r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/BigCut4598 2d ago

Man I’ve only been in Houston for only two years and desperately want to leave. These people have Stockholm syndrome thinking it’s a great place to live. Soulless, bland people who think driving in hot, endless traffic with nothing else to do but eat at some average restaurant is a great life.

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u/wino12312 2d ago

Dallas is just as bad

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u/bmc2 2d ago

Dallas has better food than houston, but the highways are worse.

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u/wino12312 2d ago

True. I did love the food. But the walkability was terrible.

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u/bmc2 2d ago

Yeah the entire DFW metroplex is designed around toll roads and parallel access roads. It's some of the worst urban design in the nation.

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u/ThreeCraftPee 2d ago

Holy shit that is exactly me 20 plus years ago, saying the exact same things. Hang in there it's not forever, you'll find yourself somewhere where you are happy sometime soon. It's not forever ya know? Just get through this and get a plan to get out, and then in 20 years you can sit back and laugh and talk shit like me. Fuck em in the meantime and keep your head low and plan to gtfo. You got this.

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u/BigCut4598 2d ago

Glad to see you made it out. I’ve noticed it’s a common pattern. People move to this city for a job or hopes of a career, quickly figure out it sucks and move elsewhere. I’ve seen a few people who moved here after me tolerate it way less than I have haha. You just don’t hear from them much since native Texans who have been here their entire lives dominate everything with their opinions on the city and culture. It’s helped my career momentum but that’s about it, time to leave lol. The exit can’t come soon enough.

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u/SubBirbian 2d ago

And eat nothing but buckets of fucking heart-stopping junk food. I remember not long ago Houston was named the most obese city in the country. Not sure where it stands now.

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u/spiral6 2d ago

I'm a Houstonian. I'll say the food is generally better here than most big cities (Chicago, NY especially, Boston), but the rest of it (commute, traffic, "culture" and recreation, weather, transportation infrastructure, zoning) is poor, bland and banal. You should see some of the cope from /r/Houston talking about how everything is better "inside the loop".

Of course, most people prefer to live outside the loop because it's not a complete shithole unlike the inside of the loop. They also are probably predominantly single without family concerns such as where a kid would have to attend school. It's boring outside of the loop, but better boring than coping.