as far as what I have read, academically, NC is falling pretty fast.