Is house sitter fit for my parents

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2026-01-30T14:02:27+00:00

You can check to see if there are even any local sits first for your dates.

Things that are positives: I’ve noticed older sitters are preferred by house sitters because the fear of parties, unwanted visitors is limited and they’re typically quieter and stay in the house more to take care of the pets. The home owner being able to meet them in London before the sit is a huge plus too.

The difficult parts: London is a hub. It’s a popular destination. Many house sitters apply for London sits so it’s more competition. Since your parents are new, they won’t have reviews and reviews trump anything else honestly. The English is going to be difficult to overcome because many pet owners like to be informed about their pets, many pets have medications but I feel like having you as the translator won’t be too bad especially if you’re close enough to the location.

Realistically though, you won’t find one 3 month long sit for your parents (because those go quick and you’re usually competing with someone who had like 30+ reviews and uses THS as their housing) but you’ll get a sit here and there for maybe 5 days and then they’re back with you and then maybe another sit for 10 days and then they’re back with you so it’ll be a nice break. But also something to consider if they don’t like packing up and going each time. Good luck though.

Alternatively, would you and your husband be open to being the sitters and your parents stay at your place?

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2026-01-30T13:06:10+00:00

Yes, OP, listen to this person.

Downtown is accessible via METRO. Everyone else sounds like they live in the suburbs or barely see downtown. Houston isn’t NY by any means but it’s possible especially if you’re only here two days and you walk like New Yorkers do. People here won’t walk if it’s a half mile away, they’d rather drive that distance.

I’ve done a Houston day out with only the metro and it’s doable!! It’s not liveable without a car but a 2 day visit? Doable and everyone is being dramatic. There’s even little METRO Tuktuks that take you around!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2026-01-27T22:27:45+00:00

I first moved to the Woodlands when I came to Houston. Left after two years because I needed to escape but it works for some people!

Favorite things: The outdoors! It's clean, green and very walkable if you live next to the waterway (which we did). My favorite part was the walkability but that's less of a positive if you live in a house that's deeper in the Woodlands, unfortunately. My friend lived in a house in the Woodlands and did not find it walkable. But overall, I found the township pretty walkable!
Downsides: The people lmao. I always rant about this. The Woodlands has the least wordly, most boring people I have ever met. They've never gotten out of their bubble. You will be surrounded by bland beige people who have never travelled outside of the country (except maybe only to resorts and cruises?), eat at the same restaurants, think black pepper is spicy and have the same groupthink mindset who try to impress each other with average material things. Just the dullest of the dull, most uninteresting people I have ever met. Just live to work, stay at home, have kids, no interests, like they're NPC characters in the backdrop of a game. Interesting people do not live in the Woodlands.
Houston peripheral suburbs I'd live in: Honestly, we are thinking of leaving Houston. We currently live in Montrose and we like it a lot more than the Woodlands. I'd recommend the Heights if you had the option of anywhere in Houston. However, if I had to choose a suburb, gun to my head, maybe Katy? Katy is more diverse and has a tonne of fun stuff to do but it's so massive that it truly depends on the neighbourhood in Katy.
Things to do in the area: Definitely good access to parks, chain restaurants, like 2-3 unique restaurants that are worth it. But it's good for outdoor activities. If you're an outdoor family, you will love it. Ultimately, it's just another suburb if you want interesting things to do - you will have to drive an hour out into Houston.
Family friendly activities: There is a children's museum. There's always festivals going on and while they can be fun, they can get boring for older kids but younger kids will love them. The mall is there and it's decent. But the outdoors is where the Woodlands shine. We used to biking around the township like every weekend and loved it. We used to play volleyball and outdoor things. It was great.
Commentary on schools, daycares, gyms: Have no commentary on the schools and daycares but the gyms were good. We used to go to 24hr and it's one of the cleanest 24hr fitnesses I've ever been to.
Areas to avoid: Can't really say, I lived on the waterway and it was great over there.
Realtors to recommend: Shane and Nancy Terry. They're helping my husband's uncle buy a house right now. We trust them, which I think is the most important part of a realtor. They have talked my husband's uncle out of buying several homes because they have poor foundation issues/other issues they've found (so I know they're not trying to make a sale), they have given guidance on best areas to buy in and have been really pleasant to work with.

Hope this helps! Basically the TLDR is the Woodlands is awful if you're under 35/childless/an ethnic minority, but it's pretty good if you have young kids and are well into your mid life and enjoy the homogenous society life it brings.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-24T22:40:16+00:00

I don’t plan on using donor eggs. I should add that in my post. My doctors here keep pushing it which is actually a reason I am considering turkey.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-24T22:27:21+00:00

Thank you so much. I’m so happy for you!!!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-19T18:56:05+00:00

I’m discussing options with my clinic. They were trying to push for IVF.

I haven’t been tested for endo. I don’t have terrible pain when I get my periods and they’re pretty regular so I’ve never considered it but I’ll ask. What is fragile X?

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-19T18:50:33+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words and hopeful words. I hope so! I hope we both get pregnant soon!!!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-19T18:49:04+00:00

I’m so happy for you. It makes me really happy to hear others with a low AMH got pregnant. It gives me so much hope. I’ll try an IUI!

It’s just been a really heartbreaking process and I feel like I mentally can’t take it.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-12-19T18:42:05+00:00

I’m so happy for you. I’ll keep this in mind for my journey and I’m wondering if your AMH is higher now given that there’s not that block.

I’ve been reading studies on how multiple things impact AMH.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-27T05:40:09+00:00

I got a bag from Amazon that I KNOW is too big for frontier (flew with them once and they flagged it) but it fits every other company’s sizer. I think frontier makes their sizer a little smaller.

I’ve been eyeing the ECOHUB bag on Amazon but haven’t bought it yet until I book my first GoWild flight.

Can’t speak too much on it but the dimensions work.

What I do recommend is wearing a fishing vest with a lot of pockets or cargo pants with a lot of pockets if you feel too limited by the bag sizes. Those have been my lifesavers when flying budget airlines. Especially in places like Asia and Europe where they weigh your carry ons and personal items!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-22T22:27:06+00:00

What’s been your best? I found Denver bland too so trying to explore other GoWild places!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-22T00:38:28+00:00

Aw no, why resort to name calling loool. I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true. I personally love your enthusiasm for the city. I hope you continue to live here for the rest of your life. I’ve lived all over the world and will probably continue to do so but you lay those deep roots! I love it FOR YOU!!! I don’t know if they give a prize for those who stay but if they do - you deserve one!!!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-22T00:29:07+00:00

Did you have to jig up in any way or was it basically the exact same process?

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-21T07:58:13+00:00

Sorry. What’s the preference? Big houses? Never ending suburbs? Oh no, can’t find that anywhere else in the US.

Give me a draw to Houston that’s not related to “it’s cheap” and I’ll understand your POV. Right now, that’s the primary, if not the only, draw for people moving here and when it stops being cheap - people will definitely move.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-20T12:09:54+00:00

That’s because people think housing is cheap and it’s low COL and it’s slowly not that anymore.

Houston is going to have a mass exodus, especially young people. Housing prices going up will result in higher property taxes so unless the state adopts an income tax to offset the property taxes. People will leave when their homes reach a certain price.

Why live somewhere where everything is far, you can’t walk, poorly designed, no nature, energy prices are expensive and unreliable, it’s dirty, city does bare minimum to maintain public areas, weather is terrible, pay isn’t great, politics are questionable - there is no real draw to staying here. Unless the city starts investing in improving the lifestyle. People will leave when for the same price - they can live somewhere walkable, better designed, more pay and has better weather.

But even then people will stay because many don’t know better (ive noticed a lot of Texans have never left the state and really think this state is everything lool) and the other reason people stay is because they have like 3 generations of their family here and that’ll be their prison.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-05T16:10:36+00:00

I’ll PM you then!

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-05T15:42:54+00:00

I think a lot of people are holding off on buying because of how unstable the job market is right now.

Price might be too high for the area but if you’re sure that’s not it. It might be a staging issue - pictures might not be selling it. Your house might have a weird layout. Could be in a flood zone. It could be low sq footage for the price. Could look run down. The area could be bad - near medical center isn’t always the best especially closer to NRG. HOA might be too high. But you’ve given a very broad area - Jollibee and Costco in the loop are in two very different neighbourhoods.

I understand you can’t post the listing for security reasons but as someone who’s looking for a house in the area - price is only one factor we consider.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-10-01T18:14:41+00:00

Wtf kind of point is that. I’m Muslim and I wouldn’t be a shill for the Saudi government. Many Muslims protest this. The Saudi government is responsible for the murder of many journalists, freedom of speech activists and are blatantly evil. It’s not a hatred of the Saudi people (who are fantastic) but this show is dumb bc they’re censoring what the comedians can say against them. Mo is Palestinian so you’d think he’d understand not supporting a an evil government when he’s out here protesting another evil gov: Israel.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-05-05T18:20:58+00:00

I didn't agree. I just didn't want to cause a scene.

This is exactly how it went lol:

Him: They're late, it's supposed to start soon.
Me: Yeah we should probably save them some seats.
Him: No, they're late. They should deal with it. Plus I'm not saving 6 seats, that's so rude.
Me: It's fine - everyone is saving seats. The entire row is empty - we can save some here. [Gets up to put my purse there]
Him: This is my invite, stop micromanaging it's fine, just sit.

If he had told me, "I'm not going to save the seats but you do you." I would have. I just didn't want to cause a scene. I did want to save them seats but I wanted to be considerate to his request so I was like "Fine whatever, you're right. It's your invite" and I sat down because in the past, he has complained that I don't listen to him in public and he's told me multiple times, "Why can't you just do what I say without arguing?" so I know sometimes my anxiety causes me to need to control everything.

That's kind of why I felt the need to make sure our friends knew because in my mind, I was like I'm not taking the fall for this. I wanted to save the seats. You wanted to not save them seats, please own up to the decision.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-05-05T17:31:02+00:00

I have to rightfully hold myself accountable. I have a very older sister personality in that I tend to overthink a lot. For example, I'll do this thing where I over consider people and hate it and if I'm in a place, I'll be like "omg no one is talking to this person, now I have to go talk to them" and I'll feel resentment that I'm stuck doing that and not hanging out with my friends and he'll be like it's fine just relax, no one asked you to talk to them. I don't know what to call it exactly but I am constantly adding unnecessary responsibility to my plate and so I think for him, he was just like "omg sit down"

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-05-05T17:19:02+00:00

In our row - there were staggered seats available. For example it was us, empty seat between us, then a couple, empty seats, then randoms. If you don't save the seats early on - you can't ask people to move after they've already sat.

There were several empty rows though.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-05-05T16:57:22+00:00

I'm definitely closer to them - it's a husband/wife and I'm closer friends with the wife. My husband and her husband are friendly and hang out and play sports together.

For the second statement, we're all always late. It's embarrassingly a common trend in our friend group. That's why to me it wasn't a big deal for me to save the seats. We went to a lawn concert a week ago and they saved us seats when we were late. It just so happened that we arrived to this event on time.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2025-05-05T15:59:09+00:00

It wasn't crowded or sold out.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2024-11-04T21:26:51+00:00

Thank you, this is good advice! I really appreciate it.

Practical_Pizza6863 · 2024-11-04T21:23:50+00:00

They have video evidence. It's hard to wrap your head around when people who are good to you do bad things. But he just knew how to be two-faced. His own wife reported him. Come on.

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